and we asked people to keep an open mind with respect to michael skakel, we're going to honor the processcome in this case. michael fitzpatrick, thank you for being here. >>> we're going to switch gears and get a check of the weather from al. >> this is some wild video. you have to come to the tv and take a look at this. this is turkey. look at this, after days of heavy rain, look at the flooding. this guy basically surfing, riding his car, trying to survive. so far, reports of only six people injured, thankfully. this is amazing stuff. we're not going to see anything like this in western montana. but they do have some flash flooding. folks are being evacuated because of snow melt and heavy thunderstorms. a few evening storms could be in the plains. the heaviest rain will move into minnesota tomorrow. we have a weak low pressure system off of the coast in the east. a thunderstorm or two. tuesday, the front progresses offshore. and cloudy and cool off the carolinas tomorrow. >>> good monday morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. we have great weather. we'll have warmer weather today. palo a

i submit that the reason michael skakel was convicted, he was a dorky kennedy cousin.. they thought they lived a privileged life. a fictional story, a book about it. murder in greenwich about it. the public hatred directed towards michael scaife who was such that i think the jury overlooked the fact that there was no forensic evidence, no eyewitnesses and other state's only witness is dead from an overdose having recanted. >> martha: who did it? >> people say that it could have been the older brother thomas or the tutor, but why not? because it was a gated community, doesn't mean some outsider could not have snuck in. i've done shows over the years that indicated that this guy, that guy was in the neighborhoo neighborhood. michael skakel, this guy was the ultimate defendant in the case, the night before he was in a tree looking at martha moxley and masturbating. he was a sickle. he was already an alcoholic. he had a troubled person who was easily convicted. he did ten years in prison, remember. >> martha: thank you very much. we will see the next twist and turn in this

her then-15-year-old neighbor, michael skakel, was found guilty of murder. y, a court vacated the conviction because of allegdely shoddy work by mickey sherman, skakel's lawyer. skakel and his supporters claim sherman ignored a possible witness in the trial 15 years ago, a witness who would have confirmed his alibi. bakel's cousin bobby kennedy, jr., has stood by him through the years. >> he's innocent. i know he's innocent. >> reporter: skakel was originally convicted in 2002 and served ten years of a life n,ntence before a lower court vacated the sentence in 2013. just 16 months ago, the connecticut supreme court had reinstated the conviction, but in a rare move, reversed itself today. dorothy moxley, the victim's 85-year-old mother, told "the hartford courant" she was shocked by the decision. she remembered her daughter in 2008 in an interview with cbs "48 hours." .> martha was one of these children that was just so easy. she just was so easy to raise, to do things with. >> glor: tony is here with us now. the big question is, what is next for the investiga

connecticut supreme court overturns michael skakel's murder conviction.istakes during the trial. michael skakel had been convicted of killing martha moxley in 1975 when both were teenagers. >>> and last licks? brad marchon licks callahan during a game. he had tried to get the upper lick before. >>> and pie in the sky. jetblue an announnouncing it wir pizza delivery to los angeles for a few days next week. pizza lovers in l.a. drooling. today, saturday, may 5th, 2018. they will not guarantee that pizza in 30 minutes or less. >> probably a good idea. thank you. >>> we want to talk about the florida woman waiting to hear how long she will spend behind bars after admitting to kidnapping a newborn from the hospital 20 years ago and raising her as her own. emotions raw and high when the baby's biological mother confronted the kidnapper in court. we have maya rodriguez in jacksonville. >> reporter: good morning, hallie. several days of emotional testimony unfolded in the jacksonville courtroom. sentencing phase is the last piece of the puzzling kidnapping from 1

michael skakel was convicted bludgeoning moxley to death with a golf club when she was 15. but on friday the connecticut supreme court reversed the conviction which had been upheld by the same court just two years ago and ordered a new trial. justices ruled that skakel's former defense attorney failed to produce evidence. her childhood friends say that she was one of a kind. >> i don't think that she ever met someone who didn't become her friend. >> reporter: robert kennedy jr. wrote a book about it. >> i'm very happy. you know, michael's been through a nightmare. he's innocent. he should never have gone to jail. and we're happy that he's finally getting some justice. >> reporter: the decision comes as a blow to moxley's mother. >> i'm so convinced that he is guilty. i don't think that there is any question about it. >> martha didn't deserve this. >> reporter: christine hopes moxley's family can endure another trial. skakel was released in 2013 after spending more than a decade in prison. cornell barnard, abc 7 news. >>> for the first time ever, nasa launched an inter-plane

michael skakel was convicted bludgeoning moxley to death with a golf club when she was 15. but on friday the connecticut supreme court reversed the conviction which had been upheld by the same court just two years ago and ordered a new trial. justices ruled that skakel's former defense attorney failed to produce evidence. her childhood friends say that she was one of a kind. >> i don't think that she ever met someone who didn't become her friend. >> reporter: robert kennedy jr. wrote a book about it. >> i'm very happy. you know, michael's been through a nightmare. he's innocent. he should never have gone to jail. and we're happy that he's finally getting some justice. >> reporter: the decision comes as a blow to moxley's mother. >> i'm so convinced that he is guilty. i don't think that there is any question about it. >> martha didn't deserve this. >> reporter: christine hopes moxley's family can endure another trial. skakel was released in 2013 after spending more than a decade in prison. cornell barnard, abc 7 news. >>> for the first time ever, nasa launched an inter-plane

