her past clients include susan smith.cted of drowning her two children. this lawyer judy clarke also represented unabomber ted kaczynski and tucson shooter jared loughner, as well. these clients all avoided the death penalty, getting life sentences, zoraida, instead. >> all right. thank you very much, john. >>> it has been six months since hurricane sandy caused massive devastation in new york, new jersey, and in connecticut. in broad channel, new york, the panetta family had to flee their home to escape the rushing water. 13-year-old ryan led his family to safety. but they've got a long way to go before things are actually back to normal. cnn's poppy harlow has more. >> reporter: ryan panetta rescued his family from the rushing waters of superstorm sandy. >> i jumped out. i wasn't even thinking that like a log would hit me or anything. >> or the electrical power lines? >> yeah. >> you swam to this house? >> yeah, right here. and they took us in to their second floor. >> what did you think when your 13-year-old son jumped

she has represented ted kaczynski, susan smith and jared loughner. tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction in the april 15 blast which killed three people and injured more than 260 others. >>> federal and state inspectors say they plan to open a probe into the platinum magic carpet ride. the maryland bus company is facing more scrutiny after an accident in ohio. about a dozen new york city high school students were thrown from their seats when one of the company's charter buses overturned in columbus, ohio while returning from st. louis. fortunately no one suffered a serious injury. the cause of the crash is under investigation. the bus is operated by platinum magic carpet ride in waldorf, maryland. the man behind platinum once ran lydia bus tours which was closed down last year. >> they changed their colors. they're abc trucking company or bus company one day and xyz company the next day. >> the drivers and vehicles of platinum magic carpet ride have never been inspected. >>> jury deliberations are set to get under way in t

attorney judy clark has negotiated life sentences for several past clients including the unabomber, susan smith and others, sparing them the death penalty. dzhokhar was wounded in a shoot out and is now recovering. >>> new this morning, a deadly blast has rocked damascus for the second day in a row. state tv showed rows of damaged cars, smoke-filled streets where at least 13 were killed and 70 more injured. the prime minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on monday. >>> meanwhile, president obama is expressing concern that russian leader vladimir putin, after the reported use of chemical weapons in syria, the white house says use of such weapons would be a game changer, but the pentagon says it will not speculate on any intervention plans. >>> the faa is investigating a deadly mid-air collision of two small planes. the faa says a single-engine cessna landed on a golf course in southern california on monday after colliding with another cessna about eight miles north of ventura. all three on board that plane sustained only minor injuries. in the mountains northwest of santa monica, fi

has joined the defense team and kept a number of criminals death row including the unabomber and susan smith. after talking to investigators dzhokhar is no longer cooperating with fbi. >>> brand-new video by "entertainment tonight" from tsarnaev's days as a boxer. tamerlan's body is still unclaimed at the medical examiner's office. >> boeing says a fragment believed to be have a hijacked 9/11 is from a plane. it's not far from the trade center site. the soil will be sifted later on today and will search for human remains. >>> mechanical problems with air force two has left the vice president's plane sitting on the tarmac in arizona. according to some reports when the jet landed and activated the reverse thrusters it sucked in debris. the vice president was never in any danger. he is back in washington. >>> retired supreme court justice sandra day o'connor is having second thoughts about the bush versus gore battle and says instead of handing george w. bush the presidency they should have said we're not going to take it. good-bye. at the end of the day they probably just added to that problem

susan smith. >> woman who drowned the five kids in houston?nt with those stories for a long time. >> eric: you are making your first point. >> bob: i'm making my second pointed and this is why i'm confused. >> eric: aren't you saying because abortion. >> part of this piece what we are discussing there is a difference between pro-choice and pro-life and that is reason they are not covering it this is not good for the pro-choice movement. this is means you are supporting doctors that murder children. >> you think for one thing, if he killed them with a gun, it would be shown on every mainstream media. >> bob: let me ask the question. i would say they probably would cover it. let me ask you a question. do you think in a newsroom or big broadcast weaker not going to cover this because it's an assault on pro-choice position and therefore therefore we're not going to do it. >> dana: i think it's unspoken and way you avert your eyes and move on. one of the bloggers for the "washington post", she said it was a local crime story. that is why it wasn't

clark's clients have included the unabomber, susan smith, atlanta olympics bomber, and tucson arizonaived life sentences and said of the death penalty. joining me now, criminal defense attorney fox news contributor. great to have you. >> my world doesn't get any more poignant than this. that is as serious as it can ever get. lou: this woman has a remarkable track record. how did she get assigned to this case? >> look, we have a system of government where we want and in its ideal form we want people to be represented the best they possibly can, especially if they are facing the death penalty. we need to make sure all the t's are crossed demise are dotted because nobody, the prosecutor, judge, no one wants a miscarriage of justice. what judges do -- and i will be honest to you, i happened to my father and a high-profile case. the judge called him and asked intact as the public defender because i want to make sure there is no reversal on appeal. i want to make sure this guy gets a fair trial. lou: why in the world was in the sky moved into the military system of justice? he is an enemy c

