aman do knox. >> her storied captivated the world for many years.id crime in a foreign land and at times, her innocence seemed more cold and calculating and remorseful. buyian sawyer speaks to amanda knox just weeks after the supreme court overturned her acquittal. every word she says here and in the pages of her new book waiting tor heard could affect her freedom. >> reporter: an american girl back at home. >> nice, neither of us fell. >> reporter: sometimes she say she is's just that daughter who never left and wanted to be near her parents. >> she was always home and eating your food. yeah. >> my mom, i can tell anything to, anything. sometimes when she doesn't even want to hear it. >> reporter: there is much to hear. a 5 1/2-year-old journey that began in a seattle suburb and ended with amanda knox becoming a global obsession, in headlines called a sexual thrill seeker, a sed seductress of her roommate. >> i've heard the gist of them. and they're wrong. for all intents and purposes, i was a murderemurderer, whether r not. >> reporter: as a junio

knox would later say the statement was coerced. knox was found guilty of defaming him. another piece to the puzzle of knox's behavior. >> every piece of a puzzle looks strange until you put them all together. it doesn't really register as unusual in. >> it did register as unusual. and i never said that it didn't. >> i felt strange. i almost felt like someone over your shoulder feeling. so i got out of there in a hurry. >> and then something that haunts me. you panicked. you want to go. you're in too much of a rush. maybe meredith is here, maybe she's not, but i don't want to deem with that right now. so you're going to get out. you're worried. you grab a mop. what's up with the mop? why would you grab a mop if you're in a panic to get out of the house? who does that? >> i mean, i grabbed it very quickly. >> why? you're in a panic? who thinks? >> i promised raphael that i would bring it. >> now, the things that smark out. you call your mom, i don't know, it's the middle of the night. what do you think of this? she's worried. oh, you better call the authorities. >> she sa

knox says she's unaware she's a suspect. then admits to what she later calls a coerced statement, placing herself at the scene that night. in july, 2008, knox, her boyfriend and a third man are charged with kircher's murder. forensic scientists find her dna all over the crime scene. prosecutors believe knox were come police sit in the murder. they rely heavily on her tabloid image as foxy knoxy. they are found guilty. she is sentenced to a total of 26 years in prison. two years later, a new trial and a different outcome. the dna linking them not even considered evidence. >> the first thing she wants to do is just lie in a green field. >> free to fly back to america, but leaving so many wondering what really happened that night. >> thank you very much for taking the opportunity. >> oh, thank you for having me. >> you laid out your story. you have told your truth. there is reaction, there are doubts. you know this. how do you explain it? >> it's hard. it's hard to prove that you're innocent. that you didn't do something. and i

in march the italian court overturned knox's acquittal and ordered a new trial. brandi hitt, abc news, los angeles. >> and you will hear more from amanda knox when she sits down for her first live interview later on "good morning america." >>> all right, time now to check the weather across the nation, it's not going to look at all like may 1st for denver. almost minneapolis, snow will slam the entire area with 5 or rather 3 to 5 inches in some spots, also lots of wet weather along the gulf coast and through much of the midsection. >> take a look at those readings on the east and west coast. that's more like it, snow zone, though, 30 degrees below normal. >>> coming up, the new warning about ground beef. >> and a big move for the morning after pill stirring up new debate this morning. >>> it looks simple but it took cutting-edge technology to create this little guy. what makes this movie so amazing. coming up in "the pulse." >>> the housing market on a wild upswing right now being driven by a dwindling supply of home. and home prices have soared up 9.3% since feb

hey, it's amanda knox from seattle. >> reporter: amanda knox says, imagine it was your daughter. growing up in a middle-class suburb of seattle. her divorced parents still living within walking distance of each other. above all, she says she loves her family. >> the wonderful thing about my family is that we need each other always. all of us. and whatever happens to one of us happens to us all. >> reporter: you can see her, the girl there in the school production of "annie" belting out a song, doing a backflip. she describes herself as quirky, often too loud, uncensored. strange, like the eccentric heroine in the french film "amelie." but she's still living in seattle, a junior year in college, on the dean's list, when she decides it's time to leave home and venture out. an adventure of -- fill in the blank. >> an adventure of -- an adventure of selfhood, i'd say. i mean, i was -- i was at an age where i was -- where, you know, you're -- you're both insecure, but you're confident at the same time. >> reporter: you wrote a sentence in the book that surprised me. you said, "what if

