that is it for us tonight. i'm don lemon and we will see you back here tomorrow night. "ac360" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com it is 11:00 p.m. here in charleston south carolina and it is a busy and emotionally searing day. the police officer who shot walter scott has been fired. and the man who videotaped the incident has come forward. i interviewed the mother of walter scott tonight, judy scott, and she has found the strength and the grace -- the grace to say she forgives the man who killed her son. and a lot to the think about. jason carroll brings us up to date.

>> reporter: the police chief was interrupted by angry and vocal protesters demanding answers after seeing the video that shows officer michael slager repeatedly shooting walt walter scott in the back. the man who shot the cell phone video wednesday feidin santana and he says he was on the way to work when he saw the struggle between slager and scott. >> and i saw them down on the floor before i started to recording. they were down on the floor, and the police had control of the situation. he had control of scott. and scott was trying to just get away from the taser, which the taser, you know, you can hear the sound of the taser. >> reporter: the video appears to show that they started to wrestle over the object possibly the taser, and it is an object that falls on the ground

as scott turns to the run, and then slager fires eight shots, and four strikes him in the back. at no point is slager yelling a warning, he just fires. and then he calls for back up. >> shots fired. suspect down. he grabbed my taser. >> reporter: then he is seen walking over to sleighcott on the ground and then drops an object near his body. the family believes he is focusing to plant evidence, and their focus now is justice and to remember him. >> he was a kind father and a very good friend and a very good brother, and he was also a very good son. >> reporter: the mayor

expressing gratitude to santana for coming forward to help set the record straight. >> the video is demonstrative of exactly what happened. without the video and that was the only witness there was actually was the gentleman making the video, and it would be difficult to ascertain exactly what did occur. we want to thank the young person who came forward with the individual video. >> it took a lot of courage, fran frankly to, shoot that video and to stay on scene and move closer and continue to shoot that video by the young man. you will hear more from him in an sberinterview that he did with lester holt. and joining me now is jason carroll, and do we know how the video ended up in the hands of the family? i have not heard the details.

>> it is actually incredible story, because the family went back to pay a special tribute to scott. and this young man walked up and said there is something that i must show you, and you have heard scott's mother talk about faith, and the family believes it is fate and faith that brought them altogether. >> and it is incredible to one thing suddenly witness a scene like that and then to continue do it after you have seen an officer gunning somebody down and shooting them in the back and possibly planting evidence and to continue to videotape that. >> and when we were out there to look at the scene where it happened, and he was pretty close, and 20 yards away, maybe, and very, very close, aed on the have the courage to keep rolling, i mean when all of that was happening. it is incredible. >> thank you, jason. earlier today, walter scott's mom, judy, we had a remarkable kon conversation, and i stress that she is a remarkable conversation and she considered

that person to be heaven-sent. and we had a conversation with walter scott's brother, and also the family attorney chris stewart. >> you and your wife were the first people to see the video, and when you first saw it, what did you think? >> i was thinking that it can't be true. this can't be the way that it really happened but from knowing my brother's character, i know that he wouldn't have fought for a taser and use a taser on an officer, and i was sure that there had to be a different story to it. >> and so you went down when you knew what happened to the brother, you went down to the scene? >> i did. >> what did the police tell you what happened? >> the only thing that i was told was that he was shot once. that is all i was told. >> by the police you were told? >> by the police, by the

officer. >> and when you heard them, this report that there had been a struggle over the taser, and the officer feared for his life, did you believe that? >> i didn't believe it from the start. i didn't believe it when the officer told me that there was a struggle for the taser. i believed that he may have gotten tased, but i didn't believe that he fought for the taser, and tried to use the taser on the off z i never did believe that. >> i am curious when you saw in the video the officer bend down and pick something up, and after shooting your bro ether, you saw the officer walk back and bend down and pick something up and walk back to the body and place something on the ground -- >> yes. >> what did you immediately think? >> that is the taser gun. that is the taser gun there. is no struggle. as he allegedly said. right then. and it just proved what i already knew. what i already felt. >> what did you say to the person who brought you the video? >> i said thank you. >> did the person wait to show you the tape in order to see

what the police were going to say first? >> yes, sir. >> the person who took the video, they wanted to see what the police were going to say about the shooting. >> what they were going to report. >> if it was the real deal. >> if it was the real deal if they were going to come clean. >> because i keep thinking about the -- i mean, one of the many things is the courage of that person taking that video. >> yes. oh yes. tremendous tremendous. >> and people say i would have done the same thing, but you see an officer shoot somebody in the back multiple time ss, and you not only take the video who captured it and then approach the officers and continue to tape, that is courage. >> that is courage. >> and that is courage. >> courage. >> do you believe that justice will be done here? i mean there is tape that the authorities have come out quickly and named the officer, and charged the officer.

