sister megan rice and two others breaking into and vandalizing a nearby plant.sed to make weapons they each face 30 years in prison. supporters are calling for leniency. >> i don't think they should have any punishment. i think what they did was brave and courageous. they put their bodies on theline for -- in a prophetic manner. >> the security breach embarrassed the department of agency, government wants a federal judge to give all three a sentence of six to nine years in prison. >> attorneys for convicted killer michael they >> he was set to be executed next wednesday, the missouri governor now says the stay has the drugs to carry out the execution. he pleaded guilty to abduct, raping, and killing a girl. the washington post is report -- in an effort to free army sergeant. according to the post, the white house wants to trade prisoners held in guantanamo bay, he has been held captive now since 2009. a short while ago, the white house said they are not in current talks with the taliban. >> we are not -- to go directly to your question, involved in those negotia

megan rice gave more time saying being in prison for the rest of the her life would be the best gift he could gave. jonathan martin explains why. >> antiwar activists gathered outside knoxville tennessee, courthouse. megan rice, and two others were sentenced to federal prison for breaking into a nuclear weapons facility in tennessee. >> it wasn't a disappointment. none of us should feel like it was a disappointment, because it wasn't. i was grate. if that can be the right word, that the judge departed from the guidelines and sentenced them lower than that. however, he should have said, "here's a congressional medal of honor for you, you keep doing this until america stops building the weapons." >> sister rice, an 84-year-old catholic nun, will spend three years in prison. two others were convicted of five years. they cut through fences at the y12 security complex, spray-painting the walls of a building, where enriched uranium was stored. nuclear weapons are illegal and immoral, they say. >> the government is the criminal party, those that build these weapons. >> prosecutors pushed fo

megan rice, an 84-year-old nun, sentenced to it 24 months behind cars for breaking into and defacing a nuclear facility. two peace activists were also gaoled. ♪ we will stand with you ♪. >> the sister act getting her in trouble. sister megan rice and two peace activists used bolt cutters to cut through wire fences at the y-12 security complex. the target - a half billion storage bunker holding the nation's supply of bomb-grade uranium. they spent more than two hours in the restricted area, long enough to spluch blood on the wall. affidavits the facility insisted there was never any danger. they can be detonated or used to assemble a bomb. a highly publicised imprisonment of a nun was an embarrassment. some praised the activists for exposing weakness, they were ordered to pay $53,000 in fines, they asked for leniency saying their mission was to bring tapes to the facility. >> if a nun can break into a nuclear facility, what does it tell us about security. how significant is it that an elderly 84-year-old nun and two companions can clip their way in and spend two hours inside. >> it wa

sister megan rice and two others broke into the complex in 2012 to protest weapons storage. she told the judge being imprisoned for the rest of her life would be the best gift she could get. [ singing ] >> antiwar activists from around the country gathered outside the federal court house in knoxville tennessee, to support sister megan rice and two others sentenced to federal prison for breaking into a weapons facilities in tennessee. >> it wasn't a disappointment. none of us should feel it was a disappointment. >> i was grateful, if that can be the right word, that the judge departed from the guidelines and sentenced them lower. he should have said "here's a congressional medal of honour, you do this until america gets it and stops building the weapons." >> sister rice will spend under three years in prison. michael wally and another were sentenced to five years. after cutting through fences at a security complex in 2012. they spray-painted a building. the activists say nuclear weapons are illegal and immoral, calling the actions symbolic. >> the government which builds and

i want to show you a number of peace activists are showing up here in support of megan rice outside ofhe court. if she is sentenced to those 20 years on the highing end, she could be talking about spending the rest of her life in prison, so a lot of people are showing up asking the judge to be lenient. a >> have they managed to fix security? >> well, yeah, there have been some changes. of course some of those we are not privy too. but even despite going there today, there is new fencing. there is more signage outside. they also have changed management out there and spent about $15 million to upgrade their overall security system. >> jonathan martin, thank you very much. >>> another round of talks over iran's nuclear program currently underway in vienna. last year an agreement was reached to temporarily freeze the nuclear program. soraya lennie has more on what to expect. >> reporter: the vienna talks are all about places like this, and what's going on in them. iran's nuclear facilities. the u.s. and its allies say iron's nuclear program is dangerous. iran says it is peaceful. both side