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michael skakel's conviction for the 1975 murder of martha moxley has been overturned by the connecticut supreme court. moxley was beaten to death with a golf club in the wealthy greenwich neighborhood where she and skakel both lived. they were both 15 at the time. skakel, the nephew of ethel kennedy, was convicted for the crime 27 years later. but today the court ruled his lawyer was so ineffective his right to a fair trial was violated. skakel has been free on appeal since 2014. today the court ordered a new trial, but it's unclear whether prosecutors will pursue that. >>> an urgent manhunt is you should way tonight in chicago where an atf agent was ambushed and shot early this morning in the city's gun violence plagued south side. that agent, hospitalized this evening, and the suspect is on the loose. nbc's blake mccoy has details. >> reporter: tonight, a massive manhunt in chicago after an atf officer was shot in the face in an ambush. >> urgency, we have shots fired on 45th and hermitage. >> reporter: the federal agent rushes to the hospital in critical condition, now said to be imp

her then 15-year-old neighbor michael skakel was found guilty of murder but a court vacated the convictioncause of allegedly shoddy work by skakel's lawyer, mickey sherman. >> skakel and his supporters claim sherman ignored a possible witness in his original trial 15 years ago. a witness who would have confirmed his alibi. skakel's cousin bobby kennedy jr. has stood by him through the years. >> he's innocent. i know he's innocent. >> skakel was originally convicted in 2002 and served ten years before a lower court vacated the sentence in 2013. just 16 months ago, the connecticut supreme court reinstated the conviction and in a rare move reversed itself. dorothy moxley told the hartford current she was shocked by the decision. >> martha was one of these children that was just so easy. she just was so easy to raise, to do things with. >> and it's now up to state prosecutors to decide whether to retry skakel, who is free in the meantime. in a scathing dissent, one judge accused her colleagues of giving skakel special treatment because of his wealth, his race, and his connections to the kenned

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michael skakel was convicted bludgeoning moxly to death with a golf club when she was 15. but on friday the connecticut supreme court reversed the conviction which had been upheld by the same court just two years ago and ordered a new trial. justices rule that had skakt hd former defense attorney failed to produce evidence. her childhood friends say that she was one of a kind. >> i don't think that she ever met someone who didn't become her friend. >> reporter: rob brert kert ken wrote a book about it. >> i'm very happy. you know, michael's been through a nightmare. he's innocent. he should never have gone to jail. finally getting some justice. >> reporter: the decision comes as a blow to moxley's mother. >> i'm so convinced that he is guilty. i don't think that there is any question about it. >> martha didn't deserve this. >> reporter: christine hopes moxley's family can endure another trial. skakel was released in 2013 after spending more than a decade in prison. cornell barnard, abc 7 news. >>> for the first time ever, nasa launched an enter inter-planetary mission from

many people have believed that michael skakel did it, but it is chilling, because you know that somebodyt happened to her in her garage. >> they still not have gotten justice or any sense of closure. >> martha: thank you for the update, more of that on monday. good to see you. so tonight we are getting incredible in-depth look at the story behind the biggest lottery scam in u.s. history, worth $25 million paid how a little-known man from rural, iowa managed to crack the system and rig the game in five different states. he found a way to pick the winning numbers before they were even picked up by the computer if you can believe this. and now we know how. the answer lies in this grainy surveillance tape that was taken from a quick trip gas station off of interstate 80 in iowa. raising a lot of eyebrows in 2010 when the man you see wearing the hoodie and hiding his face comes in and purchases a ticket that would be worth $16 million. but when it came time to claim the prize, he never showed up. his lawyer did. just two hours before the deadline. demanding that they wired the money to a bank

