ashleigh?lot of critical information that still needs to be discov discovered in this very intricate process. jake tapper, thank you for that. later on this afternoon you'll have a lot more on this on your program "the lead" at 4:00 p.m. eastern. my colleague, i thank him, jake tapper, for that. >>> in the meantime, we're continuing to watch the image on the bottom right-hand side of the screen, the homecoming imminent at any moment now, expected for gina dejesus. she spent ten years roughly behind the closed door of the home of now a man who is expected to be charged with a myriad of different charges related to the captivity of three young women. amanda berry, gina dejesus, and michelle knight. we have had one joyous homecoming already earlier on today. amanda berry, now 27, returning home to her sister's home. and bringing with her a 6-year-old daughter born in captivity. gina dejesus about to come home at any moment. we'll bring it to you live after the short break. welcome to the new buffa

tell me what you're learning. >> that's right, ashleigh. according to a couple of my sources, we're learning that castro's behavior toward the women evolved over time and that there were varying degrees of treatment toward the women. that amanda berry, who had his child, was treated slightly better than the other two, gina dejesus and michelle knight. it seemed castro slightly favored amanda berry. again, it's important to note here that they were all treated poorly, according to sources. and that any notion of a hierarchy is really a jump here, that they were all treated poorly but it appeared amanda berry was treated slightly better and that michelle knight was treated the worst out of the three. according to a family friend we spoke with, we were told that michelle knight was treated as castro's main punching bag, that he would use just about everything to abuse her as well as hand weights. we're hearing that from a family friend and that during her time in captivity she suffered vision loss and muscle and joint damage. but of course whe

>> ashleigh, it is a wonderful point. i have to say i couldn't agree with jami any more as she laid it out because i think the jury is processing it that way. and not only, ashleigh, remember, are they evaluating it in the context of the stab wounds and the pain and the suffering and the gunshot, but they're also evaluating it in the context of what she, jodi arias, had to say when she testified and the fact she took no responsibility, the fact she trashed the victim, now certainly this hearing is limited to the issue of cruelty, but when the jury evaluates that, they're going to be looking at what they heard from a defendant who took no responsibility. we saw an opening statement from curt nurmi, he tried to define the law and said it is not cruel you're looking at, it is unusually cruel, depraved. i think under the circumstances with the doctor testifying, with the blood all over the place, it is going to be a very tough day, certainly for the defense to try to establish that and we know most of all, ashleigh, it is a h

>> ashleigh, we were told amanda was going to speak.re kind of surprised, to be honest with you after what she went through that she would be ready to deal with many members of the news media, but hundreds of neighbors here. but indeed she is not ready to speak. her sister beth serrano just came out. i don't know if you could hear her but she was very thankful for support. she was very emotional. said we need quiet right now, but my sister is in the house, she is in the house with her child. we are elated, everyone clapped and she went back in the house. we anticipate one of these days maybe soon talking to amanda too. but we understand as human beings and parents and brothers and sisters, need to get privacy right now. it's a wonderful moment, a happy ending that thankfully truthfully many people did not ever, ever in this cleveland area expect to see. >> gary tuchman, completely understandable with the amount of information being released at such a rapid pace how there can be confusion, how the police can make the mistake and tell us

ashleigh?stions will be looked at, you know, with a microscope, but at same time, we're focusing a lot on this officer and the second responding officer. but there had to have been other first responders somewhere along the line. where are we only looking at two at this point? >> well, what is interesting is when the initial call came in, it was described as a robbery. not as a hostage situation. and it may not have been a hostage situation. but this was happening within a matter of minutes. clearly the perpetrator did not anticipate police to be called so quickly and when they arrived, everything changed. the dynamic was completely different. he took this young woman hostage, bringing her downstairs in a headlock, the gun at her head. and so whether they should have called her back up, if backup was on its way, all of that is currently under investigation. it was not initially treated as a hostage situation when you had a lot more people, you would have had a hostage negotiator, a tactical tea

