such is the case for philip white. once an aspiring rapper, he was recently convicted of murder. >> look around like [ bleep ]. how did i just go from five star hotels room service to an 8 x 10 cell. i mean people's bathrooms at home is bigger than where i'm living. i don't want to die like this. ♪ ♪ i don't want to cry like this ♪ ♪ tell me why life like this >> after serving a six-year prison sentence in indiana for drug dealing, white moved to oakland for a fresh start and had made some inroads in the city's rap scene. [ rapping ] >> but his dreams of stardom ended after he fatally stabbed his 44-year-old girlfriend 12 times in the arm and hand. >> number one song trying to shake heads. now i'm locked in a cell. how could the lord forget me? don't cry. >> white was living with his girlfriend and her four children. on the night of the murder, he and his girlfriend were at a rap show where white was performing. >> crowd was loving me. females was loving me. i'm just chitchatting and the person i was involved with, you

physically in a couple of years >> reporter: thats certainly been the case for seventy-eight year old philip white. he says he was initially slow to embrace certain kinds of social media on the computer. but he now regularly comes to the cyber cafe to check in on facebook and use skype to make video calls with friends around the world. >> a friend called me from new jersey and were chatting away and i put up a photo of my brother and my kids. and its great. you just put them up there and chat about whatever there is. >> reporter: and that's one of the encouraging things about computer use and the elderly: once they are exposed to the internet, they do use it. according to that same pew study, 70% of seniors who have internet access use it on a daily basis. the number using social networking sites has increased 150% over the last two years. with 45% of senior internet users saying they use facebook. >> woodruff: much of the national focus on improving health care has centered on the expansion of coverage that's starting to take effect. but a report out today says it's time for the country to pay mo