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 you for the next four hours. this is cnn newsroom.

we begin this hour in south carolina. tensions there rising over saturday's shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer. protesters shouted demands for justice wednesday, as north charleston officials announced that officer michael slager had been fired. >> slager was charged with murder on tuesday, a charge made after video surfaced showing him shoot 50-year-old walter scott in the back as he tried to run away. and the man who recorded those fatal shots has told nbc news what else he saw. >> was there a struggle? >> there was. they were down on the floor, they were down on the floor before the -- before the -- i started recording. they were down on the floor. i remember 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. >> he had been tased at that point? >> yeah, i heard the sound before i started recording. >> and north charleston's mayor says all city police officers will soon be wearing body cameras. >> for more on the investigation and the growing anger that surrounds it, martin savidge reports here, and we have to give you a warning, it includes parts that are graphic. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: one day after releasing this shocking video, north charleston is now feeling the fallout. >> this has been a reality that has been in north charleston police department for many, many years. it just so happens we have a video. >> reporter: demonstrators gathered demanding the mayor resign and more officers be arrested, as the investigation into the shooting death of

walter scott intensifies. >> everybody will know the truth. >> reporter: scott's family said they first saw the video sunday, horrified by what it showed but grateful to the truth they say it reveals, especially in light of the deaths of other african-americans at the hands of the police. >> i would like for cops to be accountable and let them know that they try this again, somebody may be watching, so they need to think twice before they fire their weapons. >> reporter: the family continues to ask the public for calm and in a gesture of sympathy and solidarity, north charleston's mayor and police chief paid a visit to the home of scott's parents to offer condolences and city support. >> black lives matter. black lives matter. >> reporter: but elsewhere, demonstrators took to the streets, complaining it was only after the video surfaced showing what appears to be gross police misconduct did the city and the department acknowledge it was the officer who was at fault,

after initially blaming the victim, saying he threatened the office we are a taser. at a news conference, the mayor and police chief announced the accused officer, 33-year-old michael slager, had been terminated, but medical benefits for his 8 month pregnant wife would continue. >> we think that's the humane thing to do. >> reporter: the mayor asked the community to pray for the grieving scott family. >> i have watched the video. and i was sickened by what i saw. and i have not watched it since. >> reporter: but both men were often interrupted by demonstrators and members of the public who shouted them down. >> no justice, no peace! >> reporter: wanting to know why medical aid was not given, why scott was handcuffed after he

was shot, and most of all, whether the predominantly white police force was now ready to change. martin savidge, cnn, north charleston, south carolina. of course, the victim's family is grieving their loss, but what's interesting is public anger runs high. you're seeing them be very restrained and telling people not to act out in any way. >> exactly right. walter scott's mother, judy, spoke with our anderson cooper about her pain and her faith that there will be justice. >> do you believe that justice will be done? >> i believe with the policeman being arrested, he's got to be convicted. and i believe since god moved so fast, the god i serve is able. god will fix it. >> what do you think of the

person who came forward with this video? >> he was there. god planned that. h's the ram in the bush. i truly believe that. >> because some people would have been scared and run away. he not only stayed, he approached the police officers to get closer video. have you been able to talk to him? >> no. >> what would you want to say to him? >> i would want to thank him for what he did. >> do you believe something like this has happened before here but nobody knows about it because there's not a videotape? >> yes, i do believe that. >> is that something you've always felt? >> well, there are, i hate to say it, but there are some dirty cops. >> i know the chief of police i understand came by with a member of the clergy, i believe maybe the mayor came by, as well. >> yes. >> what did 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 ke keep -- because of the love of god in me, i can't be like that. >> you don't feel that in your heart? >> no, i don't. i feel forgiveness in my heart, even for the guy that shot and killed my son. >> we're going to talk about this more in depth with our cnn legal analyst sunny hostin joining us from new york. considering the trauma they are going through, they are very composed. but legally --