curt knox and etta, divorced years ago, now united in their mission. mother a math specialist in a local school measures her life in trips to perugia. >> as a mom will you leave your child in a foreign country with nobody to visit her. she doesn't have anybody else. somebody needed to be there to visit her. >> reporter: in the 15th century courtroom with its crucifix and frescos amanda knox watching her parents who fight their way in the press to be in the courtroom with her. also watching another family certain amanda knox is involved in the death of their child, meredith. did you look at her family? >> i looked for them. i hadn't been prepared for the idea that they -- that they might consider me the murderer of their daughter. >> reporter: amanda knox's family rents an apartment outside perugia. living for the days they visit in prison. twice a week for one hour. >> i saw them 1% of the time. and yet they were always there. they were there 100% of the time. >> reporter: and now we are hearing what her parents didn't see during their visits. did you

the trial of amanda knox. watched for four years as foxy knoxy as she was called and her italian boyfriend were tried for the murder of knox's roommate meredith kercher. italian media had a field day with knox printing leaks from her private writings and branding her a sex-crazed drug-fueled she devil. >> in an interview on abc last night amanda was confronted by some of those headlines that filled the papers during her trial. >> she devil with an angel face, heartless manipulator. sphinx of perugia. >> haven't heard those. i mean, i've heard the gist of them. and they're wrong. i mean, i was in the courtroom when they were calling me a devil. i mean, it's one thing to be called certain things in the media, and then it's another thing to be sitting in a courtroom, fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil. >> criminal defense attorney knows the knox case intimately. he is here to share his perspective. and the reason you know it intimately, for full disclosure, you worked as an unpaid consult

>> what about amanda knox? >> i have 36 cases -- i start with jack the ripper, and i move into sort of russian political cases. so it's -- you read whenever you're bed in. you're not supposed to sit and read the whole thing, cakeses you're not interested in. >> don't tell people that. >> i want to ask you a question. you imagine that amanda knox -- i know they're re-opening the case against her and you said they found this other fella. is this other fella been tried and convicted? >> he was convicted of murder. it's -- the prosecutor in the case, five years before this case, did a famous italian case called the monster of florence case. or he tried to say that a dentist, who died, was killed by a satanic cult. and it didn't exist and me man committed suicide. so when it got to the main da knox, not that many murder cases. when he got into another high profile case he took his theory from the last case of the satanic cult, and they instantly -- he called her a shih she-devil and said it was cult orgy. so you hav

. >>> amanda knox. we travel to the scene of the crime, and her final words for all those kids studying abroad every year. >>> and whiz kid. get ready to be amazed and have a lot of fun with an 11-year-old superstar of screen and science. >> don't be afraid to try new things. >> see the invention that dazzled even the president. >>> good evening. we begin with the boston bombings and new arrests. three men, college students, friends of the younger brother accused of terror. the three are in custody tonight and the charges, lying to federal agents, obstruction of justice and hiding items, including a backpack brimming with empty fireworks. abc's chief investigative correspondent, brian ross, has the latest on these three new people in this case. >> reporter: the fbi has been suspicious of the friends since the day of the manhunt, when s.w.a.t. teams raided the college campus and agents took two of them into custody on immigration charges. the two, both from kazakhstan, azamat tazhayakov and dias kadyrbay

amanda knox is not holding back. the first television interview, she says what she endured in italy was surreal. >> i heard that it must be meredith, a body, and are more. >> her life was shattered by prison officials who tricked her into doing them how many sexual partners she had and leaked it to the media that turned into tabloid fodder. free-id everything spirited women did. >> after an acquittal by an italian court, she is back to facing the same murder charge. should she even be talking? >> you do not want your client speaking to the media under any circumstances. >>, defense attorneys says that the simple conversation with diane sawyer can turn up in court as a confession. >> anything she says, and maybe she says now that are contradictory to what she said earlier, there are so many ways that she could damage her case. >> but she is done waiting to be heard as the cover of her look declares. and even that, he says, could come back to haunt her. she needed to be careful of the words in it. if there is any quest

