so this case against balfour was a circumstantial one. jurors say it came done to evidence about balfour's cell phone that suggested his location on the day of the murders. prosecutors painted balfour as a former gang member who went after the family in an act of vengence, because julia refused to reconcile their broken marriage. the defense pro posed some one

william balfour defense attorney countered in the close said all a big story note dna or fingerprints connect william balfour the crime and result of police been under pressure to solve the case because of jennifer hudson celebrity. >> exciting afternoon. you had so much circumstantial evidence in the case both sides took advantage of. >> taking advantage circumstantial evidence prosecution for example pointed the fact witnesses said they saw william balfour the defendant with jason hudson gone and the bmurder weapon saw him with a weapon of lot of them look like that's amonte 45 caliber gun. pointed out no dna or fingerprints connected back to william balfour. >> thank you so much chicago police trying to hunt down the person who shot two people in the lake view happened at citgo gas station ashland and addison this morning man approached a tow truck shot the men inside one was wounded in the neck of the other in the chest and stomach one victim made it across the street to a bar employees called 911 both the victim's hospital serious- critical condition. and we are told two surveill

this was a case about william balfour.s her celebrity had nothing to do with it. >> some of us tried our best to make him innocent. but the facts and everything, just wasn't there. some points we all did feel sorry for him. >> balfour, faces a mandatory life sentence. jim, doreen. >> thank you, wendy. clean-up crews will work all night in arlington where a sewerage leak shut down a grocery store. outside the store. harris teeter's corporate office blames the leak on a problem at arlington county pollution control plant. trucks have been pumping sewage out of the store all night. clean-up crews will sanitize and replace equipment and products. it's not clear how long that store will remain closed. are an an argument over a beer can and a man taken to the hospital. he was trying to keep his neighborhood clean. at take has people in u street corridor furious. jackie benson reports. >> reporter: the assault happened in broad day light. 4:45 p.m. thursday behind a condo building in 1400 w street northwest. the victim, a man in

balfour now faces a mandatory life prison sentence. is that this was a vicious cold blooded inhumane execution of three people including a 7-year- old child, a child who just happened to be home from school that day. >> with no surviving witnesses or fingerprints in the murder, prosecutors built a circumstantial case against balfour by calling 83 witnesses over 11 days of testimony. >> it has always been our position and it still is that william balfour is innocent of these murders and we're hoping that the appellate court will look at this case with a very critical eye. >> the prosecution says the killings happened october 24th, 2008, the morning after julia hudson's birthday. they say balfour became enraged when he stopped by the home and saw a gift of balloons in the house from her new boyfriend. >> this crime was not done for financial reasons. this was personal. >> after his estranged wife left for a job as a bus driver, prosecutors said balfour went back in the home with a .45 caliber handgun and shot hudson's mother, then shot j

william balfour, 30 years old.st of his life in prison convicted on all those charges. our own ted rowlands has been in the courtroom. as soon as he comes out we'll get a little flavor of what was going on inside when the verdict was read, but there you have it, william balfour, jennifer hudson's former brother-in-law guilty on all counts. we'll take a quick break and we'll hear from our man on the scene ted rowlands as soon as we come back. [ thunk ] sweet! [ male announcer ] the solid thunk of the door on the jetta. thanks, mister! [ meow ] [ male announcer ] another example of volkswagen quality. that's the power of german engineering. right now lease the 2012 jetta for $159 a month. trouble with a car insurance claim. [ dennis ] switch to allstate. their claim service is so good, now it's guaranteed. [ foreman ] so i can trust 'em. unlike randy. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. lastin florida we hadulf's best tomore sun tans...years. in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi

witnesses testified that balfour threatened to kill the family in the past. jurors stated the star wasn't a part. >> for us her celebrity really had nothing to do with it. it's unfortunate that it was her family, but this was not for us the jennifer hudson case. this was the people of illinois against william balfour. >> hudson thanked prosecutors, police, and others who helped convict balfour and asked for prayer for his family. >>> an argument over an empty beer can has left one person in the hospital this morning. a man saw another man throw a beer can on the ground. the man asked him to please pick the can up. but police say the suspect argued back saying who do you think you're talking to and began punching the man in the face. city officials haven't been responsive enough to complaints about loitering and other crimes near the building, residents say. >> we want people to feel secure in terms of being here and in terms of having their families here. and we want the old-timers and the stake holders who have been here to feel the same way. >> the victim s

