women and two men less than two and a half hours to decide. >> the judge sentencing to the former marine to life in prison without the possibility of parole. this morning we're hearing for the first time all of the real-life drama unfolding in the courtroom. cnn's martin savidge joins us from stevenville, texas with more. that was a fast verdict, martin. >> it was, good morning to both of you. and you know it was pretty clear that the jury from the get-go was not buying into any of that insanity defense. none of that pig man kind of defense that was being put out there. you know it by this simple fact -- it took longer for closing arguments than it did for the jury to make up its mind. >> we've waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son. >> breaking overnight, the "american sniper" trial captivating a nation. is over. >> we the jury find the defendant eddie ray routh guilty. >> deliberating for less than

three hours, the jury found 27-year-old eddie ray routh guilty of killing former navy s.e.a.l. chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield, the former marine seemingly showing no reaction as the judge sentenced him to a life behind bars without parole. >> he thought he had to take their lives. because he was in danger. >> jurors rejecting defense arguments that routh, diagnosed with ptsd was legally insane. >> i've been so paranoid schizophrenic all day i don't know what to think of the world right now. >> the 27-year-old shown here in 2013 moments after police arrested him for shooting kyle and littlefield multiple times at a gun range. later routh told police that he thought his victims were pig-human hybrids. >> in an unusual circumstance the judge barred audio from the trial until the verdict was

reached. >> he was very suicidal. >> routh's mother jodie, who claims that routh threatened to kill himself and their family told us the moment she heard that her son killed kyle. >> i had chris's number in my phone and i dialed that number praying to god he would answer. >> taya was overcome on the stand. recalling the last time she saw her husband. >> just that we loved each other and a kiss and a hug like we always did. >> by the way, taya kyle was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read because she had stormed out during closing arguments arguments, she was so angry by some of the points that the defense made about the murder of her husband. >> understandable martin thank you for the reporting. it was obviously fast.

but what the verdict obvious at awe. paul callan cnn legal partner at callan legal and a former nyc prosecutor and criminal defense attorney and joey jackson, hln legal analyst. the judge pushing them to deliberate. do you think it was a factor and are you surprised by the quickness of the verdict? i wasn't. paul? >> i'm very surprised at how fast the verdict went. whatever you want to say about this case there were complicated issues involving mental illness. there's to question he did it obviously, but i would have expected it to go overnight in terms of deliberations. the speed of it surprised me. >> and joey let's talk about something here. we're going to learn, throughout the show we're going to be playing you a lot of sound about what was said by people during the trial. because we couldn't do it now we can. the prosecutor said crazy don't run. and the prosecutor said he was a weird little guy, and the prosecutor said some of us have

cancer. some of us have heart disease. but we're still good citizens. i'm tired of mental illness being an excuse do you find those acceptable comments? >> well what they did as the prosecutor and certainly on appeal you can argue that you know was it a fair comment or was it too inflammatory. at the end of the day, what the prosecutor did, i think skillfully was to embrace mental illness, but at the same time say that that more relates to someone who is troubled as opposed to meeting the definition of legal insanity which is the distinction between right from wrong. >> i think the prosecutor was playing on the stigma where people don't want to see mental illness as illness, they want to see it as an excuse that's why they use the word crazy and characterize them as weird instead of ill. >> cancer and heart disease, how do those diseases deal with your ability to deal with right from wrong. >> when you think about the jury system in america. we've asked this jury to make a

diagnosis, a psychiatric diagnosis of a defendant before they decide a criminal case, a huge responsibility we put on juries in america. >> was it enough because of the fairness under law, that's justice, right? we all know that as lawyers and you know it now from watching all of these things take on. the legal definition was narrow do you know right from wrong. was this guy done when he kept saying it was wrong, it was wrong. he ate a burrito, he ran afterwards he took a cell phone. was it over? >> every insanity case i've looked at through the years, has a collection of evidence. and there's always evidence that right and wrong was understood by the mentally ill person. but that's usually outweighed by other things indicating the severity of the mental illness. and the jurors in this case they kind of picked and, they picked the issues that they wanted to believe in to find him guilty. >> is this guy meantly ill?

>> he's clearly mentally ill, but is he legally insane. there's a difference. >> do you think the system is fair? >> is it fair in terms of us saying there are so many mentally ill people who commit crimes we can't let them all go. this is the underlying fear that nobody expresses. >> is that going to address his illness? >> i'm talking about the fact that the prisons in america are filled with people who have done robberies, rapes and other garden-variety crimes who have mental illness. >> or are drug addicts. >> people who commit crimes and have mental illness. should go to hospitals,ed jurors know this. this is a special thing that they have for only very very special kinds of crimes where you get a not guilty by insanity. >> you know what's going on in america, they're saying boy, that cuomo is soft on crime, he wants to help all of these sick people he doesn't want them to be held accountable for what

they do like everybody else. are they like everybody else? >> the point is that insanity to begin with is looked upon with great skepticism the reason for that chris, is we cannot see inside people's minds. if chris cuomo is sick if paul callan is sick you might slow some signs. your nose is running, you look feverish your skin color changes. as a result of being mentally ill, we can't get inside your mind. that's why nationally there's a skepticism of this. and in several states there is no excuse that you can use with regard to saying that you're legally insane it's not an excuse. >> i want to remind chris cuomo of one thing that went on as we covered this trial every morning joey and myself. you called in favor of the prosecution, saying they this h put on the board that he understood right and wrong. now looking back we're saying -- >> but the system is what it is. >> the system is what it is and this jury applied texas law, they probably apply it

correctly. so i don't think can you criticize the jury for doing what the law probably required them to do. >> 100% agree, it was a horrible thing here and people want to not see someone rewarded for doing something horrible. chad littlefield and chris kyle were doing something good and their families will never have them back. when you're a prosecutor this is a social commentary. mental illness, we call you crazy and you're a weird little guy and we're going to liken it to heart disease and cancer. does it show that we know how to deal with it in this society. >> this jury had ample evidence to find either way, i would argue. there was information before this jury to say, this was a premeditated act. if you look at yesterday's testimony. with regard to the expert who analyzed the crime scene. he described it as a sneak attack. that would be indicative of someone who plotted and planned, waited until people could not pose any danger to themselves. and then acted and acted to take

a life. so with respect to the jury's decision there was ample evidence before them to make a decision that this person knew right from wrong. that's the legal definition. at the same time there was evidence before that jury where they could have concluded that based upon the mindset of routh, his history of illness, the medications he was on the statements he was making that were irrational rambling and incoherent that they could have went the other way. >> texas makes it easy for this to be the verdict. the jury looks at these things. we're not surprised by the verdict. did their job responsibly. i was surprised it was that fast. but the judge pushed them that way. that's not a criticism. now we have our verdict. what i'm saying is the result is the man is in the jail for the rest of his life -- jail. i wonder what chris kyle and the others trying to help this guy would think about that verdict. because he's not going to get help for his mental health there. it's just interesting, from the perspective of how this all started.

and of course everybody, i looked into his brother's eyes you know you lose a brother, they lose a family you'll never be able to put anything on that that will make it okay. listen you guys did a great job on this, paul callan, joey jackson, sometimes a trial is about a lot more this is one of those, appreciate it. we're just two days away from the possible partial shutdown of the department of homeland security. today, signs of a compromise to end the senate stale mate majority leader mitch mcconnell offering a so-called clean bill to fund dhs short-term and a separate bill to repeal president obama's executive action on immigration. cnn's jim acosta joins us from the white house to help us understand the latest. >> good morning, alisyn. president obama is just standing on the sidelines right now, watching to see whether or not the republicans who are in control of congress can get this done as you said senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has the plan to allow a vote on a clean spending bill for the department of homeland security

so the department does not shut down at the end of the week and offer up a separate vote to allow republicans to cast a vote registering their complaints with the president's executive action on immigration. the democrats for their point of view, they believe that the republicans won't follow through on this over in the house, and that is why senate minority leader harry reid said yesterday, he's skeptical. here's what he had to say. >> unless the speaker is in on the proposal of course we have to make sure we get a bill to the president. not that we send a hot potato to boehner, that doesn't do the trick. >> now, speaking of hot potatoes there was another piece of legislation making news yesterday. and that was the keystone pipeline bill. the president vetoed that yesterday, only really the first veto of his presidency on a major piece of legislation, he's had three so far. take a look at the presidential veto count. three for president obama, 12 for george w. bush and many more for bill clinton, george h.w.

bush and ronald reagan. that number three for president obama, it's really a monument to gridlock here in washington. back in the old days 10 or 15 years ag lmaker wles they disagreed, they still passed legislation and presidents would veto the legislation. these days they're so bitterly divided they just don't pass legislation. that's another reason why the veto count is so low. >> really interesting context. further point of the stalling that's going on there. frustrating to be sure. turning to syria. isis militants are believed to be holding 150 syrian christians captive. it's believed that they're going to release a message today threatening to kill them. senior national correspondent nic robertson is tracking this for us live from london. >> this is just another offensive against syrians there. against christians we've seen in syria. the northeast of syria, isis went in they have captured

women, children men, priests, elderly, is what we're being told by syrian human rights group and a syrian human rights group as well. not only are these 150 people been kidnapped, but there are others at risk in the area. 700 families were forced to flee 3 tlourks people forced out of their homes. and we understand 600 of those could be holed up in a cathedral. close to the town where they were forced from their homes. so at the moment isis threatening here potentially their lives. what we've seen when isis has captured christians in the past is to either give them an option, you either convert or you get killed. and during that operation last night, isis radios were overheard, they were talking about capturing crusaders, as if these people had never lived there, for hundreds and hundreds of years, chris. >> all right. thank you very much nic,

appreciate that we. we have new information about three teenaged girls accused of running away from home to join isis. >> british police believe the girls have crossed into syria. they're believed to have crossed maybe four days ago. police aren't absolutely sure exactly when or where they crossed. but either way, they do appear to be inside syria. and possibly in isis-controlled territory. that will be devastating news for the families. because they know that the chances of their daughters coming back home are now very unlikely. michaela? >> all right atika with that thank you. ukraine's army getting some much-needed help from the west. british prime minister david cameron announcing 75 soldiers will be sent to ukraine to provide training and nonlethal support. this as the u.s. announces its own plan to deploy troops to ukraine to complete a second round of combat medical

training. a missionary has been kidnapped in nigeria. demanding a ransom of more than $300,000. officials say it is purely criminal, this action. they haven't identified any responsible group. sorter is a missionary for the free methodist church runs an organization that educate children in the region. >> take a look at this unbelievable video. 15 people were hurt after a natural gas explosion leveled this home in new jersey on tuesday morning. neighbors reported a strong smell of gas and crews headed to the scene to fix a suspected leak. officials say the house was evacuated before the blast. neighbors say the explosion could be felt more than a mile away. two utility workers were critically injured in that blast. so scary. >> terribly frightening. especially if you live in the neighborhood and hear this explosion. >> you smell gas, get out. >> neighbors see something, say something. we saw it happen in manhattan. neighbors were hearing thing,