[ audio difficulties ] >> well, certainly this is the beginning for this defendant, for this family. we do know that the city has acted very swiftly. this shooting happened on april 4th. and by april 7th, he has been fired from the police department. he is being held without bond in the prison. and he also has been charged with murder, which means he's eligible for the death penalty or 30 years to life in prison. >> it's also what is so striking, the second police officer who arrived at the scene seems to be nonchalant about a dead body being on the ground. there is the possibility evidence was planted, the account was fabricated. will that bring any extra

punishment stemming from the murder charge? >> i certainly think that is possible. if the fbi and the justice department do conduct a parallel investigation, there may be civil rights violations that are going to be looked at, as well as the police department. in terms of the other officers, i think that is a good point. under police protocol, really in police departments across the country, if a defendant or potential defendant is shot, you're supposed to render aid. and in the police reports following the shooting, before the video was released, several officers indicated that they did render cpr, that they did render aid. when you look at the video, you don't see that aid being rendered. will that open up those officers to charges for lying on a police report and also to perhaps contributing to the death of this man, mr. scott.

so i think this investigation may uncover a lot of problems, not only with this one officer, ex-officer, but also with the department. >> without a doubt this makes the case for body cameras on officers. but we already see issues with cops turning them off. is that the only way to prevent this? >> there is no magic answer to what we're seeing with this -- with police departments across the country. but if you look at recommendations made to combat what we are seeing, top line recommendations generally do include body cameras. body cameras on police officers not only protecting potential victims, they also protect police officers. >> but they can turn them off. should they be able to? >> they should not be able to. my understanding is they are working on technology so that can't happen. that's going to be very important. a lot of it has to do with police training. police need to understand when

they need to use deadly force, lethal force. and when they don't need to. when you look at this videotape, there's no question that deadly force was unnecessary. >> we'll be watching this very closely. our season legal analyst sunny hostin will, as well. as we mentioned, slager, the officer, initially said the suspect tried to grab his taser. coming up in the next half hour, randi kaye will analyze the video evidence of the shooting with an expert. they look at it frame by frame to try and piece together what may have happened. do stay tuned for that. >> we will go to that. but for now, we want to turn to another big story we're following. in the u.s. state of massachusetts, dzhokhar tsarnaev has been found guilty in the boston marathon bombing trial. >> the penalty phase is set to follow, with jurors decide wlg

he will face life in prison or the death penalty. he was convicted of killing four people. >> cnn's alexandra field is covering the verdict for us from boston. >> reporter: this is the moment that so many people waited so long for. nearly two years they waited to hear the verdict and now 30 counts, dzhokhar tsarnaev found guilty in each and every one of them. he strolled into the courtroom, he listened as each count was read out loud. he made just a glancing look at the jury, but for the most part, he looked at his hands, he looked down, he looked at his attorney, who was sometimes by his side. really no outward show of emotion, which has been typical for him throughout this trial. 12 jurors deliberated for just under 12 hours before arriving at the verdict. 11 jurors can't seem to look over at the defendant. one juror was trying to get a closer look at dzhokhar tsarnaev, but that juror

wouldn't have seen any outward display, any sign from the defendant himself. family members of the victims killed in this case, survivors of the bombing were in the courtroom. the gravity of the situation, you could feel it inside that courtroom. people sat still. a few of them dabbing tears away from their eyes. but really no large expressions of emotion. people just sort of listening in, wanting to hear every word, wanting to hear that word "guilty," said over and over again. we heard from survivors who came out after the verdict was read. some of them said they didn't have a sense of closure, but certainly this is a piece of the puzzle for a lot of them. there is some sense of justice. this trial is not over yet. the penalty phase could start as early as next week. that's when the jury will consider whether or not to spare dzhokhar tsarnaev his life. cnn national security analyst julia kayem, thanks for

joining us. boston bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev was found guilty on all 30 counts and may face the death penalty. given the evidence and now the verdicts, of course, how likely is it that the 12 jurors will decide he should die for his crime? >> well, it's likely only in the sense that here in boston where there's not tremendous support for the death penalty, this jury is on the jury because they believe or could impose the death penalty. so in some ways they're kind of a minority in the state. but it is hard to tell at this stage. the defense has clearly a they areally about dzhokhar tsarnaev that he was this innocent, scared, manipulated younger brother. but for his older brother, he would have been just a normal kid. and that resonated throughout the guilty phase of the trial and clearly what the defense is going to go after now in this next stage.

