for fendi, it is rome. it was here almost 90 years ago, eduardo and adele fendi set up their small workshop making furs and it's rome where the company plans to stay. it's not just a home for fendi, the italian capital is a source of inspiration. >> we're home with these monuments and beauty you know rome as i do, it's unbelievable and you discover a new piece you didn't think exists. it's richness is transmitted to the creative people living here and this city gives us so much. >> rome is very important for fendi and rome can be considered a source of inspiration for my work and for and if you're a creative person, rome gives you inspiration in every corner. every day when i walk from the house to here, i notice something i didn't notice before and every rome has a story. >> it is visited by millions every year so to say we're from rome, it's a part of italian lifestyle and is a marketing restored something -- >> lodce vita. >> one of the most visited monuments in the world, we restored the fountain to giv

some states, like ancient rome become huge empires. these archaeologists want to find out just how far political evolution proceeded in copan. and they want to know why it stopped. to discover the roots of that evolution, two archaeologists begin a journey in search of the very first copan residents. rebecca storey is a physical anthropologist -- an expert on human skeletons. storey is joined by archaeologist dolph widmer. both are from the university of houston. as they seek the roots of maya leadership storey and widmer are inspired by a single basic question. did some of the earliest people here gain more power and prestige than others ? storey: we actually know very little about the earliest inhabitants of the copan valley. what we do know is that there were very few of them because there are not very many archaeological sites from an early period. keach: the archaeologists believe that as early as the eleventh century b.c. a few hundred people farmed here. according to their model the first settlers were organized as a tribe. with

. >> she is likely to have left from rome.h jerusalem is almost 2,000 miles over land. >> for an elderly lady in her 70s at this point, this journey is an enormous undertaking. >> it is so unbelievably far away, in the american context, if new york is rome, jerusalem is something like guam or american samoa. >> but by all accounts, helena is a remarkable woman. >> we know only a couple of things about the empress helena. we know that she was christian. and we know that she was a commoner. >> and yet she gets together with a traveling roman and gives birth to the man who will one day become emperor of rome. >> since its creation in 27 b.c., the roman empire has been ruled by pagans. then in 312 a.d., helena's son, constantine, has a dramatic change of faith. >> the story goes that on the eve of a great battle outside rome, he has a vision. >> he sees a cross of light in the sky. and he hears a voice that tells him by this, you will conquer. he takes it to mean that by the symbol of the cross and by christianity, he's going to b

republic so for example no law could be passed without the assemblies we think about the eu meet in rome in the senate for example but they couldn't pass the law. they could manage the budget but if they wanted to pass a law they had to go to the people and it's interesting that the idea that people fundamentally are responsible for setting up the terms of legitimacy continue so they got the people that claimed to each new emperor so that idea then gets into the modern political side and becomes an important underpinning for the sovereignty. >> who are some of the leaders of ex- >> if we think about athens one of the interesting things that emerge is in the speeches so one of the most important figures in its history is the lawgivers. it would become a democratic path at the beginning of the sixth century and at the period he established the principle of justice but the rich and the poor but there was a kind of period where they got the upper hand and became tyrants. at first they were not tyrants in the bad sense they might be good to the ordinary people but by the end they did become q

held a rally where they are least popular rome. the peart has long blamed the capital and the centralized government of stealing from the industrialized rich north of italy to finance the poorer south. but its new leader says that rather than breaking up the country he wants to unite it under his leadership. >> i am sicilian, but i think northerners southerners the french should all be united against europe. >> the parties supporting 6% to 30% and it is now the most popular right wing party in italy. but he wants more, he wants to capitalize on anti-euro antisensement, essentially he wants to make the league less northern and more national. >> to broaden its base the northern league is partnering with others and france's northern front but many in rome have not forgotten nor forgiven. part of a coalition government led by silvio is bairls bairls coin. bairlz coin. berlusconi. >> claudio levanga rome. >> still to come on the program is israel's prime minister about to rub salt in the wound of iran and the united states? plus countin