knox was dubbed a femme fatal. this is how she responds to diane swauier. >> devil with an angle face. >> i've heard the jest of them and they're wrong. >> in "people," the 25-year-old speaks candidly about life in prison. >> one of the things, she has a family photo album and she's so lonely, she's caressing the pictures. >> so lonely, she thinks about suicide. >> she talked about would she do it in the shower, there's a little window in the shower and it would be all fogged up and no one would see here. she woul bleed to death and it would be a peaceful death. >> then a dramatic turn of evidence involving bad evidence, knox was set free and returned home to seattle. >> thank you to everyone who's believed in me, who has defended me. >> on why she's talking now, she says i'm not a murderer, but not latest twist, italy's highest court has ordered a retrial. >> what was your reaction when you heard the decision? >> it was incredibly painful. i felt like after crawling through a field of barbed wire and finally reach

and back to the crime scene that changed amanda knox's life.ons, she takes about her plans for a brighter tomorrow. >>> hello, everyone. thanks for joining us tonight. for millions of americans, the site of a policeman instills a sense of calm, faith that order is being kept. that the good guys are batching. but for many others, thousands stopped on the 12r50streets of york because they look or act a certain way? encounters with the blue and white breed fear, frustration and anger at a force that some say is bent more on intimidation than serving and protecting. so here ice my co-anchor bill weir. >> hands against the wall. >>. >> reporter: it's the kind of scene that could play out on any given day in any city in america. men in blue stopping men of color. as tensions rise. in in case, a robbery suspect is caught. >> you're not free to leave. >> what am i being arrested for? i didn't do anything wrong. >> reporter: the cops manage to keep it by the book. >> i'm sorry you're upset. i'm sorry for the inconvenience. >> reporter: this is an nypd d

he happens to know no , . -- knox.n he comes to boston, two years in a row, he comes to visit boston and he falls in love with another boston gal, and lucy being the social elitist becomes a match maker or the go-between the. they know each other. let's slash forward here and talk about the end of valley force. -- forge. lucy keeps pining to be with henry. he keeps writing letters. he refuses. she was with him in new york when the british invaded it was a fiasco for her. henry will not let her come. finally at the ends of the awful winter, whether the roads have cleared, when the reinforcement are there, when the british are well -- they are still in philadelphia, but the american army is ready for conflict. he said, all right, you can come if you can find a way. as it happens, benedict arnold can't provide a horse. but washington wants to see him. he's still -- benedict arnold is still washington's favorite fighting general. don't forget benedict arnold was known as the hero. if you have been to the valley field. you

it is amanda knox in her own words.nox is speaking publicly for the first time just over a month after italy's highest court ordered her to be tried again for the murder of her roommate meredith kircher. knox and her boyfriend spent four years in prison in italy before their convictioned were tossed out in 2011. now with a memoir out of the way, she is out to set the record straight. more from cnn's nick valencia. >> i was in the courtroom when they were calling me a devil. it's one thing to be called certain things in the media, and it's another thing to be sitting in a courtroom, fighting for your life, while people are calling you a devil. it's not true. for all intents and purposes, i was a murderer, whether i was or not. >> in an exclusive interview with abc news, amanda knox opened up for the first time in years about her murder conviction and her ordeal in the italian courts and prison. knox talked about meredith kircher, the girl she was convicted of murdering, and what happened in 2007, the day that would chang

murder, mystery, amanda knox speaks, an abc news exclusive. again tomorrow night right here. orrow ght. ght right here. goodnight. goodnight. >>> tonight an oregon murder suspect and terror caused. what his next target might have been. >> wind and we're moments from a red flag fire warning. >> hundreds expected for a community vij yismt i'll have a live report. coming up. >> and abc 7 news i team uncovers a policy that could mean your car could be taken from you twice. >> he goes get into the passenger see. i said no. not going anywhere with you, buddy. >> the victim of a north bay car jacking atempt that could have been much more. >> hard to imagine how any of us would react but she kept her said. it ended with the gunman tried to kidnap the woman in green bay in the attempt to get to the russian consulate in san francisco. we are live tonight with the incredable story. leanne? >> police say this is is where the first car jacking occurred. with regard to the murder sunday morning police have identified the woman they have not given a name in