if former girlfriend of william balfour testified that he admitted to her that he murdered the hats and family members ... but he says that it was jennifer hudson's brother jason was the culprit because the murder scene was " a drug house " what do you expect the prosecutors tried to construct a persuasive circumstantial case ... >> when you have these things and then the murder occurs that is a very strong circumstantial strategy ... >> if the prosecution wraps up its case today it's up to the defense tomorrow to make their decisions on whether or not to put william balfour on the witness stand to testify or will they rest their case either way its belong shop's a long shot. a drunken bar fight caught on camera is at the center of a civil lawsuit for businessmen claim they were attacked by chicago police officers back in 2006 and the jefferson tap and grill. the incident was captured on surveillance video. the marriages in the offices of excessive force and battery. five other chicago police officers who responded to the scene that night are being sued for negligence. the city of chica

it was case about william balfour. for us her celebrity status had nothing do with it.rtunate it was her family but this was not for us the jennifer hudson case. it was us, the people of illinois against william balfour. >> there's no death sentence but there is a life sentence. he'll spend the rest of his life in jail without the possibility of parole. ted rowlands, cnn, chicago. >>> veterans who have risked their lives in afghan on the front line often face a battle when they come home, a fight to find a job. december piratesly looking for work after returning to afternoon and here's part of their is story from the documents vets wanted narrated by j.r. martinez. >> our service members can bring a lot to the work-force and quite honestly they want to work, they want to be independent, provide for themselves. >> their resume has to pop. >> the job i was looking to come back to does not exist anymore because of the cutbacks. >> before he left, chris riley was working full-time for the georgia national guard. >> so now that that's not there anymore and i'm having to go o

earlier testimony one of william balfour friend said william balfour told him shot thought julia hudson was cheating and would kill her also said william balfour had a gun. >> when you have things all of a sudden murder very strong circumstantial evidence. >> in a video try to divert suspicion said someone else might have been responsible for the murders because of the brother was dealing drugs. drug house created enemies over there. outrage at city hall tonight dixon of illinois it taxpayers want money back allegedly stolen by employee local byrita crundwell as she is not guilty. dixon with angry residents >> everybody involved in the case put her in prison. >> not just a packed house dixon city hall people spilling outside tax payers with questions about their money that this was meant for comptroller rita crundwell no comment into federal court today. the owner of a luxurious mansions in illinois and wisconsin reader of champion horses made $80,000 a year take big a lot of investment money accused of siphoning $50 million to personal accounts over 22 years. the mayor has known her si

wgn news @ 9 for the first time it video police questioning william balfour the man convicted in the murder of three of jennifer hudson family members out on video police confronting william balfour about inconsistencies. this is the interrogation video jurors saw before delivering guilty verdict for the 31 year- old william balfour accused of killing jennifer hudson mother brother and seven year old nephew. told detectives what she did the day of the border trying to convince them he had nothing to do with the killings pointed fingers other issues inside the home. he said he sought the sister that morning and that was all white car and dumped near school blamed it on the power steering. look at this all round them up nearly hour-long of video police returned to confront him about the story. they told him a girl friend admitted to police saw it with a 45 caliber handgun he denied the allegations told detectives they were making it up. holes in his story jury convicted william balfour all seven counts against them mandatory life in prison sentence. two men who stabbed members of guard