>> well, it is a long road. as we all sat around in the den watching the press conference when they were going to charge him with murder and everybody started crying and hugging, i got quiet, because i know that it is step one. that is not mean ing thating that he is going to jail for life or found guilty, that is just step one. >> what do you want people to know about your brother? >> my brother was the loving father of four. everybody loved him in the community, everybody loved him in the community. if you were just look at all of the people that is coming out to show the love for him, from all of the different ages the most favorite uncle, the most favorite brother, and he is my best friend and my younger brother best friend and i mean he is just incredible. incredible. and we are going to miss him. >> thank you very much for speaking to me and i am so sor

sorry for your loss. >> thank you. and you are going to be hearing more from their mom in the broadcast, because she is inspiring and not only the strength to speak, but to forgive the man who killed her son so soon after the killing. and the body cameras are going to be coming here and 250 we are told and we will find out what kind of impact they are going to have and what police encounter proper or lawful or not can be. detal details ahead. anoro ellipta. it helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. anoro ellipta is the first fda-approved product containing two long-acting bronchodilators in one inhaler. anoro is not for asthma. anoro contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma.

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welcome back. we are live in charleston, north carolina and as we mentioned police body cams are coming to the city and technology to make the force more accountable when it comes to the next deadly force incident. there is technology out there as well to train officers to make the right decisions, split second decisions, and life or death e decisions especially with less than a second to make a life or death choice. more with kyung lah. >> you need to calm down. >> reporter: a man being questioned suddenly turns and slamming a police officer with a snow shovel. suspect is shot and killed by police. >> i am going to have you put your hand back on your head. >> reporter: this suspect at

first calm with the police officers, he rushes for the knife in his car, and tries to stab the officers who shoot and kill him. >> i didn't even see the snif knife. >> reporter: and then this encounter. an officer responding to the domestic violence call and a seemingly routine chat with this man, and tries to pat him down with the weapon, and you can see the gun. five shots strike 24-year-old tyler stewart of the flagstaff, arizona, police department killing him. officer stewart never had a chance to draw his weapon, and moments later, the suspect used that e weapon the kill himself. body cameras, part of a growing arsenal of technology and policing, giving us an intimate view of a cop's life. from the challenges to the life and death choices. this officer defvastated in front of the dash cam as he discovers that the suspect that he thought was armed was not.

the suspect died after the officer shot him, and the police shooting determined to be justified. as hard as this is to watch, technology is revolutionizing modern policing. >> in the past those officers never had that ability to see that, and now we are learning from the mistakes and really we are just finding out that the officers have done the right thing. >> reporter: not just after the shooting but before. >> multiple more shots fire and a subject down at the arcade. >> reporter: this is henderson, nevada police officer seth coleman and an 11-year veteran, he has never had to shoot a suspect, but he must train when to do it and not do it. this sis a 360-degree simulation created by virtu, and the gunman is nin the movie theater. >> which direction? >> reporter: the gunman hits officer coleman twice, and he makes a terrible mistake,

shooting the off-duty cop. >> you can see that he has the badge in his hands. >> it looks like you are sweating a little bit. >> yes it is an adrenaline dump and rush and makes you cold and clammy and my mouth dry and this is where i want to learn from the failures rather than there, and failing, because this is the edge to fail here and not fail on the streets. >> reporter: how realistic is this to the officers? >> very realistic, because he is working through many problems. >> reporter: and the police officer says that the goal through the 360-degree system is to make it as real as possible. the trainee wears an electric impulse box and the gun is unloaded but real weapon and the screens behind the officer imitate what is it really like on the streets. >> i can escalate the dialogue branches and de-escalate it. >> i am listening, and providing responses. >> reporter: even for a veteran,

it is humbling. >> i will learn from that. >> reporter: and tomorrow thanks to today's technology he is a better and safer officer. kyung lah, cnn, las vegas. >> i want to talk about training good police officers as well as the murderous north charleston police officer, former new york police detective charlie houk and prosecutor and attorney mark o'mara and legal correspondent and prosecutor sunny hostin. >> i am 100% for these officers

