when muhammad ali was the number one champ. he danced around the boxing ring with amazing ingly savvy. >> i'm pretty. i still got the world. >>> he was witty and he became a symbol of black friday. it was muhammad ali because of his views during the world war ii world, it was ali who fought for the right to fight and then won his way to the olympics. but the ali who greeted the crowd, was not the same ali of different. he has trouble walking and has trouble talking. the once nonstop talker ali said virtually nothing the entire two hours he was signing his new biography tonight. but people had plenty to say to him. >> thank you very much for what you have done to us, thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> i had him sign the milwaukee sentinell from 194. >> what does this mean to you? >> a lot. he's my idol. >> reporter: now his doctors say he is really -- >> when i think about muhammad ali i think about his jumping around the rink and you know, the chris -- ka charisma that he had. >> i remember him the way he was. and that's

a milestone tonight for muhammad ali and unearth that moment. what did he say after another giant birthday 50 years ago? >>> good evening we begin with the stunning new images coming in from that deadly ship wreck that ran aground with a view from underwater and the terror the passengers faced during those crucial hours. tonight how the disaster unfolded minute by minute as the luxury liner mroued into the rocks off the coast of tuscany. 4,000 passengers and crews putting on life jackets in a race to escape. this evening our team tackles three big question, what really happened from the moment the ship was in trouble, the 65 minutes before that order to abandon ship? why did the crew wait so long to sound the alarm? and just how did so many people manage to survive even without any drills? we turn first to abc's lama hasan on the scene. llama, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, as of tonight the death toll went up. they found two men still wearing their life jackets dead in their cabin, a total of five dead. 15 still unaccounted for still

>> many ahmadis respond that while they do believe muhammad was the final prophet to bring the law, that didn't preclude a prophet like mirza ghulam ahmad from coming to bring muslims back to that final law. >> he came to revive the teachings of god and he came bringing the truth. >> mirza ghulam ahmad preached what he called jihad of the pen or persuasion through discourse, saying that violence was not necessary to defend and propagate islam. >> he said we live in a time where jihad -- an aggressive jihad by the sword -- is no longer needed because you don't have to ever defend freedom of religion physically. he said we live in a time where you're no longer physically attacked simply for being a muslim. so he said jihad by the sword is done. >> for many muslims and certainly in south asia as the movement was developing, extraordinarily controversial, rejected. it was seen as the equivalent of heresy. >> and that view persists. today there are millions, some say tens of millions, of ahmadi muslims spread across 195 countries. in many parts of asia and the middle east, they face severe pe

for muhammad ali, he's suffered with parkinson's for 40 years. enberger is making a move. where is she going? >>> michelle obama, the first lady is appearing on a tv show. it's called i carly. this is a long rich tradition of presidents' wives, appearing on a television show, and thing we put together a little montage. take a look. >> reporter: 1983, nancy reagan played herself on "different strokes." 1976 bet j ford played herself on "the mary tyler moore show." 1969 pat nixon played the gore on "star track." >>> we should say today is michelle obama's birthday. happy 48th birthday to first lady. it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king that and i'm charlie rose with erica hill. in italy this morning 29 passengers and crew members from the costa concordia cruise ship are still missing. rescuers blasted holes in the hull to get access to areas where people might be. >> they say the evacuation was so chaotic, so we wanted to find out how crew members are trained for this. we have some of the answers to those questions. mark,

for muhammad ali, he's suffered with parkinson's for 40 years.king a move. where is she going? and ralph fiennes >>>4:54. please note the gray skies overhead. sharon will update traffic after bernadette's first warning weather. >> it's a wet start to the day for a lot of people. go to first warning doppler weather radar and here's where we're seeing the rain. there wasn't rain for a while in the city but look at what is coming from the west now. another round of rain. it is warm outside with this rain coming down. comparatively speaking. we're in the 40s, going to the 50s this afternoon. this is january. for a check of the roads here's sharon. >> good morning. a busy morning, new problem on the jfx. an accident in the southbound direction, it is going to be on 83 southbound at fayette street. watch for an accident on 295 northbound, at arundel mills boulevard. accident also in monkton, crash on monkton road east of falls road. ice reported in that area. typical delays as well. top side of the beltway here. this brought to you by home paramount pe

this is a boxing headgear that was worn by muhammad ali. as we know, in many ways muhammad ali started his career as a boxer, but he then transformed himself into a cultural and political leader. and we all know the story of his gold medal in rome in 1960. his heavyweight championship. but what was really clear is that ali became a symbol of unrest in america when he began to claim both his blackness and his desire to sort of campaign against the war in vietnam. this piece of equipment was crucial to ali's career, and for us to have this, allows us to interpret muhammad ali from many different lenses. this piece is from the fifth street gym in miami where ali trained early in his career. one of the things that is so important is to realize how much goes behind the scenes in making a museum work. and in this case, because in essence, we had to start from scratch, not only did we have to build a collection, find all of this material, but then build a system to protect it. build the systems to track it. and then build the systems to allow us t