. >>> right wing antiimmigration supporters have rallied in rome. the northern league demands that the country does more to keep out foreigners. claudio lavanga reports. >> this is northern league on a southern charm offensive. on sat the anti-europe and anti-immigration party held a party where they were least popular, rome. stealing from the industrialized rich north of italy to finance the poorer south. but its new leader says that rather than breaking up the country, he wants to unite it under his leadership. >> i'm sicilian but i think we should all be united against europe. >> salvini is the only politician who is trying to do something for all italians let alone the northern league. >> the party increased from 6% to 30% and is now the most popular right wing party in italy. but he wants to essentially want to make the league less northern and more national. >> to broaden its base the northern league is partnering with other right wing movements including the neofascist group and france's national party. but many in rome have not forgot forgot

the existence when in the past they have called rome.ich industrial north of italy. in the past the new leader came to power. he has tried to national allies the appeal of the northern league. he wants to appeal and capitalized to anti-immigration anti-europe sentiment across the country to grow a support base across the whole of italy. hence, that's why they are hosting this rally here in rome. there were about in the square alone. they wanted to be 100,000 or a million. but this can already be seen as a massive success. he specially if you consider how unpopular the northern league is in rome. many romans have not forgotten or forgiven the discriminating stance that the northern league has had against italians and rome in the past. we will have to see, of course to wait for the next general election to see whether the north en league will have a wider support base not only the north of italy but all across the country. >> reporting from rome. polls say northern league leader is the second most popular person in italy after the presiden

thousands of people packed a square in rome for an anti-immigration protest. it is growing in popularity after attacks in europe with anti-immigration running high. the northern league hopes to take advantage and build a power base. >> the anti-euro, anti-immigration northern league has been holding a rally in central rome the same city that has been discriminated against in the past 20 years of existence in the past - they called roam because they are the party that accused the government of stealing money from the rich industrialized north of italy. in the recent pass the new leader came to power, the northern leagues - he is trig to nationalize the appeal of the northern league. he wants to appeal and capitalize anti-immigration anti-europe sentiment, and to grow the support base across the whole of italy, hence that is why they are hosting this rally here in rome. there were about 30 to 50,000 people in the scare alone. they wanted to be 100,000 or a million. this can be seen as a massive success, especially if you consider how unpopular the northern leagu

rafael chose not to stay in rome for the court.e in the south of italy to hear the decision there. he obviously had no confidence in what exactly was going to happen there. this is shocking. and portrayed so differently in the united states. people so sympathetic to her story and people believed her. in italy, she was portrayed often as a villain. in the u.s., a celebration tonight. what's the reaction there in italy? >> reporter: there's a lot of shock here. i think people felt amanda knox along with rudie gaday, 16 years for his part in the murder serving half of the 16 year sentence i think they felt the three acted together in this murder. just the press really followed it here in italy, signs seemed to point to that and people are surprised for the outcome, absolutely. >> barbie nujo reporting live from rome about 1:00 in the morning. they waited through the night, through the afternoon for this relief. amanda knox has released a statement moments ago and it says in part i am tremendously relieved and grateful for the decision

they have the greatest authority more than the poor did in rome. and they played key roles, for example, in the court system. all the courts were stalked by huge popular juries come as many as 500 people 500 people on a jury, and there were no professional judges. they did not have the division that we have between law and fact. just a group of 500 or whatever number in a particular case of people would just decide what they thought the law required. so that was an incredibly important source of power. they were responsible for lawmaking also in athens and they stopped a lot of what we think of as a kind of civil service. a lot of ordinary bureaucratic kinds of functions running city harbors, establishing the weights and measures those things were staffed by ordinary people put into positions by lottery. one of the things i argue is sometimes modern political theorists exaggerate that too far. sometimes people say they ran everything by lottery and there was no division between rich and poor which is actually, actually, i think, an overstatement. t

anchor: indeed, gavin reporting from rome. people have embarked on an out of this world mission. an american astronaut and russian cosmonaut blasted off from kazakhstan to begin their 12 month mission on the international space station. for more on the significance of the expedition, i spoke with a former astronaut who spent time on the iss. how do we know these two are going to get on? >> crew selection is very important. when we were flying space shuttles on two-week missions, it was not a big deal because you can work with anyone for two weeks, but in close quarters like this, crew composition is extremely important and that is why the training is so long in a new person coming into the program will go through back up turning so everybody gets to know each other and we put the right cruise together. the last thing you want is tension within the crew. anchor: what the you hope will be learned from this when your flight? >> the long-duration mission we are flying, the main reason we are doing it is to learn more about the bio