to wear the body cams, because it are will show if some officers can act properly on the streets, and some officers who don't. and another thing that you are showing the danger that police officers are putting themselves in everyday, and the police officers were confronting somebody, and shot and this is what the police officer worries about every time he confronts somebody who does not want to listen to commands. >> mark if you were defending the officer involved in the killing of mr. scott or any off officer accused of wrongdoinging, sis there any downside of contradictioning of what he says and other officers say? >> well we know that there are lesser complaints about cops and also increases number of defendants who plea, so what you are doing is taking out a certain percentage of the people from the system, and giving the

system more resources to deal with the ones who have to. and body cameras should be here and we shouldn't wait for another tragedy before they show up in ferguson or north charleston or anywhere else. we have the technology, and i know it is expensive, but it is much cheaper than lives. >> sunny, i keep coming back to the fact that if it weren't for this videotape of this young man that he took of the shooting of walter scott, we wouldn't be here and there wouldn't have been that press konconference today, and nobody would have really known what happened, because the only account would have been that account by the police officer. and that tape made all of the difference, and i talked to the family today and some of them said look how many other instance instances out there would there have bneen if there were a tape? >> well, that is the concern, right. because no question anderson, that we wouldn't be discussing this case but for the video. we know that initially, when this happened on april 4th, the officer certainly se said that he shot in self-defense and

feared for his life and retained a attorney who repeated the same their narrative and the police chief and others believed that narrative and not until the videotape came out that he was charge and that his own attorney that he had retained recused himself, and withdrew, so there is no question that body cameras need to be on every single off officer in the country and not just for the potential victims, but certainly for the officers as well. i mean, there is no question as mark said when you look at the stats, it saves lives, and it saves money for trials and it is just no downside to that kind of situation. one thing i worry about is that there are officers who turn off the body cameras, and there are cases about that, and i wonder if there is not technology to prevent that from happening. >> mark the flipside of that is

why should it take the existence, and mark, why should it take the existence of a video taken by somebody else and shouldn't there have been an independent investigation of the officer-involved shooting when somebody lost their lives in that? >> yes, anderson, and we have talked about that before, and the prosecutors who should take all officer-involved shootings, and there was an investigation that was preempted there, and i have a feeling that the officer on the ground when the officer dropped that what we believe to be the taser, may well have said to him something like, i'm not covering you on this" which is why he picked it back up, and so maybe more coming out in the investigation that he may not have been able to get away with this crime once it was truly investigated and don't forget that there were four shots in mr. scott's back, and that is going to be hard to describe and get away with without a video. >> yeah we have to take a break, and harry harry houck and mark

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earlier today, i talked to walter scott's mother, judy, and i have to say that i was amazed by her strength and strength of the faith in the midst of the grief and her generosity of the spirit. they invited me into the home and i spent time there and she holds no hate for the killer, and she holds forgiveness in her heart. this is some of what she told me. >> reporter: so how are you holding up? >> the lord is my strength. he is helping me out. >> reporter: that is helping you out. >> knowing god as my personal savior. >> reporter: when did you get the news about your son? >> it was saturday. >> reporter: what did you hear? what did they tell you? >> they really my elder son is

the one who told me. i heard nothing from the police or anyone. >> and when you were told that the police were saying that there had been a scuffle, that your son had fought for the taser, did that sound believable to you? >> i knew that was not true, because he know how, especially the north charleston policemen conduct themselves. he would never jeopardize his life. life. >> he would not have done that? >> no he would not have done it it. >> so when did you learn that there was a videotape? >> it was the next day. >> so when you finally saw it i can't imagine what went through your mind. >> i could not really watch the whole tape. when i saw my son running, and i saw the policeman behind him, i

couldn't take it. i had to turn away. i couldn't handle it. >> knowing what you know now, and not only what happened to your son, the way it happened and that it was all captured on tape and even what seems to be pictures of the policeman picking up something, and maybe the taser and placing it near your son's body what do you think about what happened? >> that was not right. the policeman is supposed to protect the people not try to frame them or get out of what they have done wrong. they are supposed to be honest people. protecting us. >> what do you want people to know about your son? >> i want them to know that he

