ms. carter, please stand.his court, having reviewed the evidence and applied the laws thereto now find you guilty on the indictment charging you with the involuntary manslaughter of the person conrad roy the third. this court further finds that the cobalt has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that you are a youthful offender and you are judged so at this time. you may be seated, that verdict is not recorded and it in writing as well. do you wish to be heard? sentencing is not appropriate at this time, chapter 119 requires that a presentencing report be prepared and given to the judge before sentencing can be enclosed. [indistinct] >> gregg: the judge has found this young woman guilty. she sent a myriad of text messages to her boyfriend encouraging him to kill himself. he had strong a pipe fixed with carbon monoxide into his truck and he sat there and he died. her messages to him right before hand were get back in your truck. another one, i thought you wanted to do this, just do it. even though there is no crime

ms. carter back in 2014 sent a barrage of taxes to her boyfriend telling him to kill himself. ms. faces up to 20 years in jail when she's sentenced on august 3rd. not just to draw the picture for you, he was in a car and he's texting with her, and gases are collecting in the car, and she tells him to get back in the car where he died. now massachusetts doesn't have a law against encouraging suicide, but you have a situation where she says, she cared for him, he was terribly depressed, and i don't want him to live this way anymore. what do you think? >> i think is very clear she had a direct role in the cause of his death. she tried to take a chance by saying, she thought she would go against a judge and fare better against a jury trial. wrong. very clearly this person is a danger to others. that's been evidence between thousands of facebook and text messages between them. all she had to do was let a family member note. instead, she might as well put a gun to his head. i think she should be even further than just an accomplice to a murder. this act likely resulted in great bodily i

ms. carter. >> reporter: carter sent dozens of texts to roy telling him such things there isn't anything anyone can do to save you, not even yourself, and you have hit that point. but defense lawyers maintain she isn't to blame for roy's death, making the case that roy had long contemplated suicide because of physical and verbal abuse from family members. >> the male party was subsequent p ly placed under arrest? >> for assault and battery domestic. >> reporter: testifying that roy googled suicide by cop, a website that recommended which medications would kill him in his sleep. >> abc7 "news at 6:00" continues. coming up, this looks like an ordinary hook you would find in any house. >> but 7 on your side's michael finleyy says it's so much more. >>> "cars 3" ♪ ♪ isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. great show. here you go. now he's added a new routine. making depositing a check seem so effortless. easy to use chase technology, for whatever you're trying to master. isaac, are you ready? yeah. chase. so you can. >>> well, privacy these days is getting awfully

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ms. carter please stand. >> reporter: michelle carter in tears as a judge convicted her of involuntarily manslaughter after convincing her boyfriend to commit suicide. the basis thousands of text messages and phone calls with roy who had previously tonight is the night she wrote it's now or never. when roy texted i'm freaking out again, i'm over thinking. carter responded i thought you wanted to do this. the time is right, and you're ready. you just need to do it. that night, roy drove to this kmart parking lot outside of boston and filled his grandfather's pickup truck with carbon monoxide. when he got scared and left the car, carter later texted a friend. i told him to get back in. i couldn't have him live that way. the judge said that failure to help makes her responsible. >> she admits in a subsequent text she did nothing. >> reporter: legal experts say the verdict shows a message sent via text is as powerful as one delivered in person. >> she didn't turn on the gas in the car, she simply told him turn on the gas, get back in the car so she is two steps removed and 30 miles away from

ms. carter now faced up to 20 years in jail when she's sentenced on august 3rd.he is texting with her, and the gases are collecting in the car, and she tells him to get back in the car where he died. massachusetts doesn't have a law against encouraging suicide, but you've got a situation where she says she cared for him. he was terribly depressed, and i don't want to have him live this way anymore. what do you think? >> i think is very clear she had a direct role in the cause of his death. shect tried to take a chance by saying, she thought she would go against a judge and fare better against a jury trial. wrong. she has sociopathic tendencies, very clearly, this person is a danger to others. that's been demonstrated. there are over a thousand facebook and text messages between them to substantiate and document this. all she had to do was let a family member no. instead, she might as well have put a gun to his bed. i think she acted even father then involuntary manslaughter, she used malice which is disregard of known risk. he was suicidal and very depressed. she