we got back light from rome. so we went straight to dinner. after dinner, we had made plans to go to a show and then go dancing afterwards. >> my job when not perform was to have photographs taken with the passengers, we had a very decorative sometime decorative style outfit andity any of the passengers that would see us in the show could have a photograph with us. so i had done one hour of my duty and i had an hour break. so i was up many passenger area wearing a cocktail dress, very glamorous, with stilettos on. i had one more hour of photographs to go and i was feeling a little bit tired so i went to the bar with two of my friends to have a coffee before i had to go back to work. >> i was feeling a little feverish, we had had a long, long day back in rome. and i went back to the cabin to do some reading and just relax. >> when i got back to the state room, benji was reading quietly. i took out the camera and we looked at the all the photographs we took that day in rome. we laughed about how silly we looked and how much fun we had. it was a

spent part of world war ii in rome in been in berlin. he was very active in recruiting bosnian muslims to serve in the ss. one thing up front and the u.s. archives that did make it into the book is that interestingly he was paid by the nazis as much as field marshal rumble, hitler's favorite joke to he was paid an enormous amount of money, so he is a very nefarious character. >> in the preface to "anonymous soldiers," you raise the fundamental question, does terrorism work? based on the lessons from the campaign should research, what are the circumstances and factors that enable some terrorist campaigns to succeed and others to fail? >> this is one of the third rails in "anonymous soldiers." the first is really a reason to question whether terrorism is a more effective strategy than many claim that it is. secondly calling them terrorists. two things. firstly i think history itself is rarely monarch also. one can argue very narrowly, i'm a terrorism specialist from a terrorism perspective you can say that terrorism caused world war i. tha

. >>> meanwhile, right wing antiimmigration supporters have rallied in rome. the northern league is demanding italy's government does more to keep foreigners out. early proaforts protesters were letting their position known. claudio levanga reports. >> heldheld a rally where they are least popular rome. stealing from the industrialized rich north of italy to finance the poorer south. but its new leader says that rather than breaking up the country, he wants to unite it under his leadership. >> translator: i am sicilian but i think all of us northerners, southerners the french should all be united in this. >> not only for northern league. >> elected as a leader of the northern league, the parties increased from 6% to 30% and it is now the most popular right wing party in italy. what's more he wants to capitalize to anti-euro and anti anti-europe sentiments. >> to broaden its base the northern league is partnering with other right wing units including the neofascist group casa town. but many have not forgotten nor forgiven. on friday police clashed with proteste

's eastern washington --eastern washington's coach guaranteed a win today on the jim rome show. >> i heard about that. we're going to show up and play tomorrow. we will seal the court. >> when i signed off on the jim rome show, i said, hey, jim, we will talk to you soon and we are going to win. i want my team confident. tim: 15 guys on the other bus were listening as well. the maryland terrapins do not play until friday afternoon. mark turgeon wants to get them mentally ready for a very, very dangerous valpraiso. >> very good rebounding team, which is something we are pretty good at, but not great. that challenges their, and they have good players, well coached. they will probably show some things that we have not seen, but this time of year you play really good teams. tim: the wizards playing the jazz in utah late game out west. the jazz are playing better right now. they lead by one late in the second. nationals-marlins. the nets lost to the fish, and giancarlo stanton hit this home run. stay focused, guys, find the ball. miami beats the nats. spring training for the cameramen as w

lester, the sentence three years time served. >> kelly cobiella in rome tonight. thank you. >>> there is a stunning report out this evening about that racist chant among fraternity members at the university of oklahoma. the video of them singing those awful words set off a firestorm that included students expelled and others disciplined. now we're learning where school investigators say fraternity members first learned that song. we have a report from norman, oklahoma. ♪ >> reporter: ou's president says members of sigma alpha epsilon learned this racist chant at a leadership cruise sponsored by the national fraternity four years ago. >> over time the chant was formalized by the local chapter and was taught to pledges -- >> reporter: david boren said the chant became part of the chapter's institutionalized culture. the report says about a dozen high school students were exposed to the chant on the bus as part of the recruitment activities. >> we can stop it if all of us and the institutions and organizations we belong to and all of us as individuals say we have zer

in 1925, two italians opened a fur and leather shop in rome.ames -- edoardo and adele fendi. the mantle passed to their five daughters, and is there where the fendi story really begins. they had some help from this man, karl lagerfeld.