was a loving son, a loving father. he cared about his family. and i will no matter what happens, it will will not replace my son. >> do you believe that justice will be done? >> i believe god. with the policeman being arrested, he has to be convicted. i believe that since god moved so fast that the god i serve is able. i i know that god will make a way. god will fix it. >> what do you think of the person who came forward with this video? >> i believe god planted him there. shehe is the ram in the bush. i truly believe that. >> because some people would have been scare and run away. and he not only stayed but he approached the police officers

to get closer video. >> yes. >> have you been able to talk to him? have you thanked him? >> no. >> what would you say to him? >> i would want to thank him for what he did. >> and do you believe something like this has happened before here, but nobody knows about it because there is not a videotape? >> yes. i do believe that. >> is that something that you have always felt? >> well there are, i hate to say it but there are some dirty cops. >> i know that the chief of police, as i understand it came by and the member of the clergy and the mayor as well and what do you feel about their visit? >> i thanked them for coming. i mean i'm supposed to be really angry and upset and raging and all that, but i

can't, because of the love of god in me. i can't be like that. the bible -- >> you don't feel like that in your heart? >> no, i feel forgiveness in my heart and even for the guy that shot and kill ded my son. >> you feel forgiveness? >> yes, for him. yes, i do. >> thank you for talking with us and again, it sounds so hollow but i am so sorry for your loss. >> thank you. and imagine that so soon after her son was killed she has forgiveness in her heart and trusts in god to in her words fix it. and join ging us is the pastor dixon who is the chairman of take back the community and pastor, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having us. >> and what happens next in this commune community, and how concerned are you about what happens next? >> extremely concerned. we have to look at what has

happened, and how we got to walter scott of being a systemic problem, and this is not occurring overnight. >> and this is not one bad off officer that just happened, but this is a systemic problem? >> yes, and most of the minority community know it is a systemic prob problem, and that is why there is a disconnect, because it does exist exist, the racial profiling, and the officer-involved incidents like that, and me as a local leader and pastor and i experience the same troubles and i look over my shoulder the same way as poohkey and-ray-ray on the block. >> you do the same? >> yes, i make sure that i don't make any sudden motion, and when i go into the glove box to go for my license and registration i make sure it is clear. >> and i have heard that and so many different ways of viewing

things in white america and african-americans and i see it on twitter all day long that people are saying look it is outrageous of what happened in the individualvideo, but this is a rare occurrence, and it is something that just happened to be captured on the videotape, but i talked to the african-americans in this community who said that it happened to be caught on tape, but it happened plenty of times before. the state nupewspaper says more than 200 shootings of weapon, and no indictments of any officer convicted of anything. >> and you put your finger on the pulse of the problem. >> yes, and there are too many who set the policy and procedure and instead of inviting the people in and respecting what how they feel they say, well, we have made the policy and the procedure, and you should not feel that way, and you should not feel that this is a racist action or you should be discriminated upon and that the police is riding down on you

shgs and the reality is that if it were respected by the policy makers then they would understand okay this these people have a problem, and there is a problem existing. >> when i talk toded to the family, they said that we can't say that race is not involved in this, and we don't have that information, but when you see this, do you say that as well, or do you say, that given the history, it is involve dd in most things how do you say that? >> i see it exactly as that. it is racial. it is racial, because these situations we don't see these situations popping up as regularly, and they do happen with other nationalities and the predominant victims in the officer-involving shootings are african-american males, young or old, and so to think that it is not racial, and why are the numbers like that, and it is going to the same pictures of the incarceration, and why are the numbers like that, and third in the population standings, and number one in the the prison incarceration unless it is racial. >> when you hear from the family and the mother of walter scott saying that she has

forgiveness in her heart, and you rare a person of faith, but that is extraordinary statement to me. >> that is the reality of it, and that is the only way to move forward and other than that she would stay in a time warp on saturday morning 2015 april 4th, and she and e her family. >> thank you so much, pastor. and now, after weeks of wrenching testimony, the jurors convict a boston bomber and nouw we will find out what some of the victims of the boston bomber say. here in san diego, we're building the first one ever to run on natural gas. ships this big running this clean will be much better for the environment. we're proud to be a part of that.

