joining me here will be james cahill, joe lean cahill, cary cahill, and kerry venscker.hill cary is karry, and james is james, and kaley is kaelee--no no. >> keely. >> sorry, keely. vanager. >> vanacker. >> i'm sorry. i got it way wrong, my apologize. so at this time. >> i blame my parents. >> keely is first. >> all right, we want to thank the american people for their constant support and prayers. we want to thank all the groups and organizations who has given us their wonderful support, tragedy assistance program for survivors, the survivors outreach assistance here at fort hood. the chaplain's office and the department of justice extremely dedicated victim witness coordinator. without them these years would have been even harder. we want to thank all those who worked countless hours away from their families to bring this case to justice. their sacrifice for us, their professionalism, their ethics, their due diligence deserves more credit than we can express in words. this has been a very long and exhausting process. we are tired, we are hurt, but we are resolved. just

cahill was the the one civilian shot by hasan. and authorities say he was gunned down while trying to save soldiers. he rushed at hasan withing in but a chair, and was gunned down in the process. we heard from a mother of 19-year-old specialist jason hunt calling hasan a coward. hasan was emotional when his sentence was read in court. this is also the beginning of an automatic appeals process that will take years. and i should also mention that no u.s. soldier has been executed since 1961. >> now we often hear about foreign forces being killed in afghanistan, but the deaths of a began forces sometimes go unreported. al jazeera has access to a military hospital where metics are treating on wounded soldiers and even taliban fighters. we have the story from kandahar in the south of afghanistan. >> reporter: afghan second lieutenant has lost a leg. another is pinned together. a month ago his army truck ran over a landmine. >> i had four sandstorms with me. we were going towards a checkpoint to check on my boys. the blast killed three

joe lean cahill lost her husband michael cahill when he was shot trying to stop hasan's attack. >> todayeight has been lifted off of my shoulder. he has been held accountable for his actions, and the panel gave him justice. >> reporter: in arguing for the death sentence the prosecutor, colonel michael mulligan set up hasan an army psychiatrist, he was trained as a doctor to save lives. on 5 november he only dealt death. in the beginning of the trial hasan said he was at gunman. mulligan argued he not now and will never be a martyr. he is a criminal. a cold-blooded murderer. gayle hunt who lost her son army specialist j.d. hunt in the shootout agrees. >> anyone who would use their religion to commit acts of terrorism serves no god except their own hatred and self-interest. >>> in wrapping up his arguments, saying you should not punish him for his religion. you should punish him for hit hate. when asked if he would address the jury, hasan who acted as his own attorney said simply, i have no closing statement. now, officials say hasan will be transferred to the military prison at fort leave

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mike cahill did not go meekly to meet his maker, said the prosecutor. 22-year-old specialist j.d. hunt was also gunned down by hasan. hunt reenlisted at age 21 because he wanted to serve his country. he had been to iraq, newly married and his future was taken away from his mother gail who testified for the government. she wants her son's face, not hasan's, to be remembered. >> his idea of going to, again to iraq was not to -- not to harm anybody but was -- his idea was saving other people's lives. he always said i would take a bullet for anybody. >> reporter: hasan now heads to fort leavenworth, kansas, to sit on the military's death row. an appeals process will kick in whether he wants it or not. at ft. hood, kileen, texas, i'm katie mccullough for abc news. >>> "rolling stone" is out with a stunning profile of aaron hernandez. the article "the gangster in the huddle" and claims hernandez was a hard core drug user, used angel dust and had surrounded himself with criminals. the story also said hernandez had become so paranoid he regularly carried a hand

hasan shot and killed cahill on the spot.ure out how to escape from the room. hasan walked out of the back door and kept shooting at soldiers trying to escape. a police officer finally fired the shot that dropped hasan leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. the savage attack had been stopped but the horror of what happened haunts the victims today. >> you just saw ed's exclusive report, the reenactment of what happened on that horrible day. it's incredible when you see that re-enactment. please let us know what you think about that. >>> now our seventh story, a cause of death. tonight an idaho coroner reveals james dimaggio, the man accused of kidnapping 16-year-old hannah anderson was shot five times by fbi agents in the head and chest. five times. the show down took place in the idaho wilderness this weekend. we are getting a first-hand account of the kidnapping from hannah anderson. she has been answering personal questions from random people on the social media website called ask.fm. a user asks how did he separate yo

