they failed my grandson. >> joining us now is one of the "miami herald" reporters behind in innocenceseries, carol marvin and james hawn, former commander at the miami county sheriff's department in florida who supervised child abuse investigations. welcome to you both. >> thank you. thank you for having us. >> absolutely. carol, i want to start with you. this is some very important investigative work, very difficult. the team here at "the last word" has been looking over your work and wanting to help spotlight what you've already been reporting. if there is any kind of hope that comes out of these kind of stories, of course, it's the hope of improvement and change. we're seeing i would say a little nod towards that. governor rick scott of florida facing more pressure on this and has talked about giving the dcf another $40 million. but that would only be something in the neighborhood of a 1% change. walk us through what you think the important conclusions are out of this report and what you make of any efforts to start changing some of these programs. >> what we found was that florida

now everybody reads the "miami herald." the courts are reading this. everybody reads it. >> people always want to believe that somebody is innocent but it is really dangerous years after the fact to get a new trial for somebody, for some legal flaw like maybe his lawyer didn't work hard enough or maybe some witness was unreliable. >> in fact, gwen gurley, who recan'ted her original testimony against jim duckett now claims she was coerced into recanting by an investigator work for the duckett family. >> he was at my house. if i was hanging up clothes he was behind the clothesline. he was always around. he never let my life at peace. so i told him what he wanted to hear. what he told me happened, i said okay, it happened. the only reason i even agreed to do this interview was just on record to let it be known that the last time i saw teresa mcabee, she was in james duckett's police car. that's the last time i saw that little girl. the next time i heard about her, she was dead. >> earlier in his investigation, marshall frank was urged to meet with detecti

for more, i want to bring in a political writer for the miami "herald" oig, mi "herald", mike caputo.ppreciate your time. is this something we haven't seen in a primary in florida before and is this really the template of the way it's going to be? >> i don't remember seeing a gop primary like this in florida before. but this district hasn't been like any other district. you had an incumbent congressman that got busted for cocaine and resigned. the idea that lots of money is new to politics was not quite the case. we're certainly seeing more and more cash coming in. incidentally, you did reference rick scott this is his congressman, trey radel, and depending on how the vote breaks out, likely his congress person in 2014. >> as an objective reporter covering the political scene here, what credentials does mr. clawson have when it comes to the public arena and public service? >> clawson's basically running the rick scott campaign. rick scott came out of nowhere. used lots of money, good team, and a good message. and rode his business credentials as well as a very hefty advertising campai

joining me tonight on our rapid response panel, a staff writer at "miami herald" and also the chair ofdemocratic party. patricia, you first, reporting on this, who is responsible for handing down this decision? is this a legal issue or is it a moral issue or both? >> it seems to be an internal dispute between the elections department and the county attorney's office. here in miami-dade the elections supervisor is appointed by the county mayor, and when the center for independent living of south florida asked about the rest rooms, an assistant county attorney, who is in charge of ada issues, made the call, wrote the e-mail that said, we're going to close all the rest rooms to all voters. the elections department, however, says that's not the case and they plan on continuing to allow voters to use the rest room where they are available. the problem is, you don't have ada accessible rest rooms in all of the polling places because some buildings, like churches, are exempt from the ada. they might not have rest rooms one way or the other. >> annette, does this mean that there are going to b

according to the miami herald the motion filed late last night said the fbi turned a security officer on the legal team of yemeni captain runs he'd been on scene into a confidential informants. the motion states the implications of this intrusion into the defence kampar staffer in the most immediate implication however is that all defense teams have a potential conflict of interest between their loyalty to their clients and their interests and demonstrating their innocence fbi investigators to help us break down this case i was going to a nearby art he's honest the future cannot take a look. well here it is not easy and very high profile case involving the five suspects behind me i've seen huge terror attacks of nine eleven is a total of five suspects including holly mohamed who is seen as the alleged mastermind behind these attacks and was finally the fact that our defense team their own defense team no one system or is that to every defense team than that i defend security officer signed. they have bought top secret clearance and that the role of these people is to guide the team. w

