the jury found brian vaughn guilty. >> we, the jury, assess the punishment of defendant brian vaughn to confinement for 33 years. >> he will be eligible for parole in 2017. >> this is a kid that probably would have figured out a way to do well enough in school to graduate high school and probably would have had a college career playing basketball. and instead, he's spending his life in jail. >> few people can imagine a child killing a parent, but the evidence at the scene and evidence missing from the scene clearly showed what happened. >> forensics played a big role in this, but not in the normal sense. the lack of it, in some ways, was kind of compelling. >> it's something he probably just thought of either days before, or that night, just planned it. and -- but he slipped, and he wasn't able to cover his tracks. >> he provided all the necessary pieces to convict him. and, in fact, he provided evidence that was so strong that you could not find him not guilty. >> it takes days and weeks of investigation, okay? it takes lives that you destroy. and you don't realize that when you are

with me now political ed outer and colorado native, vaughn verbers. mr., a state that was a republican stronghold is too tough -- too tough of a term to use in the '90s, but reliable republican. >> it was reliable, and it mirrored what was going on in the nation. that's what colorado is. it's a bellwether of bellwethers to say -- to use a cliche. in the 1970s, you had very liberal senators, tim worth, gary hart representing that state. it was part of that movement away from watergate. in the 1980s, got very conservative with bill armstrong, hank brown, and those kinds -- >> rising evangelicals, james dobson, focus on the family, out of colorado springs, evangelical movement taking root there. >> right. and as you noted, nobody saw the change coming towards -- back towards the democratic base. but it was there. it was always there. it was people who were tired of, you know, coloradoans are very independent. very independent-minded. they're not reliably democratic or republican. they sort of go to the middle. that's where you can always find the middle. >>

. >> one of the best defense lawyers in san antonio, texas, was leslie vaughn. >> leslie was a workaholicif you know anything about guys who tried to reach that status of perfection, leslie was a perfectionist. he really was.

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actor vince vaughn is 44 today. and country star and actress reba mcentire, 59 today. more news, more weather, more sports as well. i'm craig melvin. thank you so much for watching "early today." have a great weekend. >>> good morning to you. it's 4:30, also friday and i'm scott mcgrew. >> you can say that again. >> it's also friday. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. lot to get to. let's get to the friday forecast with meteorologist christina loren. >> better stop doing my happy dance, i'm on camera now. it's still early on a friday morning, i can tell you right now look at what's coming our way as we head throughout the weekend. we're talking about really heavy rainfall totals and we've got more on the way through next week so a lot to talk about this morning. i want to make sure you bring that umbrella. i'll time the system. there are three more on the way. time them

al jazeera, ha vaughn -- havana. >>> i said spring is one day away, and then i put on my heavy overcoat. >> you sure did. you have to do it later this week as well. we will see a brief warm-up, but overall winter will stick around for quite a bit of time, del. look at these temperatures across the north-central plains. it's a chilly morning across fargo. temperatures at 29 degrees and bismarck around 32 degrees. once you go to minneapolis, also staying in the upper 20s, but it's very chilly. i'll tell you why. we have cold air pushing in out of canada, and that will continue to be a trend tracking towards early next week as well. the first full week of spring. we have a storm pushing across the midwest bringing a bit of snow across the u.p. of michigan. once you push further south, temperatures are milder across the northern tier of indiana and north and eastern tip of illinois. that is where we're looking at the rain. the storm will may its way into the northeast and produce a bit of snow across the new york state throughway and also across the green and white mountains here of portion

there were seven in the gang, and the young man who turned state's evidence named frank vaughn which is a very well known name even today and in the testimony before the grand jury, he'd implicated all of the others for the crime. but by the time the matter came to a trial, then he'd changed his testimony, and he blamed just the, those -- well, i should go back just a little bit. of the six killers, three of them were caught, three others escaped including the ringleaders. and so frank vaughn during the trial pinned the crime on those who had escaped and said the three others who were caught were not innocent, had nothing at all to do with it. one was just a 15-year-old boy, as a matter of fact, so the jury let them go. i don't know of any attempt ever made to catch the three who escaped. his weak explanation was that they wanted to borrow a boat, the gang wanted to borrow a boat from the chinese to take some of their stolen horses across the river into what is now idaho to sell them. and this is what the killers were doing, they were stealing cattle and horses in oregon and taking t

