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." >> now, our ed lavandera is in steubenville texas, and had more on the verdict including emotional reaction from families impacted by the killings. >> reporter: it was a swift verdict here in steubenville texas, where the "american sniper" jury has found eddie ray routh guilty of murdering chris kyle and chad littlefield. the verdict came in less than 2 opinion 5 hours after starting its deliberations. the jury rejecting the fraurms routh and his lawyers that the former marine of instain time of the murders. after the verdict of read chad littlefield's father and step did brother gave emotional sometimes directly to routh calling him an american disgrace. and outside the courtroom, littlefield's e's mother spoke with reporters in an emotional statement. >> we've waited two years for got to get justice for us on behalf of our son. and as always god has proved to be faithful and we're so thrilled that we haved verdict that we have tonight. >> reporter: eddie ray routh showed little emotion. that's the way he's been throughout most of the tile. sitting there, taking pages and pages of

from relatives of the victims. >> reporter: it was a swift verdict in steubenville texas, where the american sniper jury has found eddie ray routh guilty of murdering chris kyle and chad littlefield. the verdict came in less than 2.5 hours after starting its deliberations. the jury rejecting the argument from routh and his lawyers that the former marine was insane at the time of the murders. after the verdict of read littlefield's father and stepbrother gave emotional statements direct three routh, calling him an american disgrace. and outside the courtroom, chad littlefield's mother spoke with reporters in an emotional statement. >> we've waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son. and as always, god has proved to be faithful. we're thrilled that we have the verdict that we have tonight. >> reporter: routh showed little emotion as the verdict was ready, the way he's been through most of the trial. sitting there most of the time taking pages and pages of notes. now he's been found guilty of the murder of chris kyle and chad littlefield and will spend the res

>> shelby zorotney is an anchor for nbc in steubenville, ohio.ering the sentencing that day, and her cameraman captures the scene. the first to respond to the incident is sheriff fred abdullah. >> we didn't hit him, we didn't strike him, nothing like that. i knew and i could just imagine the pain that he was going through, the hurt. >> i have done a lot of sentencing hearings, and i have had family members be terribly upset and terribly angry, but i had never seen a physical altercation between a victim's family member and the defendant. i was terrified for him that he might get hurt as the officers tried to subdue him. and my honest thought was that he might try to kill the defendant. >> others in the courtroom fear the same thing. >> i thought that this was going to be a disaster, and it was. i saw mr. swett's hand moving to try to get to the sheriff's weapon. the sheriff was able to restrain him, and he did not get his hand on the sheriff's weapon, which was holstered. >> clifford can't defend himself. he's handcuffed and remains silent during

think about what's happening over there in steubenville.ses and new businesses need new investments, and let's encourage investment by cutting taxes. it's common sense, it's a process, it begins with investment, it ends with higher family incomes.( folks, this isn't this isn't democrat. it's at( lot of what we've been trying to do over the last four years. and look at our results. so it's not like, stop let's do more of it more of it, so we can have more jobs. so we can secure our place here in america. if in addition to keeping our spending in check, we also move away from income taxes and more both encouraging hard work. and we're giving people more control over the amount of taxes they ultimately pay. you see, in a! consumption tax model, you're in control. you only pay taxes on the purchases you choose to make, you're the one who decides what you buy, and how much you spend. and for the poorest ohioans we're providing additional income tax relief so they're not disproportionately impacted by the change in consumption tachs. our philosop

testimony in the trial continues hours from now in steubenville texas. >>> something was noticeably absentnight's broadcast from nbc's nightly news. brian williams' name was cut from the introductory graphics on the first edition of the newscast since williams' six-month suspension was announced tuesday. substitute anchor lester holt said this at the beginning of the broadcast. >> brian is a member of our family,y about so are you, our -- but so you are, our viewers. we will worker every night to be worthy of your trust. >> many are wondering if williams will ever return to the anchor chair. according to sources close to williams he is determined to earn back public trust. >>> cbs announced the death of one of its own wednesday. >> we have some sad news tonight from within our cbs news family. our "60 minutes" colleague, bob simon, was killed this evening. it was a car accident in new york city. >> bob simon earned countless awards for his work on "60 minutes" and elsewhere at cbs news including 27 emmys. in 1991 simon was captured by iraqi forces at the start of the gulf war. he spent 40

martin savidge joins me from steubenville, texas. what are you seeing out there?>> reporter: jake well it's improved a little bit as the heat of the day has come about but this morning in texas, it was an absolute mess. a winter storm moved in. this is the second storm to strike the south in a week. obviously hitting an area not accustomed regularly to this kind of weather, and as you say, dallas woke up to a mix of sleet, of snow of freezing rain and it shut down just about everything. those who were brave enough to go out on the highways probably wished they had not. there were a number of reports of multiple car pile-ups. you already mentioned the travel problems at dfw and love field. hundreds of flights in and out were canceled there. schools across much of this area were shut down as were government offices and here's the problem, jake. it has thawed as the day has come to a warm 35 but it's quickly going to drop below freezing again so everything that's thawed is going to freeze hard overnight and they expect tomorrow morning to be another treacherous commu