. >>> muhammad ali in his hometown of louisville kentucky, his wife talking about the champ. >> muhammad celebrations that involve him. and are centered around him. >> so i guess you can say he hasn't changed. >> nothing has changed in that. no he's still a big kid in that area. he loves birthdays. >> how is he? >> he's good. he's great. >> all right, happy birthday to the champ. from one champ to another. this is jackelyn bennett's sister. cristina. >> nice to see the true hair color of the family. because sometimes in show business, you do what you have to do. >> i have my dads and she has our moms. >> jackie is about to get married. what do you think? >> i haven't made up my mind yet. i don't know him that long. but matt is a good guy. >> any friend of jackie is a friend of ours. nice to meet you. >> good night everybody. >> i like the hair color.

muhammad ali won that fight as well.f the greatest heavyweights in an era of great heavyweights. though he was also highly controversial. he was known for controversial statements on politics and social issues. this is joe frazier and muhammad ali going back and 40s in 1971. remember this statement? >> me and other so-called negroes go 10,000 miles from home to drop bombs and bullets on other innocents brown people. and i will say directly no. i will not go. >> reporter: they took his title because of that. he was diagnosed with parkinson's in 1984. you see the champ right there. all kinds of sports writers who covered him for many many years. listen. >> i worked at sports i will straitds and happened to cover boxing. i was lucky enough to have probably the greatest subject anyone could dream of at the height of his career. >> reporter: when you look back at those old pictures can't you hear the voice of howard cosell? he would say "down goes frazier." megyn: birthday was yesterday. happy birthday to muhammad ali. a woma

for muhammad ali, he's suffered with parkinson's for 40 years. enberger is making a move. where is she going? and ralph fiennes a martinez family r an early- morning fi >>> good morning, everybody. time for some headlines. i'm frank mallicoat. it is 7:56. >>> a martinez family displaced after this early-morning fire gutted their home on walnut street. it was report just before 4 a.m. crews arriving on the scene to find the house fully engulfed. at least one person being treated for smoke inhalation. >>> and a local man who saved his warship during world war ii will receive an award today at moffett field. congresswoman anna eshoo will present the award to 95-year- old carl clark, who lives in menlo park. he will get a naval and marine corps commendation medal. it was back in 1945 he was on the uss aaron ward when it was hit by six kamikaze planes. he grabbed a fire hose, doused the flames that was threatening an ammunition locker on board. he also carried injured sailors to safety despite having a broken collarbone. it's been a long time, but fin

at 10:30 at night there's not many people out. >> reporter: in the frederick road case muhammad zahman faces misdemeanor sexual assault charges. he's being held in the baltimore county detention center with bail set at $75,000. an -- investigators are still looking for suspects in the other case. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> the man accused of being the east coast rapist is due back in court in march. an attorney representing 40-year-old aaron thomas has asked for a court-ordered mental evaluation for his client. the attorney says thomas is currently refusing to speak to him. authorities believe thomas is responsible for rapes and attacks on 17 women including one here in maryland over the span of a decade. >>> a man aid cued in the -- accused in the murder of a laurel woman will be arraigned in two weeks. prosecutors in macon, georgia, say they plan to seek the death penalty. lauren giddings just graduated from mercer university law school when she disappeared. five days later police found her body wrapped in plastic in a garbage bin beside her apartment. steven mcdaniel is charged

the man was named muhammad, said he was a part time actor that worked at a convenience store.he told it, he had been friends with benefits with the woman for years. they met for the occasional casual sex. then she asked him for help finding a hit man to kill her husband. >> he says you know what, i am sleeping with this guy's wife, but at the same time, i didn't want this guy to be killed, and that was his concern. he couldn't sleep with that whole idea that this guy was going to get killed. >> but the detective wondered if he was being sold a calk and bull story since mu ham he did didn't know much about the woman he claimed to be sleeping with. the detective challenged him. >> all the information he had was her first name. didn't know where she lived. didn't even know who her husband was. >> while they debated whether or not the tipster story was credible, they knew a life may be on the line. so the detectives took it to the next level. they enlisted him as a confidential informant and gave him a story to tell his part time lover. that he found her a hit man that could pull