vaccination. >> two tourists from california are apologize after catching their name on the coliseum in rome at the ancient they face a penalty. a russian tourist was fined $25,000 for a similar incident in november. >>> at 5:00 am, apple is ready to make history with the latest rod and the watch could be a game changer. >> unarmed black teen is shot by a white police officer and this time in madison wisconsin. >>> you are looking at the skyline and a beautiful start to the >>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> it is 5:00 a.m. and the time has changed. mike will explain that and why you should deal with that. >>> i am eric thomas. i am matt keller. >> a lost feelings about waking up an an hour early. >> it is coolest before the sun comes up and the sun is coming up an hour later so it will be cooler longer. the hard part is trying to get to bed an hour earlier. 1.235 miles in santa rosa where the fog is, and the rest of us are just cloudy until inland east bay with

allen pizzey reports from rome. >>able pope francis boldly went where the law fears to go and told people to stand up against organized crime. in a neighborhood infested by the camorra the local mafia he called for an end to what he termed the tears of the mothers of naples. >> for society stinks, we all have the potential to be corrupt and to slip into criminality. >> deep unemployment runs as high as 40 percent in the poor areas of naples pushing many into the web of drug dealing and enforcement rackets. >> the crowd was ecstatic but he was in the belly of the beast and security was understandably tight he said mafia members has excommunicated themselves and were condemned to hell unless they repented. but a mass in naples main square he urged the faithful to resist the easy earnings or dishonest income of drug trafficking. >> concerned with the poor has been a trademark of his papacy and francis denounced what he called the slavery of exploitation by boss whose take advantage of desperation by offering low pay an

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they feel like archdioceses is jumping the gun before rome weighs in on appeal apreserve it. >> they lie to it saying the damage is worse than it is. >> patricia kings man is a member of the committee which appealed to the vatican to stop archdioceses plan to demolish the first polish parish built in 1800s. rome has not ruled open the appeal and arch dpi cease announced at mass this weekend over the next several months it will move to secure permits to take down the church paying for demolition with sale of unutilized parish property. it would cost almost 3.5 million to restore. it supporters of the church closed a year ago say repairs can be made for under a million. >> it can be repaired. we're not talking about tearing down an old factory or old train station or something like that. we're talking about a place with spiritual, it's sake ed you know what i'm saying. >> they argue the sealed off church is a gem filled with ornate panedings and german alter created by german craftsmen. >> they seem to have plate apt kiss regard for this cultural and arctictic masterpiece. >> they don'

two californians deface the coliseum in rome. what they did that could cost them big money and their freedom. >> officers say they found a wounded man when they arrived at the scene. >> sit a controversy that could hang over a possible run for the white house. hillary clinton not talking about why she used her private e-mail account while she was secretary of state. many people are now pushing for answers and brian moore has the latest on the story from washington. >> pressure is mounting. >> what i would like is for her to come forward and say just what the situation is because she is the political figure right now. >> sporlters who want to see her run for president want the controversy out of the way. >> it's not up to secretary clinton to decide what's a public record and what's not. >> nobody says it's illegal. she has turned over all of her e-mails. the first secretary of state to ever do that. >> id did not keep a cache of them. i do not have thousands of pages somewhere in my personal file. >> the government may take month

kelly cobiella, nbc news, rome. >>> new protests today in indiana after that state's governor signed a controversial bill this week permitting businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples on religious grounds. the backlash was immediate and it was severe. we get more tonight from nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: outside the indiana state capitol today, a wave of fury. >> i think it's absolutely going back to the dark ages. >> i don't think religion should be in business. where you shouldn't be able to discriminate on whoever we want. >> reporter: on thursday indiana's governor signed a bill that would allow businesses to deny services based on their religious beliefs. >> this bill is not about discrimination. and if i thought it legalized discrimination in any way, i would have vetoed it. >> reporter: but opponents argued it wouldn't legalize discrimination, after the state's ban on same-sex marriage was overturned last year. >> it basically says to a group of people that you're second rate, you don't matter. and if you walk into my store, i don't have to serve you. >> reporter

both free to move on with their lives. >> kelly cobiella in rome. we're told there were gatherings in seattle where amanda knox lives, people waiting and watching, as she remains in this country and could have faced a possibility of being tra diet inging extradited. we'll have a lot more coverage on this coming up on "nbc nightly news." and the latest from the crash of germanwings 9525. some major developments there regarding that co-pilot and what we've learned about him. all of this on our website, nbcnews.com. for now, i'm lester holt, nbc news, los angeles. >>> six flags great adventure going solo. the park will cut down 18,000 trees to build the largest solar farm in new jersey. it's expected to be up and running by next year. six flags says it will replant 25,000 trees over seven years. the amusement park says the solar farm will be capable of meeting all of its energy needs. the park president says solar power will reduce the reliance on fossil fuels. >>> more than 1,000 gas station attendants in new jersey are getting a healthy check from th