>> so what more would the defense need to do to try to push? because this is life or death, this decision right here. as it goes into the penalty phase, so what would the defense need to do at this point to move it toward life? >> to be very blunt about it, they need one juror. in this country, you need a unanimous 12 jury agreement for the death penalty. so what the defense attorney needs to clearly do is focus on which jurors might be sympathetic to dzhokhar, at least in the context of some narrative about which his parents abandoned him, his brother is sociopathic, he's afraid of his brother, he's on lots of drugs, and just try to convince one juror. if you get one holdout, he will not get the death penalty. >> yeah, and he was emotionless throughout the proceedings, lacking any remorse for what he

did. now that this moves to the penalty phase, life or death for the boston bomber, how much will his lack of remorse play into this? and what all has been learned throughout this ordeal in terms of homeland security, do you think? >> i think a couple things. one is, he clearly was just directed by his defense attorneys to show no emotion either way. because no matter what he did, it would be viewed as sneering or not being sympathetic enough. i think the other thing that's clear is that dzhokhar will not testify in the sentencing phase of this, that we will not hear his voice. he's a variable that's too hard for the defense attorneys to control. they can control his friends, his family, you know, a psychiatrist or doctors who might testify about him. he will not remain -- he will not go on the stand, i can bet. but finally, it's a big deal here in the united states. not simply because this is closure for, you know, this terror event that happened.

but also it was a real statement about our criminal justice system. like in many european countries and elsewhere, there's a debate about whether terrorists should be put in the normal justice system or should there be separate judicial systems for them. this justice department decided we're going to put them like any other criminal, put them through the same rules of evidence, same rights to the defendant. i think it was a real statement that this trial went -- was sort of typical in many ways. i think it's a statement about what at least america's court system can handle in terms of potential and future terrorists. >> julia kayyem, thank you so much for joining us. robert wheeler is essentially a boston bombing survivor. he finished the race minutes before the first explosion. here is what he said to me earlier. >> over the past two years now, i've really thought a lot about what is more of a punishment, to

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welcome back, everyone. we want to take a look at this picture. it's not onions. you're looking at tennis ball-size hail. there's also a twister around. severe weather in the mid western united states. >> the storms that brought those into the mix are still churning. that would really damage your

car if it lands on the hood. we talked about that yesterday. who is going to get hit? >> about 100 million people over the next 24 hours will be in line for severe weather. so this is a pretty expansive area. a small tornado could be perhaps more life threatening than the larger tornado. by day, you see it and hear it. by night, you're sleeping, so a smaller storm could be more dangerous. radar imagery at this hour, about 250,000 people under a tornado watch in oklahoma and kansas. this is an area we've had multiple reports of tornados so far on wednesday going into thursday. the watch going to expire here in the next few minutes. st. louis, dozens of reports of large hailstones as well. rosemary told you some of them quite large in size. we had tennis ball, baseball size, and one particular storm you see the variety of sizes

that come down based on the instability in that region. one tornado very close to oklahoma city. another one 15 miles outside of wichita, kansas. so quite close to some major cities. quite remarkable when you think about we had about 50 million people in the path of severe storms. a lot of this as the storms begin winding down not going to hit major cities. we have a map in the atmosphere. think of it as a boiling pot of water and you put the lid on top of the boiling pot of water, the energy is trapped inside. you remove that lid, the energy can get out and perhaps it could happen in the atmosphere today. but we did not get that explosion and the thunderstorms. >> so you're saying the cap is still there? >> it's still in place. it still could be removed and we could have storms pop up in the overnight hours. it looks like thursday, the chances go up much higher for chicago and detroit and some major cities in line for these