muhammad ali was willing to give it all up because he believed in something.world learned to respect him, whether they agreed with him or not. he not only won in the ring, he won in his own conscience because he represented something more than winning a battle in the ring, when a battle in the world, that people can stand for something and when you stand for something, some time, you can inherit it all. happy birthday, first lady, ms. obama, and happy birthday to the greatest champion in human rights that i've seen in a long time, muhammad ali. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love science. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪ lord of the carry-on. sovereign of the security line. you never take an upgrade for grante

dalia produced photos of her husband for muhammad to give the hit man. >> just give me one picture. >> i don't want to carry too much paper. >> dalia brought something else the hit man requested, cash. >> i brought 1200. he is asking for 1200? >> yeah. >> when are you going to give him the money? >> today. he's coming by the store. >> she turns the money over. >> yes. >> is that a crime, detective? >> that's not enough. we want to get a little further with the case. >> the police were about to see how determined she was to have her new husband killed. >>> coming up. >> you definitely want to do this? >> i'm positive, like 5,000% sure. >> another undercover sting and plan set in motio wnchts the help of an informant, they confirmed dalia dippolito wanted to hire a hit man to kill her husband. it was all caught on tape. >> it is like a solid. >> this guy is a professional. it is not bull [bleep]. get it done. >> all right, good. >> so the police instructed the informant, a man named muhammad to set up another meeting for dalia. this time with the hit man who would be, of course, an unde

an islam convertt..who prefered the name muhammad hussain.12:50018 this is one in a series of terrorist that have been attempted to be commiited on us soil over the 10 years. and it too failed. authorities say they were tipped oof as martinez attempted to recruit fellow muslims to carry out his plot. connections that eventually lead federal authorities to gain access to martinez nd provide him with a fake bomb. fake bomb here that federal he agents gave him. he was arrested after he attempted to detonate the explosives. pfemale/manuelian) 12:54:36 he did not do that until after he pas informed by the undercover agent that there were 7 u-s soldiers innthe building. not comment ffllowing hiss clients plea... during an a previous hearing, he implied martinez was entraaped.sot from old pkg martinee'' mother dismissed the charges as well.soo from old pkg after today's plea.... martinez is looking at a possible 25 year sentence in in downtown baltimore joy at 3 3straight ahead... 2011 goes down in the record books as the worst year for such a rough ear.t made it - year.and ... you'll need a l

no, tie, got it. >> muhammad is, too. >> we're all in sync here. one thing that i have to start out with, some news out of utah, little unfortunate here this morning, they have had avalanche warnings throughout the week. yesterday, one avalanche took one snowboarder's life. the rescue, tried to get there, and two others did survive. unfortunate turn of events. avalanche conditions continue as we go through the end of the weekend here. if you're doing any skiing take care. a low pressure system in the northwest there. up in canada, they should get mostly snow. for seattle down to portland it's going to be rain. up to 3 inches of rain in some spots. the big story in the midwest, we're getting back to normal. cold, it should be like this, fargo this morning 1. 0 would be an average low. minneapolis feels right at home at 13. if you put cold air over some warmer waters you're going to get some lake-effect snows. upstate new york, some of the areas are going to get more in the way of lake-effect snow. today into tomorrow. let's get a check a little bit

./ antonio martinez who began using the name muhammad hussain after he converted to islam faces a possiblefederal agents say it was the muslim community who alerted them of the potential threat. for months, martinez attempted hhm carry out the attack. the target became u-s soldiers. 12::9;38 we had recorded evidence in the defendantssown words that demonstarted his intent to carry out a hostile attack that he intended in fact to kill people he intended to do damage and he admitted that today :48 unaware hat federal agents pere on to him... martinez attempted to detonatt the car bomb. his arrest followed. &pmartinez is scheduled to be sentenced in april. joy lepola fox 45 news at 5:30. an update to a story you saw first on fox...an elkton middle school student .... is charged with unching his autistic classmate n the face...and it was all caught on camera. camera.11-year-old andrew simpson is now charged with disorderly conduct and second degree assault. he's the boo in ttis youtube video ... seen punching the utistic student. but simpsoo says he was acting out of self-defense ... because t