they get it is the response time right. you know there's some risks here we have to remember the men and women trying to stop these in time and we're sorry about their injuries. >> but not often you get to see that video. all right want to turn to a significant winter storm that's developing in the deep south. georgia and alabama have declared states of emergency ahead of the storm. the danger is real. there have been at least 30 related deaths notice last week in tennessee. meteorologist chad myers joins us from the cnn center in atlanta. the south just not accustomed to this kind of deep freeze. >> you never get accustomed to an ice storm. there's nothing can you do when it rains on ground that's 31. you can't drive on it it's hard to walk. maneuvering is just impossible. so this storm goes all the way from dallas texas, tyler, texarkana, all the way across the deep south, northern mississippi, alabama and georgia with the winter storm warning. the pink area. the purple area the winter

weather advisory area. expecting atlanta to be 33 to the south of the city 32 and ice where i'm standing and 31 and snow just 20 miles north of here and that snow could be could be six inches deep. and there's just no way to plow that when you have like ten plows for the entire city. i know there's a few more than that, because every little municipality has a certain number of plows. here's the storm. as it rolls across the south. you get memphis involved. you get nashville, jackson, mississippi. you get birmingham and huntsville and all the way through atlanta. and finally exiting the coast where raleigh and elizabeth city and hampton roads completely get smashed with snow. yes, the low country of north carolina will get a big snow event. could be eight to ten inches of snow there. where atlanta, we're expecting four to six, you get up to rome dalton maybe blairsville and the like ten inches of snow.

this is snow that no one likes, when it comes to the south, it's particularly annoying. >> maybe they have time to get some loaner snowplows, ten's not going to do it. >> chad's covered a lot of those stories. surrounding communities and states, they help. it's about time and what they're handling as well. i think cha cha, my 5-year-old got it right. we were reading a story about mother nature. she said mother nature she's not very nice. >> don't mess with her. >> she no very nice. there's a see-saw on how the war with isis is going. isis terrorists in syria are on a rampage. they kidnapped 150 christians mostly women and children. what is this about? essure. disrupter of supply chains.

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developing story on isis. the terrorists abducting 150 christians from villages in northeastern syria. most of them women, children and the elderly. ha is the terror group demanding now? lieutenant colonel james reese is our cnn global affairs analyst and former delta force commander and founder of tiger swan and michael weiss is the author of "isis inside the army of terror." michael, you've studied isis and

interviewed dozens of isis fighters. is the abduction of these 150 christians another gruesome chapter and we'll is see them have the same outcome of the 21 egyptian christians or is isis up to something different? >> i suspect it's the former. they may want to negotiate with the vatican for the release of the christians. al nusra, who were formerly part of isis they kidnapped several christian nuns several months ago in syria and used qatar, our ally qatar as an intermediary to negotiate for their release. but al nusra tends to be much less draconian with the way they rule over territory in syria. with isis, if you're a christian, you're in a very tough spot if you're captured. >> colonel reese, why is the assad regime allowing isis to rampage through syria and abduct

people and take over towns? >> the bottom line this is the assad regime is just worried about the assad regime. and that's it. he takes his military he protects him and protects his infrastructure that's going to protect him and he doesn't care there are times that they will fight, that they will fight with other terrorist groups in syria. but it's all about assad and that's it. >> michael as we said you've interviewed dozens of isis fighters what's the strategy here? >> the rank and file i would argue, have a much more ideological bent. they're part of the messiahic movement. the upper echelons of the organization and we haven't interviewed abu bakr al-baghdadi himself, but a lot of these guys this is a political project, they've superimposed caliphate on two countries in the middle east. both of them now essentially run by iran. the war machine in syria is kmanted by the revolutionary guard corps, in iraq you have shia militia groups on the

ground. isis is presenting itself to the sunni populations of these two countries as their own custodian and guarantor of safety and future restoration. we knocked out sad am in 2003 isis says we're going to reclaim baghdad. we'll expand. >> colonel reese we have some new information about the three british teenaged girls who are believed to be trying to join isis. the british police say that they believe that the girls have now crossed from turkey into syria. colonel reece, how can we know so much about these girls' movements and travel yet not be able to intercept them? >> yeah alisyn you know i was thinking about that last night. it just boggles my mind that three young girls, under 18 get on a plane, fly to the uk land at istanbul go through customs,

people are seeing these things happen. when they hit istanbul these expediters pick them up and move them. it's not just like they're moving them to customs, they move them across the turkish/syrian line just do move over. it blows my mind i don't get it one bit. >> michael, you, i was, reading that you think that some of the lure for these girls, is that these young isis fighters are like six symbols to them. >> they're isis pin-ups. >> there's one guy from egypt who is an amateur body builder and there's photos of him on social media without his shirt on. looking very fit and that's counterimposed with images of him in raqqa with the long black beard. people are drawn to this. why is it that charles manson who has been in prison for decades manages to get married to women who start out as pen pals. >> that is shocking. there's a handful of those women

who are attracted to charles manson and like psychopaths, but somehow isis is getting a-students these girls. what is the lure? >> well look in the case of pious muslims, watching what's happening in this part of the world for the last four years, the last decade. it can sort of fire the imagination in the sense of needing to be part of this jihadi project. if you're sunni, you've been persecuted killed ethnically cleansed disopposed for decades, people have been drawn into the isis fold because isis appeals to them on that basis. a lot of the guys going over don't have any background in islam. isis actually prefers them that way. >> are the british police blowing this colonel reese? >> i don't know if the british police are blowing it. i think we're not following the different aspects of what we're looking for. i mean right now, you know people aren't really we know there's young girls going over. we know.

i believe with michael it's kind of this rock star hey, we want to go hang out with the bad boys in isis. that's the allure of the young girls. but there's so many things to be looking at in this profile. of folks coming into support isis it's very difficult to watch and again we don't have the assets around the world to track everybody. >> colonel reese, michael weiss, thanks so much to all of you. let's go back to chris. here's the latest in a line of lies -- the new va secretary says he's sorry for lying about serving in the army's special forces. robert mcdonald, insisting he has no excuse for his quote misstatement or mistake. will angry veterans accept the apology? we'll discuss. also in california dozens of people injured in a fiery crash involving a passenger train and a pickup truck. why this disaster would have been deadly if it had happened just a few years earlier.

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"american sniper" trial. a texas jury rejecting defense claims that eddie ray routh was insane. taking two and a half hours to convict him for the shooting death of navy s.e.a.l. chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield. the judge quickly sentencing routh to life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> isis terrorists abducting 150 syrian christians in predawn raids. the terror group is expected to release a message today, threatening to kill them. it is the latest attack on a minority group as the group continues its bloody campaign to create a caliphate across syria and iraq. chicago mayor rahm emanual face as surprise runoff after failing to get more than 50% of the votes. a political blow for the former top aide to president obama who raised more funds than his four rivals combined. he will go against cook county commissioner jesus garcia.

this is the first time that a chicago mayor has been forced into a runoff. the justice department will not file federal civil rights charges against george zimmerman in his shooting death of trayvon martin. trayvon martin's parents released a statement saying they are disappointed. however they thanked the justice department for its thorough investigation. accord willing to the a.p. benjamin crump, the parents' attorney called the decision a bitter pill to swallow. >> the end to a sad chath anywhere this whole episode. >> do you think they set up false expectations in a case that didn't even pass a federal threshold. that he did it on purpose of his race. >> you're good at reminding us of that. that the threshold is much higher it's a good question. i think there was hope from the people that were concerned that trayvon martin's death would go

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what i was trying to do is find a way to connect with that veteran. i made a misstatement i apologized for that i have no excuse for it. if you look at my 61 years of biography, you'll never find anywhere in any of my biographies that i claimed to be part of special forces i never claimed that it was a misstatement it was a mistake. >> that was veterans affairs secretary, robert mcdonald apologizing for embellishing his military record. what should happen next let's bring in cnn political analyst, and editor in chief of the "daily beast," john avlon and cnn republican consultant

margaret hoover. if those are really your credentials, i'm skeptical. because we must question everyone's credentials and experience now, apparently. robert mcdonald, how bad is this? >> it's bad because it's embarrassing but i think the secretary is being credible when he said it's essentially a lie of empathy in the moment. it wasn't a resumé lie, but it happens at a time when the loip of the va is so battered and bruised makes it bad. i don't think that it rises to a firing offense. >> it happens at a time when you have fish stories from newscasters who are supposed to be credible people telling us they had robust military experiences they actually didn't have. it sort of fits within the news cycle. but i agree, i don't think he will lose his job over it. and frankly, the offenses of the va and what they've done to veterans by failing to take care of them are far worse than a small fish story. >> that i think is important, as

we gauge scandals sometimes we get distracted by the personal particularly sex scandals and we ignore financial scandals scandals where millions of dollars can be stolen or millions people need to be hurt. >> the gotcha game is very difficult for the media to lay off. i think what is fascinating for the audience here is lies are not all the same. that's what we're seeing again. brian williams if that's a lie you believe, he's one type of guy. you know, bill o'reilly. this guy is a government official, is that different? the relativity is fascinating. >> if you try to hold yourself to a higher standard all of a sudden you've got further to fall. where if you say look i've never pretended to be an honest person. people are like hey man, fine roll with it. but i think there's something to that that gets troubling and the human nature of fish stories whether you're a war correspondent or otherwise, in off moments, the fish never gets smaller, it gets bigger. >> the news of the day where you are on capitol hill dhs, funding is this going to happen

somehow in the next two days? >> look think what you've seen with the republicans in the senate is that they understand that if the government shuts down it's going to reflect badly on them. even if it was the democrats who didn't want to bring this to even a conversation to make it into a bill that they could deal with. republicans are going to get blamed. i think mitch mcconnell's change in tactics is a revelation it represents that acknowledgement. i don't see a clear path here. i see a path through the senate that may be able to get through and honestly it's at this point about the senate republicans coming out looking like they can be constructive and pass bills. because i don't see a path through the house at the moment. i have no idea how boehner is going to do it. he's going to have to bring democrats to the table i don't know if he's strong enough to do it every time we've we've seen boehner be able to pull something out of the fire it's because he's ditched the hastert

rule. he can't depend on the 40 members of the crazy caucus. mcconnell is trying to get things off the exit ramp. you get so close to the cliff. even if you want to turn away sometimes, you can't. >> that's the problem. they've got themselves into a pattern. you look at this in keystone obviously different, but in a very real way, the same. jim acosta was saying this morning in the old days they used to veto and they would have these, the veto fight. what would happen now. they don't even pass any legislation, so you never get to a veto. that's why veto is so unusual. they're playing a game of less is more and it's playing out on both of these fronts. >> i also got to say. i think democrats are playing a bit of a dangerous game if they're not helping keep the government open. if they think somehow they've got a political win and a shutdown so they're going to actively encourage it. >> it didn't work so good for the republicans the last time around. >> it did work bad. >> in terms of the ultimate political cost in terms of the election. but in terms of just

consistently reducing faith in an already-broken institution. there's a cost to that right now republicans are going to get hurt disproportionately. but if democrats weigh in they're not going to walk away from the claim and they need to understand that. >> the keystone pipeline president obama has vetoed it. does that mean it's over it's dead or there's more than the republicans can do? >> i think as an issue, republicans will likely continue to add it on to bills as it goes on. sort of like a christmas tree ornament. they'll keep adding it on to legislation as amendments moving on to the future. because it's a good legislative tactic it plays well it's popular. for too long this has replaced or supplanted having any real agenda on the republican side. republicans actually want to pass trade deals, they want to pass tax reform. they want to do other things especially in the election the keystone pipeline took up a huge amount of oxygen. it's one infrastructure project, 35,000 jobs that's good. but now that it's been vetoed i think move on to a governing

