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airport. you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm don lemon. accusations after rape, a town torn apart. marathon trial days, it's all come down to a verdict that's happening in 12 hours. tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern, a court judge in steubenville, ohio, will give his decision in the trial of two high school football players, trent mays and malik richmond, accused of raping a 16-year-old girl who was reportedly passed out drunk. the prosecutor says it made her, quote, the perfect victim, while the defense called her credibility into question. >> she has a reputation -- i'm not saying this, i'm not blaming or smearing this witness. her friends td this court that she has a reputation for telling lies. >> cnn's poppy harlow has more on today's testimony which included the accuser taking the stand. poppy? >> reporter: hi, don. after four days of testimony,

some of it very emotional in the steubenville, ohio, rape case that has divided this town and really captured the national spotlight, the fate of trent mays and malik richmond, two teenage boys accused of raping a 16-year-old girl back in august lays in the hands of judge thomas lipz. the prosecution and the defense both resting tonight after more than two hours of testimony from the 16-year-old alleged victim saying that she recalls very little from the entire night of the alleged rape and says she doesn't remember anything from when the alleged rape may have occurred. after that happened, we heard closing arguments from both sides. i want you to listen first to some of the closing arguments by both of the defense teams. first you'll hear from the attorney for 17-year-old trent mays and then the attorney for 16-year-old malik richmond. >> no one calls the police. no one calls the alleged

victim's parents. no one calls their own parents. no one contacts anyone. why is that? are these all bad kids? >> and there's no dean of malik richmond anywhere, anywhere. >> reporter: and in its closing statement, the prosecution arguing this case is not about consent. it's about substantial impairment. how drunk was this girl when these incidents allegedly occurred? >> this case isn't about social media. this case isn't about big red football. this case is about a 16-year-old girl who was taken advantage of, toyed with and humiliated. and it's time that the people who did that to her are held responsible. >> reporter: this is a bench trial, meaning there is no jury. and it is the judge that will make the final decision. we will hear his decision at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. that's when he'll hand it down. if these boys are found guilty,

the maximum sentence they face is to serve until they are 21 years old because they are juveniles. don? >> poppy, thank you very much. make sure you stay tuned to cnn for the verdict in this case. it will be at 10:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow morning. a bus carrying a university sports team to a match this morning crashed on a pennsylvania highway. the bus smashed into a tree, obliterating the driver's seat and ripping open the site. police don't know what caused the bus to leave the road. but the crash killed the driver and the women's lacrosse team coach who was six months pregnant. susan candiotti with details tonight. >> reporter: there were 23 people aboard the bus carrying seton hill's women's lacrosse team. the team's head coach, 30-year-old kristina quigley, was six months pregnant with her second child and airlifted to a hospital but attempts to save her and her unborn baby boy failed. the bus driver, 61-year-old

anthony getta, died at the scene. the rest of the passengers were rushed to area hospitals. the team's charter bus was heading east on the pennsylvania turnpike from seton hill in greensburgpiece of pittsburgh on its way across state to a game in millersville in lancaster county. state police say the driver veered off the road, hit a guardrail, went about 70 yards through grass and slammed into a tree. the front of the bus appears to have taken the brunt of the impact. the bus company says it is also investigating and issued a statement expressing its sorrow. we checked the company's safety record with federal authorities. there are no accidents shown online for the past two years. and the 40-year-old bus line has a satisfactory rating, which is the highest allowed. investigators are taking a look at everything, including the weather. police say there was a mix of rain and snow at the time of the accident but it is not clear whether weather played a role. authorities will be talking with

survivors, those lacrosse players and other members of the team, to see if they can shed any light on what happened. the ntsb has not yet decided whether to get involved. and tomorrow, there will be a mass at seton hill for the accident victims. don? >> susan, thank you very much. a pro football player was seriously burned today in a hot air balloon accident near miami. dante stallworth is stabilized in stable condition. earlier i talked with his agent about the accident. >> really a freak occurrence that happened here. out on a leisure ride and there was some type of malfunction and the balloon got tangled in some power lines and he suffered some burns, some serious burns. but thank god he's expected to make a full recovery. >> this isn't stallworth's first south florida tragedy. almost four years ago, he hit and killed a construction worker

while driving under the influence. he was sentenced to 30 days in jail under a plea bargain. his agent says the injuries from today's accident won't jeopardize his football career. it has been two excruciating weeks for a family of a missing louisiana woman. 26-year-old terry lynn monoette was last seen outside a new orleans bar celebrating her teacher of the year nomination. investigators have come up empty but her mother is still clinging to hope. >> because i know my daughter is still here. she's still here. i can't think about her not being here, not seeing her face ever again. i can't see that. no, i can't. i'm not thinking about that. i'm saying that someone's going to find her and bring her back to me. >> more sophisticated sonar equipment is now being brought in so crews can better search bodies of water in that area. sarah palin brings down the house at cpac.