thank you, muhammad. >> let's check the forecast with ginger zee. >> good morning, everyone. one of my favorite things when i was studying meteorology was a huge snowstorm and we would get the day off. snow days. you have heard of those. how about a wind day? let's start with some video out of san bernardino. cal state canceled classes in san bernardino. the santa ana havoc going to continue today. let me show you the wind warnings in effect. high wind warnings through the red color there. that means that fire risk is at a high point as well. let's talk about wind at a more concentrated nature. tornadoes. we have had 74 already in january. that's more than three times the arch for january. one happened yesterday in florida. the first for that state this year. just a little bit of damage to show you from that. that's in south florida, near naples. and some video there from our affiliate. so thank you for that. i want to leave you with a look at the national forecast. is this mild stuff in the northeast going to stick around forever? the answer is no. >> yesterday was a pretty

but one of their hands, restore muhammad ali's boxing title. muhammad ali had his boxing title stripped for his opposition to the war in vietnam. they said muhammad ali is the warrior saint of the black athletes' revolt. two, disinvite south africa and rhodesia from the olympic games. they have no place on the olympic field. three, hire more african-american coaches. u.s. track and field team dominated by black athletes, you know, the number of african-american coaches if you tried to count them on two fingers, you'd be one too many. there was just one. and their last demand, and this is where they openly, consciously and brazenly just stepped in the crosshairs was they said avery brundage has to go as the head of the international olympic committee. [applause] >> for those of you clapping, you know how daring that was. he was the most powerful person in olympic sports, he also just happened to be an open fascist. he was the person who delivered the olympics in 1936 to hitler's germany. he was a white supremacist. he was somebody who was so out

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abc's muhammad lila is here with the details. good morning. >> reporter: authorities have named the husband a person of interest. that's not the same as being named a suspect or even being charged with a crime. to the couple's friends and neighbors, it's something they thought could never happen in their community. >> bob, do you want to say a few words? >> reporter: it's a murder mystery that is shocking this wealthy detroit suburb. this past wednesday morning, jane bashara, a senior executive, was found dead, strangled in the backseat of her mercedes in a detroit alley. just hours before, her husband bob had reported her missing. this weekend, a startling new twist, her husband now being looked at. >> he has continued to cooperate with our investigation. he is a person of interest in the investigation. >> reporter: police sources tell our abc affiliate wxyz that mr. bashara failed a polygraph test on friday night. he said that he last spoke to his wife on tuesday afternoon and planned to see her around 8:00 p.m. when he returne

. ♪ happy birthday dear muhammad, happy birthday to you. [ cheers and applause ] >> everybody loves muhammadxing champ. celebrating a big birthday bash in looul. he turns 70. about 350 people were at the party including lennox lewis and singer john mellencamp. happy birthday. that's going do it for me. much more of the news roroo "neh my colleague don lemon. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i want to fix up old houses. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you're never done growing. i want to fall in love again. [ female announcer ] discover what's next in your life. get this free travel bag when you join at aarp.org/jointoday.

yesterday morning next to the pier at the belle haven reappeared authorities say the man is 23-year-old muhammad rehman of alexandria. the medical examiner is still trying to determine cause of death. >>> police are investigating a stabbing at a hospital. a man stabbed someone with scissors and prince william hospital in manassas. the suspect is identified as marlin somerville. police say tasered him several times and eventually use a baton until they were able to get him under control. the victim suffered a minor wound to the face. >>> a massive manhunt came to a grand end at mount rainier national park. search teams found the body of benjamin barnes, and iraq war veteran, accused of murdering a park ranger and a mother of two. brianne carter has the latest. >> mike -- mount rainier national park remain closed while authorities continue to investigate the shooting death of park ranger margaret anderson. >> this has been a very sad moment for the national park service. >> according to authorities anderson tried to set up a traffic stop at the park when a driver 24-year-old benjamin barnes, shot