. >> reporter: this was the last day of testimony of the william balfour murder trial. prosecutor saved their biggest piece of evidence for last. a key ring. tom kelly testified that william balfour carried those keys with him when he was arrested just hours after the hudson family murders in october 2008. one of those keys matched jason hudson's white suv, the one found abandoned on chicago's best side after the murders. the body of yulian king was inside. but police never tested the keys until three years after the murders. and they weren't recorded in the evidence log at the time. why is the big question? here's our legal analyst. >> the defense said the police detective, another one, did not actually inventory the keys until sometime in late about a month later. so i expect that tomorrow the closing arguments they'll be making something big about that. >> reporter: and in contrast to more than a week of testimony by more than eight state witnesses. the defebs was short. just two detectives called lasting 20 minutes total. during which detective greg jacobson admitte

after three days of deliberations a chicago jury found 31-year-old william balfour guilty of killing hudson's mother, brother and 7- year-old nephew. the ruling comes after the prosecution called over 80 witnesses to stand including hudsonful balfour faces a mandatory life sentence without -- hudson. balfour faces a mandatory life sentence without patrol. >>> a new video targeting moms two days ahead of sunday's holiday by trayvon martin's mother. >> this will be my first mother's day without my son trayvon. i know it will be hard, but my faith, family and friends will pull my through. >> today trayvon's family took their call to action out of the u.s. and addressed people in london. they say it's the first step of their international campaign against racial profiling. >>> on to the campaign trail now where mitt romney heads south visiting what may be one of the most contested states this fall, north carolina. fox's james rosen has more on the battle for tar heel country. >> i'm counting on north carolina next november to help us take the country back. >> reporter: and never has nort

balfour faces a mandatory life sentence in prison. >>> case not dismissed. today a federal judge refused to throw out campaign corruption harges against former presidential candidate john edwa edwards. the judge disagreed saying federal prosecutors had presented sufficient evidence to proceed with this case upon the judge said, quote, we will let the jury decide. edwards is accused of using campaign doning as to hide his pregnant mistress. >> everybody knows that he committed a number of sins and then lied about them and the other problem for edwards is that the jury may not know all of the context of campaign finance law. they may not know that this is not the typical corruption case. >> edwards' defense team will begin presenting its witnesses on monday. >>> the race for the white house. it's been a polarizing week with the gay marriage debate, but today president obama and mitt romney tried to shift the focus back to the economy. they both found themselves entrenched in the high-profile debate on same-sex marriage. north carolina voters banned gay marriag

testified that balfour threatened to kill the family in the past. some jurors said at times they felt sorry for balfour during the trial. >> some of us tried our best to make him innocent. but the facts and everything just wasn't there. we tried. that's what took us so long. we had to pick everything apart. you know, we tried. young man, you know, his life is on the line. so we did. i can say that with certainty with all of us. some points we all did feel sorry for him. >> hudson thanked prosecutors, police, and others who helped convict balfour and asked for prayer for his family. balfour's defense attorney says she plans to appeal the verdict. >>> a d.c. man is in the hospital this morning after an empty beer can sparked a beating. police say it happened in broad daylight in the 1400 block of w street in northwest yesterday. that's where a man saw another man throw a beer can on the ground. the man asked him to please pick the can up. but police say the suspect argued using an expletive saying who do you think you're talking to and began punching

excludes william balfour.n in all of chicago we didn't -- we know didn't do it is him. and then pointing at prosecutors, she dramatically said "they know, as they sit here, they have failed to prove their case. they are trying to confuse you." >> shepard: and the prosecution says this is really a simple decision for this jury to make? >> yeah. they said in their closing arguments that balfour is, as they put it, drowning in a tsunami of evidence. they said that this is, of course, very circumstantial in terms of the evidence that they have put on. but they said circumstantial evidence is no less powerful. they also pointed to some physical evidence. including a cell phone signal from william balfour's cell phone near the hudson mother's home just before the killings. that phone was then apparently switched off for several hours. and in the words of prosecutor jennifer bagby that was because quote he was busy. busy killing three people and getting rid of the evidence. today, she said, it's time to hold him resp

the jury in the william balfour murder trial is asking the judge for two videos on their third day of deliberations in the jennifer hudson family murders monica schneider joins us with that story >>things are potentially getting interesting ... this boils down to what came in the closing arguments when the prosecution suddenly invented a mystery driver who was potentially the person who moved the green car of william balfour leaving it in front of a high-school year in chicago ... they say it made it impossible for him to be on the other side of town with the stolen vehicle where the nephew of jennifer hudson was found ... the time line is being constructed ... as to the location of cars driven or owned by william bellfort during the murders ... and the days thereafter so the surveillance video of that green car and also the police interrogation video of william balfour on the night of his arrest are being reexamined by the jury ... this may bode well for the defense ... but the dangerous thing is to try to interpret what the jury is asking for and why. they may be asking for the inte

