and nbc's kerry sanders reports from palm beach, florida, they are making a difference. >> reporter:his is a garden of lemon grass, rosemary, hot peppers and basil. seeds planted this summer by a group of unlikely teenage farmers sprouted something more than vegetables and herbs. there is a bumper crop of confidence. >> it's fun and now i seeing anything is possible. >> reporter: did you think you would be successful? >> not at all. especially not at 15 years old. >> reporter: on a small plot of land in a neighborhood where 86% of the residents live at or below the poverty line. ♪ >> reporter: some of the older kids at the boys & girls club in palm beach county wanted to earn money. >> we sent out a parent survey. most parents said they struggle to get food on their table. >> radish? >> yes. i'll take the mangos. >> we decided to build our business, healthy nutritious food at low cost. >> reporter: boy did it take off. >> here is a cabbage. >> this is the kind of shopping i like. you tell them what you want they put it in there. >> reporter: for $30. >> lettuce, cabbage. string beans

west palm beach? there you are. ken, you are not confident that they're moving in the right direction. >> what country is he talking about? >> on friday, the president made reference to a light at the end of the tunnel. when we look at housing, i respectfully submit, mr. president, be warware, it could an oncoming train. >> the united states market. >> the white house is saying what they like is existing home sales got quite the injection, particularly because of first time buyers program that the government instituted, $8,000 credit toward buying a home if you're a first time home buyer. did that not help? >> freddie, we love you. listen to us. >> stop for a minute. it is the same thing with the first time home buyers tax credit as it is with the cash for clunkers. we are building a new society in which the only way we motivate people to do anything is to pay them first. or to incent them through dollars. the fact of the matter was it was the number of foreclosures. and if you look at the fact that we still have fu

police say she thought she had gotten away with it, but this afternoon she's on her way to the palm beach county jail after boynton beach police say dalia dippolito paid a hit man $3,000 to kill her husband. turns out the hit man was an undercover police officer tipped off by a confidential informant. she says she didn't do it. >> it's 10:50. i should have been dead at, like, 9:00. >> she was working out at la fitness gym, when police called her to return to the home. it was taped off, and detectives roaming the property like it was a crime scene. >> no, no! >> here is a woman who is saying she's 5,000% sure she wants to pay for her husband to be killed and then at the scene you have a woman who is sobbing uncontrollably because she's just learned that her husband is dead. >> oh, my god. >> just divorce me and take everything, i mean, that's the best way, right? i mean, i don't understand. >> straight out to ashley glass from wpec joining us there in palm beach, florida. ashley, what happened? >> well, i saw this woman today for the first time up in court for her first appearance, and it

ted sort of vanishes from palm beach.re's a lot of suspicion over a kind of coverup around willie smith. it was the first time as jack farrell, one of our correspondents said, where the tabloid press, the "national enquirer," if you will, and the mainstream press, the "new york times" and the globe, really kind of converged in their coverage of a case. so youave that going on. then you move to that summer to the nomination of clarence thomas to the supreme court. now kennedy had, as sam brilliantly reports, had valorously fought against robert bork's nomination, defeated that, was perceived to be the key guy to take on an arch conservative nominee to the court. into the process, anita hill turns up. suddenly the whole country is fixated on sexual harassment. ted kennedy retreats into the backgrounds, doesn't say much during the hearing, many suspect because of ted's own behavior. in the middle of that, he goes to anniversary party for some old friends from louisiana, edmund and doris reggie and meets or remeets their daug

i don't understand. >> straight out to ashley glass from wpec joining us there in palm beach, florida. ashley, what happened? >> well, i saw this woman today for the first time up in court for her first appearance, and it was like i was looking at a different person. you saw the youtube video there. she was emotional, over the top, hysterical, how you would react, right, if you thought someone was dead. then in court today for first appearance, stone-cold, expressionless as she stood before a judge. he set her bond today, $25,000. we already know she's bonded out. we saw her leave in an unmarked here from the palm beach county jail, and she's at her mom's house right now. she went straight to her mom's house. that's where she's going to be on house arrest. a judge ordered it as the case moves along. we're already hearing from her lawyer in court. >> oh, boy, that's strict. the judge ordered it? wow. house arrest? boy. how much more strict could that punishment be? she's at home while mommy is making her chicken soup. i want to go out to a special guest joining me from boynton beach. c