in my view, ashleigh, the only one that can save jodi arias is jodi arias. >> ashleigh, go ahead, jeanclarify for a minute. normally in a penalty phase like this there can be an alocushion. -- alocution. the other aspect. i've never seen it before, jodi arias testifying in the penalty phase, which would be very different. she would be sworn under oath and be able to cross-examined. if she testifies to the worth of her life and the passivist activities and her demeanor. then she could be cross-examined on that and we could see brand-new evidence about her anger and the intense, the intensity of anger that she's portrayed through her life. >> and we could see that video of last week's interview brought in to refute everything she says, if she begs for her life. she can show a video that says, i'm done with it. listen, this trial is so bizarre. i have to move on, thank you both. i do appreciate your insight. we'll see more of you throughout the coverage today. >>> in the eyes of the law, he's a robber and a kidnapper, sentenced to prison for decades, but o.j. simpson says, that's not true

ashleigh? >> and quite frankly, ted rowlands, one of the more difficult decisions may yet to come, as you just mentioned, if they decide this is a first degree murder, they have a very difficult decision next. and that's life or death. we're going to get to that in a moment. we're juggling so many big breaking stories today from washington to phoenix, all the way to cleveland, arizona. i want to rejoin my colleague brooke baldwin live in cleveland, outside of the home of gina dejesus, who we have been waiting to return joyfully, hopefully triumphantly and watching as this family, jubilation, joins their child, now a woman, who has been gone for almost a decade. brooke, tell us what you know from there. >> what a past 48, 72 hours here in cleveland, ohio. you're looking at live pictures, aerial pictures. we have cameras on the ground here. we saw within the past hour, the jubilation. there are no words. there are no words for this h e homecomi homecoming. it has been ten years in the making. gin

i'm ashleigh banfield reporting live in phoenix.world" is next. >>> welcome to "around the world." i'm suzanne malveaux. >> and i'm michael holmes. happy monday. well, they were taking in the sights from the sky when their hot air balloon hit another. and you see what happened. we're going to have the latest from turkey. >> then, tornadoes wreaking havoc across the midwest and southern plains. we are live from oklahoma. >> and, will it be life or death for convicted murderer jodi arias? we're going to have a look at what the penalty could be. >> brace yourselves, more brutal weather might be on the way. we are looking at a repeat possibly of the rash of tornadoes they ripped through the nation's heartland, really quite amazing. >> did a lot of damage. we're talking hundreds of homes damaged or destroyed in state after state. we're talking about oklahoma, kansas, illinois, iowa and missouri, all with reports of tornadoes overnight. >> get back here. we got to go! >> look at this massive -- look at those pictures. unbelievable massive

she made prison, ashleigh, almost look like a trip to disney world. know, we're going to have language lessons and book clubs. i'm going to grow my hair and donate it to cancer victims and it's going to be wonderful. now, usually people say i don't want to give her the death penalty because life in prison would be the worst punishment for somebody like this. but jodi arias has managed to turn that on its head and make prison sound like a very nice place. so it doesn't sound like a good thing to say to a jury, but this is the death penalty, and people have individual views about this, as do these 12 jurors. so it's hard to make a prediction in the end. >> well, and let's not forget that this is a nonsequestered jury. they go home to their familied. they walk by newsstands. they're not supposed to engage in any conversation or media on what's happened. but it's everywhere. it's almost impossible to not hear someone. i've heard three or four conversations in the last 24 hours in restaurants about people angry over what's going on. so, you know, the fact

i'm ashleigh banfield.e are starting with that incredible story out of ohio, and what is developing right now. moments ago we learned new information about that little girl, the 6-year-old girl that escaped from that house with her mother, amanda berry, a captive. reuters is reporting that new dna tests confirm that kidnapping suspect ariel castro is, indeed, the father of that child. also, one local prosecutor says he is now looking to seek possibly the death penalty in this case. the county prosecutor says he is ready to press for more charges against ariel castro, including aggravated murder. why aggravated murder? well, they would be for the alleged termination of his captives' pregnancies. michelle knight alone told investigators that she had been impregna impregnated five different times and she miscarried after being starve and beaten in the stomach. she remains hospitalized today. all of this as cnn has learned that she had been removed from a federal missing persons database years ago. we're expect

ashleigh? >> reporter: so, jake, let me give you a bit of a scene setter as to what is going on right now. we're only five minutes from the announcement of when this verdict is supposed to come down. right now i cap tell yn tell yo arias family have been brought into the courtroom and also tell you that those on the other side of this case, travis alexander's family, has also been escorted to a witness room very close by. the prosecutor in this case, juan martinez, was seen going into that room presumably to talk to them a little bit about bracing them for whatever this decision could be. this is the time when these kinds of victims' families need an enormous amount of comfort and need to be told as painful as it can be that decisions can go either ways. presumably that is what juan martinez is doing right now. there is one person who is no stranger to what it is like just moments before a very serious verdict comes down and that is mark geragos who has defended scott peterson and a number of h