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sister megan rice and two men were convicted of breaking into and vandalizing a nuclear facility in tennessee. they say they were trying to prove a point about the danger of nuclear weapons. yesterday a judge sentenced the 84 year old nun to 35 months in prison. the two men were sentenced to just over five years. the three were also ordered to pay more than 50-thousand dollars in restitution for damaging government property. a cruise ship worker is is accused of beating and sexually assaulting a female passenger -- and then trying to throw her overboard. according to a criminal complaint, this room service attendant on "holland america line" cruise hid in the woman's room...then attacked her. he was allegedly was angry with the woman for swearing at him when he delivered food. the woman was airlifted to a hospital in florida. her condition is unknown. nine people were injured when a boeing 7-47 hit severe turbulence over japan. cathay pacific airlines said two crew members and six passengers were taken to hospital after the jet from san francisco landed in hong kong last night. the plane was

>> and it was judgment day in knoxville, tennessee for an anti nuclear weapons activists sister megan riceo be a an eight your feared none. she was sentenced to 35 months behind bars, two peace activists arrested with her were sentence today 62 months in, a case that began under the cover of darkness [ we will stand with you ♪ >> the sister act that got her in trouble. breaking in to an ultra secured nuclear weapons facility at oak ridge, tennessee. very early one more than, in the summer of 200020, sister rice, along with two other peace activists, used bolt cutters to snip through three bashed wire fences at the y12 security complex. the target of their act of defines a half billion dollars storage bunker that holds the nation's supply of bomb-grade uranium, although they set off alarms, they spent more than two hours inside the restricted area, long enough to splash blood on the wall of the. butter and paint messages before they were caught. afterwards the facility insisted there was never any danger of them reaching material that his could be detonated or used to assemble a dirty bomb.

megan rice could spend the rest of her life in prison.h breaking into and vandalizing the facility in 2012. they've been ordered to pay $50,000 in damaging. it carrying a maximum sentence of 30 years. >>> friends of a college student are desperately looking for any sign of the missing 19-year-old. many showed up for the vigil. he disappeared last wednesday after a party. the family now offering a a $15,000 reward. >>> we are getting a new look today at a frightening crash of a public bus in boise. this happened in january. the video cam shows it veering off course, through a parking lot and into an office building. take a look. imagine how frightening that would be. one was taken to the hospital for a back injury. the driver is charged with negligent driving. he said at the time the brakes failed. the police investigation found evidence the driver may have fallen a sleep at the wheel. dramatic video this morning after a building suddenly collapses more than a hundred people injured. >>> the death toll rising. investigators are searching t

national defense site and two of the activist received five-year sentences while the 84-year-old megan ricereceived 35 months. outistleblower who spoke about safety concerns at another nuclear weapon site in washington state has been fired from her job. donna busche had complained of retaliation after filing safety complaints related to the cleanup of the hanford nuclear site, which is the most polluted nuclear weapon site in the united states. she was fired from the firm urs corp. on tuesday. at least two other top project officials at the site have reportedly been fired or left under pressure after raising safety concerns. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. hasurn today to a case that turned a national spotlight on the violence and discrimination faced by transgender women of color in the u.s. that's the case of cece mcdonald . on june 5, 2011, cece mcdonald and two friends were walking past a minneapolis park when they were reportedly accosted with homophobic, trans-phobic and racist slurs. cc was hit

