. >> warner: for more on today's hearing and the reaction in south africa, i'm joined by gary alfonso johannesburg bureau chief for "feature story" news. he's covering the trial. gary, welcome, in your opinion the courtroom today. what was it like? >> it was an absolutely incredible scene in the magistrate court in pretoria. it was overrun by international and local journalists and hundreds of on lookers and interested people and obviously family members of oscar pistorius mostly. no family members of reeva steenkamp in court today because obviously her funeral was being held in port elizabeth, which is about a one thousand miles from johannesburg in a coastal region. but in court, very swamped, very hot court. only sitting place for about 60 or 70 people and there were about 170 people in that courtroom. so very, very packed, very humid and obviously everybody very intent on listening to exactly what oscar pistorius was saying and social media playing a very big role today and the judge warned -- the magistrate warned that any abuse of any judicial systems will not be tolerated anymo