the wife and two daughters of michael cahill talking about the husband and the father who was taken from them. 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 ch

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

as his family we have the duty and honor of continuing michael cahill's legacy, but we cannot do it alonee need the va, the american people, our congress an our senate and government as a whole to help us. the first two weeks after dad died people kept asking what can we do? the answer now is very simple. do your job. do your job as proud citizens of the united states of america. there are multiple failings that caused this. but all of those organizations were made up of people and individuals, supervisors, officers and agents. so i ask you to do your job with honesty, honor, aren't, and responsibility, our rights for free speech, our rights to bear arms, and our rights as citizens do not come without a responsibility, a duty, and a price, a very steep price. so i ask you the media and the american people what message will you focus on? what magazine will you buy? the one with murderers on the cover? attacking us like cancer or the ones with heroes? we choose who we remember and how we inspire. there are two messages leaving that courtroom. there is the one of hatred, cowardice and betray

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

michael cahill, the only civilian killed in the massacre, charged from behind a cubicle, throwing a chairlled cahill on the spot. some played dead on the ground all waiting to figure 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

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

brandy 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: it has been nearly four years since michael cahill and 12 others were murdered when majors finally able to talk about justice being served in the form of a death sentence for hasan. >> the best thing for that man is to be forgotten. we need your head with that. >> the house of grief is a very large house. and there is a lot of rooms in there. this court-martial is one of them. and it's a door we get to shut today. >> reporter: cahill was a centerpiece of the prosecution's closing statements to the panel of 13 who decided hasan's fate. when hasan burst into the medical readiness center where cahill was working, the 62-year-old tried to stop the gunman and lost his life. mike cahill did not go meekly to meet his maker, said the prosecutor. he charged armed only with a steel folding chair. 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

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