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. >>> two california went women to rome on vacation and wanted to leave their mark and they did sadlye women in their 20s now face charges for carving their initials into the walls of rome's colosseum. they carved a j and an n and of course took a selfie and they later apologized saying they didn't think what they did was so serious. >> how can they think that? >> of course it was my gosh. >>> 4:56 right now. gas prices keep going up. how much you'll be paying at the pump. >>> and it's time to learn more about the apple watch, coming up what you'll get for your money and what we expect >>> taking a live look out at the bay bridge, you can see those lights off until the start of next year. >> a year or so, right? >> have to get used to the lights and when they're off you miss them. >> good morning it is monday, march 9 i'm michelle griego. >> happy monday. i'm frank mallicoat. rise and shine it is 5:00 and it's a big day for all you apple fans out there. the tech giant will be showing off the new smart watch later this morning and kpix 5 is outside and ryan we've heard about it so what

there's rome, just east of rome into the mountains. 50-plus inches in 24 hours, they're no force forignificant snowfall -- on notorious for significant snowfall in this town. this event one for the record books once it's verified in the next few hours. want to show what's happening across portions of california. this is a 7,800 feet high across the sequoia national park area. mineral king snow pack literally nonexistent. you see the disparity of nothing on the mountains, some of the mountains at least across the high sierra. compared to what's happening in italy. >> italy stealing everyone's snow. >> i'm sure they will give some to call if they could. >> indeed. they'll try and ship it -- >> we'll see. >> technology. thank you very much. >>> speaking of technology apple unveils its newest product. it doesn't come cheap. find out how much this watch could set you back. >>> plus, two piles are on course to make -- pilots are on course to make history as a fly around the world without a single drop of gas. we'll talk to one of them mid flight. discover card. hey! so i'm looking at my bi

let's go to nbc's kelly cobiella live outside the courthouse in rome. any indication when we might be getting a decision from the high court there? >> reporter: well we haven't heard anything yet. we were told earlier today about six hours ago in fact that we would get a one-hour notice before the decision was read out in the highest court here in this building behind me. we haven't heard anything yet. we are expecting something today but of course as the day gets longer and longer it's 6:00 local time on a friday evening here in rome. you have to start to wonder whether or not that actually will happen that we actually will hear something. but we've been told over and over again that yes, in fact we will hear something today. everybody is now sort of on pins and needles, the most of course these two people intimately involved in the case amanda knox and rafael sollecito. he's not expected to come back to court today to hear the reading. if the verdicts are confirmed, he would have to report to police to essentially turn himself in to begin nearly 25-ye

then i get to rome and they hook me up with this guy. and first of all, it's a clay court, okay? have no idea. >> okay. [ laughter ] the guy is like in a sweat suit and headband and big sunglasses. he looks like a wes anderson character. [ laughter ] he's really just, like, intense. so i start hitting. he's like, "come on, kill it, kill it! get it, get it! kill me, kill me!" [ laughter ] and i honestly just want to hit back and forth with him. and then, he'll miss and be like, "agh, ohh!" he'll go for the winner on me and be like -- [ laughter ] >> seth: it's very hard to go somewhere, leave new york and go somewhere where there's a more aggressive version of something. like, you would think that new york would have the most aggressive version. nice to know you go to rome and get a more aggressive tennis teacher. >> i feel like i'm ready for the italian open or something like that. >> seth: you have children now? >> i do. >> seth: you come -- your parents are both in show business. and your children obviously haven't made the decision of what they're going to do, whether or not t

sure how that ties into prostitution. >> wiki thing people are doing when they visit a place like rome >> someone has a very happy ending at the end of the night because they have played for it. >> people have the right to go on dates. ecb's women living in slave like conditions, the reports of women come from sexual abuse. these are women who are not making rational choices and not something that can be propelled and you are sanctioning the right for powerful men to prey upon victimless women. >> i will give you that. there are of human trafficking and a lot of times the human trafficking numbers, as you know, as a rational person, those are overblown and a lot of people in the industry have gone and gotten in trouble for inflating bids. but you are not going to stop it by making it illegal. you cannot stop people from paying to have relations with one another with very little clothing on. >> but don't make it easy. >> you're neglecting the fact that women and individuals in prostitution are victims as well. this is not a psychological choice for many women. they come from sexual abus

