police learn was rented by new england patriot aaron hernandez. over the next several days, investigators search his home and cars removing bags of possible evidence. june 26th, 2013. nine days after the murder of odin lloyd. hernandez is arrested. for first degree premeditated murder, illegal weapon and ammo charges. his plea? >> not guilty. >> and he is no longer a new england patriot. >> i and other members of the organization were shocked and disappointed. >> hernandez is canned before he gets to the courthouse. >> mr. hernandez is charged with a very serious crime. that shouldn't be enough told him without bail. >> he is staying in jail. his attempts at bail have been denied. >> i think the commonwealth has presented a case that circumstantial, to be sure, but very strong. >> as hungarian hernandez adjusts to life behind bars, charged with murder, yet another accusation of gun violence makes headlines. four months before odin lloyd is gunned down, the football player is at tootsie's strip club in miami. a law enforcement source says hernandez

police quickly learn it was rented by new england patriot aaron hernandez. he next several days, investigators search his home and cars, removing bags of possible evidence. june 26, 2013, nine days after the murder of odin lloyd, hernandez is arrested. for first-degree premeditated murder, illegal weapon and ammo charges. his plea? >> not guilty. >> and he's no longer a new england patriot. >> i and other members of the organization were shocked. and disappointed. >> hernandez is canned before he reaches the courthouse. >> mr. hernandez is charged with a very serious crime, but that shouldn't be enough to hold him without bail. >> and he's staying in jail. his attempts at bail, denied. >> i think the commonwealth has presented a case that is circumstantial, to be sure, but very, very strong. >> as aaron hernandez adjusts to life behind bars, charged with murder, yet another accusation of gun violence makes headlines. four months before odin lloyd is gunned down, the football player is at tootsie's strip club in miami. law enforcement said hernandez drops abou

aaron hernandez guilty of all charges.ad back to the courthouse and check in with susan candiotti. as the jurors were answering the judge and saying they agreed to these guilty verdicts what was it like looking in their faces? did they show emotion? describe to us what that was like. >> reporter: they did not. as they walked into the courtroom, none of the jurors looked at aaron hernandez. i have to tell you, they never looked at him during the course of the trial either. and this day was no different. they looked straight ahead. you hear if you make eye contact that might have boded well for him. they did not. they stood there as the verdict was announced and as each person was polled. some of them glanced over to the family as they have been doing throughout. if they glanced offer at aaron hernandez, i wasn't able to see that. for his part for the first time carol it looked to me as though aaron hernandez had had the wind knocked out of him. this was as somber as i have ever seen him. each day as he's walked in and out o

two years went to high school with aaron hernandez, have known aaron hernandez for years. they now have been divided by this murder case. and so interesting thing to kind of pay attention to is will the younger sister take the stand? will she get on the stand in that courtroom and talk about odin lloyd and talk about how this has impacted her. she's estranged from her older sister that got on the stand. the older sister, shayanna jenkins is facing a count of perjury, a felony charge for lying allegedly 26 times to the grand jury so this case is far from over for the jenkins family. i suspect you will see the girlfriend of odin lloyd who has been in that courtroom for most of these proceedings taking the stand along with odin lloyd's mother when they get a chance to give witness impact statements on behalf of their loved ones, guys. >> they'll get that chance any minute right now. you're watching the emotion in the courtroom after the verdict was read. that's aaron hernandez's mother and fiance. this is odin lloyd's mother right here. so you can see just how close these two

>> my response is that the evidence targeted aaron hernandez. the evidence led to aaron hernande hernandez. that's what i would say. the evidence convicted aaron hernandez. there was no sloppy police investigation. it was done professionally, thoughtfully and the evidence obtained, especially in the early stages of the investigation led to aaron hernandez and has led to his conviction. >> you've seen a lot of juries in your time, how would you characterize this one? they appeared to be very involved. [ inaudible ]. >> i think so. i think they appeared to be an attentive, focused jury throughout the two plus months. that would be my observation of them. and i respect that. that was what was necessary, especially in a case of this length. this isn't a week trial. this is two and a half months. some of them were selected the first or second week of january. so i have great respect for their attention and focus during this trial. >> does your office expect an appeal beyond the automatic -- >> first-degree murder is the automatic appeal. beyond that i

