. >> it was a gorgeous sunny day in newport beach, california. the last of 4th of july weekend. some lucky tourists aboard an eight passenger bus called the green machine, marvelling as a school of dolphins, when they >> newport beach. >> the captain radioed the coast guard that as a boat was circling out of control nearby. apparently fell off the boat. >> the man in the water was frantic. pretty distraught? very. >> his name was eric beckler. his wife was peggy, but she was nowhere to be found. >> just laying on his boogie board and laying. >> can you make out any words? >> no, he's kind of slurring his words. >> any time now that the unit should be on the scene. >> a stunning end to what began as a perfect day. this newport beach couple was anniversary and peggy just turning 38. >> it was her birthday, so she was in good spirits. >> linda was one of the friends they invited to a big party a couple of days earlier. >> she was talking about how much she loved eric, how great life is. >> and maybe life was great. because peggy had it all. her story begins in a small town, dexter,

police traced it to this newport beach hotel - that man on hotel surveillance? kent easter.sot - chris duff / senior deputy d.a., orange county: the pieces started to come together.kelli was cleared? the easters - charged with false imprisonment for kelli's bogus bust. jill copped a plea? putting kent away for 180 days. months later... kelli's attorney deposing a defiant kent... in this exclusive video. deposition clip:attorney: sir, did you knowingly participate in a scheme with your wife to frame kelli peters?kent easter: (long pause) noyet, he'd sing a different tune at the civil trial? admitting under oath he'd planted those drugs?sot - kelli peters: he also said, "kelli didn't do anything to my son. it was all rob marcereau / kelli peters' attorney: he tried to fall on his sword and say, "well, i admit it. i did it." and-- i 3 mona plasma3 coming up - melissa will have more on the warm weather headed our way.melissa at wx ctr 3 we're talking cool weather for friday, before we soar into the 60s for the weekend. i'll have the pleasant forecast coming up next.

police traced it to this newport beach hotel. not where you'd spot erratic driving in irvine. and that man captured on the hotel surveillance video. kent easter. >> when the police were able to determine that the defendant's law firm was next door, the pieces started to come together for them. >> reporter: kelli was cleared. police gathering evidence indicating the easters had planted the drugs and paraphernalia in kelli's car the night before. >> the case of an irvine lawyer charged with planting -- each charged with false imprisonment for trying to set kelli up. jill copped a plea and was sentenced to 120 days. kent easter wanted to go to trial, forcing kelli to relive her trauma and anguish on the stand. defense attorney painted him as jill's hapless stooge. >> a husband trying to appease a difficult wife. >> reporter: new evidence, this e-mail from jill to kent, a honey-do list from hell. she has legal assignment for kent and wants them done in 24 hours. exhaust the criminal code against kelli. file suits against the school district, the school, and whomever else we possib

commission is set to vote on one of the largers projects ever, 1100 acres of development near newport beach. >>> it's such a nice day julie watts is going to take to us lunch on the beach. >> a great day for it! temperatures once again above average for this time of the year. probably not quite as hot as yesterday but still, warm nonetheless. the temperatures yesterday, the records that we set and beat san francisco tied the previous record at 71. oakland beat the previous record at 70. san jose 76. santa cruz 85 degrees. maybe we should head down to cruz today. really gorgeous weather out there. yes, we would like the rain, but in its absence at least we can enjoy the mild weather. you may run into a little patchy fog out there on the roads this morning. so be mindful of that. in fact, speaking of which, let's check in with the commute. >> it's busy. we have reports of a brand-new accident out of marin county southbound 101 right at novato. we have word of a vehicle stuck in the center divide. it is facing the wrong way so it's not blocking lanes but will probably cause a visual distractio

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bridge and were checking traffic on sixty four in the selected six of three now later today the newport beach fire department set to discuss safety concerns surrounding meth labs they say they want people understand how dangerous myth making is many of the chemicals used in meth labs or explosives or explosive rather putting innocent people and first responders in danger. this comes after the fifty mm f us in our area just this month yesterday police border police responded to a domestic dispute and tell us that they found a meth operation they went to apartment complex in park place off of west twenty seven to serve a warrant when they found that lab earlier this month just the police found an operation in a shed off of meadows landing in western branch last sunday police in newport news say that they busted a meth lab on middlesex road and that one led them to two other locations in the city last week. those are all of the confirmed cases in which the drug was produced in addition investigators say the newport news cases led them to a location on cynthia drive and hampden in that incident p

virginia beach, newport news, hampton, portsmouth, and norfolk's police departments shared their condolences online. we put more information on wavy dot com, including pictures of the other officers hurt this past weekend. today a navy seal will recieve america's highest military honor for his role in a risky rescue mission in afghanistan. president barack obama will give edward byers jr. the medal of honor. byers helped rescue a doctor held captive by the taliban back in december 2012. byers is the eleventh living service member to receive the medal of honor for his actions in afghanistan. new this morning senator tim kaine says he's working on a defense budget that would bring more work to local shipyards. newport news shipbuilding says its struggled with to lay-off hundreds of people. senator kaine told us there's a new project coming. am hamp kaine on shipyard / c01 03:13 - 03:31 "there's a little bit of good news is that, the challenges of timing. so for example in the budget, that we just got done with in december, there's going to be a new level of investment of buliding the ohio clas

that phone call, police traced it to this newport beach hot on surveillance kent easter. >> the pieces started to come together. >> reporter: kelli was cleared and the easters charged with false imprisonment for her bogus bust. jill copped a plea kept away for 1 0 days. months later kelli's attorney deposing a defiant kent in this exclusive video. your wife to frame kelli peters? >> et he'd sing a different tune at the civil trial admitting under oath he planted those drugs. >> he also said kelli didn't do anything to my son. it was all made up. me start crying. >> reporter: you tried to fall on his sword and say i admit it. i did it. i think the jury saw through hard to say when she might see some of that money but for now she's proud to have taken on her one-time accusers. >> all right, chris, thank you. >>> coming up, new threat toht now. hackers holding date that hostage. the big money, how you can protect your private in my business i can count on my i.t. guy bailing me out all the time... i'm not the i.t. guy. i'm the desktop support tech supervisor. and my customers knowing righ