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some new developments after the horrific crash involving a metro link train and a pickup truck in southern california. the driver of the truck has been arrested. dan simon joins us near the scene northwest of l.a. in oxnard california dan? >> michaela the facts of what happen here are simple. here you have a guy who made a wrong turn got stuck on the train tracks. the train conductor pulled the emergency brake, but couldn't stop in time. >> there was a very violent crash. >> a arrest in the collision between a train and a produce truck.

54-year-old truck driver jose alejandro sanchez ramirez, on arrest in a felony hit-and-run charge after allegedly abandoning the scene of the crash. police say he was found disoriented, walking a mile from the scene, after he told authorities that he mistakenly turned his truck on to the tracks instead of on to a highway. ramirez's wife defending her husband, telling the "l.a. times" that her husband's truck stalled the tracks. it toppled and derail train cars 30 people were injured. first responders describing a fiery wreck scrambling to get to trapped passengers. >> arriving now, vehicle is fully engulfed. >> overturned train cars, probably need more ambulances. >> witnesses recounting the terrifying moment of impact. >> it got crazy, it picked up the truck and as soon as it hit it it burst into flames

dragged it. couldn't believe what i was seeing. >> we went on a 45-degree angle. lights went out. stuff starting flying everywhere. >> p metro link officials are new passenger cars designed to surviving crashes for saving lives. >> our ultimate goal is to find out what happened and why it happened that's what we're in the business of doing. finding out what happened so we can keep things like this from happening again. >> the train engineer was among those who received the worst injuries. was severe trauma to his heart and lungs, it can take half a mile to stop a train. apparently in this case they didn't see the truck far enough ahead of the stop. >> dan simon, we appreciate it. we want to turn to mary ski i have ao. former inspector-general for the department of transportation and an attorney who represents families after airplane disasters. i want to start talking to you about the technology that's on

board. some that had been updated since that terrible and deadly metro link crash in chats worth in 2012. what safety precautions were there? >> they have two different things on board this train. this is what the ntsb will be focusing on. something is called collision energy management. that's what in the report literally the force of the crash. the law of physics, it's going to absorb the force and help the train car stay together not crumple. there are a lot of different technologies the department of transportation was working on these technologies to help train cars survive and the other one issing can sg called positive train control. highly controversial because all railroads are supposed to have this installed by december 2015. they're lobbying in congress some not this one, they have it

installed. some railroads are lobbying congress to extend the deadline but that uses gps and other technologies to help the train itself sense when there's something on the track and help it stop. so those two technologies brand new. this train had it. >> it looks as though it helped at least prevent deaths, we know that there are some very serious injury still. i want to talk about the intersection. this is a troubled intersection there have been several crash business our estimation six accidents in seven years. just in june two people died at that very intersection. i want you to listen to what the mayor of the city of oxnard told our jake tapper. i think we have that sound. >> oxnard actually is doing something, jake but it's going to cost $30 million to do it. that is a flyover here at the street. but $30 million is daunting. for a local community. the size of the city of oxnard. >> so the solution as the mayor is saying is elevate the crossings, get them up out of harm's way. but that's not an easy

proposition. >> no there are 212,000 railroad highway crossings in the united states of america and that's how we differ so much from japan. i was fortunate to be able to work with japan rail for a short period of time when i was inspector general and found there that the bullet train for example doesn't have places where traffic meets the train. they have elevated and exclusive train tracks that's why they don't have a lot of these problems. the solution is to get the train and the cars from meeting each other ever. it's a very very expensive proposition and the federal rail administration of course has to help. but there's not enough money to do that to all of the intersections, so it's not going to happen. >> is this a multi-pronged issue. you talk about the 212 crossings we have in the united states. that's a big number. is it the trains? is it the intersections? is it the drivers? or is it sort of a perfect storm of all of those things? >> it's a perfect storm of all of them. i've worked many cases where the

intersection was bad, where the drivers couldn't see around a corner or there was vegetation or there was things blocking their view. but then there's the course the issue of the train whistle, some municipalities have quiet zones where the train can't blow the whistle. the train whistle is there to save your life there are times when the gates and the bells and the warnings just don't work. and of course the number one cause is drivers going around the arms or ignoring the warnings. so it's a combination of all of the factors. >> we now know speaking of the driver the driver in this recent metro link accident is now under arrest on suspicion of felony hit-and-run. does that change the investigation at all? >> well not from the ntsb's perspective, from the ntsb's perspective, they're going to look at all the factors. what was unique about the driver or the intersection. but for law enforcement purposes they'll be focused on

the driver. why was he so disoriented. how could you mistake train tracks for a highway. if for some reason he had a medical condition, that might go away to explaining or excusing his mistake. >> mary sciavo got to focus on the fact that no one died. we know there are seriously injured people. but there this is somewhat of a silver lining. we know the people will have a long recovery ahead. thanks for walking through this with us. a lot of news to get to. let's get to it. we the jury find the death eddie ray routh guilty. >> two days away from the possible partial shutdown. let the department of homeland security do its job. >> the burden is on the republicans. all of us are very concerned right now. about the security of america. what we need is a clear agreement from the international

community and the iranians. >> the policy is iran will not get a nuclear weapon. >> announcer: this is "new day," with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. >> good morning, everyone welcome back to "new day," we have breaking news overnight to tell you about. there's been a guilty verdict in the "american sniper" murder trial. eddie ray routh, the iraq war vet who shot and killed former navy s.e.a.l. chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. >> jury was ten women and two men, they took just over two hours to reach a guilty verdict. jurors no the buying the defense that routh was insane when he pulled the trigger. this morning for the first time we're hearing the real-life drama that unfolded in the courtroom. we'll get the latest on that from cnn's martin savidge. live in stevenville, texas. the judge wouldn't let us hear and observe during the trial. but now it's all out there and it tells us a lot. >> it does indeed good morning to you, chris. i noted the time last night,

6:36 local. 7:36 p.m. when the case went into the hands of the jury outside of the courthouse here. there is an intensity that told you you know what this isn't going to take long. and sure enough, it did not. >> we've waited two hours for god to to get justice for us on behalf of our son. >> breaking overnight, the "american sniper" trial captivating a nation is over. >> we the jury find the defendant eddie ray routh guilty. >> deliberating for less than three hours, the jury found 27-year-old eddie ray routh guilty of killing former navy s.e.a.l. chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield. a former marine seemingly showing no reaction as the judge sentenced him to a life behind bars without parole. >> he thought he had to take their lives. because he was in danger. >> jurors rejecting defense arguments that routh diagnosed

with ptsd was legally insane. >> i've been so paranoid schizophrenic all day, i don't even know what to think of the world right now. >> the 27-year-old shown here in 2013 moments after police arrested him for shooting kyle and littlefield multiple times at a gun range. later routh told police that he believed his victims were pig-human hybrids. >> i've been smelling it this whole time. >> in an unusual circumstance the judge barred audio from the trial until the verdict was reached. >> he was very suicidal. >> routh's mother jodie, who claims routh once threatened to kill himself and their family retold what she did the moment she heard her son killed kyle. >> i had chris's number in my phone and i dialed that number praying to god he would answer. >> taya kyle the wife of the former sniper was overcome with emotion on the stand. >> take a moment if you need to.

>> recalling the last time she saw her husband. >> just that we loved each other and gave a kiss and a hug like we always did. >> you know i was in the courtroom when taya kyle gave that testimony, extremely powerful. the jury was deeply moved she pointed out that taya kyle was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read. she had stormed out during closing arguments, she had been so angry as a result of the things said by the defense regarding the death of her husband. >> so hard for the family to have to hear anything in any way might justify such a tremendous and irreplaceable loss. let's try to make sense of how they got there so quickly. we have cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor jeffrey toobin. now that they've released everything these are the big moments, you'll get to hear and see it for yourself the way the jury did. let's start with what the prosecution had on its side. one, they had the confession right? i would tell them i'm so sorry

for what i've done. how important was this under texas law? >> this is probably the single most important piece of evidence in the case because it is immediately after the shooting. and here you have routh basically saying i know what i did was wrong. and i'm sorry. and right and wrong is the standard under texas law. does the defendant know that what he did was wrong. the jury said yes, and here it seems to me is key piece of evidence. >> that's why it's hard to fault the jury in any way, they applied the law, that's why it was so quick. doesn't mean they didn't do their job. >> the purchase was for two bean burritos $2.18. add 18 cents tax and the total was $2.36. >> he bought two burritos. oh that doesn't mean anything. it could mean everything. because -- >> because again it shows he's acting rationally. he's not someone who is out of touch with reality. this is someone who had his wits

about him. if you can call it that. was not under some sort of delusions of what he was doing. >> the defense argued it's the other way, it's proof how out of touch he is after doing something so horrible to someone he knew cared about him, he did something routine. showing he didn't have that the upset of emotion that killers often have. then the chase. they watched this chase and the prosecution was very strong on this. because they said and as we heard in the sum up put in a very indelicate way by the prosecutor crazy don't run. when what were they saying? >> flight. flight is another very key point in this case. if you don't think you are doing anything wrong, you don't flee. if you do think you did something wrong, if you think you committed a crime, you run away from the police. he ran away from the police. >> and the defense wasn't able to continue his delusion into that the cops chasing him meant something different to him. so that hurt him.

