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leslie waffen spent more than 40 years working for national archives and records administration and he was in charge of maintaining records of historic audio recordings. david golden donated one of a chipped recording of a -- kind recording of the 1937 hindenburg disaster and he was surprise today see it -- surprised to see it on the internet. he stole more than 6,000 recordings over ten years. >>> there's a possible new agreement in the standoff with the united states and china over a blind dissident. chen guangchen is still in the hospital. manuel gallegus reports. >> reporter: the u.s. and china are now working out a deal to allow activist chen guangchen to study abroad. >> over the course of the day, progress has been made to help him have the future that he wants. and we will be staying in touch with him. >> reporter: the state department says c hen has been offered a fellowship at a new york university. he has been in a beijing hospital for the past few days after escaping house arrest and taking refuge in the american embassy. the blind activist has been outspoken about china's

leslie waffen admitted that for eight years he would sell items he took on ebay. a press conference will be held outside the u.s. district courthouse in green belt. some of the items being recovered will be on displace. >>> the reward for more information in the cold case in baltimore county has risen now to $30,000. it's an old case that comes from back of march in 1996 where joann lecornu was shot and killed in the parking lot. she manage today drive across the road. york road into the giant food shopping center but police don't have many other details besides that. the gunman followed her and grabbed something out of her car after she collapsed. her sister now a mother of three living on the eastern shore says she thinks about this every single day. >> it changed my life completely. i -- i feel i've turned into audient audient person and i have horrible -- a different person and i have horrible anxiety and i still do. >> get more information on the case on the website but if you know anything about the suspect you might be eligible for the reward. call police o

leslie waffen spent more than 40 years working for the administration and he was in charge of maintaining the audio recordings. the historical audio recordings. david golden donated a one of a kind recording of the 1937 hindenburg disaster and he was pretty surprise today see it for -- surprised to see it for sale on the internet. >> i cant imagine what it was going -- couldn't imagine what it was going on the iway because it was a unique -- ebay because it was a unique one of a kind record. >>> 6:36. jessica doyle is watching your money and your job. >> indeed. the unemployment numbers are coming out in less than two hours. >> right the expectations are good but not great. the big expectations for those reports. and if you're looking for a job you know it's still is not easy to find work out there. digging into the april unemployment numbers due outed 8:30. wall street expects to see around 163,000 new jobs created last month. the unemployment rate should hold steady at 8.2%. today's numbers are expected to be an improvement from march when growth slowed to just 120,000 but it will be fa

archivists are trusted to preserve the material but now leslie waffen who helped safeguard national treasuresore than 40 years is sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing and selling thousands of historic clips online. >> he misled his friends and his colleagues while he was in the process of training them and instructing them about the ethical rules. >> i've known him for a long time. >> reporter: jay david goldman was the first to report the internet sales. golden gave waffen a 1937 audio interview for the archives with baseball great babe ruth. golden saw the material he donated for sale on ebay. >> i guess you could call it ironic. i just call it sad. >> reporter: waffen even sold an audio interview with major league legend jackie robinson appraised for $100 for less than $16 online. only about 20 of the ebay buyers have been found so far. waffen apologized for the thefts in court. he said, i violated god's fourth commandment. in doing so i have scarred my soul. the archives now struggles to mend a tarnished reputation. >> this is a time when federal workers are under the gun. many are