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 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. >>

aaron hernandez's eyes didn't leave them.he kept looking over to them looking over to them whispering a couple times, be strong i'm okay. tremendous amount of emotion and drama in that courtroom as he learned that he will be spending the rest of his life in jail. and he's only 27 years old. brooke? >> do you have any idea -- i know we heard and we're going to get into this in a moment because we did hear from the jurors after the fact. but do you have any idea what took them -- it was 35 1/2 hours, seven days of deliberations. >> this jury talked about being very deliberate about their deliberations. they were very careful. they had a lot to consider just as you said. and they took their time doing it because they knew this was a very important task ahead of them. and so to them it didn't take long. they had to look over the important evidence. was that a gun in his hand? what about the testimony of key witnesses, including his fiance including bob kraft, the owner of the new england patriots? a lot of things to consider. eve

. >>> and breaking news in aaron hernandez downward spiral. and we just heard what he reportedly said after the judge handed down a life sentence. and the unlikely story behind a site that gripped washington today. a gyro copter. 535 letters on board addressed to members of congress and across miles of the most sensitive airspace on planet and normally we would say, the most heavily guarded and sensitive but that's not true. but he wasn't even trying to sneak in. he apparently planned for years to do this and talked to his home town newspaper about it and was even interviewed by the secret service back in 2015 and the secret service denied the fact that they knew about this flight that was goying to happen. and more on his looifflight and what itry reveals. >> i'm not suicidal and i'm not going to fly into any monuments. terrorists don't announce their flights before they take off. they don't broadcast their flight path. terrorists don't invite an escort to go along with them. >> that video and his website show in great detail what he was plan

a maurrijuana joint that contained dna from aaron hernandez and odin lloyd. they saw home security video showing hernandez carrying something. >> in my opinion, the firearm shown in the stills is a glok pistol. >> or is an r it an ipad? >> two theories. the fiance got immunity and they heard from her. >> the defendant said it was important that you gedown there and get this box and get rid it of is that right? >> i believe so. >> they had to digest the stunning 180 during closing arguments putting him that scene of the cream. >> he was a kid that had witnessed something, the killing of someone he knew and he really didn't know what to do. >> they spent seven days trying to decide beyond a reasonable doubt what all of that evidence added up to. none of them had been on a jury before for that length of time and they all say once is enough. there was a lot of witnesses and evidence presented. is that what made it so difficult or was there also just the emotional toll of dealing with somebody's life? >> you have to consider everything. you want to make sure that y

the first degree. >> for most convicted murders are, this is it but the trouble isn't over for aaron hernandez separate double murder trials in a separate case with a date that will be set in days. and they say daniel accidentally bumps into hernandez in a boston bar, spilling hernandez's drink. and then he's accused of trailing daniel and his friends. >> he had a load revolver extended out and said, yo what's up now? and said a racial slur. >> abrace you and another man were killed three others survived. >> while executing a search warrant at hernandez's uncle, they found a receipt for the suv. he was indicted on 2014 for the two murders and charge would two counts of armed assault with attempt to murder. he's also still facing wrongful death suits of the three men prosecutors say he murdered. in july of last year a judge in one of the civil cases, freezes 5 million dollars in assets of the football player which includes what he's owed by the new england patriots as a signing bonus. and bradley says he lost his eye after his friend shot him in a face after a florida strip club in 2013. he's s

and a text message where he felt something was wrong later that evening whennee was with aaron hernandez hernandez. >> a lot of things people talk about is the rule gdsings by the judge. and one of those things is the text message saying that he somehow didn't feel comfortable about being with these three men and that when the car returned to the home only three got out. and that was hernandez squksand the coconspirators in this case. and evidence was most damning was collected right in hernandez's home. and that's when you see him coming back at 2:00 in the morning with what appears to be gun and then fiance being told by him to get rid of a box. and the jurors felt that was eflfe enough to find him guilty of first degree murder. >> and criminal defense attorney, and here with me robert a former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. you've been here with us a number of times talking about this case. let's just start from the beginning. just signed a contract, a popular player and nobody could have predicted that his life would turn in this direction. >> i think there were a lot of p