storms. >> thank you very much. let's get you some news out of yemen now. al qaeda is offering a reward to anyone who kills or captures two shia muslim leaders in the country, including the ex-president. the u.n. says fight thing has killed more than 540 people and forced at least 100,000 people from their homes. >> residents in the capital say saudi-led air strikes hit two residential buildings wednesday, and fighting rages on in the city of aden. here's jim sciutto. [ explosion ] >> reporter: a wounded fighter tries desperately to crawl out of the cross fire. [ gunfire ] under a barrage of bullets, others drag the injured man to safety. this is the chaos in yemen as al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is now exploiting to its

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welcome back. you're watching cnn. i'm errol barnett. >> and i'm rosemary church. the eyewitness who video recorded this white u.s. police officer shooting and killing this unarmed black man is speaking out for the first time. he told nbc news that before he started filming, the two men were struggling on the ground, and he heard the taser go off. but he says the officer was in control. that officer has since been fired and is charged with murder. dzhokhar tsarnaev has been found guilty on all 30 counts he faced in the boston marathon bombing trial. jurors must decide whether he will face life in prison or the death penalty. the attack killed four people, three in the bombing itself, and one during the manhunt that

followed. greece is due to make a $505 million payment on its debt in the coming day. athens has reassured markets that it has the money to pay and avoid default. if a payment is made, greece still runs the risk of running out of money soon unless it can negotiate a new deal. back to the u.s. state of south carolina. the officer charged with killing an unarmed man has been fired from the north charleston police force. >> that officer claims the victim tried to grab his taser, but now that account is being questioned. >> randi kaye takes a closer look at the compelling eyewitness video with the help of an expert. surely you've seen this before. you know that some of what you are about to see is graphic. >> reporter: when north charleston police officer michael slager called dispatch about the shooting, listen to what he told them. >> shots fired. subject is down. he grabbed my taser. >> reporter: but did the

suspect, walter scott, really grab the officer's taser? frank piazza is an expert in video graphics. >> the officer seems to lunge or have something in his hands. maybe there's a tasing happening at that point. >> reporter: something seems to fall or come off the officer. so we zoomed in for a better look, and slowed the video as the object tumbled off the dirt path. >> if i take it back to that same spot in the video, and we watch it frame by frame, you can see something. >> reporter: right there. >> it also grabs a reflection, you can see it right there. >> reporter: it looks like a silver or white. >> possibly something metallic. >> reporter: enhancing the video also showed us something we hadn't seen before. some sort of struggle on the ground, even before the suspect took off running. >> i believe they're wrestling on the ground. as you watch it, you can see

there's movement. >> reporter: we also wanted to know if the suspect did take the officer's taser, was it ever in his hands on the video. >> i don't see anything dangling down. if there is, we sure can't see it. it looks like just a fist. >> reporter: on the video, officer slager returns to where the struggle with the suspect first began. he crouches down to pick something up. but the video pans off him before we see what he picks up or what he does with it. but our expert told us given the officer's positioning, it appears he's making a move to pick up that original object that fell just off the dirt path. moments later, the videotape gives us our best image yet of officer slager dropping an object to the ground. curiously close to the victim's body. >> you can see something right here, right above his kneecap, and it gets released. >> reporter: as it releases -- >> as it releases, his hand goes

up higher and there it is. what is that? that's the question, of course. >> reporter: let's sew it again. >> here it is released. >> that's it, right there. >> i cannot be precise identifying it. >> reporter: we zoom in to see the officer pick something up in the grass. perhaps the same object he dropped. >> let's see if we can see it in the grass. let's start with that image first. there's clearly something reflecting. >> reporter: if that something is a taser, investigators will certainly want to know how it got there. randi kaye, cnn, new york. the brother of walter scott, anthony scott, joins us now from outside the family home in charleston, south carolina. you see him on the right of your screen, on the center of your screen now is chris stewart, the attorney representing the family. welcome to you both. anthony, i'm very sorry for your

loss. i appreciate you joining us on cnn today. before the very important video emerged, though, what did police tell you about what happened and was there any question about the sequence of events initially? >> yes, it was. initially they told me that my brother was stopped for a traffic stop, broken taillight on his car. then they said he proceeded to run out of the car after the officer ran his license. they said in pursuit of him, he was therefore tasered. they said he took control of the taser and i heard he was tasered more than one time. and i thought that he was okay, but by the time i got to the actual site, my nephew came to me and told me that he was gone. i'm like, how is he gone?