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is insane let me just give you a couple of steps is a very good book by a gentleman called kevin cahill called who owns britain and ireland and did you know for example that less than eight percent of this country is built on in other words the entire population of this country live on less than eight percent of the land seventy percent of british land is owned by less than one percent of the population the crown large institutions are socratic families almost fifty percent of the land in the in britain is entirely unregistered and there are sixty million acres of land in the u.k. there are roughly sixty million britons we could have an acre of land the but the average briton lives on three hundred forty square. million people live in twenty four million homes which occupy to seven point seven percent of the land four point four million acres and the average density of people on one residential acre of british land is twelve to thirteen so. it all works out as about zero point zero zero point zero seven acres per person it's such a distorted. way of such a distorted way of distributing

the wife and two daughters of retired chief warrant officer michael cahill, remembering their father, their husband. he was the one civilian who died at the hands of hasan. and he died because he rushed at the shooter armed with nothing but a chair in an attempt to save the lives of soldiers. his family said that's the kind of man he was and today they feel like a weight has been lifted from their shoulders and they believe that hasan is being held accountable for justice, tony. >> thank you, heidi, appreciate it. coming up, the saibers rattle and -- sabers rise and real money's alli velshi reports. >>> i'll have a live report on yosemite coming up on al jazeera in just a minute. >> for nearly two weeks now fire crews in california have been working nonstop battling the fierce wildfire around yosemite national park. in some areas crews are using drones, and more than 4,000 firefighters now trying to get a handle on this stubborn wildfire. katherine barrett is live. we worry about the wood lands and the reservoir that feeds san francisco. we worry about the families displaced and the b

multiple eyewitnesses told the court about retired chief warrant officer michael cahill and captain johney and how they were shot dead trying to charge the gunman with a chair to stop him. hasan looked frail and emotionless sitting in his wheelchair and staring at the table the majority of the time asking very few questions and making very little eye contact with the people he is accused of shooting. shepherd? >> wow, casey, thanks. >>> president obama says no. ed snowden is not a patriot for leaking all the classified government surveillance document. you'll hear the president's explanation, and we'll show you the city where thanks to ed snowden more than 1,000 jobs could be on the line. >>> plus, the u.s. has ordered staffers at another key diplomatic outpost overseas to get out. that's all coming up as we approach bottom of the hour and the top of the news. ♪ alert. the beach on your tv is much closer than it appears. seize the summer with up to 50% off hotels at travelocity. you will lose 3 sets of keys 4 cell phones 7 socks and 6 weeks of sleep but one thing you don't want to lose i

mason, fighting back tears when she was shown a picture of retired chief warrant officer michael cahill in that medical processing facility that november afternoon and was shot and killed after repeated witnesses he tried to charge hasan with a chair. all of the witnesses who have taken the stand and only two have been cross-examined by hasan himself since he is, of course, acting as his own attorney. we have talked about this all week. he has the ability to cross-examine other witnesses, but he's only chosen to do so with two, and that was on the first day when he briefly questioned a former supervisor of his and also a man he went to mosque with on the morning of these attacks. jenna? jenna: casey, thank you. kelly: well, for more on the impact of the emotional testimony we are hear being what to make of court-appointed defense counsel saying hasan is bent on securing his own death sentence, ashley merchant is a criminal defense attorney. she joins us to weigh in on this. as you watch this first week of the court-martial of nidal hasan, some people still call him an army major, many c

reporter: they sat through nearly four weeks of excruciating testimony hearing the gruesome details how cahill, a retired army veteran, came within a few feet of stopping hasan with a chair. he was shot six times, the fatal shot pierced his neck. >> today's sentencing does not bring my father home, his laughter to our ears and his smile to our eyes. >> reporter: hasan will be transferred to ft. leavenworth, kansas, his case will wind its way through the appeals process. the president must sign off on hasan's execution and that could take years. there hasn't been a military execution since is the 61 but some legal experts say the brutality of hasan's crimes will change that. >> if it doesn't make sense to use it here, when does it? i think that president is going to have a hard time not signing that death warrant in this case and i think major hasan may very well be the first military defendant in a long time to be put to death. >> and one of the things that i was struck by was all of these families affected by the ft. hood massacre have really spread out all across the country from new mexico,

multiple eyewitnesses telling the court about retired chief warrant officer michael cahill and captaine gunman with a chair to stop him. hasan looks frail, emotionless. he sits in his heel chair. remember he was paralyzed on that day when he was finally shot and taken down. he stares at the defense table the majority of the time, asking very few questions and not making much eye contact with the witnesses on the stand. people he is accused of shooting. gretchen. >> gretchen: casey stegall, thanks much. >>> this is still very controversial for a variety of reasons, but the big thing is that it's being labeled as workplace violence and that has a domino effect for these victims. not only do they have to come and testify in front of nidal hasan, but they are not receiving certain benefits because they have not been -- it has not been deemed as a terrorist attack. >> eric: and he continues to earn his salary, upwards of $300,000 since the isn't took place. gets to defend himself, has evidentiary rights that he would not have had he been deemed a terrorist. you kill 14 people and yell allah