. ♪ happy birthday dear muhammad, happy birthday to you ♪ >> you see him there, it's muhammad ali celebrating 70th birthday early on saturday in his hometown of louisville, kentucky. he was flanked by his wife and sister at that party. the former heavy weight champion of the year appeared to have enjoyed the party. the party doubled as a fund-raiser for his nonprofit center. >>> tough talk on the political airwaves and it's republicans going after each other. the story on those infamous super pacs and the damage they are doing to the gop candidates, coming up. ♪[music plays] when you're responsible for this much of the team... you need a car you can count on. ♪[music plays] >>> we expect democrats to go after republicans, of course, but watch what happens when republicans go after each other. >> mitt romney became ceo of bain capital the day the company was formed. his mission, to reap massive rewards for himself and his investors. >> mitt romney, them guys, they don't care who i am. >> he's for small businesses. no, he isn't. he's not. >> all right, so that is one of those super pac tv ads t

>>> a big happy birthday to muhammad ali. ♪ happy birthday dear muhammad happy birthday to you ♪ >> that'sat his 70th birthday party in his hometown of louisville, kentucky. ali is battling parkinson's disease, but it didn't stop him from enjoying the party. the three-time world champ actually falls on tuesday. there were 50 guests at the private party, which doubled as a fund-raiser for ali's cultural and education center. >>> to the nfl now, in an end to tim tebow's season, he just didn't have it late last night against the new england patriots. the patriots dominated the game from the first drive. with tom brady definitely overshadowing his broncos counterpart. prayedy threw for six touchdowns. tebow had none. it was a real thriller in the other saturday game, though. boy, this was a nail biter. the san francisco 49ers scored with less than ten seconds left in the game to beat the new orleans saints. they will move on to play the winner of the packers-giants game later today. the ravens and texans square off in the other playoff game this afternoon. we are now hearing some of the first

we asked one of the rally organizers, muhammad kowarta to show us the site. he says he's worried there won't be enough water to cool the reactors, because the location is so far inland. he says safety cannot be guaranteed, as proving by the fact that a serious accident like the one in fukushima could happened in an industrialized nation like japan. >> translator: even japan with such high standards of technology is suffering from the nuclear accident. an accident in jordan, a country without technology, would do irreparable damage. >> reporter: japan's nuclear policies are being questioned in the wake of the crisis in fukushima. the accident has heightened the debate in jordan, too, over the feasibility of nuclear power and building the plant with the help of japan. tjushi, nhk world. >>> we earlier asked why the japanese government's policy of exporting nuclear power seems unchanged. >> it's a billion dollar industry and growing, the agency the international atomic energy estimated the number of nuclear reactors in the world could increase up to 350 by 2030.

temperatures and muhammadity can be adjusted indoors. but we cannot control these things in nature. we have to fight against it. >> reporter: since the 1980s fan has embarksion of preserving the site by using digital technology. she finally got hold of a camera especially made for the purpose in august last year. th focus can be adjusted more than seven millimeters. so it can take 2,500 photographs of the same subject. then it automatically analyzes the images and complies them into a single photograph. here's a photo. the contrast ratio is more than 300 times of that of commercially available cameras. such photographs can produce the subtle texture of murals and statues so the details seem almost three dimensional. >> translator: we hope the caves will last forever. even if they disappear, at least this digital project will preserve the exact images. we plan to record the historical materials to convey the value of the caves to future generations. >> reporter: with the help of the latest technology and the passion of people like fan, the ancient caves continue to offer one of the w

tonight muhammad nuru showed us the damage. large boulders tumbled down landing just feet from condominiums. three units are now yellow tabbed. >> if any boulder happens to slide or roll down and the building gets hit, those would be the most impacted. >> reporter: residents of the building tell us they're not too worried about the potential. >> it's happened every year. this year it's getting one of the largest ones. it's not unusual. >> reporter: in the early 90s, a large slide undermined an apartment building. the building was eventually torn down. geologists and geo technicians are analyzing data and pictures they took today to come up with a plan to make sure the hill is safer. >> by tomorrow we should have another assessment as to whether we can allow for these two units to be occupated. >> reporter: as a point of reference, coit tower then below you can see the boulders are still there. public works says they want to keep those boulders in place because they are afraid if they pull them out they may further destabilize t

tonight muhammad nuru showed us the damage. large boulders tumbled down landing just feet from condominiums. three units are now yellow tabbed. >> if any boulder happens to slide or roll down and the building gets hit, those would be the most impacted. >> reporter: residents of the building tell us they're not too worried about the potential. >> it's happened every year. this year it's getting one of the largest ones. it's not unusual. >> reporter: in the early 90s, a large slide undermined an apartment building. the building was eventually torn down. geologists and geo technicians are analyzing data and pictures they took today to come up with a plan to make sure the hill is safer. >> by tomorrow we should have another assessment as to whether we can allow for these two units to be occupated. >> reporter: as a point of reference, coit tower then below you can see the boulders are still there. public works says they want to keep those boulders in place because they are afraid if they pull them out they may further destabilize t