they said that he tried to take the officer's taser away from him and therefore the officer had to use deadly force. >> when you saw the video for the first time, what did you feel? >> i felt like -- i knew there was something wrong with their story from the beginning, because i know my brother would not ever try to attack or try to taser an officer. i know he would have given up and surrendered. the whole story just didn't sound right, and then after hearing this part of the story, there's just not something right with this. after i saw the video, i said the video told the whole truth. >> chris, the justice department, the fbi will be looking into this. but what outcome are you pushing for here? how can the scotts get justice?

>> you know, we're going to strongly follow the case that the solicitor is going to bring against this officer. they charged him with murder. the family is hoping he'll be found guilty, and that justice will be found in that area. we'll be filing a civil lawsuit in this matter to hold everybody responsible for this, because this wasn't just one situation with this officer. he had a history. i'm sure if he's willing to plant phony evidence at a scene, this may have happened in the past. and we also want to push to protect, not just minorities but everybody by making sure body cameras are instituted here, because we do see just too many shootings of individuals and a lot of them do happen to be african-americans. but this could happen to anyone. >> and anthony, your mother, judy scott, told our anderson cooper, that she felt forgiveness in her heart for officer slager. do you?

>> not at this time. >> that's absolutely understandable. what do you want us to remember about walter scott? >> what do i want the world to remember about walter scott? >> yeah. >> they took away a great man, a great father, a great son, and a great brother. and we can't bring him back, so we want to make sure that this thing doesn't happen to any other family again. >> anthony, once again i'm very sorry for your loss. i appreciate you coming on cnn at this time. thanks to you and your lawyer chris stewart joining us from south carolina. thank you very much. >> powerful words there from walter scott's brother. we're going to take a very short break. still to come, as the u.s. withdraws from afghanistan, people in kabul are being forced to find a new beginning. we'll tell you how their options are limited. g entirely new is being built into bounty. dawn. new bounty with dawn.

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what looks like an insider attack. officials say an afghan opened fire on u.s. troops with a machine gun in islamabad. >> a pentagon spokesman confirmed the american's death but said the motive is unclear. as the u.s. scales back its military operations in afghanistan, thousands of afghans who helped nato are losing their jobs. >> and they're facing a backlash for helping the taliban's enemies. cnn's international correspondent nick paton walsh reports. >> caught in the wake, the men who let america be understood here. former nato interpreters, blacklisted and now unable to get new jobs. so they wait for the casual days labor you might be offered if you join the crowds here.

the skill that made them rich yesterday today makes them fear reprisals. >> i'm living in a market, one of the empty shops. >> it is not clear why they blacklisted me. >> everybody give up on me. >> right now i sleep around this mosque area. >> reporter: this is a city holding its breath as the void left behind by nato opens up. to learn if its new government will last, if the taliban are tired of fighting. if isis are next. it now has five times more people than when the u.s. invaded. as swells still as many flee the violence swirling around it. ' its streets being reclaimed from a war economy, that left these

roads littered with potholes. picking at the bones of an occupation past, whose remnants find the streets now too unsafe. here, this is where foreigners would once bustle, haggle over trinkets, even dodge the beggers. after american's billions on infrastructure -- >> the embassy don't come here. >> reporter: the road out east tells a story of how war brought a brief reprieve from poverty for so many. lined with the machines america used as it tried to move mountains to meet fluid goals, now abandoned. their supply convoy too, idle. these trucks were once the pinnacle of a billion dollar circuit. now the drivers would sell them

for almost nothing just to save on the bribes and fuel needed to keep them running. >> translator: the contracts were with big business and commanders and they made themselves rich and now are living their comfortable lives in dubai. >> reporter: the days of endless u.s. money enriching so few are ending. and even at the wedding halls, costly palaces of commitment to the future, the dreams, the symbols are of leaving. the city's lights have been held off as a sign of its transformation. behind the costly voltage, the stories of billions spent on power stations that were barely switched on. and elsewhere, a failure to provide the most basic of services. and people are worried if the violence has truly come to an end.