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more from north charleston on the deadly police shooting but first, other big story. jurors in the boston marathon bombing trial found defendant guilty of all 30 counts and could face death penalty. that's the next phase in this trial. tonight, some of the survivors are speaking out about the verdict. >> i don't know what justice is. i'm grateful to have him off the street. i'm grateful to show everyone, the world, that it's not tolerated. it's not something that you'll ever be over. you know, you'll feel it forever. >> i don't believe that there will ever be justice brought to this no matter if he does get the death penalty or if he remains in prison for the rest of his life. i do believe, however, he should be held accountable for his actions and i'm very thankful for each of the jury members

that are making him do that. and i may be standing on one fake leg, but i'm standing here stronger than ever because someone tried to destroy me and he failed. and they both failed. >> she is stronger than ever. alexandra field at the federal courthouse in boston with more on the verdict today. alexandra? >> reporter: good evening, anderson. all eyes were on the defendant as he strode into the courtroom listening to his fate. 30 counts read out. heard the word guilty 30 times. you have to say he looked disaffected, disconnect and no science of contrition and no signs of surprise. certainly this was the verdict that his attorneys had prepared him for. he had defense attorneys who stood up at the beginning of this trial and said, it was him. acknowledging his role in all of this. the bomber did at one point turn against something and give a glancing look at the jurors and then down for most of the rest of the proceedings, looking at

his hand, glancing at his attorney. 11 of the 12 jurors did not seem to lock eyes on him. looked straight ahead and looked at the judge. they looked at the clerk. one juror did seemingly try to connect, to look at him in some way but if he did see the defendant, the bomber in this case, he wouldn't have seen any outward show of emotion, anderson. >> and survivors' family members inside the courtroom. was there an audible reaction, a visible reaction from them? >> reporter: it's actually a pretty amazing experience to sit inside that courtroom because of the silence. you could really feel the gravity of the situation. for weeks, we heard this very wrenching testimony. there have been very outward shows of emotion from the people who took the stand to the people who sat and watched. you have family members today of the case, the parents of martin richard who bled to death, on boylston street and the family members of sean collier, the officer who was shot to

death in his squad car, and they were there to listen, been waiting for two years. really no audible reaction. just very serious faces. people listening intently to every word said. you cannot go so far to say they felt any measure of relief. you heard some of the survivors earlier saying, anderson, they don't feel a sense of closure or necessarily justice but certainly something they have been waiting for or something they have been wanting for. got it in the courtroom. it's a small bit of peace of the recovery each of them tried to set about. >> thank you very much for the reporting, alexandra. up next, what jurors whether they'll impose the death penalty in the phase. uilt into bounty. dawn. new bounty with dawn. what a novel idea! just rinse and wring so you can blast right through tough messes and pick up more. huh aren't we clever.... thanks m'aam. look how much easier new bounty with dawn cleans this gooey mess versus soap and a sponge. thank you! new bounty with dawn.

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i want to tell you more about the boston bombing trial. the penalty phase is next. the same 12 jurors decide whether the bomber will live or die for taking four lives and we think it's important that you remember the names of the four who lost their lives, not the name of the bomber or see his picture. we want you see their pictures. krystle campbell and martin richard and lingzi liu and sean collier. i don't want to say the bomber's name, he doesn't deserve it.

these do. the jurors decide on their behalf and an inkling of how they might decide. once again, here's jason carroll. >> reporter: the life or death phase of dzhokhar tsarnaev rests solely with 12 jurors. what do they think about the death penalty? take the juror identified as 138, a white man who works for the water department said during questioning, death can sometimes seem like an easy way out. it can go both ways, i guess. and then there's juror 395, an executive assistant for a law firm who says i always thought i was against it, but once you think about it, things change. meg pennrose is a constitutional professor who tried death penl cases, and she has also run this the boston marathon, and she says that some crimes are so heinous, that it can change a juror's view on the death penalty. >> some of these jurors seem to have a slightly different or more open view towards saying they might not be in favor of

the death penalty under ordinary circumstances but open in this case to consider death as adequate penalty. >> reporter: it might be difficult for juror number 229, a homemaker. when asked about death penalty said he would ask me this question 20 years ago, i would have said definitely not. but then told the court having children has changed her views. juror number 83, an unemployed man in his 30s more firm saying, i think the death penalty is valid in terms of being a good punishment. of course though, these opinions were given by the jury before the prosecution and defense laid out their cases during the trial. before they heard all the evidence and listened to the emotional testimony from victims before seeing the graphic pictures while the devastation displayed in court. >> while you instruct them that they are to make their decisions based on what is in front of them and what they know from the evidence and take their views with them and regardless of

