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zheimer's, some of the insomnia difficulty in sleeping. we haven't seen a significant impact on memory overall. where the research is going and this is in the labs that are getting some of their marijuana again from that farm you just saw, they are looking at using some compounds from marijuana to try and prevent the plaques that cause alzheimer's in your brain to prevent those plaques from growing. talking to these researchers it's early but very promising. >> sanjay thank you. sanjay's "weed 3" is on sunday at 9:00. good evening. breaking news in aaron hernandez downward spiral from nfl star to convicted killer. we just learned what he said just moments after a jury found him guilty of murder and the judge handed down a life sentence. we begin, though tonight with breaking news, the unlikely story behind the incredible site that gripped washington today. a gyrocopter landing in at the
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capitol. 535 letters on board. now we would say most sensitive and carefully guarded airspace except that is evidently not true. this guy not only got inside the perimeter and something about his hi-tech as a flying lawn chair he wasn't even trying to sneaking in. doug hughes planned what he did for years. talked to his hometown newspaper about it. was even interviewed by the secret service back in october of 2013. the breaking news late this evening the secret service office in tampa denied reports they were given notice earlier today that the flight in fact was going to happen. in any case doug hughes was on the radar not just on trirdhe radar that really counted, today. >> i'm not sure and i'm not
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going to commit suicide and i'm not going to fly into any monuments. terrorists don't announce their flights before they take off. okay. terrorists don't broadcast their flight path. terrorists don't invite an escort to go along with them. >> reporter: that video and his website show in great detail what hughes was planning. how he was preparing to be both a pilot and protester in those final moments. >> this is not good people. >> reporter: as captured in this exclusive video obtained by the associated press. >> i'll violate the no-fly zone nonviolently. i intend for nobody to get hurt. i'm going to land on the capitol lawn in front of the capitol building. i'm going to have 535 letters strapped to the landing gear in boxes. and those letters are going to be addressed to every member of
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congress. >> reporter: hughes who is over 60 speaks in the video of his fear being intercepted by security forces long before reaching the capitol. >> i don't believe that the authorities are going to shoot down a 60-year-old mailman in a flying bicycle. i'll give them plenty of warning, well over an hour in advance of me getting to the no-fly zone so they know who i am and what i'm doing and that it's intended to be nonviolent. >> reporter: in the end even as the video shows him loading up his aircraft to bring to it washington he speaks with passion as the need for this dramatic step arguing that in his eyes no less than the fate of the nation rests in campaign finance reform. >> i rather die in the flight than live to be 80 years old and see this country fall. >> tom foreman joins us. do we know if they did give them an hour notice. the fact that he was able to pull this off and land on the capitol lawn people you have
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cell phone are they surprised by that? >> reporter: people are astonished by it. they are trying ascertain how much truth is involved. undeniably plenty of people knew about it in some fashion and the real concern here is we have an air defense system. right now i'm standing under what should be a very specific portion of highly highly protected airspace and it's built to protect against things like missile attacks and jet fighters and yet as you pointed out a guy in a flying lawn chair was able to make his way in here flying for two years from gettysburg pennsylvania where they believe he took off. that's a long way to go at a very slow pace for no one to intercept him or do anything about it. >> it's incredible. president obama was not in town when this unfoldled but was briefed on what happened. so i understand you were walking
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around the capitol building killing time before a job interview. can you walk me through what you saw? >> yeah. absolutely. thank you so much for having me. a weird day for sure. i was walking along the capitol, along the west side of the capitol building waiting for this job interview. i saw out of nowhere a machine that looked like something from "chitty chitty bang bang." >> how quickly did officers approach this guy after he landed? did you see him being arrested? >> yes, i did. the first cop came kind of around the side of the capitol building. and stopped him and was yelling something into the walkie-talkie. i would say within 45 seconds of
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his initial landing there were multiple police cars on the scene. the first cop that did respond yelled don't move don't move. he seemed to comply. he did sit still. he didn't seem to be agitated at all. he wasn't being aggressive at all. the cops did approach him. he stood up and they cuffed his hands behind his back and cuffed him and walked him off the grass. >> dit look like there was any more security before the guy arrived? he's claiming in this video that he gave authorities at least an hour warning. dit look to you like there was any extra security? >> that's hard to say around the capitol building. there was very high-security presence on the east face of the capitol building where the motorcade was waiting. it's unclear if actual security was because of that or because it was a capitol bulling. that said it did take about 30 seconds nor than two police officers to show up at the scene which isn't very long granted but for an issue of this magnitude.