preceded by the palm beach rape trial.dy asked me in the arcf his life i may be a little prejudice because of wh i reported and wrote to bu what was the year that was the most defining of ted kennedy? maybe not in a legislative nse but in a personal sense and a transformative sense of the cultu and the media around him all have to say 1991 was the extraordinary year it was around polled-- well-publicized stories about his binge drinking and womanizing. he lood terrible. it was hard to turn on "the tonight show" an not cat a few ted kennedy jokes. the weekend began and palm beach the next thing minnow his nephew is accused of raping a girl at the family estate with one of his sons there. ted nishesrom palm beach, tre is a lot of suspicion over a cover-up around willie smith. it was the first time as jack, one of the correspondents said the tabloid press the "national enquer" and the mainstream pres"the new york times" cord the globeonverged of their coverage of a case. you may have that going on they move to this summer of

this afternoon she's on her way to the palm beach county jail after boynton beach police say 26-year-old dalia dippolito tried to pay a hit man $3,000 to kill her husband. turns out that hit man was an undercover police officer, tipped off by a confidential informant. she says she didn't do it. >> it's 10:50, i should have been dead at like 9:00. >> dippolito was working out at the la fitness gym when police called her to return to the home. it was taped off and detectives roaming the property like it was a crime scene. >> no. no. >> here's a woman saying she's 5,000% sure she wants to pay for her husband to be killed. and then at the scene you have a woman who is sobbing uncontrollably because she's just learned her husband is dead. >> no. oh, my god. >> just divorce me and take everything. that's the best way, right? i don't understand. >> mrs. dippolito? >> yes? >> i'm sergeant -- >> oh, no. no. no. >> okay, meryl streep, watch out. here's an oscar-winning performance. all the cops standing by. they've got the yellow crime scene tape up. they claim they saw an assailant running from t

you know, he, as i said, he loves his children, and spent a lot of time in palm beach, he's in palm beachfor a ride and he's just, it could have been any father in in photograph and it shows such a tenderness he had with the children. >> and he had a few favorites, also, of the photographs? >> yes, usually they were photographs with his mother. bob actually took the last photograph of rose and there's a photograph of the family, mostly the schrivers, ted, his children, and rose. and you always see him right next to his mother. he was always photographed in the final years with his mother rose, he adored her. >> how much input did the senator have when you were putting this together and what photographs are selected to be included? >> i really didn't. he gave his free rein. he trusted bob, bob was a friend of his, that meant so much to us, he also did the forward and really, that was his only involvement with us. he really gave us no instructions, and what was wonderful, was to be able to give him such a gift, a scrapbook, a scrapbook of his life in his final days. >> the author "the kenne

and joining us by phone, andrew mara with the "palm beach post." andrew, let's start with you on this one. and first question still is why? do we know motive yet, andrew? >> well, the motive, best we can tell, like she was saying a minute ago, appears to be money. that's at least what his attorneys are alleging, that she had done this all to obtain his condo. and the day before, she had met with the -- what she thought was a hit man, she convinced him to transfer the deed to the condo into solely her name, so that obviously -- whether he passed away or not, it would be her condo. >> all right. so we've got money here. what about another guy? was she cheating on michael dippolito? >> that's what his attorneys seem to think. they say the confidential informant who tipped off the cops was a close male friend of hers. they seem to think the relationship was romantic. they don't know for sure, but that's certainly an intriguing twist. >> yeah. let's bring in michael dippolito's attorneys. jason brody, josh friedman. guys, is that -- so you're saying the

