timothy mcveigh. >> timothy mcveigh was one of ours, he was a war hero. he grew up in the suburbs of buffalo. and we needed to know. there was a sense of obligation to find out who this man was. >> timothy mcveigh was born on april 23rd, 1968 in the town of lock port, upstate, new york, by all accounts he had a normal childhood. >> we didn't have any warning he would do something like this. in fact, as a teenager, he was the young man that people in the neighborhood would choose to baby-sit their kids. >> he was a good student, bright, above-average intelligence. sometimes you look at the history of severe criminal conduct. and there was childhood abuse or abandonment and you can see how someone developed into it. nothing striking in mcveigh's background. >> but the young mcveigh did have a dark side. while still a teenager, he had discovered the turner diaries. a venomously racist dialogue, led by white supremacists. >> it described a truck bombing of fbi headquarters in washington, d.c., shortly after 9:00 a.m., very similar to what took place in oklaho

, was masterminded by timothy mcveigh and substantially carried out by timothy mcveigh with a le bit of help from terry nichols. >> if there were other people involved with the bombing, who were they? some believe there may have been a connection between mcveigh and elehim city, a christian identity community in oklahoma about 170 miles from oklahoma city near the arkansas border. >> it's essentially a religion that says that white angelo sackson americans are the true children of israel and jews are subhuman, essentially, and black people are not even human at all. >> during the early 1990s a number of far right extremists have reportedly spent time in elohim city. >> this was an interesting time. you had a number of anti-government groups that were taking shape arming themselves, building compounds throughout the country, establishing their own laws, really setting themselves apart from mainstream cities and locations on purpose and believing then that not only people of other faiths or ethnicities or nationalalities were the enemy, but that the united states government was t

, was masterminded by timothy mcveigh and substantially carried out by timothy mcveigh with a bit of help from terry nichols. >> if there were other people involved with the bombing, who were they? some believe there may have been a connection between mcveigh and elehim city, a christian identity community in oklahoma about 170 miles from oklahoma city near the arkansas border. >> it's essentially a religion that says that white angelo sackson americans are the true children of israel and jews are subhuman, essentially, and black people are not even human at all. >> during the early 1990s a number of far right extremists have reportedly spent time in elohim city. >> this was an interesting time. you had a number of anti-government groups that were taking shape arming themselves, building compounds throughout the country, establishing their own laws, really setting themselves apart from mainstream cities and locations on purpose and believing then that not only people of other faiths or ethnicities or nationalalities were the enemy, but that the united states government was the

virtually 18 years to the day after timothy mcveigh attacked after timothy mcveigh attacked oklahoma city. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> she was young. this was the ugly american on steroids. >> is ammanda knox a whore or a saint. >> i was sexually active. i was not sexually beaten. >> was she guilty in fact or just in the press. >> they had a fabulous story depending on if what the prosecution said was true. >> it was a media spectacle that consumed the united states, italy and england, igniting controversy that still rages. >> there's something about the way her eyes moved that leaves us wondering. >> i wished so much that i had stood up to them. >> the prosecution of amanda knox next. >>> perugia, italy s a storybook city, famous throughout the world for its chocolates. and equally famous to students aa party town, where getting high and hooking up is a prerequisite. >> to the average american tourist this looks like an idyllic italian mountain town, filled with art and churches. if you spent a little time there and you read italian, you start to realize every single h

one was a young disenfranchised army vet, timothy mcveigh.would bomb the oklahoma city federal building. he said he did it because of waco. david koresh agrees to let two of his followers meet with government negotiators, face to face. >> he had selected steve schneider, his number one lieutenant, and wayne martin. their harvard educated attorney to come out and talk to our representative. the tension was extremely high. you could quite literally feel the cross hairs on you from the branch davidian compound. as i'm sure steve schneider and wayne martin could feel from our tactical teams that had everybody covered. >> the meeting is positive. the fbi negotiators arrange to meet again in two days. and deliver written assurances requested by koresh. but schneider quickly cancels the second meeting. >> he indicated that david didn't think it was necessary. so i said wait a minute. you don't want to come out or david doesn't want you to come out? he said well, david doesn't think it is necessary. for agent sage, a heated phone call that follows re

virtually 18 years to the day after timothy mcveigh attacked oklahoma city. ♪ >>> hey, america, rememberhe good old days? no, not those good old days. i'm talking about the ones we had just a few years ago. home ownership was at an all-time high, unemployment at just 5.6% and falling. it seemed like we were all on the road to riches. it almost seemed too good to be true. well, guess what? it was. when the bottom fell out of the real estate market, millions of americans fell on hard times. some lost everything. and in one way or another, most of us are still recovering. the thing is, it's not just people and businesses who have suffered. >> jefferson county, alabama filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy. >> the city of opportunity finding itself in bankruptcy. >> all over the country, entire cities are going broke, and nowhere is it more apparent than in stockton, california, which as of 2012 is the largest city to declare bankruptcy in u.s. history. ♪ ♪ >>> hi, how you? >> hi, how you? welcome. >> thank you. >> checking in? >> checking in. spurlock. >> is this your first time to sto

it'll be like timothy mcveigh.o die, well, he ended up being put to death by lethal injection in oklahoma. this man, will he be a martyr to his people? the point is we still have to go by the law in america, in this arena. jon: well, it's just an awful case, and, you know, my hat is off to those witnesses who have to, you know, testify against the guy who shot them -- >> could you imagine? jon: -- and he's sitting there, you know -- >> and look him in the face. and he has no remorse. jon: yeah. rebecca, jonna, thank you both. jenna: new protests rocking egypt as the u.s. cancels a key military exercise, that's not sparking the protests, but what else could the united states be doing in response to this deadly crackdown by the military? we have more on this developing story. >>> also, is new york city on the brink of a detroit-style bankruptcy? new york city has been on the brink in the past. the warning from the mayor mike bloomberg that just came down. a question that's surfacing today, is this real? is this reall