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former 777 pilot hank whitmore, agent and investigator christopher vaughn and, chris moore. hank, let me go to you because these are the conversations you would have. looking at this transcript, anything peculiar? >> it looks very routine to me. i just had a chance to look at it a little bit ago. and it looks like a very normal flight up until the point where communication from the aircraft stopped. >> matt, how about you? you have investigated these crashes and i'm sure that you have pored over these transcripts before. >> i concur. there is nothing out of the ordinary or suspicious with these. >> matt, if there were a fire on board, and the pilots were aware of it, would we expect to see some language about it some place some time in this, if they knew about it? >> if they knew about it, sure. but pilots abide by the -- a rule of thumb. aviate, navigate, communicate. they need to fly the airplane, then they need to communicate with ground and controllers, and then aviate, navigate and communicate with ground controllers at the very last. they need to fly the airplane. so,

>> julie vaughn is serving time for offering to commit prostitution and has prior convictions for trespassingeft and possession of drug paraphernalia. >> i'm 36 now. since i was 19 until now, going back and forth, trying to get clean, messing up and using again, trying to get clean. i can remember a time when i looked down on people who smoked crack because i was only snorting coke. i looked down on hookers because i was only a dancer. every time i go out, i went just a little below my line of morals. i truly believe there's nothing i can go below now other than winding up dead. >> when is enough going to be enough, julie? you're going to get your throat cut or go to prison for five years. aren't you tired? >> yes. >> i started out when i was 18 prostituting and smoking crack. doing robberies. sometimes they listen, sometimes they don't. i'm planting the seed. they are listening eventually. i wish i had somebody when i was in my addiction like that. >> april, i want to be like you one day. i want to be clean and sober. i want to help people like me. >> i know you can do it. >> thank you. >> y

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he met shirley vaughn in san diego and married her six weeks later in reno.re he died last week at the age of 88 with shirley and his children and grandchildren by his side. his motto was, just happy to be here. his family's announcement of his passing ended this way. in liue of flower, the family asks for donations to be made in ken's game to kind, kids in need of desks. ken received a donation on his behalf from his son chris in 2013 and eagerly supported the cause. we received this e-mail from his daughter renee. dear last word team, my wonderful world war ii retired wood shop public teacher faeter kendrick westbrook from sparks, nevada, passed away one week ago today. we learned about the desks program through the last word. we as a family have asked for donations from friends and family to honor his life work. and his name to the desks project. he received the donation in his name for christmas this past year which introduced him to this wonderful project. and as a woodworker, teacher, and world traveler, he would be delighted with this poetic arrangemen

mohammed vaughn, al jazeera. >> these protests in cairo, i am joined on the line from cairo by yussefin. as i understand it, you have actually been taking part in these protests. just tell us why are these protests taking place now. >> because the government has condoned and students wanted to prove it's wrong. it's wrong and they are their movement amend peacefannexation they have cleared for the movement and the government and their whole world, and that's what they are calling for. the security forces are crazy. at the university, also -- >> yussef. thank you very much for joining us, and we do apologize, but the line seems to be quite bad there. we will try to get you back on the line on a better line a little later on papas. >> that's yousef calhin. >> the president has promised to spare no effort in his attempts to secure the release of annays journalist held in a cairo prisonon for 81 days. peter grista is being detained with our producers from al jazeera arrest abbic channel. they are accused of having links with the terrorist organization and spreading false news. the interim

try it's not like a vince vaughn movie, this is a good thing. >> in his own special way. >> yes. >> but get the point. >> yes, you get the point. and we've seen americans for prosperity have had all of these misleading ads that have been destroyed by the fact checkers claiming to put up people who are being hurt by obamacare. as the governor pointed out, there are millions more people who are benefitting from this law in ways that are absolutely life-changing. and this has been a problem for democrats since they passed the law. they haven't known how to defend it. they haven't known how to go on the offense. now is the time. the minutes are wasting. and i think that democrats are finally realizing they can't try to hide from it. they can't try to run away from it. this is an unequivocally good thing that we have done for the country. stand on it. >> and i think also the thing that needs to really be pointed out, governor, is that the republicans have not come up with an alternative plan. i wrote a piece today about hating obama is not a health care plan. where is the alternative? are yo

host: the next caller is vaughn. caller: i am looking at this and saying the health care law establishes a policy. it does not do anything for health care per se but when he going to use it you find out of your covered or not. we do not have our. yours necessary, our hospitals necessarily, to pay for this thing which is a lot in whether to subsidized or not. somebody has to pay. and in order to keep this thing all we have to do is shut down our military and withdraw from the world. i do not think that is a very good idea or the plan. host: a couple more comments on twitter -- our next call, comes from massachusetts. caller: good morning. thank you for take my call. the question about something that has not been really addressed at all, the fact that first of all i would think at least 70% of americans do not want this program. we feel like it is being forced upon us. this was a bill that was asked without even being read and understood by our politicians. with that being said my question is, if the bill is such a gre