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hours ago a jury in chicago convicted william balfour in the murders. he is the oscar winner's brother-in-law, who was estranged from her sister at the time of the murder. the jurors deliberated three days before reaching guilty verdicts on first-degree murder. >> it is unfortunate it was her family, but this was not the jennifer hudson case. >> inside the courtroom, jennifer hudson filled with tears. she attended the trial every single day and testified for the prosecution. in a statement she think of her supporters to. for her family through the entire ordeal. balfour faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. >> friends and loved ones came together for a public memorial honoring jr.unior seau, who committed suicide. >> we must do a better job of communicating our feelings if you need help or recognize the signs of a friend who needs help. do something about it. help us out there -- help is out there for all of you. >> that was dan fouts. seau died of a self-inflicted wound to his chest. he did not leave behind a suicide note. he spent most of his

dozens of witnesses would follow testifying how they heard william balfour trend to kill his estranged wife julia matteson and her family there was explosive testimony from his girlfriend as he told her he killed those family members and mentioned that the little boy was in the car alive at the time the keys to the stolen as u v belonging to jason hudson were on william balfour the evening he was arrested for that murder back in 2008 the same vehicle with a body of the old boy was found days later ... but that keyes did not appear in the police inventory report until months after the arrest and the keys were not tested until last september according to the defense which was three years after the murder the defense barely put up a case ... it rested without their client taking the witness stand. prosecutors contend that he committed those murders in a jealous rage because juliets in was seeing another man wanted a divorce ... the defense offered an alternate theory claiming that it was the drug dealing by jason hudson out of the family home that led to the death of his family members an

those records contradicted william balfour's al by. and killed the family, said the prosecutors, because his estranged wife wanted a divorce and was seeing another man. balfour's defense argued there was little physical evidence. no fingerprints or dna linking him to the murders. the majority of the evidence was circumstantial. >> we live in an age of csi. you can't convict someone unless the dna is there. in a sense, this is an old-fashioned verdict. >> reporter: jennifer hudson released a statement last night thanking prosecutors and saying her family prays god will forgive william balfour. >>> now to a tricky day for mitt romney. it's "your voice, your vote." me tries to introduce himself to america. he's still being dodged by a story about being a bully in high school. david kerley is covering it from washington this morning. david, good morning to you. >> reporter: dan, good morning. today, it's liberty university. an evangelical university founded by jerry falwell. this is a university that teaches that mormonism is a cult. he's

penn. >> william balfour's defense attorney says there will be an appeal. >> there are several legal matters that we have for the appellate court to look at. there was some continuances that were not granted that affected our ability to be fully prepared. there were things on the motion to squash arrest. there are other issues and we will have to take our time to look at all of them. >> the party that has ruled algeria for 50 years has won a big majority. the national liberation front won almost half of the seats with the prime minister's party coming second. the islamist coalition came in a distant third. >> it was an election that had been billed as algeria's alternative to the arabs spring. an opportunity for voters to choose a new parliament. but results showed the party of the president's sailed through the polls taking almost half of the seats. they came out well ahead of an islamist coalition which has been expected to do well. the greek alliance has disputed the results, saying that it was fraudulent and dangers for the country. -- the green alliance has disputed the results.