>> good morning, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield, coming your way this hour. is this devout mormon an mother of seven and grandmother really a drug dealer? we will take you inside a mexican prison to get her side of the story in a tearful and telling interview with an arizona woman caught in an international legal nightmare. >>> also, james holm, claims he's ensane, he says he shouldn't have to answer to the doctors who want to prove he isn't. >>> is the theatre massacre suspect trying to avoid execution? >>> how much more can oklahoma and kansas take? tornado alley in the crosshairs again today. we will tell you who else is facing the threat of severe weather. we will go storm chasing with chatted myers, all that just ahead. >>> first up this morning, after weeks of breaking news that has ricochetted between the cleveland house of horrors and a death deadlock case in california. a jury has been sitting by day after day in an l.a. courtroom listening to the lawyers battling over michael jackson and whether somebody needs to pay for his tragic death. somebody b

ashleigh?other aspects of this truly bizarre video, as we look at it and you see him making his appeal to this, you know, this cell phone-wielding passerby, there's a woman in the background who has her groceries. and she's just walking, right across the street, up to a murderer with blood on his hands, yielding a cleaver and a knife, seemingly unaware, as even she sees a body on the ground, that she's about to near brush up against a guy who had just perpetrated all of this. these bystanders, what are they saying? did they know what was going on? did they think that it was something else to this? it just doesn't seem like anyone was afraid or running for their lives? >> reporter: no, exactly. there was a lot of confusion. a lot of eyewitnesss i spoke to said they thought, initially, it was a road accident, because they saw a car up on the sidewalk and a body in the middle of the road in a pool of blood. and they presumed it was a road accident. they did not know that he had been hacked to deat

ashleigh? though -- i know that when you cover storms, it is so different when you're there, than when you see it through the camera lens, but it looks as though that whole area has been put through a blender and it looks very windy as well. are they worried about any further weather or are they in the clear? >> reporter: you know, when we woke up this morning we saw some clouds and it felt like it was going to rain. today it looks like things have cleared up quite a bit. but we are hearing that some severe weather, there is the potential for severe weather in the next few days. obviously people here are going to be closely monitoring that and keeping a close look on that as they figure out what they're going to do, survivors trying to figure out if they'll be able to get back to their homes inside that subdivision and try to salvage things before the storms had hit. we don't know when and if that will happen. >> and where they're going to live and everything else. there is just such a huge roa

>> no, ashleigh, we weren't.cky relationship between the mayor and his staff and so, no, we western able to get comment. the one thing i might mention, several years ago, there was an incident at toronto maple leaf hockey game where people were watching the game complained about a person they described as then counsellor rob ford acting like he was drunk and being quite rude and offensive. he denied that immediately saying that was ridiculous. then later on, ended up when more proof was provided by the people who actually had been given his business card by another person sitting in the seat, he owned up to it and said it was him. there is a bit of a pattern if denial of this public tishl. >> kemp, i have to ask you, look, there are somali drug dealers who are kaufr offering to sell this video. it is an extraordinarily unorthodoxed way to report that you can't show the video unless you pay them. so this is a very difficult journalistic line to try to walk. i got to ask you. you have put the reputation of the toro