then we get into the things that matter for the defense. >> absolutely i did. on thursday they called me at school and said we're releasing eddie. you need to pick him up. >> you begged the u.s. government not to release your son. >> yes, sir. >> we hear this again and again, i've been saying from the beginning, the trial is about things that are bigger than just the facts of this case. congressman tim murphy out of pennsylvania has a bill families can't get help for people who are mentally ill. the defense was saying they knew he was sick. he had been put inside four times. voluntarily and involuntarily. why didn't that matter enough? >> well this was the strongest defense evidence in the case. you had the family pleading with the va saying keep him in the hospital. >> in the va having recognized and diagnosed extreme mental illness. >> right. and this is one of the many reasons why this case is so sad. is because everyone knew that routh was a very troubled

person. now, whether he fit the exact category of legal insanity that's what the trial was about. but just in a humanitarian way, this was a case about a young man who was in terrible trouble, and obviously didn't get the help he needed. >> it is no small irony, that chris kyle was trying to help this man in a way that he will never get helped again. now he's in jail for rest of his life. and we know that's not a place about mental health rehabilitation. >> we had had decorative ninja swords by the front door. he grabbed one of those swords said no we're not going anywhere and proceeded to insist that people were out to get us and we needed to stay in the apartment because the apartment was safe. >> it's no the that he was a bully. it's his girlfriend saying he thought, typical paranoid schizophrenia. he wound up being diagnosed with it why wasn't this enough? >> juries don't like insanity defenses. we ask a lot of jurors. it's hard to diagnose people. it's hard to explain why anyone

does what they do. even sane people. and yes, he was troubled. but juries don't like to give someone a break who did something so horrible. >> and also look it's a statement of where we are as a society. mental health is not given the respect of other illnesses. it just isn't. >> we don't see it like cancer or heart disease. >> and they said exactly that. >> been so paranoid all day -- >> this is him in the back. >> i don't know if i'm insane or -- sane. i don't know what's sane in the world right now. >> so he's saying the right kinds of things but the prosecutor said this guy is saying what he needs to say. he said it before and it got him off the hook. look at his demeanor he's not crazy. >> that is a very that's the most peculiar piece of evidence in the case. because at one level, it does show mental illness. but almost matter of fact way he's talking about paranoid schizophrenia. it makes it seem like he's

almost setting up his own defense. which a jury would not find sympathetic. >> it's obvious that the prosecution case was resonating with the jury. they're giving statements now, the actual jurors and they are saying we questioned whether or not wl it was legit. that is a big obstacle that has nothing to do with the law. and everything to do with how society sees mental illness. they see this man -- and they hear what he's saying. >> i've been smelling it this whole time, you know. >> to look at that if you were a clinician, if you were a doctor a psychiatrist you would say whoa if this is consistent this guy has a real mental problem. but people aren't there when they see this and the verdict reflects it. >> indeed. at least my overwhelming reaction to this case is just pure sadness. obviously mostly because these two people lost their lives. but also because routh is a, at

least a lost soul as well as a bad person and we we just don't have a way of treating them or helping them. and now it's over for him as well. >> it is over for him and it's just, you know it's a demonstration of for all that was lost there's something else at play also. the way we see the mentally ill and the way we see them under law are two very different things and the price that's been paid by the families in this case are the victims. there will never be any good solution to come out of this. thank you for helping us understand. alisyn. on to politics, republicans and democrats at a legislative impasse over the funding for the department of homeland security. mitch mcconnell proposing a two-vote solution to avert the shutdown. cnn's jim acosta is live at the white house with more. >> president obama will be ramping up pressure on congress to get this done. he meets with immigration reform

advocates and holds a town hall on the subject later on this afternoon and as you mentioned, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has crafted this proposal for two separate bills, one to fund the department of homeland security so the department does not run out of money and another bill to allow republicans to vote against the president's executive action on immigration reform. but of course mitch mcconnell says he needs help from democrats to get this done. here's what he had to say. >> i've indicated to the democratic leader that i would be happy to have his cooperation. to advance a consideration of a clean dhs bill. which would carry us through until september 30th. with democratic cooperation, on a position they have been advocating for the last two months we could have that vote. very quickly. >> now, of course all of that depends on whether or not the house of representatives, which is also controlled by

republicans, will pass that legislation, if it gets out of the senate and speaking of legislation getting passed a bill was passed by the congress and sent over to the white house yesterday. but it was vetoed. that was the bill to force the president to approve the rest of the keystone pipeline. the president using that veto pen. something he hasn't done very much. let's put something up on screen to show that the president is only vetoed three bills during his entire presidency. the keystone bill was the first major piece of legislation contrast that with the president's that came before him. that's why you're hearing from the white house officials say this may be a new era in the obama presidency many more vetoes before he leaves the presidency. it depends on whether or not legislation is passed. let's turn to isis and the battle there. terrorizing christian villages in northeast syria. the terrorists have kidnapped as many as 150 syrian christians in

predawn raids. hundreds more forced to run for their lives. our senior international correspondent nic robertson is tracking latest for us from london. nic? >> good morning michaela. what we understand at the moment is that this is an isis operation that's still under way. the numbers keep creeping up of the people that have been captured. in the early hours of this morning. it was 70 or 100, now 150. reports they're being take ton the isis capital, if you will raqqa. an indication that they plan to keep these people that they are kidnapping, bargain them perhaps in some way as we've seen in the past. among those kidnapped there are women, there are children there are elderly people. there are even priests. there are some 3,000 people forced from their homes, about 700 families on the run. what we understand from a syrian network based outside of syria. they're telling us that 600 of those people could be holed up in a cathedral very close to the town where all of this is

happening. so their concern at the moment is what is isis going to do. what do they plan for the people kidnapped? how can they get them free? what we've seen from isis in the past when they've kidnapped christians in this way in the past they either force them to convert or they kill them. and that right now is the concern. for all these missing people. >> alisyn? >> of course it is usually a gruesome outcome and we will be talking more about that were senator angus king as well. thanks so much nic. an american missionary has been kidnapped in nigeria. masked gunmen abducted phyllis sorter and are demanding a ransom. officials say this is a purely criminal act. they have not identified the group responsible. sort certificate a missionary for the free methodist church. and runs an organization that educate children in the region. four students at wesleyan university in connecticut have been arrest in connection with a rash of overdoses in the school.

they're being held pending a bail hearing in early march. police say 11 people hospitalized over the weekend appear to have taken the drug molly. another name for ecstacy. this batch may have been laced with a dangerous mixture of designer drug chemicals. stunning video of a truck driving off the upper deck of a highway in boston. police say the man behind the wheel now faces drunk driving charges, his license has been suspended. you can see the truck going over the guardrail. it smashed into a light pole and plunged from an elevated section of interstate 93 to the concrete below. amazingly the driver only suffered a broken nose. what's amazing is that he didn't hit any other vehicle or cause any other -- casualties at all. he could have landed on another vehicle if there had been traffic stuck below. >> there usual sli traffic on 93 in boston.

>> i don't know if you remember in your times reporting these accidents, oftentimes inebriated drivers are the ones least hurt in these kinds of accidents. >> he only got a broken nose. >> well probably because of how safe the cars are now, not the fact that being drunk insulates them in any way. >> it's not meant to encourage, it's injustice, you know what i mean? we see sadly we see people die in this kind of situation. >> hopefully they use it as a moment of this is it he's this is bottom turn. >> he's in trouble now. will the senate agree on a deal to fund homeland security before the agency runs out of money on friday? we'll talk with senator angus king about the chances. hillary clinton sounding more and more like a candidate for president of the united states. john king has the tells that may have been in her speech suggesting what she has to offer you. coming up on "inside politics." for protecting my future. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are thankful for many things.

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isis abducting 150 christians from villages in northeastern syria. most of them women, children and the elderly. how will the coalition respond? let's bring in independent senator from maine, angus king a member of the senate armed services committee and the intelligence community. senator king nice to see you this morning. >> good morning, alisyn how are you? >> i'm well. we hear about 150 christians women, children the elderly being abducted by isis and we fear they'll meet the same gruesome fate as the last round of christians they kidnapped did, being beheaded. it sure doesn't feel like the coalition air strikes are working. >> well there are lots of

evidence that they are these are kind of individual actions that are taking place, there's going to be a lot of work alisyn to get these guys out of these towns where they're essentially holed up. but the air strikes have taken out a lot of their infrastructure. they've taken out some of these small oil situations that they've been able to use to fund themselves. their trucks their heavy equipment. but you know you still got some very bad people that are, they seem to take not only pleasure but enjoy the publicity of these gruesome killings but what they're doing, and i think this is important, is really turning off the rest of the world, particularly the arab world. and they're becoming more and more isolated. the coalition is growing. the arab nations that are participating are becoming more actively involved. and i think these guys are going to implode by virtue of their own brutality. but it's going to take some time and it going to take more air

strikes, and it's going to take concentrated power. and it's also going to take people on the ground from the region. not americans, they have to be it seems to me muslims and arabs to take the fight to these guys in mosul and in raqqa and syria. wherever they end up being concentrated. >> as you know senator, the egyptian president, al sisi has called for an arab force to fight isis. do you see any evidence of that coming together? >> well i've heard a lot of talk and in several of the countries, not only egypt, but other areas in other countries in the gulf. i think they are getting there. i'll tell you, i was with king be aabdullah of jordan about an hour after he learned of their pilot being burned alive i've never seen anybody so determined as he was. and they immediately upped the ante in terms of their activity. and that's what it's going to take. it's got to be a coalition. it's got to be arab and muslim

troops and then we've got to keep up the air pressure. but you know what we've got here alisyn are people with seventh-century ethics and 21st century weapons, these guys are living in the middle ages and they're dangerous, they're dangerous to us and they're certainly dangerous to everyone in the middle east. >> as you know senator, back at home the president has asked congress to authorize the fight against congress. what's your problem with the aumf. >> number one i don't have a problem with the fact that we're at least finally having this debate. i've been arguing that congress should have a role in this decision since last summer. since the first air strikes into syria. nobody wants to go to war. i think the president has submitted a realistic and good base for discussion what's really hilarious, if you can find any humor in the situation is, that in this aumf argument the republicans are arguing that the president isn't asking for

enough authority. and the democrats are arguing that the president is asking for too much authority. and it's sort of the reverse of what we see in a lot of these other issues. i think bob corker and the senate foreign relations committee are going to take a close look at that. this is a piece of legislation the american people can really take a look at themselves. it's literally one page long. and it really gets down to what should be the definition of the president's power. and i think the important thing, the most important thing is for congress to step in and make a decision and not just kick it over to the president and the executive as we've been doing for so long. this is our constitutional responsibility. >> one of the issues with the aumf is that some people thought it was too vague. the word -- enduring seemed unclear to people. secretary kerry tried to clarify that yesterday. let me tell you how he defines it. he says if you're going in for weeks and weeks of combat that's enduring. if you're going in to assist