the jury found aaron hernandez guilty of first degree murder of odin lloyd. cing hernandez to life in prison without parole. before the sentencing emotional testimony from the victim's family. unfortunately that's the wrong tape. there was very emotional victim impact statements made by the mother of lloyd. also the uncle and his sister. the aaron hernandez verdict is the topic of the bing question of the day. let's go inside to hear the statements for yourself. >> weddings, graduations. there will be holidays and he won't be there. there will be more children born and he won't be there with them either either. >> want to go to francis rivera with a look at where things stand. our oh bing question of the day. a lot of people want their voices heard. >> we asked a lot of viewers during the time lloyd was speaking in a press conference after the sentencing. this is what we asked. do you agree with the aaron hernandez guilty verdict? a lot of you have been responding since the start of the hour. here are the results so far. 31% of you said no you do not agree wit

this is aaron hernandez shackled. this concrete -- through this concrete wall with all this wiring and into this prison. that's the first glimpse we've had of him going into maximum security prison. if you're talking about aaron hernandez being able to be out and about with general population he won't be isolated? >> no, not really. and this place is just a reception center for the state of massachusetts. they kind of send everybody here. yes, it's maximum security. but they've got another place called suza boronski which is also another maximum security institution. he may eventually end up there. the department of corrections, they are the sole deciding factor of where you spend your time. it's not the jury or the judge. he may end up anywhere in the massachusetts system that has high security maximum inmates. >> do you think the guards -- >> is it dangerous, yes? >> do you think the guards will treat him differently and will he have visitors? will his fiancee be able to spend time with him? >> because he's in maxim

. >>> a steep plunge from grace for former nfl star aaron hernandez. he was once under a $40 million contract with the new england patriots. now he is convicted of murder. convicted by a jury in the 2013 slaying of odin lloyd. >> what say you? is the defendant guilty? guilty of murder in the first or guilty of murder in the second degree? >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> you can hear the emotion in that courtroom. judge susan garsh sentenced hernandez to live in prison without parole. susan candiotti was in the courtroom. she has more. >> reporter: christine and john good morning. aaron hernandez showed little emotion when the guilty verdict was read. he did lick his lips and rub his chin. something we saw him do during the trial when things got tense. at this moment he turned to see his mother and fiancee in each other's arms weeping. he told them to be strong and appeared to mouth the words they're wrong. we looked across the aisle to the mother of odin lloyd. she pumped her fists in the air as if a sign of relief. before aaron hernandez w

aaron hernandez is found guilty. i sat down with the jurors and found the decision they reached. >> charging the defendant aaron hernandez 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. >> first degree murder. the juror foreperson calls arriving at that decision by far the worst thing she's ever done and having said those words in front of the defendant and she describes that as well. and you'll hear that interview with her and her fellow jurors in just a moment. but take a look back at what they saw in that courtroom day after day and week after week and what they deliberated over in that jury room. >> from the beginning, almost to the end. >> guilty of murder in the first-degree. >> five men and seven women had two stories to choose from two versions of the defendant, they shared a come with week after week. >> one would leave him free to play for the patriots and marry his

martha: he is aaron hernandez. other people will go ahead shoot his fiance's sister's boyfriend in front of him and get away with it. plus his dna was placed at scene. >> exactly. martha: that made it i am possible. >> at the beginning it would have inured themselves with the jury. martha: much the same way the tsarnaev attorney said he did it and. bill: there was calculation, what you say in the course of evidence and testimony that would lead his attorneys to finally put him in that place at 3:00 in the morning, a couple of miles from his house half a mile from his home. >> the question is believability. would we lose all credibility with this jury if we maintain what we said in the opening which is that he had nothing to do with this? or are we going to help the government by admitting the obvious. >> when i'm looking at a jury, you know, especially in state court, you're two feet away, three feet away from 12 human beings you're interacting with them, they spent 10 weeks together. even though they don't speak t