a stunning decisday in the long-running michael skakel murder case. connecticut supreme court reversed its own, previous ruling a threw out his 2002 conviction. he'd been found guilty of killing a young girl in 1975, when both were teenagers. skakel is the nephew of ethel kennedy, widow of senator robert f. kennedy. a sexual abuse scandal has scuttled plans for this year's nobel prize in literature. the swedish academy announced today that it won't give the award in 2018. it cited a scandal that's roiled the organization and prompted seven members to quit. one member says that has made it impossible to conduct business as usual. >> ( translated ): we have decided not to award a prize this year. and we did that after long and intense discussions. but weeached the conclusion that the confidence in the academy is so low in the world at the moment, and that is the deciding reason why we now refrain from awarding the prize. >> yang: this will bfirst time since world war ii that the literature prize is not awarded. instead, the academy will give out two pri

the state supreme court in that state vacating michael skakel's murder conviction. that same court had reinstated skakel's conviction in 2016 after a lower court ordered a new trial and they said his attorney failed to identify an alibi witness depriving skakel of a fair trial. he's the nephew of ethel kennedy. depriving him of a fair trial. he was found guilty in 2002 of bludgeoning martha moxley with a golf club in greenwich, connecticut in 1975. >>> in los angeles, protests over the federal government's decision to end special immigration rights allowing hondurans to stay in the u.s. ever since a hurricane, hurricane mitch devastated that country in 1998. about 57,000 hondurans have until january 2020 to either find a way to gain legal status in this country or leave the u.s. the u.s. also has recently taken special immigration rights away from five other countries. >>> and in texas, former president george h.w. bush has been released from a houston hospital where he had spent the last 13 days for treatment of a blood infection. he is expected to travel to the bu

. >> the connecticut supreme court has overturned the murder conviction of kennedy cousin michael skakel and ordered a new trial in the 1975 killing of his childhood neighbor martha moxley. the court says skakel's trial lawyer did not give him an adequate defense. >>> the mother of one of the victims killed in the waffle house shooting in nashville last month accepted her daughter's diploma this weekend at belmont university. 21-year-old deebony grove's mother received a standing ovation as she walked away the stage to accept her daughter's degree in of all things social work. >>> seniors at marjorie douglas high school celebrated their prom while honoring their classmates who were killed in the parkland school shooting earlier this year. >>> now let's take you down to the new york stock exchange to the opening bell where markets opened just a minute ago and they're up just a bit. cnbc's dom chu joins me now. what's driving the markets this morning? >> we've got optimism about what's happening with tech stocks. that on the heels of a big day for apple on friday. apple is very important.

i do want to ask about an item in the news and you've written a book about michael skakel and his murder have you talked to your cousin michael? what's his reaction? >> he's elated. you know, the supreme court decision, people should understand, was effectively exoneration of michael because the court overturned it because there was a credible witness. there's five eyewitnesses that put him 1 11 miles away at the time the murder was committed. he could not have committed the crime. >> the lawyer that represented michael at trial made a mistake by not aggressive live going after that albi alibi and said should have pointed the finger at thomas. >> thomas didn't commit the crime, either. the court acknowledged there were a lot of other people that could have made third party culpability defense. the press nor the police wanted to investigation a member not of my family. right now, tony bryan, a young man, has given a full confession to the crime, that he and his two friends actually committed the crime. and i've interviewed all three of them. we have it on tape. the police refused to inves

is what's happening at this hour the connecticut supreme court has ruled that kennedy cousin michael skakelentitled to a new one. he was convicted in 2002 in the death of martha, granted a new trial in 2013, and the state supreme court reinstated the conviction in 2016 >>> president trump telling supporters at the national rifle association convention that they will always have a friend while he's president calling the nra a truly great organization that loves this country. >> your second amendment rights are under siege, but they will never, ever be under siege as long as i'm your president >> and nearly 1500 residents were ordered to evacuate their homes after hawaii's volcano erupted spewing out lava, no immediate reports, so far, of injuries you're up to date. that's the news update this hour, kelly, back downtown to you. >> sue, thank you very much. >>> we have a closer look, in fact, of that eruption in hawaii kilauea has a long history of eruptions including a huge one in 1955. we did some digging and found research from oregon state university saying losses from the eruption was $2.

also, the murder conviction of kennedy's cousin michael skakel has been thrown out.ut supreme court has ordered a new trial. in 2002 he was convicted of killing martha moxley back in 1975. he was released in 2013 after lower courts ruled his lawyer did not give him a fair defense. the supreme court's decision underturning their own ruling from 2016 which reinstated conviction. prosecutors have the option to retry him. still not clear if they will. talk about a nightmare vacation. look at this. gallons of water gushing from the walls, flooding a carnival cruise ship. the company blaming it on a break in the fire suppression system flooding 60 rooms on the ninth deck. ed: looks like the titanic. abby: scooping um water with buckets. impacting the guests. they will receive a full refund and option to be flown home. seven day cruise departed on sunday still out at sea. president trump putting together all star team to help america get into shape. naming bill belichick to the council on sports fitness and nutrition. also friends of the show dr. oz and football great hersc