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president obama selling a creative way to pay for research into alternative energy sources. he used his weekly address to present a plan to use the money collected from private companies who drill for oil on public lands. >> now, this idea isn't mine. it actually builds off a proposal put forward by a nonpartisan coalition of ceos and retired generals and admirals. let's take their advice and free our families and our businesses from painful spikes in gas prices once and for all. >> the president said he supports increased domestic oil production along with more research into solar power, wind power and biofuels.

congressman paul ryan talked about his plan for balancing the budget. ryan said a balanced budget would make a difference, far beyond just crunching numbers. >> but the crucial question isn't how we balance the budget, it's why. the budget is a means to an end. we are not balancing the budget as an accounting exercise. we're not trying to simply make numbers add up. we're trying to improve people's lives. >> ryan's proposal includes a repeal of the obama health care plan and makes dramatic changes to medicare through those changes -- though those changes wouldn't affect current enrollees. at cpac this weekend, rand paul won with 25% of the vote. senator marco rubio was a strong second at 23%. rick santorum was next and then governor chris christie.

and ryan is in sixth place. senator paul benefited from his 13-hour filibuster. his dad won the straw pal in 2010 and 2011. sarah palin she still knows how to fire up the conservative faithful at cpac. she urged conservatives to reach out to their friends and neighbors even those who disagree with them. she also rattled off a series of one-liners that had the audience laughing and on its feet. take a listen. >> we can't just ignore, though, that we just lost a big election. yeah. came in second out of two. second position on the dogsled team is where the view never changes and the view ain't pretty. you should have seen what todd got me for christmas. well, it wasn't that exciting. it's a metal rack, case for a hunting rifle to put on the back

of a four wheeler. i had to get something for him to put in the gun case, right? so this go-round, he's got the raffle, rifle, i got the rack. oh, bloomberg's not around. our big gulp's safe. we're cool. shoot, it's just pop. with low cal ice cubes in it. i hope that's okay. what did you think was in it? >> as for political strategy, palin took a not-so-veiled swipe at party guru karl rove and suggested that party strategists could back off their plans to help so-called electable candidates win republican primaries. the pentagon announcing it will spend $1 billion to protect against north korean nuclear threats. i'll explain next.

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north korea says its nuclear weapons are not a bargaining chip and it will not negotiate with the u.s. over its nuclear program. the angry rhetoric comes a day after the u.s. anoupsnounced pl to guard against a possible north korean attack. north korea reportedly test-fired short range missiles today. south korea's state-run media say north korea fired missiles into the east sea. defense secretary chuck hagel says more than a dozen new missile interceptors will be on the west coast by 2017 to guard against a possible north korean attack. cnn's tom foreman takes a closer look at how the u.s. is beefing up protection against north korea. >> the pentagon is acknowledging that north korea is becoming more of a global threat because of the speed at which it is developing its missile program and its nuclear weapon program. how does the military want to respond to this? at the front line, by going to the pacific ocean where the fear is that north korea on its best day might be able to launch a

missile that would go all the way out to hit some parts of the united states. what are they going to do about that? first of all, they want more radar support. they want a new base in japan here, to be tracking early on what's happening. they want to beef up missiles in alaska and california and of course they want steady monitoring from ships at sea, from airplanes overhead and from satellites, all watching to see if north korea is going to launch at some point our way. how would that work? if north korea launches a missile, all those early warning systems would send the coordinates of the flight back to these response missiles which would then fire and go up and try to hit it and take it out. ideally, they would like to hit it early on or in the middle and at a last resort, way over here. but they want numerous shots at it so they can stop it. that's really the goal. and they have to have numerous shots because this is all still fairly new technology and it's not all entirely reliable. as i said, we don't know that the north koreans at is point can really get a missile to go

this far. but our ability to intercept it and stop it is also a tricky, tricky thing to pull off. look at the things we would use for this. two-stage missile, we would launch out of alaska or california releasing something like this. this is called an kill vehicle. it's got the propulsion youtuun around there. it's got an infrared guidance in the nose. it will guide this in to actually smash into that at about 17,000 miles an hour and tear it apart. it does not explode. this is about as big as a refrigerator. it just smashes into it and tears it apart. you can imagine how difficult that is tho pull off. but this is the technology that we're trying to perfect so that we can stop the north korean technology if and when they ever get it perfected and actually can threaten the u.s. mainland. straight ahead, a grisly

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the discovery of a body in an elevator shaft at tampa international airport has police puzzled. the body of 31-year-old chad wolf was found yesterday 6789 police they he pried the elevator door open and then fell to his death. detectives have said there's no evidence of foul play. but wolf's father doubts their theory. medical examiner is determining the cause of death. the first major western wildlife of the season raging in northern colorado tonight. about 1,000 acres west of ft. collins have been chewed up by the fire that started yesterday and was immediately whipped up by high winds. hundreds of families evacuated their homes but many of them are being allowed to go back home. and now it's time to meet our hero of the week.

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