somebody and fire control and you're embedded in an overnight deal or you're in a rescue operation or whatever that is not enduring. does that clarify it for you? >> well it helps. i mean i think this is a new term that we don't have any experience with. but what the president is trying to do and what the congress is trying to do is to to define what the limits are of american involvement. how far are we committed and of course the concern is very few people including me want to commit large numbers of american troops for continuing period. a kind of 100,000 people for a ground war for you know in afghanistan, it turned out to be 13 years. we're trying to find wlat right limits are. the president has suggested this term "enduring offensive combat operations" maybe that's not the right language. but think we're going to have to continue to wrestle with what the definition is but the idea is to not write the president a blank check. if you do that then really there's not a lot of reason to

go through this this process. so i think you know we're going to work out some language i hope. but as i say, the irony is you've got, i've been in committee meetings where the republicans say we don't think there should be any limits on the president's funding authority. funny they don't say it about the affordable care act or immigration. and the democrats are saying it is too broad. so hopefully we're going to find a reasonable path through it. >> senator angus king we always appreciate your assessments on "new day." another big story, the u.s. suggesting it's closer to a deal with iran on nukes. is that a good thing? we have both sides of the proposition debating and you get to decide. is wisconsin governor scott walker the republican to beat? we'll tell what you a new poll out of a eye says about his chances if he were to throw his hat in the presidential ring. john king will share the results of the poll, "inside politics."

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in our house, we do just about everything online. and our old internet a guilty verdict in the "american sniper" murder trial. a texas jury of ten women and two men took two and a half hours to reject defense claims that eddie ray routh was insane.

the verdict, guilty in the shooting death of chris kyle and chad littlefield. the judge immediately sentencing routh to life in prison without the possibility of parole. isis is terrorizing christian villages in northeastern syria. going door to door and be a duck abducting 150 christians in predawn raids. isis has targeted christians before. last month it slaughtered two dozen members of egypt's coptic christian minority. the faa agreeing to let southwest airlines planes to keep flying. the airline had grounded the boeing jets after revealing it failed to inspect back-up high hydraulic systems. overknight the faa approved a plan that would let the planes keep flying for five days while the checks are completed. is that a good idea? >> i don't know. that will require further

discussion. hey, right now look up in the sky, you know what you can't see? two nasa astronauts on a spacewalk of the international space station. it is happening right now. these are live pictures of the second of three space walks. >> let's take a good look. >> i don't know what i'm saying but it's cool. >> that's a hand in space. >> a hand in space. >> a space hand. >> everything's cool when it's in space. that's his ipad right there. pushing it in. >> wow. >> same stuff you're doing right now. getting your purse ready. got to get ready. got to get out, put your books in the bag without the teflon gloves. they're doing some tricky cable work. we've had astronauts on the show say how hard it is to work with the gloves and how much they have to practice. it's a big deal. they're preparing the space station to make sure the new capsules that are coming will be able to dock there. so this is important stuff. but let's watch for one more second. >> i've reached inside. >> that's impressive isn't it?

>> that long shot is better than some of ours outside our headquarters. >> that's remarkable. it's hats off to those guys that do that. now we talk about doing home improvement around the house, imagine trying to do it with a spacesuit. something i bet john king could do. nice transition to "inside politics." talk about a honey-do list in space. >> i got to say the guys down the hall try to strap me into a suit like that just about every morning. >> kind of a different suit they're trying to strap you in. >> those are fascinating pictures. good morning to you in new york. let's go "inside politics" on a busy day here in washington. with me julie pace of the "associated press" and nia malika henderson of the "washington post." let's start with hillary clinton. out in silicon valley. fleshing out more and more and loosening up about what she will talk about i'll say sr. to say if but let's just say when she runs for president. she talked about how we have productivity in the economy and we need rising wamgs, she talked

about income inequality. she said the government needs to get involved and the private sector needs to do its part. hillary clinton is viewed as a polarizing figure. our politics are polarized at the moment. listen to her saying if i were president i would hope everybody would get along a little better. >> i'd like to bring people from right, left red, blue get them into a nice warm purple space where everybody is talking. and where we're actually trying to solve problems and you know that would be my objective. if i decide to do this. >> can we turn washington into a warm purple space. sn. >> that was very barack obama 2008 language. first of all it was good to hear from hillary clinton again. we haven't heard from her in a while. she's clearly decided she's going to cast herself as somebody who is going to bring the country together. be the one to put an end to the partisanship. the challenge is she's not identified with being able to do that. whether she can be the practical things she says she can do to

make those things happen. barack obama made those promises and look where we are now. >> you feel like everyone who runs for president, like you're running for the student body of your elementary school you're going to say we're going to bring everybody together. it just doesn't happen. this is a polarized town. and there are real ideological divides, right? there's not a lot of space in the middle. how she does it it is different from the way she ran, right, in 2008. this idea that she was, she knew how the clinton war room worked and that's why she was so good because she could take the fight to the republicans as opposed to obama who was all about the mushy middle. so it's you know it's a nice campaign line. it won't happen? >> we'll see what happens or won't happen. okay. it was interesting if you haven't seen the video. go online to find it. can you see it on cnnpolitics.com. she's been working on being more conversational. one of the people we watch when senator clinton speaks is elizabeth warren. this is draft elizabeth warren movement out there she said no i'm not running for president,

when she's asked about hillary clinton, she's not exactly bubbly. listen to her being asked on msnbc, do you think hillary clinton will be out there campaigning on your populist economic issues? >> you know i think that's what we got to see. i want to hear what she wants to run on and what she says she wants to do. that's what campaigns are supposed to be about. >> why can't she say -- i've spoke tonn to hillary. why can't she start with i know she'll be great. why is it we'll see. >> she's preserving her power in her lane. she's not in the race but she has a huge following. the draft warren movement. she says i don't have anything to do with that. certainly she likes that that's out there. she was at senate hearing with janet yellen where she was doing her warren thing and being confrontational, adding to her highlight reel. she's said she's encouraged hillary to run. in the past that hillary is

terrific. she's maintaining her power, at some point if hillary runs we'll have a big moment where warren endorses her, i would imagine. >> she wants to have this power, she has the principles that she strongly believes in. she feels as though clinton and obama to some degree have not fulfilled their promises to work on these issues. she wants to have a voice, her followers want to have a voice in the primary. even if it's a largely uncontested primary. >> how long are we going to be pretending the if? if you've been following political news in the last couple of weeks, scott walker has been in the news a lot. he's the wisconsin governor. he's a likely republican presidential candidate. in london he wouldn't answer the evolution question. last week he wouldn't answer the "washington post" when they said do you believe president obama is a christian. he wouldn't comment. wouldn't judge, rudy giuliani when he said the president doesn't love america, do you think that's hurting scott walk centre think again. look at the brand new iowa poll out this morning, quinnipiac poll scott walker has jumped to

25% in iowa twice, twice, his nearest rival. the vote something almost a year away in iowa. he's gone from nowhere to the front of the pack in iowa. something else this poll tells you, a very conservative republican electorate shaping up in iowa. walker is viewed favorably. 57-7. only 7% unfavorable. chris christie 30 54 negative this is a conservative iowa electorate and at the moment scott walker is jumping everybody. >> it gives you a sense of the people that he is speaking to when he says or doesn't say some of the things we've heard from him over the last couple of weeks. he's not talking to the crowd in washington he's not talking to a general election crowd. he's talking to a conservative iowa caucus voting bloc and obviously he's getting results. >> this is how he was successful in wisconsin. talking to the red part of that state. he has picked fights with unions and essentially won. and that's i think what he was doing this time.

because what you see is he picks these fights and revs up conservatives. that's why you see the numbers in iowa. >> the chris christie negative number in iowa is interesting. he's the only one in the poll who is a negative. >> the more he goes out there, the more the numbers go down. >> the republican-based voters want somebody who fight. somebody who will fight the media and democrats, somebody who will stand up for their issues they believe the base voters whether it's the headlines on same-sex marriage or other issues that their leaders aren't standing up. we have the big question will the department of homeland security get its money by the end of the week? the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday tried what he believed to be a reasonable compromise he's being hammered by the rye. mitch mcconnell wants to split it into two questions, give the president the money to fund the department and eunuch mitch mcconnell squeal likes a pig, in

their headlines. other headlines saying if john boehner agrees with this plan republicans will make another run at his job. republicans won big in the last election. >> did they? >> they did and listen to the democratic harry reid he just had eye surgery so he's wearing sunglasses inside. democrats know democrats know this is really dividing the republicans. >> unless the speaker is in on the proposealproposal of course we have to make sure we get a bill to the president. not that we send a hot potato to boehner that doesn't do the trick. >> what's going do happen here? the president will in miami today at a town hall meeting, he believes this issue helps him and helps the democratic party. he's going to push his immigration ideas, house republicans came back into town they meet today. conservatives don't like this mcconnell plan. are we going to see another implosion in the republican party? >> i don't think we know how it's going to play out yet. the one thing we know is that when mcconnell and boehner had

hoped to have happen this year is not happening. mcconnell said no shutdowns. there was an idea that boehner could hold off the far right wing of his caucus because now he could send bills that maybe passed with democratic support to the senate and actually get senate republicans to pass them. there could be more regular order. it's not happening. i think it's all on boehner right now. >> and they need democrats. they need democrats at this point. you know to get anything done it seems like. >> it is fascinating to watch. we'll watch as it plays out, alisyn. you have the split in the republican party. the governing conservatives, speaker boehner, leader mcconnell i'm sorry, michaela how are you, who think they have to govern and be part of it. you have the newer, younger members who think they're more of an opposition party. if the president is for it they need to be against it we'll keep did right up to the deadline. >> that's what happens when you get new fresh blood in there. that's okay. alisyn and i get confused a lot. secretary of state john kerry defending the administration's pursuit of a nuclear deal with iran against

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secretary of state john kerry says it is too soon to judge a deal that would restrict iran's nuclear activities for at least ten years. but it's not too soon for him to say the bottom line is that iran won't get nike sukes for ten years. there are two very different sides, we have both represented. hilary ceo strategic middle east analyst and alan dershowitz. thank you both for this. we will start with the proposition that if the u.s. wants to make a deal it should be a good thing. you represent that hillary, why as a citizen should i be happy about this deal? >> well iran is a rising power.