. >>> police in palm beach, florida say today, late today that the nephew of senator edward kennedy isho was also staying at the compound over easter, failed to respond to initial inquiries about what happened the night of the alleged rape. >> edward kennedy came to court and talked an emotional conversation with his sister about the death of her father and then invited son patrick and william to go out. >> we went to a bar. i wish i had gone for a long walk on the beach instead. but we did go to a bar. >> in the halls of congress, he is somewhat damaged. >> kennedy also brushed off a suggestion from fellow senator orrin hatch, that he quit drinking. >> with so much controversy about his own private life. and facing a tough re-election fight, the senator appeared at the john f. kennedy school of harvard today and admitted some personal faults. >> i'm painfully aware that the criticism directed at me in recent months, involves far more than honest disagreement with my positions. or the usual criticisms from the far right. it also involves the disappointment of friends. and many others,

kennedy leaves new england baptist hospital for palm beach to spend the mol days with the kennedy clan. his older brother, robert tours the far east. edward stops in greaece for an unofficial visit. he spent every moment he could spare at the shrine that mothered democracy. from here, mr. kennedy went to warsaw to continue his private fact-finding tour. >> it is the season for congressional junkets. south vietnam refugee camps are visited by a lense late tiff party including senator edward kennedy of massachusetts. a fact-finding mission on the part of the committee who said they wish to see how civilian refugees were fairing in the centers set up by the south vietnamese government. the senator and his party expressed themselves as highly pleased with the efforts being made to help the south vietnamese, the civilians, who always suffer the most when caught in the path of war. >> let's go to chicago and win this. thank you very much. >> beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man. he saw wrong and tried to right it. saw suffering and tried to heal it. sa

palm beach county homicide captain jack strenjess. >> when we looked in the vehicle, we found that herone. >> and her shoes were missing. >> yes. along with her purse. >> the detectives rolled up to randi gorenberg's $2 million home. they found in front of the house a young man they thought was acting strangely. >> walking back and forth smoking a cigarette. >> the young man turned out to be randi's 25-year-old son daniel who had not yet been notified of his mother's murder. the murder investigation was only hours old, but the detectives were displeased that the victim's son gave them an alibi that didn't check out. and had handed over, as requested, the clothes he said he had been wearing that day. only it turned out later they were the wrong clothes. >> police officers don't like to be lied to. >> correct. particularly when we're trying to narrow down the exac timeline, the timeline is critical to this type of investigation. >> reporter: randi gorenberg, dr. stuartgoerenberg left detectives scratching their head when they informed him his wife was dead. >> it was not the typical resp

people were much less forgiving of him in palm beach. he hadn't married vickie, i shudder to think what he would be like. >> reporter: but his ability to career from seeming career enders will not be his legacy. >> i think he'll be remembered as one of the greatest legislators in the history of the u.s. senate. i think he'll be remembered for his generosity of spirit. he'll be remembered as a giver, not a taker. >> reporter: and as a lasting member of a political dynasty who captivated a nation. erica hill, cnn, new york. >> joining us now for more on senator kennedy's personal and political struggles, historian dough brinkley and gloria borger . for a long time, he was associated with scandal first and then public history. >> i think we've missed a little bit today the theme of catholicism in ted kennedy's life and that notion of, you say you're -- you know, you do to confession and you ask for forgiveness. and i think he, at his core, was a man of lightness, a man of god, but he had a dark side and it came out with the drinking. some o

because of the palm beach affair, he could not be seriously involved in it. the other thing that happened in the course of the year was that he met vicki, who was recently divorced and had two small children. she was a daughter of an old family friend of the kennedys. he went to a dinner that she ran. she thought he would bring a date. he did not. basically, they fell in love rather quickly. ted would go trick or treating with her kids. they fell in love. he had been lonely and unhappy. he loved children. she brought eight stability into his life -- she brought stability into his life. he cut back surgery on his drinking. he stopped chasing women. -- he cut back seriously on his drinking. he stopped chasing women. louisiana politics in which she grew up is comparable to boston. you need sharp elbows to progress. her family certainly have them. she made a dramatic impact when he ran against romney in 1994. she was a financial lawyer in washington. she said, this romney guy is a venture capitalist. look into what he has done today made a very effective campaign