martha: he is aaron hernandez.f him and get away with it. plus his dna was placed at scene. >> exactly. martha: that made it i am possible. >> at the beginning it would have inured themselves with the jury. martha: much the same way the tsarnaev attorney said he did it and. bill: there was calculation, what you say in the course of evidence and testimony that would lead his attorneys to finally put him in that place at 3:00 in the morning, a couple of miles from his house half a mile from his home. >> the question is believability. would we lose all credibility with this jury if we maintain what we said in the opening which is that he had nothing to do with this? or are we going to help the government by admitting the obvious. >> when i'm looking at a

the evidence led to aaron hernandez.ay, and the evidence is what convicted aaron hernandez. there was no sloppy police investigation. it was done professionally thoughtfully, and the evidence that was obtained especially in the early stages of the investigation led to aaron hernandez, and has led to his conviction. >> how would you characterize this one? they appeared to be very involved, and -- >> i think so. i think they appeared to be in attentive, focused jury throughout the two-plus months. i respect that. that was what was necessary, especially in a case of this length. this is 2 1/2 months some of them were selected so i -- i have great respect for their attention and focus during this trial. first degree murder is the automatic reveal. beyond that i would have -- i wouldn't know. >> do you intend to fully prosecute the other -- >> they're co-defendants, their matters are coming up for review next month. the prosecution of them will go forward.

and should aaron hernandez's lawyer a pole do they have grounds? >> and turning to another legal case that garnered national attention. attorneys for calharris pointing another suspect. harris was convicted twice of killing his wife in upstate new york in 2001. those convictions were thrown out because of a new witness and the second the judge had a problem with a jor. the case is in the 10th week and a witness testifying that he saw a woman who looked like michelle harris the day after prosecutors say she was killed. the woman was talking to a man in her drive way, we'll see what happens to the number three trial of mr. harris. >> fascinating case. >> most wanted terrorist killed in a drone strike. >> how he went from the guantanamo bay prison to be al-qaeda's leader in yemen. >> you have a wrong way driver. >> a car driving the wrong way in i- ten. >> a driver speeding down the free in the wrong direction. we'll show you how it plays out. it kinda is. it's as crazy as you not rolling over your old 401k. cue the horns... just harness the confidenc

aaron hernandez guilty of murder.jury had to say and why his legal problems are far from over. >>> security scare at the u.s. capitol. raising new questions about security. a pilot undetected by radar landing his craft just in front of the building. we're going to tell you the message he wanted lawmakers to hear. >>> cnn crews have an exclusive look inside these new attacks. we are live. >>> welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. 30 minutes past the hour. developing this morning, a steep plunge from grace from former nfl star aaron hernandez. he just signed a $40 million with the new england patriots, but now a convicted murderer. convicted by a massachusetts jury in the 2013 slaying of his friend odin lloyd. >> what say you? is the guiltyiyyguilty? >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> you can hear the emotion in the courtroom. after the verdict, the judge sentenced hernandez to life in prison without parole. national correspondent susan candiotti was in the courtroom. >> repor

hear anderson's observations when he's talking to all these jurors and they're all referring to aaron hernandezrst name "aaron" to me is an intimacy they say they all felt while silting in this court room for three months. has this become a home away from home? >> absolutely. a courtroom in any situation, becomes a home away from home. they watch them and know stories or makeup stories about them. and obviously, the defendant, clearly the defense attorneys called him aaron and they pick up on that and move forward with that. they watch the body language and the body language is the jurors were talk of it with aaron hernandez. what i think is really important is the body language between all of these jurors. >> what do you mean? >> if you watch, there are only four of them that speak out at all. maybe in follow up others speak but not many of them were shaking their heads in agreement with the jurors that were speaking out and while we certainly want to protect the sank sanktity of that jury room, i suggest it wasn't necessarily showing -- >> you're being nice but maybe you're saying there were