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i'm ashleigh banfield in new york city. with egot a busy show ahead, the day's main news stories and as always our take on american justice, daytime justice. first up, astonishing video of two most despised young men in the country. perhaps the most hated young men in the country, tamerlan and tsarnaev. an atrocious attack that killed three people and wound more than 270 and cruelly shattered the country's oldest and most iconic marathon. brand-new security video today of the brothers together, just going to the gym in boston, mere hours before perpetrating potentially allegedly these bombings. by all appearance, they sure are relaxed and calm, aren't they, just working out? cnn's debra fairer spoke to the gym's manager. >> reporter: 72 hours before the bombs dead nated almost to the minute, they worked out together at a gym in boston. security cameras show the brothers arriving with a friend just before 2:45 friday afternoon. we spoke to the manager who asked we only use his first name michael. he says tamerlan you see in

>> you're absolutely right, ashleigh.his in my book "swagger," our priorities are all out of whack in the criminal justice system. we have hundreds of thousands of people currently lly incarcera for minor crimes like drug possession for marijuana, this is appalling. this is such an important story and i applaud you and cnn for running it. there is no excuse for allowing rapists to go free. i think we all have to take a very hard look at ourselves in the mirror as a culture as to how seriously we take the crime of rape if we allow these cases to go unsolved. >> and then one answer, yes or no, christine grillo, one answer, can these women sue the police for this? >> yes. in certain circumstances, yes. >> maybe money will really start to talk. lisa bloom, christine grillo, thank you both. we're back right after this. >>> thanks for watching, everyone. "around the world" is next. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. b

as soon as jodi arias is going on, as ashleigh told you, we'll switch over to that. for now we're here in moore, oklahoma. all around us, this is what happens when you have a bowling alley that is attacked by a tornado. steel girders, aluminum reinforced walls everything that held up this massive structure twisted like a pretzel. that is the devastating power and violence unique to a tornado. they are still trying to assess it with tornadoes they assess them by damage. the damage here, people in the community say it's as bad as they have ever seen. good news, the government has been giving us casualty numbers throughout the morning. those numbers are going down. why? well, they're getting better coordinated reports. things that are being repeated are getting sorted out. right now, we have a death toll in the 20s. some of them unfortunately are kids, lost their lives in an elementary school because, remember, this struck just as school was getting out. that number's gone down today. that's a breath of fresh air for some people. we want to play some sound of what it wa

i'm ashleigh banfield reporting live today from phoenix, arizona. in about on two hours a jury of eight men and four women are going to assemble in this courthouse behind me, and they're going to resume their deliberations in the jodi arias murder trial. beth karas and jane very well esmitchell will join me in just a moment, but our top story is unfolding. 2,000 miles away at this moment and what a tale it is. authorities in cleveland are now giving us a bit more information on the incredible rescue of three young women who are virtually snatched off the city streets a decade ago. amanda berry, kidnapped a day before her 17th brt day in 2003. gina dejesus, kidnapped in 2004, at the age of 14. michelle knight, kidnapped in 2002, age 20. all of them found not far from where the crime scenes from where they were taken. all found seemingly unhurt and now safe. a 6-year-old girl who apparently belongs to berry was also rescued. the house belongs to this man, 512-year-old ariel castro, who is in custody today along with his older brother, pedro, and young

4>>> good morning, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. on this memorial day, we begin with the day that celebrates memorial day, arlington cemetery. the president and first lady are there honoring all those in uniform who have geffenberg their lives serving this country. our dan lothian is with us live from the white house as the president is busy and so to speak on the road. dan, i wanted to ask you as we get ready to listen to the president and his address today on this memorial day at the tomb, it's a busy time for him. he has a lot going on on his agenda. a number of different scandals that are being characterized. at the same time, he does take this time on this day to do this and it is a busy day for him as well, isn't it? >> it really is a busy day for the president. are you right. the president thinks that these are special moments to honor those who have given so much for this country. people the president, himself, pointed out. in his weekly address, we don't ask for attention, they're out of the spotlight. yet they sacrifice so

. >> we want to bring in ashleigh banfield.s you just heard, it sounds, ashley, i want to make sure i understood what i heard. they do not have a unanimous verdict. that would mean a hung jury or what? >> yes. unfortunately that, is exactly what it is. the wording on the verdict form which they had to fill out was couldn't agree on a unanimous verdict. and this is a very unfortunate development. you can see the family. they're so devastated. this has been five months of hell for family and friends of the victim in this case only to come this far to have no decision on what to do. and in most jurisdictions, erin, this automatically means a life sentence. but not here. not in arizona. there is another option now. and that is to bring in a whole new jury. it does not mean a whole new trial. it does not mean five more months of hell for everyone involved on the victim side of the case and all of the money that this state has had to spend to actually not only prosecute but defend because she's on public defense. to defend this case.