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>> i understand you saw snipers and bomb sniffing dog go around the gyrocopter. >> yes. i think that's when a lot of us got concerned. we were watching seeing what was happening and as about maybe one, two minutes more passed a large team of policemen with different rifles and guns started running towards us which is when we got very concerned. there was a bomb sniffing team as well that came very close to the copter. that's when they told us to run. we were right near the copter and at this point they were concerned about explosives although obviously that wasn't the case and they had us run away from the site. >> i guess i got to ask did you go ahead and have the job interview? >> i did actually and i got the internship for the summer. >> all right. congratulations. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you so much.
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have a great night. >> because this raises so many questions about stopping potential bad actors and aircraft and obviously awakens deeply powerful memories especially in washington we want to dig deeper. joining us is a former secret service agent. first are your surprised this guy was able to do this? >> yeah. i'm stunned. we have two different issues here. both very serious. we have a detection issue, was he detected. then we have an interdiction issue. if he wasn't detected and managed to skirt that air defense zone right there without being detected and land on the capitol mall there, we have a serious problem. >> particularly if as he said in the video he was going to warn somebody at least an hour in advance. i want to ask you about the use of force guidelines for like the secret service which you used to work for. there has to be -- we talked about this in the past.
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there has to be an imminent athlete presented. this guys hughes feared he could potentially be shot down although he said he didn't think anybody would. >> exactly. i'm glad you bring this up. there's this misconception with some in the public that because it's an aircraft it's the national capitol region either white house or the capitol that use of force guidelines go out the window for federal agents. that's not the case. you have to present as a subject a athlete of a serious physical injury or death to yourself or someone else before a federal agent or federal police officer can use deadly force and make no mistake shooting him out of the sky would have been deadly force and i'm not sure that he presented either one of those. >> so it seems there's contradictory information floating. tampa bay times say neither the secret conversation or capitol police in d.c. knew about this ahead of time. do you buy this? >> i was in the protective
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intelligence section in the new york field office. there's nothing the secret service takes more seriously than a athlete case. if i showed you the mound of paper work you had to fill out and the questions you had to ask before you could close the case it would be astounding. you could fill this room full of paper. i fine it extremely hard to believe that the secret service was told about this and just let it fly. i've been there on the ground. i've done these investigations. most of these investigations anderson are managed out of secret service headquarters as well. meaning if you didn't want to do the hallmark as an agent you would have headquarters breathing down your neck. >> on one hand people might look at this it's a guy who is making a protest. the other side is that other potential bad actors might see this see that the guy got away with it and try to do the same thing or something similar with more evil intentions. >> absolutely.
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that's the big negative generated from this entire thing. it's not this one guy's mistake or intentional act. it's the fact that he could potentially inspire others and plant a seed in someone who has really malicious intentions plant it in their head and all of a sudden now they have an idea of what the air picture looks like how long it takes to respond, where they could land. these pictures will be broadcast every where. i think he cause ad bigger problem than just this specific incident. >> dan, i appreciate you being on. thanks. more news tonight breaking news alleged plot to send deadly weapons to mexican drug cartel. the accused suppliers two members of the armed forces. evan perez broke the story. >> reporter: two members of the army national guard in california san diego, california. according to law enforcement officials i've been talking to these men thought they were working with drug cartels people who were sending weapons to drug
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cartels in mexico. instead they were actually trying to sell weapons and ammunition to undercover informants working with the atf out of los angeles. that's how they were arrested today. >> what exactly did they sell or try to sell? >> reporter: they had quite an arsenal. at least ten firearms. 4,000 rounds of ammunition. some of it was still in crates stolen from the armory. 24 armored vests, high quality vests that members of the military use and apparently this was also stolen from the armory there. we're expecting these guys will be in court tomorrow in san diego where they will be formally charged with trying to make these sales. >> evan thanks. set your dvr watch 360 whenever you want. coming up next what former new england patriot aaron hernandez had to say after a jury found
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him guilty of murdering his friends and why this murder conviction may only be the first of three. he's facing two more charges. two sisters on opposite sides of the case even opposite sides of the courtroom. odin lloyd's girlfriend and aaron hernandez's fiancee. what this murder and trial did to them and this family. drivers, to your marks. go! it's chaos out there. but the m-class
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we're getting reaction from the football star who had a promising star ahead of him and now faces a lifetime in sentence. they got it wrong said former nfl patriot aaron hernandez. i didn't do it. the jury believed otherwise in the killing of his friends odin lloyd. >> madam foreperson charging the defendant aaron hernandez
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with murder. what say you, madam foreperson. is the defendant not guilty guilty of murder in the first degree or guilty of murder in the second-degree? >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> susan candiotti is reporting hernandez was escorted from the courtroom when he made those remarks professing his innocence. he said hernandez was walking with a swagger he had before his conviction telling his escort in detail and i'm quoting, hey man i'll miss you guys they got it wrong i didn't do it. that same source said a few days ago he praised them i'll get out of here and when i do i'll get ahold of obama and tell them you should be doing security for the white house. he'll go to another maximum security facility to serve life without parole and he's still facing charges in two other killings. the jury took a long time to convict him more than a week.