balfour is accused of killing three members of singer jennifer hudson's family.. her mother, darnell donerson.. her brother jason hudson.. and her seven- year-old nephew, julian king. yesterday, prosecution witness and former hudson family neighbor reginald jones admitted he helped jason hudson deal drugs. jones also testified he caught balfour spying on his estranged wife, julia hudson jennifer's sister.. just weeks before the murders. two people have been charged in the shooting of a man who was trying to get back his cell phone. gregory and sheridan are both charged with attempted first degree murder. police say the victim lost his cell phone. the person who found it offered to meet him in forest park to return it. when they met, the gunman demanded money for the phone -- and the victim refused. he was shot in the neck and remains in critical condition. a former finance official for the illinois town of dixon may have stolen nearly twice a much money as first thought. last month... rita crundwell was charged with stealing 30-million dollars from the city... and

william balfour will serve a mandatory life sentence. the jury deliberated for three days. >> for william balfour who was married to jennifer hudson's sister, is facing three counts of murder. he went to the family home in chicago one morning in october, 2008, and killed jennifer hudson's mother, brother, and kidnapped her nephew before killing him in the back of a car. the prosecution said he did that as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband. he had threatened many times to kill his wife and her family if he found out that she was seeing another man. that is what apparently led him to commit these crimes. there was no dna evidence linking him to the scene. mobile phone records show that he was nearby at the time of the killings and a gun residue was found on his car and jacket. jennifer hudson wept and looked at her sister before smiling and she gave evidence early on in the trial and has been there every day since it started almost three weeks ago. >> in syria, a large explosion has been reported outside of the local headquarters of

they're saying balfour was in a jealous rage.gerprint evidence linking balfour to the crime was ever presented in court and also points the finger at chicago police. >> i would never say the word "frame," and i don't think that's the position we would ever take. but is there some questionable use of evidence in this case by the chicago police department? i tlink was. >> reporter: in the end, the jury reached its you manus decision. >> we have to stick with what we know and what we had in front of us. >> i think we really took our time with all of the testimony, all of the witnesses one at a time. >> reporter: while the guilty verdict brings some closure to the family of jennifer hudson, the family has already indicated they're planning to appeal. >> jennifer hudson and herr sister released a statement after the verdict says we have felt the love and support from people all over the world and we're very grateful. we want to extend a prayer from the hudson family to the balfour family. we have all suffered terrible loss from this t

attorneys for william balfour rested their case yesterday. compared to the prosecution's case which took two weeks to present. balfour is charged with killing hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. >>> there won't be anymore school bake sales in the state of massachusetts. the state has banned fund-raisers, as part of what it's called its no-nonsense nutrition standards. many parents organizations use the bake sales for extracurricular activities for music and sports. critics say banning bake sales is stale thinking. >>> classes are canceled at a seattle private high school for a few days because of an outbreak of flu-like symptoms. more than 150 students were out sick yesterday. and the school is being closed for at least today and tomorrow, while the place is thoroughly disinfected. >>> a custodian at colombia university, is cleaning up the school. he's about to graduate from there with honors. he took the job 20 years ago to take advantage of tuition-free classes for employees. once he learned english, the immigrant from the forme

they found william balfour guilty in the 2008 killings. and in illinois, that carries a mandatory life sentence without the chance for parole. prosecutors say balfour killed hudson's mom, brother and 7- year-old nephew in a fit of rage after his marriage to hudson's sister fell apart. >>> in alabama, a 14-year-old boy is now charged with murder after his half sister was hanging from a tree. the 9-year-old girl was found last night right near the house where they both lived with a foster family. the cotton rope the girl was hanging from was not a noose. instead, it was tied in a figure 8-knot and it came from a rope that had been used for a tire swing. . >> it's definitely intentional. i won't call it an accident. it was an intentional situation from the information we received. so that's why he's charged with murder. >> now, prosecutors still have not did ecided whether or not that brother will be charged as an adult or a juvenile. so far, though, investigators have no motive for this. >>> beaten, robbed and sexually assaulted right outsid

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and that balfour declaration became the basis of the 1947 u.n. partition resolution keep creating an arab and jewish state in palestine, which the jews accepted. and it was a big debate again in this country whether the united states should ask of recognize the re-created jewish state but in any event which is completely unique in the annals of american foreign policy, and i know of no other case like this, higher foreign policy establishment and the united states, state department, defense department, pentagon, without exception told the president of the united states don't do it. of america recognizes this jewish state will be a cutoff of oil from the east to the united states. american soldiers will get antiwar over the because they don't have to defend themselves. don't do it. the secretary of state at the time, george marshall, said if the president recognize the jewish did he, george marshall, wouldn't vote for them in the next election. the president was a gentleman named harry truman who claimed to have memorized the bible by age 14. and