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his palm beach retreat and the victims get all the proceeds.  >>> got milk? a new study shows seven in ten kids aren't getting enough vitamin d and it could lead to serious health risks. that's one of the big health headlines we are working tonight. laura evans has those. >> the problem is more kids are staying indoors, glued to the tv or video games and doctors say the answer is more sun or a change of diet. a vitamin d deficiency can lead to diabetes, bone problems and heart disease. foods like milk, salmon and sardines are rich in vitamin d but the biggest source is the sun. some doctors suggest going out for a few minutes without sun screen but parents have to walk a fine line when it comes to sun exposure. >> no one wants skin cancer but no one wants crumbling bone either. so that we try, and it is hard on mom, but we try to recommend that kids get 10 to 15 minutes of sun because really all you need. >> reporter: the best bet is to talk to your pediatrician to see what e proper course of action is for your child and to see if they have a vitamin d defici

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patricia dash found the rings outside of a restaurant in west palm beach and wanted to find the owner. she knew someone was missing the rings and went to a local tv station for help. the station did a story on the rings, the owner was shocked to see her missing jewelry on the 11:00 news. >> and when he said she found them both i was he ecstatic. i thought there are still good people around. >>i wanted to give the rings to the rightful owner. >> the two women met and instantly became friends. patricia says she was so happy to find the owner of the rings. >> yes, dear. an all out shoutout for husbands at the illinois state fair. this is the fair's annual husband calling contest. you just heard -- i hope the winner. kelly trebing of granite city, illinois. no stranger to the winner's circle. it's her fifth time in the top spot. they've been married for 29 screaming years. >>> that almost sounded like a severe weather alert. let's look at what we're expecting today. you can see 70 degrees and low 70s this morning. 85 degrees by noon. mostly sunny skies. same thing this afternoon. lots of

people were much less forgiving of him in palm beach.f he hadn't married vicki, i shudder to think what he would be like. >> reporter: but his ability to recover from seeming career enders, though, will not be his ultimate legacy. >> i think he'll be remembered as one of the greatest legislators in the history of the u.s. senate. he will be remembered, i think, for his generosity of spirit. he will be remembered as a giver, not a taker. >> reporter: and as a lasting member of a political dynasty who captivated a nation. erica hill, cnn, new york. >> joining us now for more on senator kennedy's personal and political struggles, presidential historian, douglas brinkly, host of "state of the union," john king, and gloria borger. for a long time, he was associated with scandal first then public service second. how does the country reconcile the ted kennedy from that era with the ted kennedy that's being remembered so fondly tonight? >> i think we've missed a little bit today the theme of catholicism in ted kennedy's life and that notion of,

. >> police in palm beach, florida police say the nephew of senator edward kennedy is the suspect inn alleged rape. >> kennedy had taken his son and nephew out drinking. after they left the bar, smith was accused of rape. at the trial, smith was acquitted but the 59-year-old uncle was under fire on the stand and off. in a speech at harvard, he faced himself in the eyes of his critics. >> today i say i recognize my own shortcomings, the faults in the conduct of my private life. i realize that i alone am responsible for them and i am the one who must confront them. >> the events in palm beach really produced an epiphany in him that radically changed his life. and in the center of all that change was vicky. >> reporter: vicky, victoria reggie, a child of louisiana politics and a long-time family friend who watched and believed in him. >> it's very easy because i know the real man. i mean, and i have known him and i've known him through my family and i've known the kind of person he is. >> reporter: they would marry the following year. >> sometime during our courtship i realized i didn't

. >> reporter: some west palm beach, florida, recently, rip currents pulled a swimmer some 200 yards away from the beach, by the time rescuers reached him and brought him ashore it was too late. >> i held on to him as long as i could until they got there. he was underwater. so there wasn't much i could do. >> reporter: if you're caught in a rip current, exerts say stay calm and swim parallel to the shore and then in. not directly back to the beach. >> it's only anywhere between 10 and 20 yards wide in most cases so if you turn and swim in it's like swimming upstream the whole time. >> reporter: meantime back on cape cod, tropical storm conditions are expected to pass through overnight, hurricane bill staying some 200 miles offshore, well before president obama and the first family arrive on martha's vineyard sunday afternoon. ron allen, nbc news nbc news, oak bluff, massachusetts. >>> anger and suspicion are growing tonight in the aftermath of the release of the only man convicted in the bombing of pan am flight 103 back in 1988 over lockerbie, scotland. stephanie gorsk has our story