what causes those views. >> reporter: and regardless the verdict must be unanimous, and they will vhave their conscious as their guide. jason, carroll, c nshgsnn, new york. well, more now on what it is like to make a death penlalty case or to take it to the jurors, we are joined by larry mackey a federal prosecutor who handled the cases of terry nickels, and timothy mcveigh. she just has to persuade one person to save him from the death penalty and you believe it is juror 238? >> well, that is true. she will save her defendant's life if one juror stands his or her ground. she has gone to school on the information provided in the questionnaires as well as in the

questioning session in the time that they selected the jury looking for those factors in the backgrounds that might lead a juror to oppose the death penalty, even in a case with facts like this. >> and in terms of clark's strategy for the panelenalty phase, i know that you say that it could very well speak to the juror, but that particular juror that she believes is waivering and maybe sympathetic to saving the bomber's life. >> yeah indeed. i mean she knows that having known since they have come back ff a day and a half after a month and a half-long evidence that unified that this man is responsible in some way some measure for the death of those four individuals, and now she has to engage a different dialogue of what is a just and appropriate penalty. each juror has taken the oath they will consider the aggravating factors, and consider the mitigating factors and balance them carefully and make that individual judgment as

to whether death is the appropriate punishment in this case. >> the defense tried and they failed to have the trial moved to another venue saying that the jury pool would be tainted in the boston area, but might it be to the advantage of the defense that they lost that fight? >> well indeed. of all of the states in the united states, and we remember the coverage when the incident happened that massachusetts does not have a death penalty. she is in a courtroom where there's a community, and this juror speaks for the community that opposes the death penalty, so she has one leg up by being in a state that has demonstrated historically that it is a view against the death penalty. but as the earlier peace indicated, that there is nothing like facing the facts of young dead children or the injury to so many. >> and you have a jury to vote for the death penalty obviously for the oklahoma city bomber and you were confident

throughout the process, and do you have any prediction for this penl penalty phase? >> well, i believe that the government did the right thing in the guilt phase in that they took head on the motive why did this man join his brother to bomb this event and cause the deaths and the injury s thaties that he did. and so they will have less time devoted to debating whether there is any justification, and of course, there is not. one of the problems that the defense has in this case is that this particular defendant really stood behind his lawyer in the guilt phase who she could stand up and say it was a senseless act or that we make no excuses, and the jury wants to hear that from him, and before they give him credit for kon cite or sympathetic or empathetic or a beating heart at all, they want to hear it from him. so the most interesting moment for me is if and when this defendant gets on the stand for the penalty phase, and he could be the only voice that could save his voice.

>> thank you, larry mackey for the expertise. we are getting word of dangerous weather spotters reporting a tornado northwest of wichita, kansas. and chad meyeryers is tracking it, and what are you seeing? >> the most dangerous part of it is that it is nighttime and you can't see them or hear them and you may be wanting to go the sleep soon, but you want to make sure that the noaa radio is on. and there may be storms popping up all night long, and the nighttime tornadoes are the most dangerous there. sis the one for wichita, and it did miss the town of wichita and this is andale and way northwest of the city, but it is rotating and still may be on the ground and now that it is nighttime, you don't get the spotter network that you would like. that is the storm mo ing tooing to the northeast and another one popped up not that far from north andover and this storm here to the west is small now, but it had three separate tornadoes on the ground earlier today, and so still a dangerous night, and we will keep a watch on it for you, anderson. >> all right. chad thank you very much.

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reporting tonight from north charleston south carolina concerning the deadly police shooting that was caught on camera. in my interview with the mother of the victim says she forgives the man who shot her son. she says that faith comes from her faith, and that is something that i saw when i was honored to be invited to their home. take a listen. ♪ i will trust in the lord ♪ ♪ until i die ♪ ♪ i'm going to trust in the lord ♪ ♪ hallelujah ♪ ♪ i'm going to trust in the lord ♪ ♪ until i die ♪ >> let's keep it humming. ♪

amazing grace in that household this afternoon. such amazing strength fueled by their faith. that does it for us from south carolina. our live coverage continues now with cnn international. a police officer in the u.s. has been fired and faces murder charges for shooting a man repeatedly in the back. the victim's mother tells cnn she forgives the man who killed her son. the boston marathon bomber could face the death penalty after being found guilty on all counts. a survivor from that fateful day gives us his reaction. the woman in gold. a portrait of injustice. nazi looting and the story mind the movie. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. we'll be with