. >> reporter: denise, the video shows police interrogating william balfour's former brother-in-law. somewhere? you're going to have a problem. >> i'm not going to have a problem. just what i tell you. >> the interrogation took place back in october 2008. the day the bodies of hudson's mother and brother were found shot to death in the chicago family home. at the time of questioning, hudson's 7-year-old nephew was missing. the boy's body was found three days later. jurors say discrepancies in balfour's alibi were found, making it a key piece of evidence in their deliberations upon. >> balfour was convicted of three counts of murder. >>> a woman in california is rushed to the hospital after her shorts suddenly burst into flames. juan fernandez reports, she had just put some rocks into her pocket during a walk on the beach. >> reporter: a 43-year-old mother and her children were walking along the shoreline at san onofre state beach, when one of her kids picked up these rocks. one, speckled green. the other, orange and black. she put them in her pocket and went home. hours later, the ro

none of the jurors thought balfour was flat-out not guilty. >> some of us tried our best to make him there. we tried. that's what took us so long. we had to pick everything apart. >> with 11 days of testimony and a lot of circumstantial evidence, jurors did ask to review the testimony from an fbi expert on cellphone tracking who placed balfour near the murder scene and not on the other side of town as he claimed. >> once we were able to piece the timing together, where we realized that he could not be in two places at one time, where the cellphone records were key. >> another crucial piece of evidence, according to the foreman, the key to jason hudson's suv found on balfour when he was arrested. >> why did you have the keys in your pocket from a guy you didn't like? you know, to a truck you're not supposed to be in, that just so happened to have a dead nephew in the back seat? it's hard for me to believe you that didn't go into the house and not get those keys. >> some jurors say this trial has forever changed them. they wish jennifer hudson can now find closure. >> i hope she can pu

prosecutors have said that balfour killed the three in a jealous rage.ors heard the 911 call, on day 1 of his trial. prosecutors are expected to play it again during closing arguments. denise? >> thank you, jessica. balfour has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges in the 2008 killings. >>> a kentucky teenager is injured after being strang strangled by a home made zip line. police say the 13-year-old was playing with the device at home when he got the device tangled around his neck. he was taken to the hospital and has been released. no word if there are any charges. >>> an e-mail, sent by susan powell, detailing how her husband josh powell, treated her before their divorce. her father said he knew she was unhappy but didn't know she was afraid. >> i guess she sounded more desperate than i thought she was. >> reporter: that's chuck cox's reaction to these nine e-mails. her daughter, susan powell, wrote to her friends in the year and a half before she disappeared. they described a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage. to a man she describes as irration

balfour's attorney argued that prosecutors did not prove their case. balfour has pleaded not guilty. >>> the so-called tanning mom will have a tougher time finding a bed to lie in. patricia krentcil has been banned from several tanning salons in new jersey for giving them bad publicity. krentcil is accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth. she denies those charges. now several salons say she's no longer welcome. they even posted her picture on the wall, so receptionists know to turn her away if she shows up at the the door. krentcil is due back in court next month. >>> there are new details today involving that foiled airline bomb plot out of yemen. al qaeda apparently designed the wearable bomb so it would go undetected, even if the bomber received an airport pat-down. and steve handleman reports, there are now questions today, can future attacks be stopped? >> reporter: as tsa scrambles to review its procedures based on the attempted al qaeda attack, comes a new detail. the improved underwear bomb is slimmer and more form-fitted