. >> amanda knox. >> amanda knox. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> reporter: in italy where amanda knox could soon face a new trial on murder charges, skepticism. knox certainly knows how to be cool and how to take advantage of it, wrote one italian viewer. in america, she would have been sentenced to death. and in england home country of the roommate she's alleged to have killed -- >> abc news in full to explain her behavior after the murder in 2007. >> reporter: family members of meredith kercher say they won't be rushing out to buy knox's new book. >> all i can give them is this memory that i have of her to add to their -- to all of theirs that they can carry with them. >> reporter: even in this country a mixed reaction on twitter. "while many expressed renewed confidence of her innocence and outrage at her ordeal, some found her manner offputting. "i don't understand amanda knox" wrote one viewer. shows no sympathy at all, ever. for "good morning america," david wright, abc news, los angeles. >> and amanda knox is here live with us in the studio and we'll be talking to her just

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now, lucy met this gentleman, henry knox. this is an early picture, and henry was very tall and handsome, unusually tall for that time, i think over 6-3, they say. he was a man from a little class, his father was a shipmaster but died and left henry an orphan be at the age of 12. he dropped out of boston latin school. he was apprentice to a printer, and he becomes, of course, a printer on his own. and he opens up what's called the new london bookstore which became a very fashionable salon, imported books, of course, from great britain. well, from britain at that time. and where all the young men and women would congregate including john adams and nathaniel green. now, lucy was 16, and she happened to see henry on a horse parading with the militia near boston common not too far from her parents' townhouse, and she fell madly in love with him. this did not go over well with her parents, obviously. they being tories. and henry not only being poor and middle class, but a radical patriot. so they told her if you marry him, you wil

>> knox hopes to get off on a technicality.told has worked for other inmates. >> wrote up on physically resisting. you pled not guilty. is that still your plea? >> still not guilty. >> what's your comment? >> look at the dates when the incident happened and when he wrote me up. it was like five or six days. >> they went past the 24 hours to get wrote up. >> so you're saying it's out of the time frame? >> yes. >> we'll check that and we'll let you know. he's saying he was wrote up on the seventh and the screener did not screen him in time for the hearing. they can write it on the seventh date. it don't matter. >> this lady, man. she don't like finding people not guilty. she likes giving them a verbal reprimand. i didn't flee from the officer or nothing like that. >> we dropped this down to a class "c" and found you guilty of interfering with a staff member, and took 30 days. you want to sign that? >> [ bleep ]. how does everybody else get found not guilty but not me, ma'am? >> do you want to sign that? >> hell, no, i'm not going

olivier knox host: fromolivier knox -- host: this from olivier knox -- this a thing you covered and whyas it significant? guest: the debate over drone strikes is important. not just the targeting of americans but more broadly. one of the questions i have been asking is, whether america 's counterterrorism policy might actually be recruiting more terrorists than it is killing. it was very important because this was a very secretive american program. we learned about the killing of people like a lot the -- anwar al-awlaki from the media of the government kept a lid on that so when eric holder confirmed officially for the first time that four americans were killed in these types of strengths, it was an important moment. americans need to know what is done in their name overseas and they need to know the consequences, ramifications, and how it can impact their daily lives. host: a questionnaire on twitter, jim asks about the story about afghan insurgents attacking a red cross facility. he says he has not seen it yet on yahoo! news. is this the type of store you might cover, olivier knox? gu

two years after gaining freedom amanda knox is talking a lot about it and telling cnn about what herfear has been. >> i'm afraid to go back there. i don't want to go back into prison. >> a lot more of amanda knox's interview with cnn's chris cuomo coming up right after the break. [ female announcer ] crest + scope gives you the ultimate in fresh breath. so you have the courage to jump in... ♪ or make sparks fly. it's the only toothpaste that combines the freshness of scope with the cleaning power of crest. life opens up when you do. >>> nor amanda knox, right now is one of the most agonizing periods in her young life. believe it or not, even after spending four years in a prison. because she faces the possibility of returning to italy and being retried for the murder of her study abroad roommate six years ago. knox did four years in that italian prison before the jury overturned her murder conviction and she quickly returns to her home state in seattle, believing her nightmare was over. but earlier this year an italian appeals court overturned knox's conviction -- rather, her acquitt