according to the miami herald, they have information that might help the quarterback. last week he was involved in a suspicious involving a woman in his apartment. information reveals that the woman may refused to leave and that kaepernick called police for help. so far no charges have been filed in that case. >>> two santa clara officers are on administrative leave after shooting a woman. she called 911 saying she wanted to hurt herself and others. witnesses say she swung at officers with a baseball bat. it's the third officer-involved shooting in the past three year. >>> well, this is the way it looked. we have new information now into the investigation into that huge fire at our old studio in downtown san jose. we learned late this afternoon that cadaver dogs will go in and check the property tomorrow. marianne favro has been following the investigation all day. >> reporter: the scene is still far too dangerous for arson investigators to comb through it. and here is why. these huge beams could come down at any time, and there are still hotspots out here. so the plan

the miami herald is a very significant newspaper in florida, and it attended and reacted to the commerce committee hearing that senator nelson led in his home state, and i just want to read two short sections. it opened by saying this: "for south floridians the topics of climate change and rising sea levels are no longer to be dismissed as tree hugger mumbo jumbo. pause next time you hear that parts of miami beach or the intersection of a-s-a and los olos boulevard have flooded because of high tides. let the light go off atop your head. it's science, stupid. on tuesday florida democratic senator bill nelson brought illumination to miami beach, ground zero for a unique coastal battle with mother nature." and it concludes with these last few words: "south florida owes senator nelson its thanks for shining a bright light on this issue. everyone from local residents to elected officials should follow his lead, turning awareness of this major environmental issue into action. it is critical to saving our region. if we don't, we'll soon have water -- not sand -- in our shoes." i yield the floor

i grew up reading the miami herald. my grandparents raised me. they were serial readers. they would get the paper every day on sunday. it was the funnies and the local types of things. she mentioned the dog floating on water. those were my favorite stories when i was a kid. i still read the herald from maryland because it covers miami things, which i pay some attention to. read than watch television most of the time. host: you read for specific stories? i enjoyed the locals. crimes and local problem situations. sometimes they are very outlandish. host: what about local opinion columnists? carl -- i can't remember his last name. an african-american guy who button about hot topics. he wrote a lot about the tray by martin situation when that was going on. trayvon martin situation when that was going on. host: the decision in ohio. in ohio. looking at same-sex marriage. judge to order ohio to recognize same-sex marriages from other states. judge timothy black announced his intentions in cincinnati argumentsl that challenged the constitutionality of the marriage ban. the state

commissions appeals court to overrule the judge this is what rick kamen nashiri civil attorney told the miami herald the prosecution's argument that the defense is precluded from checking the government's work is frivolous one of the defense functions is to check the government's story even if the prosecution does security information it doesn't mean the public will ever see it the request includes names of agents interrogators medical personnel interrogation notes and cables between these so-called black sites and the headquarters that approved and hence the interrogation techniques the man many called the architect of those techniques the retired air force psychologist james mitchell has broken his silence in the guardian newspaper over u.s. torture techniques. and good if. great programs in other. words. and while other guantanamo detainees are being prosecuted abuse has taken center stage as lawyers for a college chick muhammed and four others charged over the nine eleven attacks said they are seeking similar orders to uncover their interrogations. after the four way emergency talks in geneva to

according to the miami herald the motion filed late last night says the f.b.i. turned a security officer on the legal team of yemeni captive ramzi bin al s'shibh into a confidential informant the motion states the implications of this intrusion into the defense camp are staggering the most immediate implication however is that all defense teams have a potential conflict of interest between their loyalty to their clients and their interest and demonstrating their innocence to f.b.i. investigators to help us break this down i want to bring in artie's on the stasi a church so honest southsea this is a pretty inflammatory claim made by the defense team talk us through some of the details of this possible informant relationship with the f.b.i. that the f.b.i. tried to establish. well let me read this is obviously a very high profile case involving sort of five suspects behind the huge terror attacks of nine eleven there's a total of five suspects including khalid shaikh mohammad who is seen as the alleged mastermind behind these attacks and of course five of these su