it's worth noting that at one time the emperor of all rome was himself libyan.at i was looking. anywhere else in the world, this place would be overrun with tourists. but look, no one. you're free to wander as you wish. quite a backdrop, you know? you're seeing a little dinner theater production of "our town" a couple of thousand years ago. not bad. the only other visitors today are a troop of libyan boy scouts. bizarrely enough, gadhafi himself was once a scout and this was one of the only organizations allowed to remain independent of the government. maybe i should go down there and introduce myself to my former comrades, exchange some boy scout lore. yes, yes, i was once a boy scout, too. hello. drilled into their heads is something that was long ago drilled into mine. i promise to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ >> you know, it's been a really difficult shoot for a whole lot of reasons. it's not easy to shoot here. but in spite of all of that, f

he really needed to prove himself to rome.f that, he was a little bit overzealous, let's say. >> with the protection of rome, herrod rules galilee with all the contempt of an autocrat. but herrod has made his first serious miscalculation. he's turned his back on jewish law by marrying his brother's wife, herrodeus. >> this was in violation of a law in leviticus which says that a man must not uncover the nakedness of his brother's wife. >> herrodeus is the wife of your brother. >> john the baptist was very critical of the political regime. in particular, he was critical of herrod for having married his bother's wife. and he was critical of their immorality and their treatment of the people. >> the tablet of god. >> jews feel themselves oppressed by a foreign power that they can't do anything about. john gives them a vision of someone who can do something about it. >> ignoring the peril, john openly accuses herrod and his wife of violating jewish law. >> give up this woman! send her away! >> if john the baptist said out loud wha

so think about the influence of the efleet rome, in the senate and that was significants but the senate couldn't pass law. they manage business and the budget but they -- if they wanted to actually pass a law they had to go to the people and actually it's interesting that even under the empire that idea that the people fundamentally are responsible for setting the terms of legitimacy continued so that the romans thought the people acclaimed each new emperor and it's from that public affirmation that their legitimacy derived and that idea then gets into mid medieval and becomes an important underpin fork sovereignty. >> host: who are some over the leaders in the greek development of politics. >> guest: for example, if we think about athens one of the interesting things is that the athennan democracy is in stages. the beginning is the law giver solan. now, solan one of the first people who helped to start athens on what would become a democratic path, lived in around 594. so at the beginning of the sixth century bc. and at that period he really established a principles of justice between

he really needed to prove himself to rome and because of that he was overzealous. >> with the protection's turned his back on jewish law by marrying his brother's wife, herodias. this was a violation in the law of leviticus who says the man must not uncover the nakedness of his brother's wife. >> herodias. it's the wife of your brother. >> john the baptist was very critical of the political regime. in particular, he was critical of herod for having mared his brother's wife and he was critical of their immorality and the treatment of their people. >> jews feel themselves oppressed by a foreign power that they don't know anything about. john gives them a vision of someone who can do something about it, he openly accuses herod and his wife of violating jewish law. >> give up this woman! send her away! >> if john the baptist said out loud what everybody else was really murmuring about then that put him in the category of someone who could be accused of sadition, of treason. he would be like a terrorist. >> if john the baptist is successful in his campaign against herod, it could spark a poli

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. >>> happening right now people arriving in rome for a hearing to decide if ammananda knox and her ex are guilty of murder. today's hearing sets up the final decision on their appeal. just yesterday the ex-boyfriend he submitted a bombshell document that says he cannot remember if knox was with him the night of the murder poking holes in her alibi. if it doesn't go her way knox could be extradited to italy for a 28 year prison sentence. >> how can you not remember. that's bizarre. >> the president hitting cause on the scheduled drawdown for troops in afghanistan. the growing threat of isis in the war dorntorn country. what it means for our men and women in uniform. >> a big part of the reason the president is slowing down the troop withdrawal is because his military advisors explained to him to use all inside afghanistan especially drone strikes against terrorists there and in back stan. that's according to a report in the new york times. >> we are determined to preserve the troops. >> con suggested with general campbell in afghanistan my national security team and decided we will mai