this is out of near best palm beach, florida. is apparently a beached whale, and there are a number of onlookers. this is a live picture. they're trying to keep the whale cool, keep it wet, and obviously, their goal is to get back out to water. but when you have a beast that large, and sure, that's a small whale, but it's still a whale. it's not like you can just pick it up. how do you get it back out there? you see one guy, it looks like he is trying to move the tail. and they're obviously trying to save its life. it's always such a mystery, isn't it? why do they beach themselves when you want to help them so much and get them back out to water. this is what we're watching this morning. now, the last time we chexd, the whale was kind of trashing around. now they have some wet towels on it trying to keep it wet so it still feels like it's in the water. but why it's beached itself, we don't know. there appears to be just one whale. you know how sometimes you'll see maybe two or three that beach together. but there appears to be ju

mark strassmann, cbs news, north palm beach, florida. >> to health care reform now. congress begins its summer recess, and the debate is moving outside washington. to town meetings all over the country. and opponents are raising the volume. now chief white house correspondent chip reid tells us supporters of reform are trying to fight back. >> this man would be given no care whatsoever. >> reporter: in suburban detroit congressman john dingell was the target of so much anger at a town meeting on health care reform... >> no! >> reporter: they called the police. >> fine, then arrest me and my son right now! >> reporter: it's happening across the nation. from tampa, florida, where police got involved after a protest in the crowd turned violent. to green bay, wisconsin. critics of health reform say it's genuine grass-roots anger. but democrats say activists are orchestrating the protest. the evidence-- web sites of conservative groups that list democratic town halls and urge critics to go and be heard. and conservatives, like rush limbaugh, who, democrats say, are whippi

ted sort of vanishes from palm beach. there is a lot of suspicion over a kin of cover up around willie smh. it was the first time as jack farrell, one of our correspondents, where the tabloid press the national enquirer said he will and the mainstream press, "the new york mes" and the globe kind of converged in their coverage, so you have that going@@@ @ @ rbrb in the middle of that he goes to an anniversary party for some old friends from louisiana, edmund and doris and meets their daughter, vicky and very quietly very muc below the radar screen begins relationship that really i would argue totally transformed the last 15 to 20 years of his life so you have all of this going on and the year ends with the trial in palm beach. court tv had just come on the air. at first kennedy's lawyers fought having cameras in the courtroom, we all know about the court tv phenomenon now. they got in there. there is international attention on this trial. ted kennedy turnsp, testifies, he school, koln, composed. his nephew is acquitted and

he stashed the ticket in his pocket while he got directions to west palm beach, florida.his way there, he realized the ticket was gone, and he thinks a pick-pocket got him. >> he was getting too close to me, so i says, would you like to go first? he said, no, no, go ahead. okay. and then i left there thinking my lotto and pay mi papers were still in my pocket. i left. i came home and it was gone. >> isn't that sad? since tolentino did not sign the ticket, anybody can turn it in now. i'm just wondering if when he went to get directions he was a little bit too happy and someone caught on to what was going on? >> either way, what a horrible situation. >> i hope he gets it back. >>> 33 minutes past the hour. okay, so who has got the heat this week? >> i know it's a desert, i know it's august and i know it's phoenix, but yesterday they tied a record, rob, at 113. today you'll be right around there as well. 112 to 113 will be your high temperature. excessive heat warnings. look for about 115 just outside phoenix off to the west, and that's going to be like this for at least the

after he was confirmed it was a winner, he had to cash it in west palm beach. he placed the ticket in his back pocket. he arrived at a gas station to get directions. but the time it got to the lottery office, the ticket was not there anymore. >> when you look back on this, what do you think he will say? >> i am still going to curse. >> he did not sign the back of the ticket. he has no proof that it was ever his. whoever comes forward with it could rightfully claim it. people are searching high and low for that ticket. >> coming up, we will take a look at the morning headlines. >> peebles tigger ledger morning commute. some accidents coming in which will affect your right in bel- air. >> 0 upper 60's at bwi marshall. since re/max first opened its doors back in 1973, we've helped millions of families buy or sell a home. through good times and bad, including five previous recessions, re/max agents have provided the kind of experience america relies on to get the job done. today, in the worst housing market most of us have ever seen, that experience is more importa