>> you know, i think it's too soon to tell, ashleigh.an tell you that every judge will make a determination to whether or not evidence is relevant and even if it's relevant, if it's too prejudicial, that evidence usually doesn't come in, in front of a jury. i will say this, though, in october, this judge indicated that any evidence of trayvon martin's propensity for violence or characteristics for violence could be relevant, because this is, after all, a self-defense case. so that kind of evidence may come in. the judge also may consider use, prior use of drugs as relevant, only because george zimmerman on that 911 call says, hey, listen, he looks as if he is on drugs. so i think it's possible the judge will think, maybe this is relevant. but that still doesn't mean it comes in. again the balancing test; even if it's relevant, is it so prejudicial to sort of outweigh all of its rem. if you look at these text messages. if you look at tease pictures, i think it's so highly prejudicial the judge says, no, i'm not going to touch this, unless

innovation never felt so good. >>> i'm ashleigh banfield reporting live in phoenix.to start in just a few hours for jodi arias, one day after the jurors in her trial found her guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of her ex-boyfriend, travis alexander. of course, travis's family and friends, i think it's fair to say, are extraordinarily relieve relieved. at the very least, jodi arias is going to spend 25 years to life behind bars. she could also get the death penalty at the very most for what she did to travis. when you think about family and friends and the ordeal they've gone through, it is important to remember the man and the ordeal he went through and what he meant to all the people that he left behind after that violent murder. julie christopher worked with travis. she knew him for five years. they were friends. they spent time together. and also you knew jodi, i think, which is so uncomfortable in this situation. she joins me live here now. i first want to get your reaction, you were amongst the three rows of family and friends in the courtroom when tha

she could get, and ashleigh, you'll correct me if i'm wrong, if she could get life in prison for second-degree murder, she cannot get the death penalty for second-degree murder. so the real distinction here is between first-degree murder and everything else. >> let me jump in for a moment. i have a statute. it is different in every state. sometimes you can have wide variances. here in arizona the statute allows in second-degree murder for a sentence of no less than ten years but no more than 22. i've been in jurisdictions where they do allow life imprisonment not without parole. second-degree murder could give her no less than ten up to 22. one level down on the lesser included is manslaughter no less than seven would be the sentence

. >> ashleigh, is there, as well, ashleigh, this has been a dramatic moment. what, three and a half months this trial has been going on. now it's going to be several more days before we know what the penalty will be. >> and a very unusual set of circumstances in this jurisdiction. in fact, jeffrey and i were just discussing it. we hadn't seen this before. that in this second phase, it's a two-prong approach to assessing whether aggravators are met in this case and the judge laid out very early on in the case that the particular aggravator of interest was the cruelty travis alexander travis suffered in this murder. if they agree cruelty was in fact an aggravator that existed in this murder then they will move on to the penalty phase and that's where the aggravators and mitigators would be presented in possibly many days. i can't tell you how many days it would take. there's been a mitigation specialist jeffrey and i were just talking about working with jodi arias for months and months and visiting her in jail. she's been in jail for four and a half years so ple

ashleigh banfield in phoenix. ashleigh, thank you.to you as news merits. >>> meantime to london, the other breaking story we're watching for you on this wednesday afternoon. the british government holding an emergency meeting, responding to a bizarre and deadly suspected terror attack. in fact this video here this is youtube video showing the incident itself, which started when a british soldier was brutally murdered in the streets and now we know who other men possibly his attackers have been shot by police. fran townsend, cnn national security analyst is in new york. and atika shubert covering the developing story there in london. atika, first, to you, we have this on camera statement from the suspect. let's listen to that first. >> i apologize that women had to witness this today, but in our land, our women have to see the same. you people will never be safe. remove your government. they don't care about you. >> so this is, atika, this is a portion of what was filmed after the slaying of this soldier. i understand we have the full