the islamic republic of iran is a rising power just as china was in the early 1970s and as presidents nixon and kissinger needed to normalize with china, we need to normalize with iran. we need to allow us to get off of this really strategically self-damaging pursuit of dominance in the region and instead pursue a balance of power approach that recognizes all of the important powers in the region and has a constructive relationship with them. iran under any political order is critically important of the it's a huge hydro carbon power. a sophisticated educated population. it's not going away. >> we get that point so what is the counter, the basic theory there is that iran is now like china was, do you agree, professor? >> absolutely not. china is a rational calculating, secular government. iran is a suicide nation. it's sent thousands of its own

children to die in the war against iraq with little tokens promising them paradise. rafsanjani one of the former leaders, said if iran gets nuclear weapons and bombs, it will kill three to 4,000 jews the tradeoff worth it it would destroy israel and leave islam untouched. so the iran the greatest exporter of terrorism in the world is absurd. iran is determined to get a nuclear weapon. this is a bad deal. because it has a sunset provision. it allows iran after ten years, to develop nuclear weapons. now if you believe "the new york times," in its editorial this morning, "the new york times" says after the deal runs its course iran would be able to pursue nuclear enrichment for energy and medical pumps without constraints, if you believe that iran wants to simply pursue me cal and energy purposes should

favor this deal. but if you think iran is going to cheat, if you think it already has cheated, for example the iran resistance movement yesterday revealed there's a secret hide-out facility called laza van 3, they're going to cheat their way into a nuclear bomb. it will be a game changer as president obama acknowledged when he earlier said he would never allow iran to develop nuclear weapons. >> let's leave the politics of flip-flopping aside and address the main point, which is you are giving the most dangerous weapon to someone who has proven again and again to someone who wants to do dangerous things. >> the entire u.s. national security and the intelligence establishment. the entire israeli national security intelligence establishment says iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons and has not taken a decision to do so if they wanted to. prime minister netenyahu as professor dershowitz has been

said has been been telling this for years. literally two years ago, the prime minister of israel stood up and said the exact same thing. if you believe the iranians are pursuing nuclear medenergy in medicine, i have is braj to sell you. a white house spokesman came out and said we're no longer sharing information about the negotiations with the israelis because they are distorting it and putting out not accurate information. what prime minister netenyahu and friends here are destroying the u.s./israel relationship for a canard for something that is not true. >> look the idea that israel feels threatened by iran is not a canard. the basis on which they feel threatened is what you're speaking to professor your point on that? >> well -- >> hold on hilary. >> if you really think that iran has no interest in developing nuclear weapons, then you should you don't even need a deal. just let them pursue their

biological and medical facility. everybody in the world, with any common sense knows that iran wants to develop nuclear weapons. whether they have made the ultimate theological decision or not, is how many angels on the head of a pin. if out there you think iran is not interested in developing nuclear weapons at all, then you should be on the side of my -- >> susan rice -- >> if you believe that iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, they have to be stopped. president obama said that. john kerry has said that. everybody has said that. that iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. except my distinguished opponent. >> the thinking goes back and forth. they are soft on intel about it which makes it more confusing, let's get where the head of the, of where susan rice is the defense adviser on this. on this and as it relates to the israeli prime minister. let's take a listen. >> what has happened over the last several weeks by virtue of the invitation that was issued

by the speaker and the acceptance of it by prime minister netenyahu two weeks in advance of his election. is that on both sides, there has now been injected a degree of partisanship. which is not only unfortunate, i think it's it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship. >> all right. so that is obviously a segue into how this is going to affect u.s./israeli relationses, which could not be more important and vital to everything going on in the region and to domestic interests as well. final point, we have one minute. hilary. one point on that? >> that people are peddling a false case in order to get us into yet another strategically damaging war as we did in iraq and throughout the middle east. what the administration is now doing in an unprecedented way, is calling, is calling a spade a spade here. saying that prime minister netenyahu and his friends here in the united states are putting out a false story. which leads the u.s. to yet

another war. >> what's your final point, professor? >> >> well that's what neville chamberlin argued, that it was a false narrative that hitler meant what he said. i have to take what iran says seriously. we've discovered secret facilities for nuclear weapons. you must believe that iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, and if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons, there can't be a sunset provision. they have to be permanently stopped from doing so. this is a bad deal. >> thank you very much. two very intelligent people who understand the situation laying it out for you. now you decide. let us know. get to us on twitter and facebook. alisyn. "consumer reports" list of best cars is out. did tesla repeat at the best car that money can buy? we'll tell you the top picks. heart: i'm going to focus on the heart. i minimize my sodium and fat... gotta keep it lean and mean. pear: uh-oh.

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>> we've waited two years for god to get justice for us. >> nearly 100 christians in northeast syria were kidnapped. >> they want to horrify the west. >> extremist violent interpretation of islam. >> an arrest in the collision between a metro link commuter train and a produce truck. >> as i came through the crossing the car exploded. it felt like an eternity until we came to a stop. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. good morning. welcome to your "new day." it is wednesday, february 25th. just after 8:00 in the east. and we have a major headline. eddie ray routh found guilty for the murders of american sniper chris kyle and chad littlefield. the verdict rendered in 2 1/2 hours. >> a texas jury not buying that routh was legally insane at the time of the murders. the judge in the case immediately sentencing routh to life in prison without the possibility of parole. cnn's martin savidge is live

from stevenville, texas, this morning. boy, the jury sure made their decision fast. >> reporter: they did, indeed alisyn. in fact we've spoken to court officials and they suggested it was faster than we first believed because after it went into the hands of the jury the first thing they did was, of course elect a foreperson. then they had dinner. it was really after dinner they began deliberations. what we're saying here is you could almost have timed their deliberations using a stopwatch. take a look. >> we've waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son. >> reporter: breaking overnight, the american sniper trial captivating a nation is over. >> we the jury find the defendant, eddie ray routh, guilty. >> reporter: deliberating for less than 3 hours. the jury found 27-year-old eddie ray routh guilty of killing former navy s.e.a.l. chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield. the former marine seemingly showing no reaction as the judge

sentenced him to a life behind bars without parole. >> he thought he had to take their lives because he was in danger. >> reporter: jurors rejecting defense arguments that routh, diagnosed with ptsd was legally insane. >> i don't know what to even think of the world right now. >> reporter: the 27-year-old shown here in 2013 moments after police arrested him for shooting kyle and littlefield multiple times at a gun range. later, routh told police he believed his victims were pig human hybrids. >> they're pigs. i've been smelling it the whole time. >> reporter: the judge barred audio from the trial until the verdict was reached. >> he was very suicidal. >> reporter: routh's mother jody who claimed eddie once threatened to kill himself and their family retold what she did the moment she heard her son killed kyle. >> i had chris's phone number in

my phone and i dialed that number praying to god that he would answer. >> reporter: taya kyle the wife of the former sniper was over come with emotion on the stand. >> take a minute if you need to. >> reporter: recalling the last time she saw her husband. >> we said we loved each other and gave a kiss and a hug like we always did. >> reporter: such a powerful moment there. i was in the courtroom when she gave that testimony. taya kyle was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read. she stormed out in the closing arguments. alisyn. >> martin savidge, thank you for all of that background. so how did the jury reach their guilty verdict? well some of the jurors are now speaking out. we will have that with our legal panel just ahead. all right. will america be safe after friday? scary question but it's a real one because the fight over

finding in the department of homeland security still going on. majority leader mitch mcconnell offering democrats a compromise to avert a partial shutdown of the agency but not really a clear path is what we're being told. cnn's jim acosta joins us from the white house. what's in this plan? how is it going over in the senate? the house? what do we know? >> reporter: is there ever a clear path in washington chris? that is the question. one thing we should point out is president obama will be amping up the pressure on capitol hill later on today. he meets with immigration reform advocates here at the white house and then he travels down to florida for a town hall on this subject. meanwhile, as you mentioned, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has crafted a plan to see our way out of this. essentially first it would offer a vote for a clean dhs funding bill. that would avert a shutdown for the department at the end of the week and also allow republicans to vote on a separate bill that would essentially register their complaints because it wouldn't actually defeat the president's

executive action on immigration. he would never sign that into law, but at the same time democrats are skeptical of this proposal because they're not sure this will ever get out of the house. here's what senate minority leader harry reid said yes. >> lest the speaker's in on the proposal of course we have to make sure we get a bill to the president, not that we send a hot potato to boehner. that doesn't do the trick. >> reporter: and harry reid still recovering from an exercise accident wearing the sunglasses. he's wearing the sunglasses. speaking of hot potatoes that was to push forward to the keystone pipeline. the president vetoed that legislation. he doesn't want the congress to force them into approving that legislation and put this up on screen if you can just to give you a sense of how little used that veto pen is for president obama. only three times during his presidency including yesterday, and that was the first major piece of legislation that was

vetoed by this president. compare that to his pred ses sores, he's got some catching up to do. the white house thinks he'll do this with all of the bills expected to come out of the republican congress. guys it's anybody's guess as to whether or not capitol hill will actually pass legislation that the president could veto. we'll have to wait to see if that happens. >> there's lots of suspense about that. jim acosta. joining us is terry mccullough, virginia governor. we think this is particularly relevant and critical to governors because you rely on this funding. so what happens in virginia if you don't get this funding on friday? >> well you're exactly right. this affects every governor in america. we just had the national governor's association meeting in washington and i made the point to all our governors, this goes to every single state. if this funding is cut on

friday let's just take virginia thousands of virginians will be furloughed. many thousands more will have to report to work and they won't get a paycheck. not many families can go by. they're trying to provide for their families trying to put food on the table. what is going to happen on friday is that those paychecks will stop. we have the deepest port we have the coast guard. this will affect fema. i'm leaving here flying down to southwest virginia for an emergency situation. the folks i'm meeting with at the local level are sheriff's, emergency management folks. they all have matching grants with dhs. that stops so this partisan politics has got to stop. this is an agency that protects the homeland of the united states of america. we have folks who are working very hard. three southern governors yesterday have just declared a state of emergency. that is fema money. that money goes away. we've got to get the -- partisan politics

out of this. do a clean bill fund it. it's too important to the safety of the united states of america. >> it's interesting you say do a clean bill because that's what senator mitch mcconnell is saying. separate the bills between dhs and immigration. they have to take a vote on dhs separately. if that does not happen, is it the democrats' fault? if they reject senator mitch mcconnell's plan is the blame shuldered by the democrats? >> listen this should not be a partisan issue. if you have a clean vote for the funding of the department of homeland security i would encourage every member of congress to go out and support that lest you be a democrat or republican. let's have a clean vote on this bill. let's fund the dhs. my message to everybody in the country, in every locality today there is a matching grant. the other issue, alisyn which many folks don't know is that a

continuing resolution is not a solution for us governors because all new grants are stopped. so a continuing resolution doesn't help us either because all new grants that go out to the states would also be stopped. why are you tieing immigration to the funding of dhs? if you want to have a debate on immigration, i am all for that. it's needed in this country, but that should be separate. but why would you possibly stop the funding for the agency that is responsible for protecting our homeland at a time that we have so many issues? it's not only about our national security alisyn it is a huge economic driver. as the governor of the commonwealth of virginia so many thousands of virginians will go without paychecks. we went through this back in late '13. it was devastating for families in virginia devastating for the economy, now you add on the issue of protecting the homeland. they have to stop this partisan politics. we have to move forward. >> isn't the answer the clean bill? why aren't they doing that today? what's the holdup? >> i hope they do.