former nfl star aaron hernandez has just been found guilty of killing his friend odin lloyd. wn less than an hour ago. hernandez himself, at one point, sitting down as his verdict was read. >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> and nbc's ron joins me outside the courtroom. ron, that's just a snippet of what we saw play out in the courtroom with hernandez but we saw his fiance on one side and the family of lloyd on the other side. this guy was once an nfl star and now will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. >> it's a dramatic verdict in this case. and i think those that have been following closely thought this would headed for a hung jury because these jurors took their time. they were on their 7th day here this morning but what this suggests to me is that they probably went home last night in agreement and wanted to sleep on it because you are sending a

you have been watching aaron hernandez in court now for weeks, does the jury see the same aaron hernandezo? >> he is very attentive in court, and listens to the evidence, and witnesses, and he takes notes throughout, and very serious, but when the cameras are not rolling, and the jury is not in the courtroom we see him walk in and out of the courtroom with quite an air of confidence and he smiles and laughs and jokes with the lawyers, and in particular even flirts with his fiancee, smiling and laughing quite a bit, and that is again, something that the jury does not see, and it is quite remarkable to watch, don. >> i want you to watch this, susan, the viewers, because today, the last day of the trial, the defense told the jury something new. listen. >> so what are you to make of aaron's conduct? did he make all of the right decisions decisions? no. did he make all of the right choices? no. he was a 23-year-old kid. he had witnessed something. a shocking killing. committed by somebody that he knew. he he really didn't know what to do. >> so susan, his own team admitting that he witnessed s

aaron hernandez is found guilty.rors and found the decision they reached. >> charging the defendant aaron hernandez 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. >> first degree

they must decide if aaron hernandez shot is and killed odin lloyd. defense attorneys are arguing it's his friends responsible. that aaron hernandez himself was planning his future not a murder. we haven't had had had any notes from the jurors this past day. the last note was monday when they asked to reschedule a regular smoking break. when the jury reconvenes this morning at 9:00 a.m., it will be their seventh day of deliberations. will they reach a verdict? >>> two college students have been arrested and another is being sought in what police say was a spring break gang rape on the beach in panama city florida. ryan calhoun and valente bart bartista. they say it took place on a beach while others watched. officials are expressing their outrage. >> we can wear t-shirts that say save our beach all we want to. but that is not going to restore this girl who was viciously violated by these individuals. >> police say the victim contacted them after recognizing her tattoos. she told them she remembers taking a drink but does not remember rape. >>> actress

let's get to the biggest oning and by biggest i mean a six foot 1 murderer. >> former nfl star aaron hernandez was found guilty of verdict. the verdict came down moments ago. hernandez stood a couped of killing odin lloyd in 2013. >> larry: now the news of a guilty verdict came as somewhat of a shock seeing as normally there are no consequences when a patriot breaks the rules. hey don't hate the messenger. as for punishment he got a life sentence an if you think that's harsh if you add on the likely two-game nfl suspension whooo! suffah! suffah! (applause) right. so anyway, what was hernandez's reaction to the verdict? >> the former patriots tightened showed almost no emotion as the verdict was read except for a moment he appears to send a message directly to the jury mouthing these words. you're wrong. >> in all fairness he thought he heard not guilty. ease's just correcting them. the only reason i can think of because this guy i think he definitely did it. i mean he's got a pretty crazy track record. while he was a freshman at the university of florida hernandez broke a bouncer's eardrum ove