the sister megan rice wanted more time, telling the judge being in prison for the rest of her life would be the best gift he could give. jonathan martin explains. >> anti war activists from around the country gathered outside the federal courthouse in knoxville tennessee to support sister megan rice and two other peace activists sentenced to federal prison for breaking into a nuclear weapons facility in tennessee. >> it wasn't a disappointment. none of us should feel like it was a disappointment, because it wasn't. >> i was grateful, if that can be the right word, that the judge departed from the guidelines and sentenced them lower than that, however, he should have said oh, here's a congressional medal of honor for you all. you keep doing this until america gets it and stops building these weapons. >> i am megan from nevada. >> sister rice, a click nun will spend just under three years in prison. two others were sentenced to five years, convicted of sabotage after cutting through fences at the security complex in 2012. they spray painted the walls affable where enricheddure 18 yum is st

sister megan rice and two fellow peace protesters convicted last spring of breaking into the oak ridge, tennessee nuclear weapons complex. they spray painted and splattered a uranium storage facility with human blood. the government is asking for five years, at least five years, behind bars. >>> new details on the self professed satanic serial killer. miranda barber has been charged with using craigslist to lure a man to stab him to death with her husband. that's not all. she claims to be a say tannist who has killed dozens more people. in fact, the reporter who got the interview was pretty stunned with the story he walked out of the jail with, and you're going to hear from him next, as to how believable this young woman is. [ female announcer ] who are we? we are the thinkers. the job jugglers. the up all-nighters. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we've made our passions our life's work. we strive for the moments where we can say, "i did it!" ♪ we are entrepreneurs who started it all... with a signature. legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses, turning dreamers in

and the most senior of the three convicted, sister megan rice, an 84-year-old catholic nun of the societychild jesus, 84 years old, one sentenced to one month shy of three years in prison, which might not sound like much time in prison unless you're already 84 years old when you're starting your three-year prison sentence. whereupon this might be the rest of your life. three nonviolent offenders, peace protesters, senior citizens, convicted, sentenced and now incarcerated for gaining entry into what's supposed to be the fort knox of uranium, supposed to be one of the most secure places on the planet is not. and we know that now because these three, including an octogenarian nun were able to infiltrate it with bolt cutters and a handful of prayers. the worst harm they did was paint and exposing serious security flaws at that facility. and if you care about security at that facility, you now have them to thank for exposing the flaws in it. now they're going to prison. was justice really served here? watch that space. >>> good wednesday morning. violence crashes break out on the streets of t

viewersou to tell our who sister megan rice was and why she made news there. that is a sorry chapter for security of the nuclear weapons complex. afterfour months president obama returned from the 2012 nuclear security summit korea, sisterh rice and two colleagues broke into the complex. they hiked about three quarters of a mile because they were climbing a steep hill. they probably went much further than that. they made their way to the outside of the facility that store is highly enriched uranium in the united states and cut through three other fences, each equipped with fairly sophisticated sensors. unfortunately the security culture at y12 had failed. as a consequence guards going offthe alarms to false signals, which they have conferred -- have confronted many occasions. people inside the building heard a noise outside when sister rice and her colleagues began banging on the building with a claw hammer.and they threw blood on the building and painted slogans on it. the people inside the building thought this was on notified construction work at 4 a.m.. as

megan rice will spend time in jail.botaged. >>> back down to the tense situation abroad in the ukraine and venezuela, this as the president has been undered to respond to an on going crisis we've been following in syria. let's bring in billry shared son, the former u.s. ambassador to united nations. mr. ambassador, thank you so much for coming in. i want to get your take on all of this because there's a lot of help that is needed, i think. let's talk first about the ukraine. some folks at home might not have been following this, but this has been going on for months. only this week escalating to such a violent level. what can you do? what do you think the u.s. can do to try to influence this one way or the other? >> well, first of all, stand with the democratic forces with the opposition in the ukraine and we seem to be doing that. secondly, kate, i think we need to push for some mediation, urge the two parties -- i saw that the former boxing champion and the president had a meeting unsuccessful yesterday. try to get bo