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susan candiotti on the trial what may have helped jurors reach a decision. >> reporter: in a packed courtroom aaron hernandez stunned at the verdict sits down and shakes his head no. looking back at his mother and fiancee gasping at the news. despite his astonishment hernandez manages to mouth to them be strong and i'm okay. and the family of victim odin lloyd, no less emotional. openly weeping, shedding tears of relief. sentencing came a short time later, an opportunity for lloyd's family members to speak directly to the court and to hernandez. lloyd's mother calling him the back bone of the family. and talking about the pain of burying her only son. >> i felt like i wanted to go in the hole with my son oh,
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incident. >> reporter: his sister fighting back tears as she tells the court his murder easily like a bad dream. >> i won't ever see him again. but i have to go to his grave site to look at his tomb stone to tell him that i love him. >> reporter: with that the judge sentences hernandez to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. a tremendous fall from grace for the 25-year-old who at the time of the murder was in the middle of a $40 million pro football contract with the new england patriots. speaking to the media after the proceeding the jury of seven women and five men described how they were very deliberate in their decision-making. and said one of the key moments was testimony from patriots owner robert kraft. kraft testified hernandez told him he was innocent because the football player said he was in a club at the time of the murder.
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jurors didn't buy it. >> we still don't know the exact time of odin's murder. specifically. i don't know how aaron would have had that information two years ago. even today after medical examiner's review still don't have that information. >> reporter: another big shocker they say, the bomb dropped by the defense team during closing arguments, that hernandez was at the crime scene, saw lloyd killed but did not shoot im. the jury therebydeliberated over seven days and said in the end their decision was the right one. >> susan candiotti joins us now. jurors commented on the additional cases pending against hernandez. what did they say? >> reporter: that's right. they said that it was the judge who told them about the double murder trial coming up in boston aaron hernandez being charged with a double murder with evidence anderson that was actually linked to him because of evidence that was
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uncovered in this case. and that alexander bradley, who was an eyewitness prosecutors say to that double murder is also accusing hernandez, the judge told this jury of shooting him in the face just a few months before odin lloyd was killed. and then the jurors were asked did that help you think that you made the right decision and they said yes, we agree with that. >> susan, thanks very much. we'll have more on the pending cases against him shortly. first mike branch odin lloyd's friend and former football coach. what was your reaction when you heard the verdict today? >> actually i didn't know whether to -- i actually was bottled up with so much emotion that joy or i didn't know if i wanted to cry. something i hadn't felt. it was a sense of relief but also you know it doesn't bring odin back you know. so it's kind of a mixed emotion.
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>> and during the trial, odin's character was called into question as often happens in these kind of case, the defendant's fiancee suggested odin might have been a drug dealer. i under that doesn't sound like the guy you knew. >> that's b.s.. i would want to say something else. i'll tell you this. if someone is a drug dealer you're not going to come to football practice on a bike that's not even brand new. he's not sending me text help me with equipment. if we went out for a beer or a drink i bought them. the kid never had money. i had to track him down for team dues. there would be signs if and he was drug dealer and that's one of the reasons i'm here to defend his name and keep his name in good honor because that's not the case. >> how do you want people to remember odin lloyd? >> first of all, as a wonderful brother and son. he comes from a remarkable and
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strong family first and foremost. one hell of a football player. i'll tell enthusiast. irreplaceable. still hasn't replaced his playing ability on the field. and his personality. when we're out here none of these guys are being paid. we're having fun for the love of the game. he would bring entertainment and fun to this game and do stuff to make you laugh after he made a big play or something like that. even at times when we go to the gym, working collectively as a group just that sense of humor. that guy. that funny guy. but, you know again, defense has to do their job to portray individuals to defend that individual who they were representing but, again, i'll tell you this and i will look clearly and squarely -- odin lloyd is no drug dealer. come on please. no sign. find a vehicle in his name. everyone has resources find the vehicle. if you're a drug dealer you would have assets.