. >> do you -- [ inaudible ] aaron hernandez gets it got it today when that verdict was read? >> i don't know. i think when they put -- when you are taken away and they say life in prison without parole someone's got to respond to that. there's got to be some response but i don't know if he gets it. >> prepared for the possibility -- >> the d.a. -- evidence has been garnered in the new charges? >> suffolk has their pending cases, has their case pending, they're dealing with it. certainly it if there's any information that we have that could be of assistance we'll work with them. >> can we hear from mr. mccullough? >> you can. >> i don't have much to say substantively about the case, but i did just want to thank the jury for the verdict. it's obviously been a long trial and it was quite, i'm sure an inconvenience for them in their lives to commit this kind of time. we felt we had their attention every day, both the prosecution and the defense. fairly considered the evidence. they've returned a verdict that's supported by that evidence. so we're very grateful for their commitmen

aaron hernandez's words during his transfer to a state prison wednesday. yed as a new england patriot. a law enforcement source saying hernandez telling his jailers "i didn't do it." hours after being sentenced to life without parole. >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> reporter: hernandez grim-faced as he heard the verdict. with his mother and fiancee in tears and just feet away from the family of victim odin lloyd no less emotional. hernandez pursing his lips and appearing it to mouth the words, be strong and i'm okay they got it wrong. a jury finding hernandez guilty of the 2013 execution-style murder of odin lloyd shot six times. central to the case surveillance videos that show the victim on the night of his death getting into a rented altima with hernandez and two other men. other video showing the same car at the industrial park where lloyd's body was found. and minutes later that car back in hernandez's driveway. hernandez's own surveillance cameras capture him holding what prosecutors say is the murder weapon. that .45 caliber glock was nev

>>> jurors deliberate today in the murder trial of ex-football star aaron hernandez. ing closing arguments on tuesday, the lawyer for hernandez acknowledged for the first time that his client was at the murder scene. this as prosecutors say evidence clearly shows that hernandez had a calculated plan to kill odin lloyd. cnn's susan candiotti picks up the story. >> reporter: a day of passionate closing arguments by both prosecutors and defense in the case of aaron hernandez. prosecutors for the very first time identifying hernandez as the trigger man in the shooting death of odin lloyd. and defense attorneys for the first time saying that aaron hernandez was, in fact, at the crime scene, saying this. calling him a 23-year-old kid who in their words witnesses something committed by somebody he knew. indicating that they are trying to shift the blame on the two other people who were in the car that night. now, the jury spent about an hour and a half deliberating and will have their first full day of deliberations beginning in the morning at 9:00 a.m. christine and john? >>

this is not the last courtroom aaron hernandez will see.ater this year, it's expected he will stand trial for double murder up in boston. this stems from a drive-by shooting there in the summer of 2012. he has pleaded not guilty in that case. he's also being sued in civil court by a man who says aaron hernandez shot him in the face. lester? >> ron, thank you. >>> we turn to arizona now. on the heels of several recent incidents raising alarm about the use of police force, shocking video has surfaced of an officer taking down an armed suspect by hitting him with his car. but there's a lot more to the story which is why the police department says it's something that had to be done. nbc national correspondent miguel almaguer has the story. >>> i got a male -- >> reporter: as police pursued the armed suspect, dash camera captured the violent collision. >> oh -- [ bleep ] [ bleep ] man down. >> reporter: this is a graphic view from officer michael rapiejko's car as he slams into the suspect at 40 miles an hour. >> it's outside the box, and it's u

your natural life without the possibility of parole. >> reporter: the trouble is not over for aaron hernandezarate double murder charges in a different case with a trial date that will be set within days. july 2012, prosecutors say daniel de abreau bumps into hernandez in a boston bar spilling the nfl star's drink. after leaving the night club, hernandez is accused of tailing him and his friends. >> the defendant leaned out of the driver's side window of the suv with a loaded revolver in his hand 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: abraue was killed. three of their friends survived. the shooter got away. prosecutors had no idea who could have done this, but while executing a search warrant at the connecticut home of aaron hernandez's uncle, they unexpectedly 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 1

aaron hernandez is about to aaron hernandez is about to complete a twisted journey fromth the super bowl to prison by the age of 25. today the former new england patriot's tight end was found guilty of first-degree murderde and was quickly sentenced to life without parole. anna werner is following the case. >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> reporter: aaron hernandez's h mother and fiancee hugged each other and sobbed after the verdict was read. jurors took seven days to find hernandez guilty of murdering his friend odin lloyd in june ofin 2013. lloyd's body was found in an industrial park less than a mile from hernandez's home. he had been shot six times. bristol county district attorney thomas quinn. >> aaron hernandez may have been a well-known new england patriots' football player, however, in the end the jury found that he was just a man who committed a brutal murder. >> reporter: hernandez was a rising star for the new england patriots with a $40 million contract, but he was dropped from the team after being arrested.ci most of the evidence against him was circumstantial,