the issue is when it gets over to the house, is the speaker going to bring that bill up? will they have a house vote on it? i'm sure it will get out of the senate and i think it will get out of the house. there is angst today. let's be clear, the folks at dhs today who are responsible for doing the grants and getting the money to the states they won't be there after friday and they are now thinking about what are they going to do. our department of homeland security alisyn should be focused on exactly that protecting the homeland. not worried about a partisan political fight on capitol hill. they're worried, am i going to be able to put food on the table for my children? it's not right. it's not fair. we've got to stop this. it's similar to the transportation funding bill. in virginia if they don't do this transportation funding for the national highway transportation fund we stop in virginia 350 projects immediately, we lose $1 billion. we can't plan long term to build the infrastructure of our roads. we need to be competitive on a

global basis economically and we are continually having our hands tied behind our back because the dysfunction in the congress today. it needs to end. let's think about america. let's put america first and let's grow and build our economy and keep us safe. >> governor i want to ask you about something that you're doing later this morning. you are going to meet with the secretary of the va robert mcdonald. as you know he's caused a bit of a kerfluffel by speaking about his service. he has now apologized. do you think that's enough? >> i do. i watched the press conference yesterday. i've seen the veterans' groups have come out and said he has done a great job of providing the services. he said he made a mistake. he apologized. i'm going to see him today. i'll be the first governor to see him today because first and foremost virginia we have over 800,000 veterans. we have the fastest growing veteran population in america. we have more women veterans.

more veterans under the age of 25 of any state in america. i want to make sure we're providing access to health care to our veteran. i want to end homelessness to veterans in 2015. i want to meet with the secretary today with my respective team to talk about how do we work together to help our veterans. they have served our nation. let's get them credentialing. let's move them into the work force. let's provide health care. we cannot be having our veterans waiting 60 80 120 days to get health care so we are leading the nation right now in virginia. we just put together our new health care plan with 22 new sights to access health care for our veterans. so if you're over 30 days or further than 40 miles out, you can go to one of our new sights to get health care immediately. we owe it to our veterans and that's why i'm meeting with the secretary today. >> your old friend hillary clinton was working the room in silicon valley. when will she end the parlor

game and announce she's running for president? >> i'm hopeful she's going to run for president. i think she is obviously going through that process to make that decision. when she's ready to go she will announce. i think she's meeting with folks and putting her plan together what she wants to do. so i remind everybody that her husband in 1991 actually got in the campaign in october. so i'm not saying that's when hillary will do it but she's got time. she's putting her plans together and making that decision. i really hope she runs. she will be spectacular for our country. she'll continue to get the economy moving for everybody in the nation and keep our country strong. pivoting back to the dhs, hillary clinton will make sure that this nation is secure and that our economy is humming for every single american. so i'm ready for hillary for president. >> we can hear that. you are a good champion for hillary clinton. governor thanks so much for being on "new day." >> thank you. >> nice to see you. let's get over to michaela. thanks so much alisyn. isis is targeting christians

again this time terrorizing villages in northeast syria kidnapping 150 syrian christians in pre-dawn raids. the terror group is expected to release a message today about those hostages. nic robertson is tracking the latest today. what if anything can be done to help these people? >> reporter: that's what they're worried about right now. there is an asyrian human rights group. they are very worried. they believe this will be a threat against their people. these 150 people it's women, it's children it's the elderly, there are priests involved there, and it's not just there's 150 who are at risk the concern is that right now that the understanding is that isis has taken them deep into their territory, possibly into their headquarters in raqqa. that means getting them out will be harder. that's one place where isis is believed to have held hostages over the long term in the past. you also have in this same area now according to the same group,

thousands of families forced out of their homes. they're also saying that some 600 people at the moment are crowded for shelter and security inside the cathedral in the area where all of this is going on. the real concern is isis is opening up a new front targeting christians again. they were overheard on one of their walky talk yi taukwalkie-talkie radios. >> nic, thank you very much for the reporting. let's go to ukraine now. the cease-fire there still in some type of confused limbo, but the army is getting some much needed help from the west. 75 british soldiers will be sent to ukraine to provide training and nonlethal support. ukraine calls it a step in the right direction. this as the u.s. announces its own plan to deploy up to 10 u.s. troops to ukraine to provide a second round of combat medical training. here's a strange story. a real mystery unfolding in

france. for the second straight night drones have been spotted flying over paris landmarks. five detected in a three-hour span. flying drones at night is illegal in paris and daytime flights require special authorization. a team of investigators is now working this case. got to show you some dramatic video. a driver was thrown from his car. watch your screen after he lost control on a snowy road in cleveland. the video is from a patrol car's dash cam. the driver is ejected from the suv as it veers over four lanes before crashing into the guardrail. you can see him lying there. watch this. he gets up and he stumbles a bit but he essentially walks away. we're told that he was treated for a concussion and back injuries at an area hospital. the driver says he has no memory of what happened after -- for the accident and when he was ejected, but local reports say that he was cited for that initial traffic accident.

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we the jury find the defendant, eddie ray routh guilty of the offense of capital murder as charged in the indictment. that verdict is signed by ms. stafford as foreperson of the jury. you may be seated at this time. >> decisive and quick. just 2 1/2 hours, including dinner for a jury of 10 women and 2 men to return that guilty verdict in eddie ray routh's murder trial. the iraq war vet gunned down american sniper chris kyle and chad littlefield. the defense had argued that routh was legally insane when the murders happened but the jury did not believe that even more likely than not, which is a lower standard. why? we can tell you now through the elements and we have our experts here to help you through.

we have mittwin charles and paul cowan. all right. let's take a look at the elements. most importantly, we don't have to speculate about what the jurors think. here they are and here's what they say. >> when i say there's a pattern that we saw, it was, you know he would be -- he would get intoxicated, get in trouble and then the police would show up and he would say i'm a veteran, i have ptsd i'm insane. >> wow. >> so first of all, do you think that's a fair representation of what was presented to them at trial? >> i think they put it together. i do think that was a fair representation of what they saw at trial, which was they were paying attention, which i think is something that i always tell my clients. like you know when we're going to go to trial, be aware that the jury is going to pay attention of everything that has happened and i think the prosecutors did a very good job of pointing out exactly how eddie ray routh behaved. were there times when he sort of

self-medicated? self- -- you know made sure that he was taking drugs or what have you and then tried to do something and then hide hide this veil of mental illness. >> more likely than not is a low standard. obviously the prosecutors behind a reasonable doubt, that was easy here because he obviously did it. even though supporting the prosecution here for us more likely than not he was put inside four times for profound mental illness. everybody in his life says he was profoundly mentally ill. he was on nine different medications. he's talking about flying pigs and all of these other things. what stopped the jury from seeing it that way? >> you know chris, if the verdict was is he mentally ill or not mentally ill, they would have found him mentally ill, but that's not what the law is. the law is was he legally insane and that juror is focusing on a very important point, which is voluntary intoxication which makes your psychiatric condition worse is no defense in texas. >> i feel like it sounded they were saying he was faking it. listen to the mom.

>> the dallas va you wanted them to admit your son? >> absolutely i did. on thursday they called me at school and said we're releasing eddie, you need to pick them up. >> you begged the u.s. government not to release your son? >> yes, sir. >> why didn't this go to whether or not he's faking or really ill, midwin? >> i just think that the focus that the jury did hear is they were looking at whether or not he knew the difference of right or wrong at the time of the crime so yes u the defense did a remarkable job of pointing out that this is someone with a mental illness. i don't know that anyone could deny that but i think the focus is on the day that it happened at the time that it happened. when you look at his actions after the fact -- >> right. here's a good example of that. >> they did think he knew that. >> here he is in the back. paranoid schizophrenic all day. i don't know if i'm insane or sane i don't even know what's sane in the world right now. >> this is right after the

shooting shooting. this is what he was talking about. >> this played very much into the jury's decision because they thought he was manipulative that he was faking. this doesn't resonate with somebody -- >> that he says what he says when it suits him. >> that's right. i'm paranoid i'm schizophrenic, pay attention to it because it's going to be my defense in this murder case. that's the feeling they had. remember the pig man stuff saying that he had contrived this based on television shows the jury knew about as well. >> do you think that the standard was applied properly here under texas law? i don't think anybody's going to dispute that. these ten women, women an advantage on a jury more open minded feeling emotional. sometimes guys can be too rigid. you guys know that very well. so you had the right jurors. they knew the law. they got it right. do you think it's the right standard? >> i do think it's the right standard. one of the things that i find most interesting about this case and about the trial is the discussion of mental illness. there are thousands of americans that suffer mental illness, but that does not in and of itself

make them criminals. it doesn't make them killers. i think the standard is a strict one. i think it's important and i think it's necessary because you do not want to lump everyone with a mental illness into this category -- >> pts. >> -- of getting away with crimes. >> they say we think he's faking pts. not often faked but very rarely makes someone violent. this man, this is who we're talking about, this is the girlfriend. >> at the time we had decorative ninja swords by our door. when we got to the door he grabbed a sword and said no we're not going anywhere and proceeded to insist that people were out to get us and we needed to stay in the apartment. >> he was having a paranoid delusion that she said at the time was not drug addled mind. why doesn't that resonate in a way that goes to the standard? yes, not all mentally ill people will start acting in violent ways? this guy did. >> that's why i have to disagree with midwin on whether it's an appropriate standard in texas.

the texas standard is does the mentally deranged person understand the difference between right and wrong. a lot of very severely mentally disturbed people within their psychosis understand right and wrong. i don't think it's a good way to evaluate mental illness. i think you should be looking at the nature of the disease. maybe you should rate it on a 1 to 10 scale. if you're at 10 the most disturbed, maybe that's an area where you should get the defense and maybe under 5 you shouldn't. i think we need a more scientific way to quantify this than does he know right and wrong? >> the irony is you lost two great men, fathers, husbands brothers and that will never be replaced. those families are destroyed by their loss. they'll find a way to go forward, we hope but chris kyle was helping eddie ray routh. he recognized him as someone who was suffering with mental defect and now he will be put into a fate where he will never be helped again because he's going to be in prison. as we all know that ain't a

place for rehabilitation it's just to hold him in a box. anyway thank you so much for taking us through these elements because now we can see how the jury got to where they got so quickly. paul callan midwin charles, thank you very much. >> thank you. dozens of people injured in a fiery crash involving a passenger train and a pickup truck. why this disaster could have been deadly and much worse if it had happened just a few years earlier. g me to come fishing. thank mary. speaking of mary, there's something i wanted to talk to you about. well, we've still got 11 hours til we stop. sir, your daughter and i we've been together for... feel that? 236 lb-ft of torque i have to ask you something. i think i know what it is. 44 highway miles per gallon. the volkswagen passat tdi clean diesel with up to 814 hwy miles per tank. hurry in and you can get 0.9% apr for 60 months on the 2015 passat tdi plus a $2,000 bonus.