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why would he still live with his mother. they can reach. >> i under when he was growing up he was taking care of his mom, bringing her to church. he was committed to his mom and family. >> and his mom was committed to him. again his family is remarkable. one of the strongest families you'll ever meet sir. they are just wonderful. again, to put her through that to portray him -- no. that's one of the reasons why i'm here. this is not about me. this is not about our team the boston bandits. this is about odin. there is some since of comfort with this verdict and justice being served but odin still is not coming through that door. >> i appreciate you being on and remembering your friend with us. thank you. >> thank you. >> up next aaron hernandez now convicted killer convicted murderer. he'll be returning to court again on those two other measure charges. we have details on those killings and more legal troubles
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former football player tight end aaron hernandez has been found guilty. law enforcement source tells us when hernandez was escorted from the courthouse he told his handlers they got it wrong, i didn't do it. this definitely is not the end of his legal troubles. hernandez facing other serious charges. he'll be heading back to court. that much is certain. jean casarez has the details. >> judith light i of murder in the first degree. >> reporter: for most convicted murderers this is it. >> convicted for the term of your natural life without the possibility of parole. >> reporter: troubles are not over for aaron hernandez. he faces separate double murder charges in a different case with a trial date that will be set within days. july 2012 prosecutors say daniel day accidentally bumps into aaron hernandez spilling his drink. >> that caused him to be quite upset. >> reporter: after leaving the nightclub, hernandez is accused
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of tailing him and his friends. >> he had a loaded revolver extended out and stated yo what's up now, and then a racial slur. the defendant immediately fired at least five rounds from a .38 caliber revolver into the victim's car. >> reporter: thewo people were killed. the shooter got away. prosecutors had no idea who could have done that. while executing a search warrant at the connecticut home of aaron hernandez's uncle they found a car matching the description of the suv seen after the shooting. investigators say a dealership had loaned that car to aaron hernandez for a promotion. hernandez was indicted on may 15th 2014 for the two murders and charged with three counts of armed assault with attempt to murder. >> how do you plead to this inindictment?
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>> not guilty. >> reporter: hernandez is facing wrongful death suits from the families of the three men prosecutors say aaron hernandez murdered. in july of last year a judge in one of the civil cases freezes $5 million in assets of the former football player which includes $3.3 million he says he's owed by the new england patriots as a signing bonus. another legal battle for hernandez. alexander bradley says he lost his eye after his friend hernandez shot him in the face following an argument at a florida strip club in february 2013. he is suing hernandez in federal court. bradley turns out is allegedly also an eyewitness who prosecutors say was with hernandez the night of the double murders. jean casarez, cnn, new york. >> joining me now cnn legal analysts and "boston globe" columnist. i want to get to these other criminal charges he faces in a
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minute. today's verdict were you surprised at all? >> not really although this was not an open and shut case. there was no eyewitness. there was no clear motive on or about than aaron hernandez is one crazy angry person. but, you know it was a strong circumstantial case. hernandez was so stupid as to leave his own home security system on which showed him with what prosecutors argued was the murder weapon. so yes it was a strong case but it was by no means an obvious one and that's why the jury was out for seven days. >> the fact that hernandez's defense attorney admitted for the first time in his closing argument hernandez was presents for odin lloyd's killing but didn't shoot him did that end up backfiring? >> it's hard to tell unless you hear it from the jurors and today we heard from the jurors. a number of them used the term it corroborated the other evidence we had, so arguably
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yes, it did. unlike jeff i was a little surprised. i thought this was headed for a hung jury and i will readily admit that my expectations here were that when they were outpast friday afternoon that it was a hung jury. when you saw them have that joint press conference the jurors were making a points of their solidarity. >> dan you've covered the patriots for a long time p.m. what's the reaction up there. >> the verdict was expected. two years since this first came out and folks are kind of rolling through it in their minds that the fact that he was already had been shooting people when he played the 2012-'13 season for the patriots. people are numb to it. it's been so long since they learned there was a murder in the huddle. >> should the patriots have known what they were getting into had they hired this guy. >> it's a fourth round pick.
