reporter mary claire dale of the associated press has covered the trial since it began. joins us tonight from philadelphia. welcome to the program. mary claire dale, first of all, tell us what are the charges against dr. gosnell. >> good evening. the charges include eight counts of murder, seven of them are first-degree murder and could bring the death penalty. those are the charges involving the babies who were allegedly born alive. the 8th murder count is a third-degree murder count involving the overdosed death of the 41-year-old patient. >> woodruff: and this all stemmed as we said from investigators coming into the clinic a few years ago. they were actually looking for something else. >> yes, indeed. they were responding, we think, to a t about drug, prescribing of prescription drugs including oxycontin. he was apparently one of the more high-volume prescribers in the state of pennsylvania. the raid was intended to examine that. allegedly was freely writing prescriptions for addicts and drug dealers, et cetera. but what the f.b.i. and other federal and state authorit