here's abc's muhammad lila tonight. >> reporter: it's the kind of success most only dream of.s a teenager, mark zuckerberg came up with the idea from his dorm room in harvard. >> these guys know people and i need their e-mails. his story now immortalized in the hollywood movie, "the social network." >> when is it going live? >> right now. get your laptop out. >> reporter: from that tiny room, the phenomenon spread first to other colleges and then across the country. within two years they had 5 million users. today the site has 800 million. in fact, 40% of everyone on the internet has a facebook account. >> they're the second-most visited website in the world, so i mean, just a tremendous success in terms of its social impact and the scope of this company. how big is that scope? we posted that question where else, but on facebook. the question we're asking, how is facebook part of your everyday life? >> reporter: within seconds, the comments were rolling in. "this is how i keep in touch with all of my friends." "i check it every five minutes." and, "honest truth -- facebook is

we got a glimpse of muhammad ali on saturday surrounded by his family. preparation for his big day. and perhaps you saw the tribute in prime time last night here on nbc. a tribute to betty white who turned 90 today and could still put most of us to shame. happy birthday to both of the greatest. >>> now imagine this -- you're on an overnight british airways flight from miami to london, dinner has been served and cleared. the movie is playing but most passengers have long since drifted off to sleep. it's 3:00 a.m. over the north sea and the silence is broken by this -- quote, this is an emergency announcement, we will shortly be making an emergency landing on water. 275 people prepared for the worst. passengers were crying, some were screaming until the cabin crew ran down the aisles to announce it was a mistake. an automated announcement triggered accidentally in the cockpit while the jet was cruising at 35,000 feet. as one passenger put it, we thought we were going to die. the airline handed out letters of apology as passengers got off the plane alive in london. >>> another sign of

muhammad ali. sports illustrated marking the milestone with a big photo spread.e was met by hundreds of family members and frentiends over the weekend in his hometown of louisville, kentucky and we add our birthday wishes to the greatest champ that ever was. >>> coming up at the top of the hour, mitt romney takes heat from all sides in the south carolina debate with newt beginning gri gingrich stirring the audience to a standing ovation. and when we come back here, we'll huddle around the water cooler to attempt to understand why jon stewart is being fed like a baby chick. sorry. i'm told it has something to do with super pacs. that clip you'll be glad to know is next. >>> mitt romney said under questioning at last night's south carolina debate, he'll quote probably release his tax returns in april. romney was pressed by other candidates to show once and for all what everybody already knows, he's really, really rich. if you want to sound smart today, tell your friends that mitt romney has an estimated net worth in the range of $190 million to $2350 million. he's

abc's newest correspondent muhammad lila is here with a report. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. great to be here. this is a scene straight out of "the shawshank redemption." prison officials were able to foil this plot before it happened, thanks to a random search of dylan dougherty's jail cell. >> fired from the passenger side of the vehicle. >> reporter: it was a crime spree worthy of bonnie and clyde. now the story of the infamous dougherty gang has a new twist. an escape plan better than hollywood. [ sirens blaring ] remember this scene in "shawshank redemption" where the main character breaks out of jail through a plumbing pipe? police say dylan dougherty was trying the same thing. when officers looked in his cell they found a plumbing pipe that was disturbed. behind the pipe the insulation was torn out. they followed the pipe to the ceiling. they found footprints all the way over to the female cells. that's where dylan's sister, lee grace, was being held. inside her cell, they found a handwritten note from dylan telling

fun family friends and relatives have turned out in their numbers to watch boxing legend muhammad ali happy seventieth birthday in his museum in kentucky the heavyweight icons birthdays actually on tuesday the five planned parties was held on saturday ali is now in the late stages of parkinson's disease but it is glory days he was crowned limby champion and defeated every top opponent of his era during his professional career and following his retirement in ninety one but he went on to travel the world humanitarian missions and is now equally steamed for. oh for always as a fighter and a philanthropist. but today more sport coming up in just about two hours time the stations watch the web's coming up next and kerry will be here with all the latest news. here is that so much. which of course he's right on it so here we casting america's global military strategy or just more of the same problem obama's new vision for the pentagon is aimed at saving. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kandahar. operation to