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a lot of teams did pass on him. yes they knew there were problems. drug stuff in his college experience. a lot of teams stayed away from him. the patriots are about winning, they are about talent and chose to go with the player and worked out for them for quite some time. >> bob kraft who owns the patriots. jurors said it was his testimony in the trial that helped convince them of hernandez. i want to listen to what one juror had to say about that. >> one part for me was aaron's alleged statement that he wished at the time that odin was murdered was made public because he was at the club at that time. today we went through a three month trial, this is two years later we still don't know the exact time of odin's murder. specifically. so i don't know how aaron would have had that information. >> it's pretty interesting. pretty damning testimony there. >> obviously bob kraft, you know his job was not to protect
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his player. his job was to tell the truth under oath and that statement from aaron hernandez was very incriminating, and i think, you know bob kraft is a very highly respected, very successful owner. so the idea that his -- i think his testimony as that juror illustrated really was believed by those jurors. >> bob kraft -- jeff bob kraft had motivation to shade it because bob kraft now does not have to pay any of the signing bonus and is now going try to recoup the 40 million that he paid him for violations of the contract too. let's not forget he had a bias as well. >> he a bias but i think that's a little attenuated when you hear a distinguished person like that testify. look it's quite clear, aaron hernandez is not getting any more money out of the new england patriots sitting in jail for the rest of his life.
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the patriots don't have to worry about that. >> they don't have to pay now that he's convicted. >> he still faces charges in that double murder from back in 2012 and that trial could start as early as august. do you see more convictions coming his way? >> well the speculation, at least, is that massachusetts has got an interesting system so that they could appeal this case if they were successful on the appeal then the prosecutors make sure they have a backstop. in the other case by all accounts appears to be stronger than this one. be careful what you wish for. he a great trial judge in this case and she really erred on the side of giving him breaks which puts you in a tough spot when you're up on appeal. >> dan, do you think further
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charges on hernandez they will get equal attention for people in boston? >> i do. that happened right in the city of boston. it happened before this other thing. it happened before the 2012-'13 season. evidently there's a witness. there's a gun. they have a lot more on that one and if the notion that he then -- he signed his contract after that murder after that alleged murder. he got the $40 million contract after that. the patriots chose to reward this player after this had happened. bob kraft later came out and said he was duped. that's unfortunate. it's hard to believe that they didn't take better care of paying attention to who was in their locker room and checking up on guys because they are all about security and checking up on guys there in foxborough and it stretches believability.
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>> there are two other defendants awaiting trial in the crime for which he was convicted and they never flipped on him. they never turned on him even though they had every incentive in the world to do this. this is a scary intimidating guy even in jail. >> thanks very much. just ahead sisters once close but now estranged they introduced hernandez and odin lloyd. what happened. a police cruiser slammed into a suspect on person. it proves they did the right thing.
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aaron heterosexual was obviously an nfl star making millions when he and odin lloyd a semipro player when their paths had crossed. these two men would not have met if it were not for these two sisters. >> reporter: her name is shiana jenkins. for months she stood by her fiancee, testifying on his behalf answering tough questions in the junk drawer at home. >> similar or dissimilar to what you observed? >> yes. >> color? >> yes. >> size?
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>> i'm not sure. >> reporter: while she was there to support him, her own sister was in court too. supporting the family of the man hernandez is now convicted of killing. odin lloyd was dating shanae jenkins. >> what did you learn? >> that odin lloyd was dead. >> she also shared this about seeing hernandez after the murder. >> asked me if i was okay. put his hand on my shoulder kind of rubbed my shoulder and told me he had been through this death thing before it will get better with time. >> reporter: for months the two sisters once considered close sat on opposite sides of the courtroom. the one behind her fiancee. shanae sat with odin lloyd's mother. their strained relationship hardly went unnoticed in court.
