he killed jennifer hawke-petit, then tied up her two young daughters and set them on fire. dr. william petit said in court today, i lost my wife, my family, my home, my partner. for what? money. why did komisarjevsky do it? i got some insight when the murders first happened in 2007 from one of komisarjevsky's friends. >> reporter: a hint of violence, a disturbing prediction of what might come buried in this letter from prison. >> i need someone like you who knows a little bit about my past to keep me grounded in the future when my criminal demon wants to wander. >> reporter: days after the attack, we interviewed this woman who told us she was a close woman. she shared the letter he says he sent her from prison years before. >> prison was a hard pill for me to swallow. there isn't a day that goes by that i don't get angry or the pain of being taken from my daughter. >> reporter: he writes about his dreams of becoming a real estate developer. >> my daughter needs me and i can't accomplish my goals when i am locked up. >> reporter: police say komisarjevsky followed mrs. petit owe

petit's sister, and three videotape confessions from jennifer-hawke's mother, father, and sister. ional. i sat through the hayes' sentencing and it was extremely charged emotion. dr. petit sitting a few feet away from me visibly shaking his hands after describing what was robbed from him. what he didn't have to listen to was the eight-minute speech or statement. he said, i did not rape, i did not pour that gas or fire. i will never find peace again. my soul is torn, the clock is now ticking. i didn't want anyone to die that morning. i wonder when the killing will end. that being said, the judge came back after he issued his statement and said that this is a terrible sentence but one you wrote for yourself. he said, your fate is now in the hands of other. may god have mercy on your soul. and when you're listening to those words, it's extremely powerful to listen to. so this is now the end of a very long 4 1/2 years and, you know, as dr. petit said last time that he never understood the word closure. there will always be small pieces of his heart torn open. but this is a chapter that

they tormented a family in a home before killing jennifer hawk petit. the only survivor, dr. william petit, was beaten with a baseball bat but escaped. he called it a personal holocaust as he testified am. >> steven hayes has already been sentenced to death. >>> a cargo ship crashes into a kentucky bridge and destroys it. the 300-foot-long ship was too tall to fit under the structure, which caused the bridge to collapse. no one was hurt. state officials are inspecting the bridge, which was already in the process of being replaced. >>> mitt romney and newt gingrich are racing for a win in florida. at a conference today, the two continued their immigration battle. danielle nottingham reports for wjz from jacksonville. >> reporter: mitt romney and newt gingrich are speaking directly to florida's latino voters. >> i would like to extend [ speaking in spanish ] to every american. >> reporter: the front runners attacked each other. >> those people who have come here illegally, should be given a temporary status, a temporary work permit, if you will. but at the end of the work perio

joshua komisarjevsky was convicted of killing jennifer hawke-petit and her daughters after or ttormenting them. >>> and the so called barefoot bandit was sentenced to 6 1/2 years. for his go-year crime spree. colton harris moore stole planes and boats. as he made his way across north america. he apologized to his victims. he will serve his time concurrently with state prison time. >>> and facebook could file papers to go public as early as next week. in what could be one of the biggest ipos ever. they could raise as much as $10 billion, billion dollars. that would value it at $100 million. about the same as mcdonald's. >>> kentucky's governor is promising to promptly fix a bridge after a cargo boat slammed into it. the governor is probably not going to do it by himself. the ship was covered by twisted steel and asphalt after colliding with the bridge late thursday night. no injuries reported on the bridge or to the boat. >>> and finally, a bus driver slams the media. literally. in a press conference, a bus hit a parked news truck. the driver jumped off the bus and made sure everybody knew

he and another man killed jennifer hawk petit, and left her two daughters to die in a fire. hawk's husband was beaten and tied up but managed to escape when the house was set on fire. >> we're happy and relieved that this day has come. justice has been served. >> reporter: in court today, comarsarjeski said he regretted his part in the crime but denied killing anyone. the other man, steven hayes, is on death row. >>> new report that actress demi moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital this week. bigad shaban has the latest. >> reporter: 911 tapes revealed that demi moore was shaking and having trouble breathing when she was rushed to a california hospital monday. her friends called for help from the actress's beverly hills home. >> tell me what happened there. >> she smoked something. it's not marijuana. but it's similar to -- similar to incense. and she seems to be having convugzs -- convulsions of some sort. >> okay. right now, is she awake? >> yeah. well, semi conscious. barely. >> reporter: the 45-year-old actress has appeared very thin recently. as

this is all for the 2007 murder of jennifer hawke-petit and her daughters inside their home m.bandit also scheduled to be sentenced today, one of jp's favorite criminals -- jon's favorite criminals. infamous two-year crime spree of break-ins, boat and plane thefts. his name is colton harris-moore, pleaded guilty last month. prosecutors are recommending a six-and-a-half year sentence for all of that. jon: and his mother must be so proud. >>> iran is threatening to retaliate if israel launches an attack targeting iran's nuclear program. but a new report suggests israeli intelligence believes iran's threats of widespread retaliation is partly a bluff. is it? let's get into it with john hannah, national security adviser to vice president dick cheney. he is now a senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies. story in "the new york times" suggests that israel has taken a look at what iran might do if israel or somebody else attacked it potential nuclear facilities, and israel has decided that any widespread retaliation, any, you know, blowback by iran might not be all t

joshua komisarjevsky was sentenced to death in the murders of jennifer-hawke-petit and her two daughtersrging a connecticut man with selling dirt he claimed was from the old yankee stadium. apparently he wanted to use the dirt in gift items like key chains. he's accused with making off with 35,000 bucks from investors. jenna: new information in what many are seeing as a snub, a big international snub at that. pakistan rejecting a request from america's special envoy to visit that country, a reminder of the deteriorating relationship between us and the pakistanis these days. jennifer griffin has more. >> reporter: u.s. officials are saying they are not viewing it as a snub but the fact remains that u.s. special enjoy mark grossman who took over for richard holbrooke for the special representative to pakistan requested that he be allowed to come to pakistan to try and smooth the relationship, and the tensions in the relationship and he was rebuffed. he was told that the time was not right. >> we received word that the packistani government felt it would be best to wait until this parliamen