knox also spoke with diane sawyer of abc news.he said a doctor told her they analyzed the blood sample when she first arrived in prison and that he had bad news. >> the doctor told me that i had tested positive for hiv. i was stunned. i went back to my room with one of the prison officials tellin me well, you should have thought about it before you had sex with all those people. >> so she made a list of the seven sexual encounters of her life. and they leak it? >> they leaked it to the media. >> afterward, knox was told it was a mistake and she wasn't hiv positive. susan page is "usa today's" washington bureau chief. you spent five hours with her. >> five hours in her hometown of seattle, interviewed her at some length. we went to a park, we went to a coffee shop also where she likes to hang out. >> how did she seem to you? >> right now she seems in many ways like an ordinary college student. she graduates in may with a degree in creative writing. she's got a boyfriend. they've been dating for more than a year. so in some ways, sh

. >>> amanda knox the foreign exchange student spoke publicly about her legal nightmare. >> it's one thing to be called certain things in the media, and then it's another thing to be sitting in the courtroom fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil. >> knox spent four years in an italian prison and endured a very public trial and appeal that followed. she returned to seattle in 2011, but in march italy supreme court ordered knox to stand trial again. italian law cannot compel knox to return for the new legal proceeding. >>> san jose police showed us the picture of a suspect at a local starbucks. why the woman could be charged with attempted murder. >> the starbucks on snail avenue in south san jose reopened today. somebody poisoned bottles of orange juice and left them for kus mers. police say this san jose woman took two bottles of evolution orange juice then replaced them with ones tainted with rubbing alcohol and nail polish. when shaken customers says she brings her granddaughter here often. >> she does get orange juice. i get orange use. i come here a lot so i

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that i'm looking forward to. >> the future for amanda knox. tune into "good morning america" tomorrow for an exclusive interview with amanda knox and her parents. "world news now" is coming up soon with overnight breaking news. as always, we're on line with abcnews.com. >>> two new brushfires are burning just north of the bay area tonight. sky 7hd is overhead. this one in napa. it is the site of an 1880s era resort. 20 acres are burning there. an unoccupied trailer wasroyed. destroyed. >> another fire in kelseyville near lake county. there are no injuries. >> the yellow fire has burned through more than a hundred acres in sonoma county just across the county line from calistoga. more on that in a moment. good evening. i'm carolyn johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. we begin with red flag warnings for the bay area. sandhya patel has more. sandhya? >> the red flag warnings were extended until moon tomorrow. let's check out live doppler hd and the skies are clear across the bay area, but the red flag warning is in affect for the north bay mountains, east

. >> tomorrow on "good morning america" abc's robin roberts will speak with amanda knox. thanks for walking abc news. see you back here tomorrow. >>> an eight-year-old murdered victim is remembered. a town came together to pray for the girl, her family and for the capture of her killer. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. leila fowler was stabbed to death in her home in valley springs east of stockton in calaveras county. tonight we hear from her heart broken family. john alston is live in valley springs for us. john? >> carolyn, more than a thousand people showed up here , 10 bus loads of people and others found other ways to arrive. the family of leila fowler was here and just about everywhere they turned they were met with hugs. leila fowler's family turned to each other for support and they felt the embrace of a thousand community members who turned out to celebrate the life of the eight-year-old girl. her older brother, justin, was the first family member to speak. >> i am not saying goodbye to leila. i will stacey you later. i will say see you late