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>> your close as sisters? have you been in the past ma'am? >> i mean we've -- estranged kind of. >> reporter: they grew up in bristol, connecticut and went to bristol central high school where aaron hernandez was the star of the school's football team. sh ampb na was aaron hernandez's high school sweetheart. her student was a good student. the two sisters actually introduced hernandez to odin lloyd after shanae started dating him. the couples hung out together at hernandez's house. the sisters would often go shopping when the boys would stay in the man cave smoking marijuana. those memories long gone by the time shanae testified that cheyenna was acting different. cheyennea threw out a box of
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trash that contained the murder weapon which was never found. >> the defendant called you and said it was important you go down and get this box and get rid of it is that right? >> i believe so. >> you were also asked whether you had taken certain steps to cover or conceal or hide the box. do you recall doing that? >> yes. >> reporter: when the guilty verdict was read the two sisters never made eye contact. both in tears for their own reasons. cheyenna with aaron hernandez's mother. her sister holding her head in her hand. so many lives and a sisterly bond ruined by a handful of bullets. >> did they ever determine for sure what was in that box that cheyenna threw out? >> no. they never found the box. no box, no murder weapon. that's where prosecutors think the murder weapon was inside
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that garbage bag. cheyenna testified she was granted immune egypt to testify because she was facing 29 different charles for lying to the grand jury that was looking at this case. to compel her to testify the prosecution granted her immunity. she was helping to defend her fiancee but in the end she became a witness for the prosecution. >> fascinating. thank you very much. there's a lot more about trial and verdict coming up. at the top of the hour in a cnn special report downward spiral inside the case against aaron hernandez. >> tonight new information in the moments what happened an arizona police officer called himself robo cop drove his car into an armed suspect. plus new reaction from the police chief who said this unusual move was justified.
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>> an arizona police chief support an officer's decision to smash his patrol car into an armed suspect. the crash was caught on dash cam video. we want to warn you it is graphic. here's the moment of the impact. >> a unit. stand. unit on. strike. man down. >> so the question of course is how did it get to that point? police say the suspect was responsible for a string of robberies that that very day in the hours leading up to that
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moment and discharged his weapon. >> reporter: investigators say mario valencia's day began at 6:45 a.m. here at this 7/eleven where he robbed it in his underwear. then police say he made a stop here at tucson baptist temple where he broke in and start ad fire. soon after he ended up on this block committing a home invasion and police say stealing a car. that was all before 9:00 in the morning. finally he ended up leaving tucson driving 25 miles away to am ira. he wasn't done yet. went to this walmart where surveillance video shows he stole a gun and ammunition and scurried out with walmart employees on his tail. that same gun shown here when they caught up with him in their final encounter. at first police were unsure if he was able to release the store lock on the gun. >> one round went out into the
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sky. definitely unlocked and definitely loaded. >> reporter: but then -- this is about where suspect valencia from hit from behind. he was hit so hard his body flew over this barrier and you can see what's left of the barrier after the police car smashed into it. to the left of me is a coca-cola plant filled with workers behind me a manufacturing plant and right here a self-storage office. did police do the right thing? a resounding yes from the chief. why do you think it was necessary for the officer to use that particular tactic. >> the tactic he used wasn't something that we train or even probably something suggested. it came to hem at the moment based on the totality of the circumstances. he was literally 15 second walk away from the front door of two major businesses in our community. and if he gets into one of those businesses we're having a
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totally different conversation right now quite frankly. i think it was absolutely imperative somebody take action. >> reporter: the concern was he might go on a shooting spree. his attorney balks at that idea and said the officer made a terrible judgment. >> do you think the officer should be criminally investigated or prosecuted? >> i do. because i think this was absolutely an inappropriate use of force. an excessive use of force. >> sara joins us now. this happened back in february. why is the video just now being released? >> it's interesting. we didn't get a great answer. we do know the defense attorney has said she just received it herself. in fact the first time she saw the video was on cnn. so she's trying to figure out when she did discovery she wasn't given that video along with the other evidence that she was handed over from the county prosecutor's office. we're still trying to get answers to that question. >> thank you very much. up next two tsa screeners are
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a lot more happening tonight. we have a 360 bulletin. >> anderson in boston a dave remembrance on the second anniversary of the marathon bombings. the sister of 8-year-old martin richard the attack's youngest victim and others help set commemorative banners on boyle street. three people were killed and 260 others were wounded. authorities say two tsa workers have been fired after they allegedly set up an lab reiterate system that allowed male screeners to grope attractive male passengers going through security at denver international airport. netflix reports it added 5
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million new members in the first quarter of 2015 bringing its total membership to more than 62 million. the online streaming video service came up short on its earnings. stock shot up 12% in after hours trading. anderson? >> thanks very much. that does it for us. we'll see you again at 11:00 p.m. downward spiral inside the case against aaron hernandez starts now. tonight, aaron hernandez. he was a rising nfl star racing toward greatness. >> what is the meaning? >> it is up to me, basically saying my life is up to my hands. it is up to me to make it that way. >> what did he make his life out to be.
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