ms. carter. >> her defense team stunned. >> beyond saying i'm disappointed i'm not going to comment further. >> reporter: they argue that roy was determined to kill himself with or without carter's help citing a 2012 suicide attempt and chilling videos he left about his own depression. >> you don't have to be happy. >> reporter: carter now faces up to 20 years behind bars. the verdict sending a strong message about the power of words. >> one of the concerns that some people might have is the slippery slope concern. michelle carter, horrible actions. what about the next case. will it be so horrible? or will prosecutors also be emotio emboldened to file manslaughter charges. >> even though the incident happened when she was 17 years old. she is not allowed to leave the state of massachusetts or have any contact with the roys. that family made a final employplea to anyone struggling with depression asking them to get help before it's too late. >> let's bring back in katie. good to have you again. thank you for being back. so this verdict surprises a lot of folks because suicide is generally th

ms. lowey and chairman carter and ms. roybal-allard to move rapidly in the coming weeks and months to complete the fiscal year 2018 appropriation's bills. again, today's hearing is part of a process we follow to determine the best use of taxpayers' dollars. after all, the power of the purse lies in this building. it is the constitutional duty of congress to make spending decisions on behalf of the people we represent at home. some here on the committee may know that hundreds of families, almost 700 in new jersey and in my congressional district lost loved oned on september 11th in those terrorist attacks. although it took years for the nation to recover, the events of that day made us rethink how we protect the nation and allowed us to learn from prior mistakes in order to prepare for and stop the next attack. mr. secretary, i wholeheartedly agree with your recent assessment that the risk of a terror attack on these united states, in your own words, is as threatening today as it was on that fateful day in september, in 20

ms." magazine cover subject, wonder woman's been best known by her tv series incarnation from the 1970s which played for three seasons bit universally beloved lynda carterion for the character in 2005 with abc news. >> i got to tell you, i loved wonder woman too. i read the comic books. and i got to play her. i mean, how cool is that? >> women are the wave of the future. and sisterhood is stronger than anything. >> we were building the bridges for young girls today. they were going to be in a world where it was okay to be smart, okay to be beautiful, okay to be feminine, okay to be strong, okay to be athletic. >> reporter: thanked in the feature films and critics, carter had positive influences on the director patty jenkins. what were the wore values that wonder woman had that you were an advocate for as you set out to make your movie? >> i wanted her to not be a female superhero. she's a great superhero. and so the values were the balance, the goodness, the kindness, the positivity that she has always had and was created with. and lynda carter had done such a beautiful job of embodying. >> reporter: it's jenkins who conjures up the landscape populated

he wrote in 1980 and issued the carter doctrine, which protected europe's access to oil through the streets of her ms. that doctrine was reiterated by the succeeding presidents and george hlb bush acted on that basis and he acted on that basis also because the notion that a dictator seeking to be a regional should be allowed to invade someone else's country and take it and then a slaughter the people there and he did a lot of that. he really did. if you get a chance to go through buildings in kuwait and see what they did you would be repulsed, appalled and the rest of it, but that is not new in american history and it's not new in human history either. when we went to iraq the second time, we did not go into iraq understanding the implications of gulf. we did need to do it. don't know anyone that thought there were nukes there, but we all thought that there were met-- weapons of mass destruction in the form of chemical weapons and if you read the iraqi documents they wanted us to think that. why would they do that? so they look like they guys standing up to the gringos which was kind of saddam's thin

carter: mr. speaker, i rise today to celebrate the remarkable career of ms. tina herring who retired as branch manager with the georgia department of veteran services on thursday, june 1, 2017. during her childhood, she often moved with her father, a pearl harbor survivor, who frequently traveled on air force assignments. this instilled an appreciation for our nation's armed forces. she began her career with the department of veteran services in 1985 as a benefits caseworker. in this position she worked to ensure that georgia service men and women received crucial resources and benefits to which they and their families deserve. mrs. herring was promoted to oversee multiple southeast branches of the georgia veteran services branches department in 2009 because of her exceptional dedication to georgia's veterans and her 25 years of hard work. mrs. herring, thank you for your extraordinary efforts in honoring our service men and women. you have managed georgia's department with exceptional provision. i wish you the best of luck for all future endeavors. thank you

carter: mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize the emarkable career of ms. gaines who is retiring on june 30, 2017. her career with concerted services, a a nonprofit group that fights poverty throughout 28 counties in southeast georgia has spanned nearly 44 years. mrs. gaines began her work with he company in 1973 traveling door-to-door and educating people how to enroll in head start, energy assistance and senior new trish ons. mrs. gaines' career continued with her decision to teach work classes at savannah state university enabling young people to carry on her work. i'm proud to rise today to recognize mrs. gaines. thank you for all of your outstanding contributions and to the lives of our fellow georgians. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. lat night the world watched and watched my home team, the golden state warriors end a historic season by bringing hom