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in crime and punishment tonight, amanda knox is speaking out.he american exchange student has spent four years in an italian prison before an appeals court reversed her decision. a new book out shows her side of the ordeal. she has done a few in depth ordeal. in a minute i'll speak with s s susan page who had an in depth interview. a doctor told her they analyzed the blood sample and that he had bad news. >> the doctor told me that i had tested positive for hiv. i was stunned. i went back to my room with one of the prison officials telling me, well, you should have thought about it before you had sex with all those people. >> so she made a list of the seven sexual encounters of her life. >> and they leaked it? >> they leaked it to the media. >> afterward knox was told it was a miss stick and she wasn't hiv positive. susan page is a washington bureau chief. you spent about five hours? >> five hours with her in her hometown of seattle. interviewed her at some length. we went to a park and a coffee shop where she likes to hang out. >> how did she s

knox was dubbed a femme fatal. her then boyfriend who would eventually be convicted along with the murder that would have people question her innocence. >> people kept saying where's the anguish, where's what we think we would do if this happened to our friend. >> i have seen the same picture, like the kissing just can't stop. that's not what that was. i want the truth to come out. i would like to be reconsidered as a person. >> reporter: which is why she agreed to the interview. she hopes it will help clear her name. >> did you kill meredith kercher? >> no. >> were you there that night? >> no. >> do you think anything that you have not told police or said in this book. >> no, i don't. i wasn't there. >> reporter: amanda knox's freedom is again on the line. an italian court has ordered a retrial. >> she seems to be on this pr campaign to clear her name. will this help though with the italian authorities? >> that's what she's hoping it will help. she's on this major pr offensive hoping to clear her name. she made an

. >>> amanda knox is finally speaking out. she was convicted of murdering her roommate at a home they shared in italy amount did you kill meredith? >> no. >> is there anything you have not told police that you have not said in this book, do you know anything? >> no, i don't. >> i wasn't there. >> amanda knox spent four years in an italian prison before her conviction was overturned but she may be put on trial again because her conviction was overturned by italy's highest court. >> after crawling through a field of barbed wire and finally reaching what i thought was the end, it turned out it was the horizon and i had another field of barbed wire to crawl through. >> he killed meredith kercher in a drug fueled assault and she was forced to make a false confession. the new trial will start in florence italy and amanda knox will not be required to return. >>> syrian rebels quoted in the washington post say the administration is sending weapons to the opposition while at the same time pursuing the conflict. >>> president barack oba

let's move on to another contentious, much more contentious, figure you may argue, amanda knox.he's given her first big interview on the back of a book that's coming out. let's watch. >> i was in the courtroom when they were calling me a devil. i mean, it's one thing to be called certain things in the media and then it's another thing to be sitting in a courtroom, fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil. for all intents and purposes, i was a murderer. whether i was or not. >> mark, my issue is not that she's unentitled to do a book. she's been through a harrowing experience although obviously the experience is not over yet. the italians want to retry her. but my issue is a bit more personal in the sense i know meredith kercher's father, who is british, obviously, as she is or she was. he feels extremely distressed obviously about what happened and very distressed about amanda knox going on this big publicity whirl and making lots of money out of it. he used to work for a newspaper i edited. i have a big problem with her making $4 million from effectively the

chris cuomo interviews amanda knox.uzzle in this bizarre murder-mystery finally fall into place? watch "amanda knox the unanswered questions" tonight at 10:00 eastern. that's it for me. i'm jake tapper. i will now turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> thanks very much. in an astonishing rescue, a neighbor hears screams and three young women are freed from a cleveland home after a decade of captivity. the suspects three middle aged brothers. you'll hear the home owner described as a regular guy but also hear about some very bizarre incidents that raised suspicions. and what comes next? i'll talk about the healing process with elizabeth smart, who was also kidnapped as a teenager and held for nine months. >>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room."

joining us now is knox tent, and knox, who are these religious extremists, and who are their victims. >> it is a trend we see affecting the globe, burma, pakistan, nigeria, and east africa. they are motivated by an extremely religious ideology that attack the religious other. even those in their own faith group or adhere to another religion. >> george: and this is especially happening in the so-called arab spring countries, like egypt, syria, and libya. what does the commission recommend that the government do to protect the religious minorities there? >> this is one of the biggest challenges facing the united states in our diplomacy internationally. we have recommended that the united states designate 15 countries as the worst violators of religious freedom, including egypt. in the context of egypt, it is because of government action and inaction. the government persecuting people under blasphemy-like laws, but also allowing street gangs to attack religious minorities, like the coptic christian church, with impunity. it is time for our government to let cairo know we want to see thos

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