when shanna lost to amber she hired her ex-brother-in-law to kill amber's mother. the plan made headlines and her story was turned into two tv movies. >> when you're sitting there and there's 300 people around you and you're listening to people laugh at your mom, it is traumatic. >> wanda holloway only served six months. >>> all new at 5:30, history is being made in baltimore county. the fire department there is celebrating a first and it's good news. abc2 news manny locke explains. >> reporter: first responders are going on a service call. normally ems thompson would be following. but with her new promotion as the first african-american female lieutenant in the baltimore county fire department, she now has more responsibilities and administrative duties that take her away from her first love. >> i'm going to miss actually being on the truck and the patient interact. like you said, it's my heart. >> reporter: lieutenant thompson is trained and feels this will help her with her new administrative duties. she remembers the day that changed her life. >> i spent three

shanna swan. welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm lesley stahl. we'll be exploring the world of science in this episode. later we'll bring you morley safer's story about the human genome patents being awarded to biotech companies and the proprietary control they now have over part of who you are. and then my report on a ubiquitous chemical called phthalates, which is in everything from perfume to children's toys, but which may also be causing birth defects. but first, steve kroft's story on the enormous amount of money being spent to treat people as they approach the end of their lives. how much money? well, in 2009, medicare paid $55 billion for doctor and hospital bills for patients as they approached the last two months of life. to give you some perspective, that's more than the budget for the department of homeland security or the department of education. and as we reported in 2009, most of those bills were paid for by the government with few or no questions asked and with an estimated 30% of the treatments having no meaningful impact. >> ms.

there has been healing because wanda and shanna do live near each other, and wanda, shanna tells "people and helpful grandmother to her own young sons. that's brought them closer. and she tells us recently she did ask her mother, why, why did you do this. and shanna tells "people" that her mother says i don't know. i wish i didn't. i just doan know. and shanna tells "people" eventually you have to accept that and move on. >> and change how you raise your children and learn from what happened. >> she said she never pushes. >> makes sense. nancy jeffrey, thanks so much. we appreciate it. fascinating article. >>> coming up next, secrets of a las vegas casino revealed. we're going to squloi one of the most state-of-the-art surveillance systems in the world where casinos leave nothing to chance, but first these messages. ♪ [ kareem ] i was fascinated by balsa wood airplanes since i was a kid. [ mike ] i always wondered how did an airplane get in the air. at ge aviation, we build jet engines. we lift people up off the ground to 35 thousand feet. these engines are built by hand with very precis

you can read much more on shanna's story in the latest edition of "people" right now. >>> a big turnn is there. >> good morning. if we can pull this off. i'm pretty confident we can. one room over. there's a first grade teacher in there by the name of denae. she thinks we're leer to do a story on the reading program. it is fantastic. but it's not the reason we're here. this smiley guy, nick, her long-time boyfriend is about to propose. why is he wearing a panda suit? the only way to sneak him in is to dress him up as the school's mascot, tuxedo, the panda. a little technical flourish. we have a panda cam. the surprise is coming up. >> we're watching right now. we'll be back. >> live and in hd, this is an abc 7 news update. good morning at 8:27. there is more turmoil involving police and occupy d.c. protesters braved police protesters during a in northwest last several protesters had up camp outside a building on 15th street. police took away aipac tent. there'll be more medical today in the trial of huguely accused of killing yeardley love. the coroner accused that signs oflove showe

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you can read much more on shanna's story in the latest edition of "people" right now. >>> a big turn is there. >> good morning. if we can pull this off. i'm pretty confident we can. one room over. there's a first grade teacher in there by the name of denae. she thinks we're leer to do a story on the reading program. it is fantastic. but it's not the reason we're here. this smiley guy, nick, her long-time boyfriend is about to propose. why is he wearing a panda suit? the only way to sneak him in is to dress him up as the school's mascot, tuxedo, the panda. a little technical flourish. we have a panda cam. the surprise is coming up. >> we're watching right now. we'll be back. . >>> good morning i'm kristen sze. vallejo police have one person in custody and are looking for two others after a shootout at a nail salon left five wounded. it happened shortly after 7:00 last night at tina's nails on springs road and maple avenue two shooters opened fire on a woman customer. she was hit with another woman and a 2-year-old girl. the shooters left but later returned and exchanged gunfire with s

you can read much more on shanna's story in the latest edition of "people" right now. >>> a big turndan is there. >> good morning. if we can pull this off. i'm pretty confident we can. one room over. there's a first grade teacher in there by the name of denae. she thinks we're leer to do a story on the reading program. it is fantastic. but it's not the reason we're here. this smiley guy, nick, her long-time boyfriend is about to propose. why is he wearing a panda suit? the only way to sneak him in is to dress him up as the school's mascot, tuxedo, the panda. a little technical flourish. we have a panda cam. the surprise is coming up. >> we're watching right now. we'll be back. >>> now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weatherate. >>> good morning. happy valentine's day. satellite and radar not pick up on a whole lot. more satellite than radar. lots of clouds and most of the snow to the north and off toward the west. and we will start to get some of the rain in here but not much snow going throughout the day. not much rain either. maybe

. >> reporter: snyderman's banishment came after she gave an unusual hug to shanna sitron.rman's claims of an affair with her boss. >> did she admit or deny an affair with her boss at that time? >> denied it. >> when she told you no did, you believe her? >> no, but my heart really wanted to. >> prosecutors said snyderman's behavior after that testimony was way out of line. >> she embraced this witness. she kissed the witness, she got outside and then told the witness that since she didn't believe her she wasn't her friend any more. that was for sure. >> neumann has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. saying his alleged affair drove him crazy. andrea has denied the affair, saying her boss was stalking her. >> there was no affair. >> also under scrutiny, snyderman's account of what she knew immediately after rusty's murder. two other witnesses contradicted her testimony about when she knew her husband had been shot. >> i didn't know what happened to rusty until i got to the emergency room. >> to be clear, andrea snyderman is not on trial here and has not been charged wi