>> by making it very clear that she would go into is live and help him get through the palm beach triald that he had to stop philandering. he had to stop going after women. he had to cut back on the drinking, and he had to be respectful to her, and she was going to play a key role in all aspects of his life, including how he treated his own children, so, for instance, before vicki,k the kids used to come running into the house without calling in advance. they would throw their clothing everywhere and rate the icebox, and she said no more of that region -- and raid the icebox. bill: so she imposed discipline not only on him but on everyone around him. was there resistance from ted kennedy, who, as we pointed out, lived many years without this discipline? was their resistance to what his wife imposed? >> one of the interesting things about 10 is that he definitely light confrontation, and when vicki, for example, fired some of his old cronies, he did not say anything about it. he did talk to some of his friends, who i interviewed, and privately said, "that is vicki, and there is not that

michael bell, palm beach county chief medical examiner, joining us from miami. dr. bell, great to see you again. i assume that that is something that would be able to be determined from the autopsy? >> most likely, yes. but i would expect to see bleeding or hemorrhage within the soft tissues surrounding, saying, her gums, surrounding the teeth, and also at the fingertips if she was killed e if that type of mutilation was done while she was still alive. >> i'm sorry, i didn't hear you. could you repeat? >> sure. i would expect to see hemorrhage around the gums and her teeth, and also her fingertips in the soft tissues if this was done while she was still alive as opposed to if it was done after she was dead. >> i seen him, once he had his sunglasses on, baseball cap and he had stubble on his face and his hair looked a little bit darker and he looked a lot slender, too, just from the stress and everything. he nodded at me and then he just went for his walk. i don't nowhere he could have went, then came back and went into his room. >>> a citizen located the vehicle in

troubling times of his later life had to be at the time when william kennedy smith was on trial in palm beach poll numbers dropped to around 30%, and it looked like he might lose the election. he was able to pull back from that and do so somehow with a smile on his face. how did he make it through that? >> we made it through a lot of tough times. both of his older brothers were assassinated. he himself was in a plane crash for the pilot and co-pilot were killed, an automobile crash that looked as though not only his passenger died but it looked like it might end his political career. but he said he had faith, he was strong of spirit, as all the kennedys were, and he could see the lighter side of life and had a wonderful laugh at all times. shepard: the kennedy family does not like to talk about themselves as royalty and rejects the idea of a political dynasty for some reason, but there are a number of political dynasties in this country. you could make an argument for bush, atoms, you have to make an argument for the kennedys. is it your sense that this is the end of that dynasty? >> patrick

. >> one case is a circuit case, the other is a certificate of merit in palm beach county.epard: what can be done now? that is our coverage in just two minutes. . shepard: very sad news to report on "studio b." a family spokesman says eunice kennedy schriver is in critical condition in a hospital in massachusetts surrounded by her family. the spokesman said that the 88-year-old sister of john f. kennedy is there with the family at cape cod. says her husband, children and grandchildren are at her side. she has 19 grandchildren. she's renown for nationalizing, really, the special olympics. there is a picture of her. a few more things about her. her charitable works have just been amazing throughout her life. a long-time advocate for children's health and disability issues. she helped establish numerous health care facilities, support networks all over the country. of course, she campaigned in a big way for her elder brother, president kennedy, during that successful 1960 campaign. she is the only woman in the history of the united states to have her portrait appear during her

he's from florida in palm beach county. he's going into sixth grade.amon, you're in "the situation room." thanks very much for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> you interviewed the president of the united states yesterday in the white house. and i have a little clip. i'm going to play this clip, and then i want to talk about it with you. all right. listen to this. >> mom always makes sure you're doing well in school. what should parents do to make sure their child's education is better? >> well, i think parents are the most important thing to any child's ability to do well in school. so, making sure that you're reading to your child, especially when they're young, even before they get to school so that they start being used to reading and they know their alphabet, they know their -- the basics so that even when they get to kindergarten they're already a leg up. i think it's important to make sure that kids are doing their homework and that they're not just turning on the tv all day or playing video games. i think talking to teachers and finding out fro