>> after seven days of deliberation, today jurors found former new england patriots tight end aaron hernandezuilty of first degree murder. as the law requires, hernandez was immediately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of 27-year-old odin lloyd. odin lloyd's body was found at an industrial park near hernandez's home. he was convicted in a bristol county courtroom in fall river today and will serve his life sentence at a prison in walpole, where for the rest of his life, he will hear the cheering of 69,000 patriots fans during every home game because the patriots stadium is located within easy earshot of that prison. just before issuing her sentence, judge susan garsch heard from the living victims of this crime, the mother and sister of odin lloyd. >> odin was the backbone of the family. odin was the man of the house. odin was his sister's keeper. after my daughter, olivia, had her daughter, sonia, odin became sonia's -- odin attended every one of sonia's recitals. odin was sonia's biggest supporter in every aspect of his life. olivia and shakila ha

. >> aaron hernandez may have been a well-known new england patriots football player. however in the end the jury found he was a man who creat who committed a brutal murder. >> grief a year since a south korean ferry accident. so close and yet so far. a video showing the spacex rocket falling back to earth but failing to stick the landing. good evening i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. how a florida mail main was able to breach air space in washington, d.c. undetected and land a small helicopter on the west lawn of the capitol building. lisa stark reports it's raising more concerns about security in the nation averages capital. >> a 67-year-old wanted to galvanize the country something he feels very strongly about campaign finance reform. he certainly grabbed the spotlight but at the same time, he violated the security of the nation's capital. this cell phone shows what tourists on capitol hill saw and heard. the loud noise of a single person aircraft flying low and landing on the capitol lon. it took capitol police nearly a minute to converge on the gyro-c

but also this is a man who was so close to aaron hernandez that hernandez named this man, bradley, as to his child. but he also said that hernandez had trouble trusting people. that's significant, ashleigh, because of a text that aaron hernandez sent two days before lloyd is murdered. and that text said, i was mad at myself because i told odin lloyd about a spot. and that could be motive, prosecutors say. >> susan candiotti, i've only got a couple of seconds left. but i can't imagine the mood between these two. that guy got shot in the face allegedly by the guy he's facing down in court. did you sense a very uncomfortable existence in there? >> reporter: oh, yeah, they're staring each other down. no love lost there. but he said bizarre things about him the jury will never hear. he stated that aaron hernandez was paranoid, always thought the police were following him on the ground and even in helicopters and he didn't trust people using iphones because he thought they could eavesdrop on him. bizarre. >> susan candiotti covering this life. yeah, something every day. thank you so much, s

. >>> a massachusetts jury has found aaron hernandez guilty of first-degree murder. the jury found hernandez guilty of extreme atrocity and cruelty in the killing of oden lloyd in june of 2013. he will now spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. nbc's chris pallone has more. >> reporter: he was once of the nfl's brightest stars. now former new england patriots tight end aaron hernandez is a convicted murderer. >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> reporter: the jury's decision came on the seventh day of deliberations after a nine-week trial in the testimony of more than 130 witnesses. jurors finding hernandez killed his friend odin lloyd in june 2013 and left his body in a vacant lot not far from hernandez's home. as the jury delivered its verdict, hernandez shook his head and fell into a chair. his fiancee, who testified earlier in the trial, wept. so did members of lloyd's family. in her victim impact statement, lloyd's mother offered her son's killer forgiveness though she didn't mention hernandez by name. >> my baby's footpri

