by 1991, 42-year-old nancy ludwig found what she was looking for in life, a husband who adored her and a career in the airline business. >> she had always wanted to be a flight attendant, since when she was a young girl. very outgoing, spontaneous, adventuresome. that's why she made such a good flight attendant. >> during one of her out-of-town trips, an airline employee called art ludwig with some bad news. >> it was some woman explained to me that there had been a problem in detroit and i should get myself ready and get out there at the airport and they would meet me there and we would fly to detroit. >> nancy ludwig was found dead in her hotel room near the detroit airport. she had been stabbed to death. the evidence revealed she fought valiantly against her attacker. >> she had such extreme defense wounds on her hands. you just couldn't help by getting a real feel for what she went through, and that isn't really always the case at a crime scene. >> nancy's hands had been bound with twine. >> this particular one is most frequently used in gardening and landscaping. >> biological evi

lisa grant lewd -- ludwig. dr. john vidal director of the pacific northwest seismic network and professor of earth and space sciences, the university of washington and dr. reginald desroches. like all of our witnesses, your written testimony will appear in full in the hearing record, so i would ask that you keep your oral statements to five minutes. our microphones are not automatic so you need to press the button when you are ready to begin. i would also like to explain how our timing lights work. when you begin to speak, our clerk will start the timeer and a green light will appear. at that time, you should begin to conclude your statement. at five minutes, the red light would come on and i will ask that you conclude at that time. dr. leith, thank you for being here and you may begin. >> mr. chairman, members of subcommittee, thank you for this opportunity to discuss the significant advances in earthquake science that have been made over the past 50 years. the u.s. g.s is proud to be a partner with our state univ

by 1991, 42-year-old nancy ludwig found what she was looking for in life, a husband who adored her and career in the airline business.

ludwig and maybe the others will have comments in our brief time remaining here. >> okay. well, first of all, our understanding is only as good as our data. with the earthquake problem, it's different than the other sciences because we can't take the earth and put it in the laboratory and run controlled experiments. every earthquake, especially the large ones is essentially an uncontrolled experiment. we have to chase it. we have to have the infrastructure, the physical infrastructure, the seismic networks and the human resources, the scientists to be able to collect the data. also, you know, we have to learn from what's happened in the past. i'm a pail owe seismologist, i look at past earthquakes to see if it's happened in the past, it could happen again to get an idea of what we could expect and to use that data for forecasting. but, you really have to have a pretty robust infrastructure physical and human to be able to do this kind of science and make these sort of breakthroughs like plate tectonics. it took a long time and a lot of data. then the alaska earthquake real

let's talk about it with robi ludw ludwig, nationally recognized psychotherapist.like for him to feel that freedom? >> freedom? >> well, initially, he is going to feel elated, because of the excitement of being discovered but as we know they can experience post traumatic stress later on. >> i would think that would come pretty quickly for him. we talk about repatriation and counseling for him. what exactly is that going to entail? >> post traumatic stress first of all is a reliving of the horrible experience, and it's when a person initially feels safe and then doesn't feel safe because of what they've experienced, so usually the families in this case were get involved because they also are experiencing some trauma, because they want to be able to help their family member who has been captured. so it's a combination of everyone really getting involved in the treatment, psychotherapist and medication management is hugely successful when it comes to treating p.o.w.s, but initially, they can have a tough time, because they feel hypervigilant. they're constantly on edg

ludwig. >> chairman lamborn and ranking member holt and members of the subcommittee him thank you fory. as a professor at university of california-irvine, either the earthquake risk every day. today i'm speaking primarily of president-elect of the psychological society -- >> even a little closer if you could, please. >> the core purpose is to advance seismology and the understanding of earthquakes for the benefit of society. my message today is threefold. first, you 50 years since the great alaskan earthquake there's been a scientific revolution in understanding earthquakes. second, federal investments in science has been directly responsible for these advances. and third, this investment has yielded valuable returns that are helping us become an earthquake resilient nation. i want to start with an account of the great alaska earthquake on good friday 19 '64. i've heard the stories of extended family many times. kind of grant was shopping in downtown anchorage when the earthquake struck. as the buildings collapsed in front of her and chasms open industry, she grabbed a parking meter a

said i can't believe the president's claim it wasn't terrorism, but then again maybe i can be at the ludwig obama won't be going to say terrorism has occurred on his watch. minutes later, hillary still sent out the press release blaming the attack on video. joining us, do you think this is the real problem for ms. quentin come the election? >> definitely. her book has just been released selling a lot of copies she suddenly has an excuse for why she lied to the american people. stuart: it is a very sharp and harshly written book, is that a credible source for this quote from anonymous sources? >> they are anonymous, but he can't do something like this without something to back it up. somebody said this and it seems totally plausible to me she is just trying to get rid of this possibility because this was a worth thing that happened on her watch as secretary of state. stuart: you hav imagine it has s were tuned half years. >> politicians are so risk-averse, they are scared to do anything shocking, but if you read a bit more in the book talks abou with how she consider resigning over this and

and he was based in new york city, kurt frederick ludwig.and so this is one of his mug shots here on the left. he was a nazi spy, and he used pyramidon, has anyone heard of that? it's a headache remedy. used in world war ii, it was probably as common as aspirin. and it was a common headache remedy. so often times people used dual-use secret writing. in other words, a medicine that could be both used for a headache and for secret writing because then when the fbi knocks on your door, no, that's just headache -- of course, when you find the toothpicks, you know, what are you writing here or even the letters themselves. i was amazed how many letters he wrote, i saw them in the files, because hard -- actually, you should try at home -- to write secret messages invisibly for long periods of time. my lines go -- he wrote reams of letters in invisible ink. and he also did some time in the atlanta federal penitentiary. here are some mug shots. he started at the atlanta federal penitentiary, but he was such a pain and apparently such a nationalistic