here's michelle miller.ge >> reporter: watching heather abbott work out, you never suspect she's wearingsthetic. she lost her left leg in the boston marathon bombing. but another injury of hers isat even easier to hide. >> i struggle to hear what people are saying and sometimes i'll ask them to repeat themselves so many times that i just pretend i heard at ar certain point. >> reporter: abbott is among the more than a hundred bombing survivors who suffered an ear injury or hearing loss. many are taking part in a three- year study at the massachusetts eye and ear infirmary. lead researcher dr. aleciama cornell says past research focused solely on soldiers injured on the battlefield, not civilians. >> this is of course an group of spectators who weren't wearing head gear or helmets. you start thinking about that in>> terms of mechanics and how pressure waves ricochet off buildings, surroundings are very important in terms of how muchf damage is actually done. >> reporter: now halfway i through, this research has found how damaging this type of explosion can be on hearing. people within a t

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she helps other amputees obtain prosthetics through her foundation the heather abbott foundation. find it online at heatherabbottfoundation.org. heather, thanks for being here. >> hi poppy. thank you. >> you testified at this trial. i wonder what the moment was like yesterday afternoon when you heard the verdict? >> i was definitely anxious to hear it and then it was -- i guess i was expecting i would feel some sort of emotion, but it was really just signed of sad. it didn't feel like something to celebrate. >> you posted on facebook that the verdict does not bring you peace and that it makes you sad. you say the verdict, regardless of which one it turned out to be does not bring me peace. you found peace and closure long before this. >> i did. i think i had been looking for something else throughout the process of this trial, but i didn't -- i didn't get any answers. i don't think i ever will. so i think when i look back over the last two years -- >> have you been talking to some of the other survivors? i know you guys are really a close-knit community. i wonder if you've spoken t

heather abbott lost part of her leg in the bombing and also testified at the trial. heather, good morning. >> good morning. >> you posted on facebook yesterday that the verdict doesn't bring you peace and in fact makes you sad. what is it about it that makes you sad this morning? >> i think when i heard the verdict i was driving home from giving a commencement speech at the southern connecticut state university and i couldn't help but think that dzhokhar tsarnaev was in the same position as those students that i met that day and had such a bright future ahead of him, and i think it's very sad he chose this path and gave up all those opportunities. of course i'm reminded of the deaths that he caused and those opportunities others had to give up without a choice. >> you have become close with a number of the other bombing victims and survivors. have you spoken to them since you first heard this yesterday and what was their reaction? >> i was in touch with some of them yesterday. there was just a sort of sense of support letting us know that we're there for each other, a

jury started reading to find out that the convicted terrorist who maimed so many people, such as heather abbott jeff bowman so many others that that terrorist killer who paralyze add great american city would die for his crimes. let's get right to cnn's deb fashg, fashg feyerick what was the reaction in the courtroom? >> reporter: start first of all with some of the victims and their relatives, the survivors. some of them did dab tears as the verdict, as the sentence was read in which dzhokhar tsarnaev will receive death for the crimes he committed at the boston marathon. the jury they looked straight ahead. they did not look at dzhokhar tsarnaev while that sentence was read. dzhokhar tsarnaev meantime he really looked forward in the court. he didn't look towards the jury though every now and again he seemed to sort of tilt his head looking at them. he was looking mostly at his lawyer because the jury what they did is they broke down the capital counts. so instead of finding that the government had proven beyond a reasonable doubt all the capital counts and the factors they had to consider they

governor abbott has declared 37 counties effected as disaster areas. heather thank you, kelly. >> unfortunately it is not over yet. ten's of millions of americans are still in the bath of those storms. >> maria molina is here with more. >> turn around don't drown if you see water rising like that. >> they heed the warnings when you get the flash flood warnings in effect. flash flooding or at least the flooding that has been occurring across parts of texas and oklahoma had has been a long-term story. we have had several weeks of storm systems continuing to move across these states producing areas of heavy rain and the flash flooding you have been seeing and long-term flooding starting to occur in oklahoma and into texas. the forecast does not look good. we are talking about multiple rounds of storm systems through out the workweek. you can see for today we have a risk for severe weather across parts of texas oklahoma and kansas. it is not really the risk for flash flooding but the severe weather that comes with it like tornadoes and damaging winds and large hai