>>> a former nfl star aaron hernandez guilty of murder sentenced to life in prison. no chance of parole. he was on campus as the verdict was read. mouthing "you're wrong." >>> more breaking news. isis fighters in a siege of a major city. will the united states intervene? an exclusive report from the ground "outfront" tonight. let's go "outfront." >>> i'm erin burnett. "outfront," we begin with breaking news. chaos at the capitol. a gyro copter landing outside the united states capitol. the capitol was locked down police racing through the halls in fear for the lives of hundreds of lawmakers. it was a one-man piloted copter and it landed near the spot where the christmas tree every year stands. the pilot had been reportedly flying for about 45 miles an hour. he was quickly arrested. but here's the thing. he had flown through restricted air space for hours undetected and unchallenged. and the big question tonight is how could this happen? how could a man fly into the teeth of the most heavily protected air space in the world and get away with it? the pilot, doug hughes

when aaron hernandez drove home odin lloyd was no longer alive.authorities also say that they think they have proven the fact this he had a gun in his hand before he left his house and again after odin lloyd is murdered. now, the defense will say, you didn't prove it at all. in fact, you haven't even proven a solid motive. for the first time the defense acknowledged that aaron hernandez was at the crime scene but this time they said this, he just witnessed a crime that he had no idea was going to happen. and you can't charge him with anything that happened after that because he's only charged with murder. he was only a witness. we'll see what the jury thinks. >> susan, there's been a lot of talk by court observers about hernandez's, for want of a better word swagger in court. do you think his body language has been a turnoff to the jury at all? >> reporter: well here's why it won't be. because when the jury is present and the cameras are rolling and the trial is going on he has been all business. it is only after the jury leaves and when he comes

." >> we're waiting for a verdict in the aaron hernandez trial. we said it yesterday, and they deliberated nine hours and nothing, and now they're deliberating into today. we can't read anything into that really. did the former pro football star's lawyer create enough doubt in the jurors' mind with that last-minute claim that hernandez witnessed the shooting but didn't commit the crime? plus how the judge says a television station nearly caused a mistrial yesterday. or at least it was threatened. we'll tell you what the television station did and you tell us. i'm louis, and i quit smoking with chantix. quitting smoking is a challenge and it's a lot easier to go into a fight when you've got somebody that's got your back. having chantix as a partner made it more successful. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix helped reduce my urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chan

bristol county district attorney thomas quinn. >> aaron hernandez may have been a well-known new england patriots' football player however, in the end the jury found that he was just a man who committed a brutal murder. >> reporter: hernandez was a rising star for the new england patriots with a $30 million contract, but he was dropped from the team after being arrested. most of the evidence against him was circumstantial, but there was a lot of it. in text messages, hernandez urged lloyd to meet him the night he was killed. a neighbor's surveillance camera captured lloyd getting enter a car that prosecutors said was driven by hernandez. surveillance video from hernandez's own home showed him holding something resembling a gun the day lloyd was killed. video also showed his fiancee shayanna jenkins, removing a box from their home. she told the court hernandez told her to get rid of it. >> did he indicate to you what was inside the box? >> no. >> reporter: odin lloyd's mother, ursula ward, spoke after the verdict. >> he was my son. i love him dearly. >> reporter: hernandez also faces othe

in fall river massachusetts a jury has found aaron hernandez guilty of first-degree murder. is convicted of killing a man who was dating the sister of hernandez's fiance at the time. he could get sentenced to life without parole. no more toga parties. no more flounder. i'm talking "animal house." dartmouth college has shut down the fraternity that was the inspiration for that movie. dartmouth was not happy that the alpha delta house branded fl esh of 11 new members. the frat had already been on suspension for several other infractions and apparently dartmouth does not believe in double secret probation. i want to point out what i find interesting about the stories. in order to get into dartmouth, you kind of have to be a super nerd. how do you go from being a super nerd, number one in your high school class to a complete beast animal, branding the skin of your pledges? where's the disconnect? you go from valedictorian to, nine months later, i'm going to brand someone. i'm going to get branded. erik: we're going to talk about google. the eu says this company is behaving like a