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works. all right. here we go with the five things you need to know for your "new day." number one, a guilty verdict in the american so-called sniper murder trial. eddie ray routh has been sentenced to life without patrol. it took the jury 2 1/2 hours to reach its decision. isis terrorizing christian villages abducting 150 syrian christians in pre-dawn raids. they are expected to release a message today threatening to kill them. london police say they have reason to believe that three missing british teens are in syria with goals of joining isis. police have been searching for

these girls after they boarded an istanbul bound flight last week. almost as soon as he got it president obama vetoed a bill passed by the republican-led congress that would have allowed construction of the keystone xl pipeline. the gop will try to override that veto next week. well the southern u.s. bracing for more winter misery. georgia and alabama have already declared states of emergency. 30 winter-related deaths have been reported in tennessee alone in just over a week. we do update those five things to know so be sure to visit newdaycnn.com for the latest. after a smooth pregnancy, one mom was shocked to learn that her baby was born with a rare genetic disorder. she reached out for help and could not find any. dr. sanjay gupta has her story in today's "human factor." >> with each note alex mody defies expectations. you see, when he was just 5 months old doctors told his mother something was wrong.

>> he really didn't sleep at all and had very bad colic, cried 24 hours a day. doctors discovered a heart condition and that he had lost weight. >> reporter: further tests revealed a devastating diagnosis. >> we were told he has this thing called williams syndrome. >> reporter: it's a rare genetic disorder that can cause heart problems developmental delays and learning disabilities. >> the information that we were given is that the average i.q. is 40 he won't be able to function independently. >> reporter: she quit her job as a hospital executive and enrolled him in public school and made sure he had much needed speech, physical therapy carrie knew her son needed something more and so did she, a place where families could find support. >> do you think that's friendly? >> i believe so. >> reporter: so with some other moms carrie created that place. it's called whole children. >> we don't focus on disability

we focus on ability. >> reporter: alex will graduate from high school this year and wants to be a deja. >> i want people to think of me as a guy who's faced his fears. >> i see what he brings to the world which is an incredible gift. i'm so proud of him. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. >> mom should be proud. thanks to sanjay for that story. so a fiery collision between a truck and a commuter train in california. big question is would it have been even worse if it happened just a few years ago? what this situation tells us about the past and hopefully the future.

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national transportation council. nice to see you. >> good morning. >> this crash is remarkable on many levels. primarily no one was killed in this crash though the train was going 79 miles per hour. how do you explain it? >> you know i think the good news is we had an alert operator. by all accounts we have heard that the emergency brakes were applied prior to the collision. that probably had the most effect as far as slowing down that train and addressing the impact forces. slowing the train is really important here. >> well we should mention that you were the chair woman in 2008 during the california train crash which is considered the worst train crash in 15 years. 25 people were killed at that time. since that time metro link invested in new technology. what is that and did that make all the difference in the world? >> you know metro link has

actually invested in a lot of different technology since that chatsworth crash. three things in particular. committing to have positive train control. it prevents train-to-train collisions that happened in 2008 2008. the second thing is they've equipped their trains with both inward and outward facing video. this is very helpful in reconstructing a crash. the third thing they've done is invest in crash energy management systems for their trains to protect the crew and the passengers. >> this is the second train to collide with a car that was stuck on the tracks in just three weeks. one on the east coast, one on the west coast. is this just a tragic coincidence or is something going wrong with safety measures that's al. >> al: -- allowing cars to get stuck on the tracks? >> it brings home the point that

we see over 2,000 collisions between trains and either pedestrians or cars a year resulting in 250 fatalities. just in the intervening weeks since we saw the crash in new york to this point we've actually had more than 100 crashes all across the country. these really bring it home that -- particularly when passenger trains are involved results can be pretty catastrophic. i think certainly in new york we saw that with the post-crash fire. we were lucky in this case that there was no post-crash fire that engulfed the train. >> in both situations cars got stuck on the tracks. how does a car get stuck on the tracks? >> well i think these two situations are very different. the situation in new york we had a car that got in between the gates as the train was coming and so that's really an issue of driver alertness and making sure that if you enter into the track area that you have to be able to clear it if that train is

coming if those gates go down. you never want to be in between those gates. in this case here in california it appears that a driver was confused and actually turned onto the tracks instead of on a roadway. whenever a car or a truck gets off the roadway, and particularly if it's on train tracks that's really not what's intended. very dangerous situation. we see that here. >> as we said you credit this new technology a lot of people do with saving lives in this crash. metro link spent something like $263 million to update its technology including these crash resistant cars. should all railroad lines be doing that now given that it can save lives? >> you know i think it's really too early to tell the effect of the crash energy management car designs on the outcome of this crash. one of the things that you want to see in a post-crash environment is that the cars stay in line and they stay

upright and that the passenger compartment is protected, that they're fire resistant and that you have ability to emergency exit so you can egress off that train and that you have emergency access. the good news here is we didn't have a post crash fire but i think the investigators really have to understand the injury mechanisms for all the passengers who were involved in the crash. we have some people who are in critical condition and how the train performed and how that crash energy management system really attenuated the crash forces. so i think it's a little bit early to tell if those designs made a big difference. we've got to let them inspect the cars and document the damage. >> deborah hersman, thanks for all the information. >> sure. alisyn i'm officially determining this the winter that just will not quit. it's causing more than headaches for snow weary citizens. dr. sanjay gupta will talk to us

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it's been a long winter. we've all been stuck inside. some of us are going stir crazy. we've asked dr. sanjay gupta to help us with how to beat the winter blues. the first thing is to admit you have a problem. i think i have one. how do we really know when the winter blues have set in? is there a way? >> reporter: well it can be challenging. to your point, i think, mich sometimes you notice it in others before you notice it in yourself. people who you spend a lot of time with in the mornings perhaps. the idea that all of a sudden you start to feel a certain way and there's not a specific moment where you think the winter blues have set in. it sometimes can be a week or even a couple of weeks before you just say, look i just haven't really been myself lately. you know -- >> is this a clinical discussion sanjay or is this just an emotional how you feel discussion? >> reporter: you know it's a combination of both. i think that's important because sometimes these things are hard to pin down. it doesn't make them any less

significant though. take a look at some of the symptoms of what they call seasonal affective disorder. this is a real disorder. i mean this affects people. there are people watching right now who are affected by this. they say 14% of americans. look at the list of symptoms. sad, anxious, empty feelings. irritability or restlessness. again, why am i feeling this way? sometimes hard to know exactly, but then you can start to piece things together. as you go down the list i think the third one is one of the most important. things that you typically enjoy doing you just don't get the same joy out of those things. now the thing about seasonal affective disorder unlike clinical depression, it is related to the seasons. it is related to the time period of the year. there's all sorts of different reasons why. the good news is for people out there, again, 14% of people is that it will get better but, again, mich sometimes you notice it in other people sometimes it's worth pointing it out. >> i haven't noticed it at all. >> i'll always that way. i don't think it's seasonal. check every one of those boxes. >> it is kind of a morning news

affliction. >> you have the whole full migilla. what's the answer sanjay? how can people combat it? >> help me! >> help us. >> reporter: help me help you. one of the things is to recognize that it's happening. recognize that there are a lot of things about both the season and the fact that a lot of people are stuck indoors that are causing this. so i think recognizing it is good because it gives people a little bit of hope a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel. speaking of light, the more light you can sort of get i think the better. people have done all sorts of different things. i wasn't sure about the technology on the light boxes, for example. >> what do you think of those? >> i think there's some virtue to them. what they do it looks maybe even a little silly to watch it. people who are getting some of that light can help convert vitamin d in their body into sort of feel good byproducts and people feel good when they're outside. the more you can get light on your skin in your system -- >> what kind of light? >> i have an idea, sanjay.

let's take out these lights in our studio and just put these lights in and we'll just be like covered in happy. >> it has to be a special light? >> yeah the uv light. i'm not sure. we should measure the lights in your studio to see how much uv light you're getting. probably not as much as those light boxes give you, although my guess is people feel better with any kind of light whatsoever. but also you know the types of food that you're eating do make a big difference. you know i found this really interesting when we were looking into this. people in iceland who have many many hours, if not 24 hours of darkness have hardly any seasonal affective disorder. >> what are they eating? >> yeah what do they eat? >> they think it's due to the fish. >> i thought the scandinavians had high rates of suicide, seasonal affective disorder? did i hear that? is that wrong? >> >> >> reporter: i'm not sure. >> google it.

>> reporter: you're going to going itleogle it. it's the omega 3 fatty acids. getting three ounces either through fish or through supplements does seem to make a difference. you know it's hard to pinpoint these things down. there's all sorts of different things about the lifestyle but there are certain foods. the fish, the milk, the eggs. i should point out as well that a lot of people have a craving for comfort foods. >> no not at all. ever. >> no. >> macaroni and cheese does it help? >> tater tots. >> the reason is it releases a burst of serotonin in your brain. >> right. >> serotonin makes you feel better. you get the serotonin lift and then you get the crash thereafter. >> all right. >> planning out those carbohydrate meals makes a big difference. >> greenland is the number one suicide rate. i don't see a scandinavian country until 21. >> you've got that wrong. >> either way, we're taking you

out to sushi. >> and kale smoothies. >> our thanks to you for sharing my personal session. we all are getting a case of the winter blues. we want to hear how you're trying to beat the winter blues, the three of us made a video that we posted online telling the doctor our symptoms. tweet us @newday. sanjay always a pleasure. >> sanjay makes me happy. he's like uv light. nice little package. all right. here's something else that makes us happy. the good stuff. a burger king franchise is about the best you're going to hear. listen to this the guy who owns it wins this big prize because of how successful he's been. what does he do with the prize? that's the good stuff. we asked people a question how much money do you have in your pocket right now? i have $40 $53, $21,

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