amazing to read that. >> ryan ferguson's conviction was thrown out by the court. judges, all the judges, is not a verdict worthy of either judicial or public confidence. >> we had been thinking about it and dreaming it about it for nine and a half years. >> in prison, ryan got word to call his attorney, kathleen skblelner. >> i'm like, man, i'm just trying not to have a herriart attack. >> she told him the court had overturned his guilty verdict. what feeling comes over you when you hear that? >> it was just pure relief. and that's all i could feel at that moment, was just, you know, thank goodness this is finally over. >> but, of course, it wasn't completely over. doesn't work that way. ryan's conviction was thrown out, but the way the law works, the prosecutor could rearrest him, charge him with murder, and try him again. until the prosecutor decided whether to charge him or not, ryan had to stay in prison, and wait. >> this battle needs to stop. >> here he was. no longer a felon. but still behind, bars. >> come on, sit in. let's talk. >> well, he waited. we wait

there was no evidence to con vilkt ryan ferguson. there's no evidence that convicts ryan erickson.ppeals. it's going to be difficult to get out. when you interview him, you really get a sense of why this false confession might have happened in this case. >> when you interview these men, are they bitter, angry, devastated? what's their emotional state? >> what always surprises me is that they're not bitter. the thing that really surprised me, when we first started on these cases, we don't know that they're innocent. they haven't picked up any of the prison environment. they don't use the prison vernacular. they don't have a lot of tattoos. they seem to beack-to-back shows tomorrow. ryan ferguson and then last chance. >> you never know who's going to be in the cs green room. look who we found in studio 57. there he is. hey, josh holloway from "lost." he'll take us behind his new movie "sap taj." he's been doing a lot. what brought him back to >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. fellow state senators may vote to suspend the i >>> good morning, it's 8:25. i'm michelle grieg

. >>> "the columbia missourian" said ryan ferguson filed a $100,000 lawsuit. he spent 30 years in prison. the lawsuit says police and prosecutors fabricated evidence and bullied witnesses, and it was filed on the 10th anniversary of his arrest for the death of a missouri sports editor. >>> police are investigating the theft of $600,000 from pastor joel osteen's megachurch. $200,000 in cash and $400,000 in checks are missing from a safe at lakewood church. credit card information was also taken. >>> it's 7:19. ahead, see the moment of family gets when they get >>> very gusty winds around the bay area to start out the day. by the afternoon, though, calming down and lots of sunshine all the way to the coastline going to be a beautiful day outside. but still, those winds really whipping around early on today. wind advisory in effect until 8:00 this morning. temperatures going to b impressive today, 70s in san jose, oakland and 71 in san francisco. very nice over the next couple of days even warmer over the weekend. >> announcer: this national weather report sponso

. >>> ryan ferguson, the man that spent nearly ten years behind bars has filed a $100 million lawsuitecuted him. it names 13 defendants including the city of columbia, missouri, its police department and prosecutor's office claiming they violated his civil rights. ferguson was convicted of killing a tribune sports editor in 2005. his conviction was overturned after the court ruled everyday was withheld. >>> i've got to tell you this story out of control. a family in oregon called 911 on the cat. that cat 22 pound him lay yan attacked their 7-month-old son. they, the adult, ran in a bedroom, locked the door and called police. >> he's charging us. he's at our door, our bedroom door. do you hear him? >> yeah, i hear him. keep the door shut. >> police were able to apprehend the high strung cat that apparently spent the rest of the evening behind bars. the mother admits the husband kicked the cat after it attacked the son. the family isn't sure if they'll keep the cat. it looks harmless enough. >> in america, the cat attacking a 7-month-old will lose to the fact they hear the cat was kicke