let's bring back ashleigh banfield right now. ashleigh shs you've been working this story. exactly do we know about these three individuals? i believe they're students at the university of massachusetts, the dartmouth campus there, what do we know about what's going on? >> well, this is in such the early offerings of this story at this point. but our sources are telling cnn at least at this point, wolf, that homeland security are telling us that two of these students had contact with dzhokhar tsarnaev, may have been roommates with dzhokhar tsarnaev. and at this point they'reay

let's bring back ashleigh banfield right now. ashleigh shs you've been working this story. what exactly do we know about these three individuals? i believe they're students at the university of massachusetts, the dartmouth campus there, what do we know about what's going on? >> well, this is in such the early offerings of this story at this point. but our sources are telling cnn at least at this point, wolf, that homeland security are telling us that two of these students had contact with dzhokhar tsarnaev, may have been roommates with dzhokhar tsarnaev. and at this point they're saying officials of firsthand knowledge are saying they are new bedford students, they'd been arrested on charges of making false statements and also conspiracy to obstruct justice directly in connection with the case of the boston marathon bombings. these were dzhokhar tsarnaev's roommates, apparently. the third suspect -- or the third person who's been arrested in this case and possibly facing the charges at the federal courthouse later today is also a student, but we are being told that it is no

of course, they did convict her of first degree murder. >> so ashleigh, what happens now? a new jury has to be impanelled, right? >> a very unusual circumstance but it is part of arizona statute that yes, if you get to this third phase, the penalty phase, and there is a hung jury, it means another jury comes in. they do not relitigate this case in terms of guilt/innocence. they do not relitigate whether this was cruel, that aggravating factor, phase two. they do relitigate phase three. but anderson, those people have not been here for five months. they may have watched it on tv on occasion, but they don't have the full scope of what the evidentiary picture is. so you can bet your bottom dollar that when they bring that jury in and that's set to get under way in late july, it is going to be a very lengthy phase, rich with awful evidence that these jurors have had to endure and these family members have had to endure, and rich with terrible detail, uncomfortable detail, salacious detail, but detail that is critical. it goes to the essence of just how violent and ugly this mu

ashleigh banfield, to you in phoenix, what happened?drama seems to really continue on this, brooke, and this is serious. maricopa county sheriff actually did bring in bomb-sniffing dogs earlier today after learning of a tweet that was sent out. two people have been detained. let me read it to you so you're aware of the wording, i'll become a hero and also shot by pigs once i unload. this pertaining to a bomb threat. so the sheriff's deputies did a sweep of that courtroom. the courthouse was not shut down, but the sweep was completed, no explosive devices were found, but they are also going to go back right before things are opened up in 45 minutes and do a secondary sweep to ensure all is okay. again, two people detained there. i also want to switch gears to let you know about something we discovered in this case as we move into the sentencing phase, two phases within this sentencing phase, an aggravate t er phase and penalty phase. we have come to learn there is still a motion that is alive in this case, and it is a motion to dismiss t

i'm ashleigh banfield reporting live. we begin with one eye squarely on a las vegas courtroom, that's because o.j. simpson has made an appearance back in court. want to take you live to that courtroom right now. the reason that simpson is there is he is asking for a brand new trial. he's challenging that 2008 conviction that he got for robbery, assault and kidnapping in vegas. and his grounds, the advice from his attorney he says was bad. you might remember it was his murder trial back in 1995 that kept millions of people riveted to their television screens. and then after more than a decade of golfing and hanging out in vegas and basically flaunting his refusal to acknowledge the judge in the civil trial from the goldman family, he then ends up on surveillance tape at a vegas hotel. this was the beginning of the end. he was back there to take what he says was his own memorabilia back. but that effort landed him in court again, which ended in a 33-year prison sentence. and the two trials were so different. one of them, an

i'm ashleigh banfield. three of his best friends are charged. the question today, who else among dzhokhar tsarnaev family and friends in the united states or around the world maybe ensnarled in this investigation. it was in this hour yesterday we learned feds brought obstruction of justice charges to three new suspects. sources also tell us the wife of the dead bomb suspect, tamerlan tsarnaev, spoke with him by telephone the night police put out both brothers pictures and identified them as suspects. this is katherine russell. it's a picture from a shoplifting bust back in 2007. what exactly are we hearing about dzhokhar's friends and what they allegedly did in new bedford that's led to so much trouble for them? >> a lot of trouble. this is where the four friends last saw each other. it's where the three other friends came after superior ntsd been named as person of interest. one of the students texted, he says, hey, you look an awful like the guy that's in the video. dzhokhar tsarnaev texted back lol. you better not -- the three friends decide