in 1991, his nephew was charged with raping a woman at the family's palm beach estate.cquitted. but not before the senator was called as a witness. he was portrayed poorly in the press as an aging playboy befuddled by boos. his want firm grip on massachusetts, a state that supported him through numerous scandals, was beginning to decrease. he became involved in a relationship with that change the latter part of his life. he married a divorced mother of two. those close to the senator said he finally found the happiness and peace he had sought for so long. he began to repair his tattered reputation, fighting for the social issues he believed in a like universal health care. despite never winning the white house, he remained an ardent support for other democrats. he endorsed barack obama early in his campaign. he compared the illinois senator with his late brother john. >> he is tough-minded. he also has an uncommon capacity to appeal to the better angels of our nation -- nature. i am proud to stand with him today and offer my help, offer my voice, offer my energy, my com

other than for attorneys and doctor's appointments and those must be cleared in advance by the palm beach county sheriff's office. >> okay. so she can't leave the home and she can't leave because she has the ankle montoro her. to nancy grace producer. let's talk about this because, how did it all begin as far as what police are saying dalia talked to someone about allegedly wanting her husband killed? >> right. this started just about two weeks ago. a confidential informant came to the police and said that he had information that dalia dippolito wanted her husband dead. he called the police that very night that he was told about it by her. the next day he meets with dalia dippolito. he tells her, yeah, okay. they act like this plan is going to go forward. she gives him $1200 and says hire a hitman for me, buy a gun. he then, of course srgs working with police. that's all been recorded, that conversation. two days later she meets with an undercover cop who she thinks is a hitman. again, they go over the plan. she agrees to pay him $3,000 after her husband has been murdered. she says that h

mychal bell, chief medical examiner, palm beach, miami county. dr. bell, great to see you again. i assume that that is something that would be able to be determined from the autopsy? >> most likely, yes. because i would expect to see bleeding or hemorrhage within the soft tissue surrounding, say, her gums, surrounding the teeth and also at the fingertips. if she was killed -- if that type of mutilation was done while she was still alive. >> i'm sorry, i couldn't hear you. could you repeat? >> sure. i would expect to see hemorrhage around the gums, around her teeth, and also at her fingertips and the soft tissues if this was done while she was still alive, as opposed if it was done after she was dead. >> he had his sunglasses on, baseball cap and stubble on his face and his head looked a little bit darker. he looked a lot slender, too, from the stress. he nodded at me. and he went for a walk and went into his room. >>> a citizen located the vehicle in the parking lot and thought it matched the description given by the media, and she called the sheriff's department who went out the

in 1991-rbg his nephew, william kennedy smith was charged with raping awe woman at the family's palm beach etate. kennedy's once stellar reputation was beginning to wayne inform 1992-rbgs he became involved in a relationship that would change his life forever. he married victoria reg gift e, a divorced mother of two and those close to the senator said he had finally found the happiness and peace he had sought for so long. he began to repair his tattered reputation fighting for the social issues he believed in like universal health care. despite never winning the white house, he remained an ardent supporter for others seeking the presidency an endorsed program early in the campaign comparing the illinois senator to his late brother john. >> he is tough fine the but has an uncommon capacity to appeal to the better angels of our nature. i am proud to stand with him here today and offer my help, offer my voice, offer my energy, my commitment to make barak obama the next president of the united states. >> reporter: in may 2008, he suffered a seizure at his cape cod home and was diagnosed with a

. >> not to mention palm beach. >> absolutely. that would have ruined most people. his biographies argue that it was because of his failings, he tried so hard to become the hardest working person in the senate, the most productive person in the senate, the person getting things done, not just talking, that, i think, became his trademark. for me, there is a story of redemption here. a man who had made a lot of mistakes early in life but learned from his mistakes and lifted himself up. that is part of the american dream too, lift yourself up. >> let's talk about part of that redemption and legislative record that he leaves behind. senator kennedy was a wealthy man. he came from a wealthy family. as a descendant of irish immigrants, he understood that the way hispanic immigrants are in large measure treated today, is how his grandfather was once treated. think about this. there were signs across the northeast that read, no irish need apply. that's discrimination. maybe that's why he spent a lifetime fighting for the little guy, fighting for immigrants, fighting for the