past clients include susan smith, convict of drowning two children, ted cass kaczynski an.it was this misha that influenced, maybe even brainwashed tamerlan. brian todd tracked down mischa in rhode island. >> reporter: their search for the shadowy figure of mischa has taken investigators to rhode island. but it's not clear if the man who is here is the same misha who relatives say radicalized tamerlan tsavraev. reporter christian carol interviewed mikhail allakhverdov who said he knew tamerlan. he has been interviewed by federal authorities who were about to close his case. he told carroll he had no role in the boston marathon bombing. >> he denied emphatically he was a teacher of tamerlan tsavraev. he said, no, i was not his teacher. i didn't instruction him in anything. i had nothing to do wh any of these developments, i couldn't get him to tell me anything more than that about their relationship. he was just extremely agitated and didn't want to go into detail. >> reporter: that interview brought discuss a crush of other reporters to an apartment complex in west warwick,

her clines received life sentences, including the arizona shooter, loughner, ted kaczynski, and susan smith who drowned her two children in south carolina. a public defender means the public will pay for his defense and many have found our they have been supporting the family for years for a total of roughly $100,000. dzhokar and his brother tamerlan did not directly received benefits but their parents did for years, and that means the suspected bombers indirectly received benefits as well, from 2002 to 2004, and again from 2009 through 2011, and tamerlan received benefits through his wife, katherine russell, in cash and food stamps, from september september 2011 until november last year. the state of massachusetts is now conducting an internal investigation of the tsarnaev family's benefits history to determine if all was proper and whether there was sufficient oversight. neil? >> neil: thank you very much. with attorney judy clark onboard are we looking at another plea deal? on the record, greta van susteren. >> it's a good possible but first expect a big fight from judy clark. she has be

unabomber, susan smith, neighboring state south carolina near tennessee? >> sure, obviously for what i did in my past life but as an american i know cases. i understand this clearly. i suspect not only is she dealing with complex capital murder case, in other words this kid might be sent to die, she is also dealing with a the case that will have a media crush that will be difficult for any attorney to handle. it is not only court dimension but public dimension requires a lot of experience. bill: you think her priority is to keep the guy alive away from the death penalty? >> yes, yes. bill: not easy. because the other consideration you have to give, phil, whether or not this guy is cooperating. you never know, he might. he may tell these investigators a lot of things in the hospital bed already. >> sure. even if he cooperates you have a conspiracy to commit murder that goes back some time and that resulted in the murder of three and then four individuals. so, she's got a tough road to hoe here. bill: phil mudd, thank you for your time down there in memphis.

there's also susan smith the woman who killed her children in south carolina.and none of them got the death penalty. this is what judy clark does. there's no one in the country better at it, and i think the combination of knowing how to negotiate with the government, plus knowing how to research your client's life, that's how it worked for her so far. she does have her work cut out for her. >> dzhokhar's lawyers are spending more and more time with him. we know or we believe he is not talking with investigators anymore. what kind of conversations do you believe they are having with his defense attorneys? >> well, i think, you know, one of the issues we have here is we are operating on cable news time. we think this is all going to be resolved very quickly. one of the things that a lawyer like judy clark does is slow everything down. i think they might not be talking to him at all. they might be saying, you go get healthy. that's your job right now. then we'll talk to you later. time is the ally of the defense. the country is mobilized. it's angry right now. thi

susan smith, the woman who drowned her children, jared loughner who shot gab gee giffords -- gabi giffords she can hope for no jury trial but a guilty plea where he spills his guts for weeks and months until the fbi is satisfied he's been honest and they've learned everything they want from him in return for which there will be no death penalty and he'll be sentenced to florence, colorado, solitary confinement 250 feet below the surface of the earth for the rest of his life. that's probably what she's going for. his next door neighbor will be some of the people you just talked about. >> megyn: that's the best case scenario. >> yes. >> megyn: the other lawyer is meream conrad. she's somebody who wan went to harvard law school, judges respect her, not his tree onic, fierce advocate. she's done a lot of death penalty cases. >> it's an interesting team, megyn. judy is the negotiator. miriam is the tiger in the courtroom. federal prosecutors know she'll give them a run for their money if they have to get into court, whether it's a motion to suppress evidence or for an actual jury trial. >> megy

. >> kimberly: susan smith. >> bob: ian thought it was thre. time. now i'm making my second point. this is why i'm confused in my life. >> aren't you saying because it's abou about abortion, we'ret talking about it. >> kimberly: his first point was that yes, a part of this piece, what we're discussing is that there's the w difference between pro choice, pro life, and maybe that's why they're not covering it because this is not good for the pro choice movement because it means this is what you're supporting, legislation and doctors that murder children. hohorrifically murder children. >> are you saying if that doctor had killed those seven babies with a gun it wouldn't be shown on main stream media. > >> bob: let me ask you a question. do you think that really in a newsroom or in a big broadcast they would say we're not going to cover this because it's an assault on pro choice position and therefore, we're not going to do it? i have a hard time imagining that. >> dana: i think it is unspoken. i think it's a way you avert your eyes and move on. o

and represented some very high-profile clients including ted kaczynski, known as "the unabomber", susan smithdrowned her two small children by driving her car into a lake, eric rudolph, the olympic park bomber, and most recently, the a name you know, jared loughner, who shot 19 people and including congresswoman gabby giffords. six of those people died. he made sure they did not get death row. lease we'll and doug burns, a former criminal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. everyone wants to see justice in this case. there is lot of emotion that comes up with the names we read, lis. the fact they did not get the death penalty. what do you think her presence means for this case? >> i think it means she will be very much of a pitbull. that is her reputation. she works 80 hours a week. she goes for the technicalities in the law. so weapons of mass destruction, she will look for something in that charge. will look for any kind of technicality she can find. she will be trying to do anything she can do from a legal standpoint to take the death penalty off the table. will she be successful? i