on that same night, meredith kircher returned home after watching a movie with friends. sometime between 11:00 p.m. and midnight a witness living in these apartments across the street claimed to hear a scream and multiple foot steps running away from the house in opposite directions. the next day knox says she returned home to shower and change clothes. then she noticed something was wrong. one roommate's room was turned upside down. a rock on the floor and a broken window. meredith kircher's door was locked, and she wasn't answering her cell phone. >> i got the phone calls about when she came to her house and amanda kept saying, i have gotten ahold of everything. i can't get ahold of moit. -- meredith. she's not answering her phone. her door is locked. there was lots of concern. i said, okay. you know, call the police, and she did, and, you know, the police came, and then they had actually one of the other roommates' boyfriends that broke down the door because the police wouldn't do it. >> behind meredith's bedroom door was her body covered by a blanket, blood everywher

one of the lawyers in the case for meredith kircher showed a sign of the boy and said, do you remember. the fact is that's who inmates talk to. and a lot of times we have information from fellow inmates as we do here. it's corroborated by what he said a long time ago and corroborated by the fact that amanda knox and rafael are innocent. >> you're part of a spokesperson for friends and family of amanda knox. you're in touch with her parents. how are they? and how's amanda? >> she's -- this has been three birthdays, four christmases in prison. she's only 23. they're holding up as best they can. i heard from part of her family today, and they're hopeful, very hopeful about yesterday, even more hopeful with the dna and forensic evidence we're going to hear about shortly. what a long haul. you send your child off abroad, and she never comes back. it's every parent's worst nightmare. they spend every month they've got members of the family there. they rotate, and they'll do this from here to eternity to protect their daughter and get her home to seattle. >> they do alternate. they do see her

you've got the family of meredith kircher has a lawyer present.of the trial is in the courtroom, experts from the defense, both rafael and amanda knox. they will all be able to provide their own rebuttal or their own information that backs up the findings of these independent experts. it is very positive for amanda knox right now, but we don't know what the appellate court is going to do with it. and it's also important to keep in perspective they were convicted on a variety of issues, not just these two pieces of forensic evidence. it's very important, there's no question, but we don't know what weight this holds for the appellate court. >> barbie nato coming to us from rome. appreciate that. >> none of us thought we were going to make it. i wrote a little will according to islamic law. i put it in my pocket just in case. >> witnesses describe the horrifying moments inside the intercontinental hotel in kabul. terrorists attacking in the middle of the night there, and we're now learning the attackers were not members of the taliban. and i'll tell