nick paton walsh, cnn, kabul. a secret service supervisor has been placed on administrative leave. according to "the washington post," the senior official is accused of assaulting a female employee after hours at the agency's headquarters. the woman says the man, who is her boss, told her he was in love with her and tried to grab her. the director of the secret service then had these comments to make. >> issued this statement. it reads -- >> the secret service has been in the center of some high profile scandals over the past year. so this certainly doesn't look good. "the woman in gold" is one of the world's greatest paintings. >> but this wasn't just a portrait, this was her aunt. how she got the painting back after the nazis stole it,

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the nazis stole the painting during world war ii, part of their ugly pillage of youish culture and heritage. but the last heir to this painting fought until the bitter end to bring the painting home. her story now a major motion picture. >> here she is, my aunt, painted by gus taf. >> it's quite a painting. >> she was taken off the walls of our home by the nazis. and since then she's been hanging in vienna. >> you would like to be reunited? >> wouldn't that be lovely if >> donald burris joins us now. thank you for talking with us. you have been actively involved in retrieving assets stolen by the nazis in world war ii.

talk to us about the legal fight with the austrian government to get back that artwork, what was the hardest part of that battle? >> i think the hardest part of the battle was for us to remain as resolute as maria, and as confident as maria, through all the obstacles put up by the legal teams on the other side, put up by the governmental authorities, and perhaps even by commentators and persons who, for whatever reason, failed to recognize what we recognize, the inalienable right of her to get those paintings back. >> and maria altman's aunt, adele, is the subject of that portrait, and her lawyer took this battle to retrieve the artwork very personally, didn't he? how true to the real story is this movie?

>> i think it's very close to what happened. of course, hollywood takes liberties, and there are things about the case that can't be shown because there just wasn't enough time. but we really worked very hard together in our firm with being led by randy in the case. and what you see on the screen is really what happened in terms of the legal results. at the beginning, we were told by so many people that we were nothing but don keyhotes. we even got that at the supreme court level. i think the idea of what we needed to do, the idea was to work hard and to keep as confident as possible. >> yeah. and you did it. of course, the details of the nazi cultural looting are horrifying and these wrongs are still going on to this day. how difficult is it to right this wrong?

>> well, i think it takes a lot of effort and a lot of patience. our average cases take many years. not always quite as long as maria's case, but many years before we get to the end. of course, the end is not guarantied. what we try to do is to just keep moving forward on behalf of a group of people whose culture was destroyed and we want to restore it to those families and in some instances, to the survivors when they're around. we want to restore to them a sense of feeling about their culture. >> donald burris, thank you so much for sharing with us the back story to this. we salute you for your work in this area. thank you. >> thank you very much. we salute maria and her memory. >> and it is indeed a powerful story of a woman who refused to give up. she fought hard to get what was hers originally. >> and it's not easy.

this strikes a chord. there are many antiquities and artwork that sit very far from their original owners and it's difficult for people to fight to get them back. gorgeous painting, though. >> beautiful. should be a great movie, too. >> thanks for watching, everyone. i'm errol barnett. >> and i'm rosemary church. i'll be back with another hour of cnn news rom after this short break. do stay with us. it sounds like some weird multiple choice test. yea, but do i pick a, b, or c. for me it's all of the above. i pick, like, the best of everything. verizon. i didn't. i picked a. maybe c. and how'd that work out for you? not so well. can i get a do-over? why settle for less when you can have, well, everything. and get 2 lines for $100. verizon. feel like this. look like this.

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