and renee balfour, his daughter.rston is probably the only person in the room who knew my father during world war ii. so -- and he has talked to me a lot about that. so thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thanks, julia, and thanks to everyone from the family for being here. why don't i -- before starting to ask questions -- just turn the floor over and whichever order you would like just to -- start things out and then i will start with some questions. >> good. i will be briefer than i thought i would be because you covered some of the points that i was thinking of making. this story is one of great drama, and i think -- and as kennedy himself says in the book and as tom and i try to highlight in the introduction, it was a monumental news story, in which a reporter had a choice and part of that choice was deciding whether to honor the pledge that all of these 17 reporters who honor about not breaking the story until they were allowed to or deciding to break it because they felt that the reasons for the embargo had b

balfour is charged with killing hudson's mother, brother and her 7-year-old nephew.r. the defense, their case lasted 30 minutes. prosecutors spent two weeks putting their side of the case. so that's not a white flag, what is? >> i didn't understand that. typically when you have someone on trial, really for their life and for their liberty -- >> triple murder. >> a triple murder. you want to see some sort of aggressive defense mounted. i thought going into the trial the prosecution didn't have a slam dunk case. very little forensic evidence. jurors like that csi effect. missing fingerprints and blood evidence. but 30-minute defense, i say -- >> two weeks versus 30 minutes. i don't know -- i'm going to go out on a limb and say i think the jury may convict in this case based upon a weak defense. >> a very weak defense. >> but justice for the family perhaps. that's the good part. >>> a warning about graphic surveillance video of a hit and run accident which may be disturbing to some of you. the good news is, everyone is okay. >> that is good. >> three pedestrians scrambl

balfour is on trial. he is accused of killing jennifer hudson's brother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in october 2008. >>> meantime the prosecution in the trial for the former presidential candidate john edwards could be resting its case today. it's likely they will not call edwards' mistress hunter to the stand. it's also unclear if she will be called to testify. >>> today the charles village pub in towson celebrates the grand reopening. abc2 news linda so is live there this morning. >> reporter: the place has been totally rebuilt. ly find it bigger and better and it housed an outgate door patio and a rooftop deck and later this morning at 11:30, county executive kevin kamenetz will rejoin them for a grand reopening. fire destroyed the pub in january and it was a popular spot for people who live and work around here. after the fire the community rallied around the owners who decided to rebuild. we role got sneak peek inside the new place has two floors and has a bar inside and out. you'll also see some

jurors found the defendant william balfour guilty of murdering hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-oldescribe the murder as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband. >> we are very, very happy with the verdict in this case. this was a vicious cold blooded inhumane execution of three people including a 7-year-old child, a child who just happened to be home from school that day. >> prosecutors had to build an overwhelming circumstancal case tying balfour to the killing because there were no surviving witnesses.

this was a case about william balfour and so for us h her celebrity had nothing to do with it.nfortunate that it it was her family but this was not for us the jennifer hudson case. this was the people of illinois against william balfour. >> greta: he faces a mand mandy life sentence. now, to capitol hill. a bipart son congressional committee approving a $100 million studty. the pentagon says we don't need the shield. it is estimated to cost $5.5 billion just to build it once we study it. if the pentagon says we don't need it why does congress think we do? former u.n. ambassador john bolton joins us. why should we spend $00 million to study this if the pentagon says no? >> the republicans are frustrated that president obama basically doesn't believe in national missile defense at all. he gutted our capabilities even from the limited bush administration plans. i think they are trying to do something that would provide some missile defense protection for american civilians from missiles launched from iran. it is only a piece of the puzzle and what is shows really is that you can't

it is day two of jury deliberations in the william balfour trial. jurors deciding whether or not belfour is guilty of murdering three members of the jennifer hudson family. good afternoon i am steve sanders. >>and i'm dina bair. we welcome our viewers who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the internet ... nancy loo is live at cookokououyy criminal c crtrtith the topp story y . . >>>>after talking and deliberating five hours yesterday and being sequestered overnight by the judge the jurors are back at work today there is no word of when they will reach a verdict ... william balfour is charged in the 2008 murders of members of jennifer hudson family. the singer and actress is known in court today presumably she will return when there is a verdict the judge said there will be 1 hours notice before the verdict is read ... there is no dna evidence linking him to the murder weapon but the prosecution is presenting a mountain of circumstantial evidence ... >>there are over 450 exhibits that the state put into evidence not all of it w