. >> so ashleigh, they're going to impanel the new jury but they're not going to relitigate the case? >> correct. not the guilt and innocence phase of the case and whether it was particularly cruel. that has been decided by the jury and those verdicts stand. what's odd, this third phase which was solely life or death, it only featured jodi arias and while it seemed like she took the stand, she actually did not take the stand. she took a podium and did not have to swear under oath and she was not challenged. no challenge to anything she said. it could be entirely different the next time around. in fact, it has to be, anderson, because any new panel of jurors say actually they need to learn what it is they're deciding her fate over. here's the problem. they have seen a lot of television on this and so it's going to be real tricky to voir dire them and find out if they can be fair and honest and unbiased when they render this kind of verdict. that's a really tricky road to hoe. >> so mark, your reaction to this verdict? is it unusual to bring in a whole new jury just for the penalty phas

ashleigh, i want to start with you. what do you make of what she said?you think it's going to sway the jury now that they have an apology, not so much an apology? >> let me start by saying how bizarre this entire process has been. suzanne, i have never once in 25 years of doing this job covered a trial in which a defendant has appealed to the media in the middle of the trial. once after being found guilty and once after only an hour and a half of deliberations by this jury. and changed her story even to the media. the whole thing is so circus like and bizarre. my fear legally speaking is that this is one big fat appeal in the making. that aside this jury still has a lot of work ahead of them. they have to go over all the things this young woman said to them in yet, again, a very bizarre powerpoint presentation complete with a clicker and props. i mean, she brought out a t-shirt and put it in front of the jury saying survivor and saying this is one of the things that should lead to her life being spared, that she could do something good for survivors of d

ashleigh banfield outside the courthouse.igh, so how long is the judge going to give them first of all? >> you know, that's not a perfect science. i'll be completely honest with you. i have sat for weeks upon weeks and i'm sorry to announce that especially for all the tv people who are sitting in 100 degrees waiting for a verdict, but it's not a perfect science. i will say this, suzanne, once the judge gives an alan charge, a dynamite charge or whatever your jurisdiction calls it, it usually doesn't last that long. i don't know if i recall any case, especially a first-degree murder case after conviction, whereby a judge has dynamited the jury and then waited weeks and weeks and weeks. so typically i got to be honest, it's usually only about a day. which is why if i were a betting man, and i am not, i would say we are probably likely to hear something from this jury today. i'm sorry to say i cannot tell you what the something will be, whether it will be we're hopelessly deadlocked, we can't be unanimous in voting for life or d

. >> ted rowlands joins us from outside the courtroom with ashleigh banfield.elcome to you both. >> thank you. >> hi. ted, i want to start with you. what will happen in court today? >> well, we're starting the penalty phase, carol and it will start with the question to the jurors, was this cruel? was this cruel enough under arizona law to make jodi arias eligible for the death penalty? we expect a fairly shot hearing on that, three or four hours today, may extend to friday, but relatively short, with one witness. if the jury says yes to that answer, then we get into the mitigation phase and that's when this jury will have to decide whether jodi arias lives or dies. >> so, ashleigh, arias says she wants to die. what does her defense team do? >> it appears her defense team doesn't have a whole lot of control over this young women. she seems to have quite a constitution on her. carol, most of us have never heard what happened last night. the fact that this woman went out of a courtroom in which a jury decided she was guilty of a first degree murder and in the hold

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i'm ashleigh banfield. three of his best friends are charged.hokhar tsarnaev family and friends in the united states or around the world maybe ensnarled in this investigation. it was in this hour yesterday we learned feds brought obstruction of justice charges to three new suspects. sources also tell us the wife of the dead bomb suspect, tamerlan tsarnaev, spoke with him by telephone the night police put out both brothers pictures and

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