nidal hasan is getting a trial. but all of is getting something resembling a trial.utallab is getting something resembling a trial. anwar al-awlaki was sentenced to death by a president who served as judge, jury, and ultimately as executioner, and also prosecutor in public. they litigate on amar al- awlaki's deaths penalty case with leaks to the media. his role in the underwear barber case. case. underwear bomber i know that he had met with farouk abdulmutallab, who was very deranged. but it is very interesting. but al-awlaki is a member of al qaeda in the abn peninsula? he never claimed it himself could be referred to them as brothers. arounde is that he was those circles and they respected him as someone who was definitely prejean things that were in sync with their agenda. -- prejean things that were in sync with their agenda. but when they tried to get them leadership, into bin laden said, i still need to see his resume. until he is test on the battlefield, do not bring in to me. my response to obama is, if all of this was true, with the harambee in presenting th

or that. >> reporter: while the families argue for more help, nbc 5 investigates learned major nidal hasand hundreds of thousands of dollars in military pay since his arrest. >> i want to show you something. this is a letter we received from the army showing how much major hasan has been paid since he was arrested. >> there have been times when my wife and i cannot afford groceries. we cannot afford gas in our car. literally times where we ate nothing but ramen noodles for weeks on end. and this makes me sick to my stomach. >> reporter: hasan's total pay since the shooting, more than $2 $278,000. the defense department confirmed the numbers in response to a freedom of information act request. the army tells us under the military code of justice they cannot suspend hasan's pay unless he is proven guilty but more than three years later, he is still awaiting trial. >> we're giving the defendant in this case every benefit of the doubt, but yet we're not giving benefits to victims. >> reporter: congressman rooney is a former prosecutor at fort hood. he reisn'tly signed a bipartisan letter urnin

for example, in march 2010, al qaeda's american spokesman praised major nidal hasan, supported. in june 2011, he appeared in another video in which he urged muslims in america to purchase guns and carry out attacks on their own initiative. he told them to take advantage of america's liberal firearm laws to purchase guns. another important jihadists who quickly appeared in the new media was i'm awlaki pic his sermons are broadcasted on sites such as youtube. one time he was called the bin laden of the internet. he was killed in a drone strike in august 2011 in yemen, but he exerted a strong influence on a lot of jihadists, including major nidal hasan with whom he exchanged e-mails several times before the attacks at fort hood. now, some people, they dismissed this notion of global terrorism as nuisance. basic can be handled effectively by law enforcement. that it's worth mentioning that it is theoretically possible for small cells and even individuals to cause a lot of damage today due to the greater availability of weapons of mass destruction. so what makes leaderless resistance

attention as thousands of returning warriors wait for their benefits from the government, major nidal hasanter is behind bars and is still getting paid. the army psychiatrist is accused of massacring 13 people and wounding dozens of others at fort hood, texas more than three years ago. he is set to face court-martial on july 1st. according to the current military pay table available online hasan has now been paid more than $278,000 since the shooting. of course hasan is innocent until proven guilty and under military code he is paid until convicted. >>> he put down his big mac and became a hero and then he achieved youtube immortality with this clip. >> i'm eating at mcdonald's. i come outside. i see this girl going nuts trying to get out of a house. >> hero charles ramsey is now going to be getting freeburgers for a year from mcdonald's. mcdonald's also says it donated $10,000 to the national center for missing and exploited children in the names of amanda berry, gina dejesus, and michelle knight, the three women ramsey helped to escape. also according to the cleveland plain dealer more th

what do you make of this juxtaposition of nidal malik hasan in the being called an enemy of the statearty being investigated by the irs? >> it's disgraceful. i don't understand why the administration continues to call this workplace violence when we've already had the boston bombings, they were called terrorists. however, it's not going to affect his trial. 9-11, the killers were called terrorists and it didn't affect their trial seven, eight years later. so how is it going to affect nidal malik hasan's trial by deeming it an act of terrorism, which is what it was? >> gretchen: there are so many ram if i cautions of not call -- ramifications of not calling it what many people believe it truly is, such as medical care for people like yourself, one of the 13 who -- 13 died, but others, countless others were injured. how does it affect the medical payments by calling it workplace violence versus terror? >> the ones in the military, i was federal police at the time, but ones in the military that got hurt and injured, not just by bullets, but even by having ptsd from this day, from the inc

we saw with the major nidal hasan terror attack, that was an incidence where the military was so indoctrinatedess that that they could not identify even when he told them specifics how he was going to kill. they did nothing about it so i'm wondering if he can get a meeting. can we get a meeting? >> dana: yeah. >> andrea: why doe wasn't ask for one. >> greg: the five? >> andrea: yeah. >> eric: great idea. wasn't it homeland security after the one point a couple years ago put out on -- what to watch out for on terror look for right wing religious extremists? didn't they do that? i believe they did. >> bob: there are a lot of religious extremists. >> andrea: yes. they are blowing up marathons every single day. >> bob: talking about islamists in that group? >> andrea: you cannot compare the two religions, i'm sorry. >> bob: not compare. i thought you were talking about islamists. >> eric: kind of dovetails into what this guy is saying we should be pushing. should be locking the door on the oval office rather than letting this guy in. >> bob: you don't equate it with all these other people. christi

a military judge to delay major nidal hasan's court-martial to september 1st.is lawyers claimed jurors might be influenced by the media coverage of the boston bombings. jury selection will still begin on may 30th. testimony will start july 1st. hasan faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole. the massacre left 13 people dead and more than 30 wounded. >>> a british olympic gold medalist was killed after his sailboat capsized in san francisco bay. 36-year-old andrew simpson and his team were practicing for the americas cup race this summer. the boat trapped him under the water for ten minutes. he was pronounced dead at the hospital. >> a shocking experience to go through, and we have a lot to deal with in the next few days in terms of assuring everybody's wellbeing. >> one other crew member suffered minor injuries. >>> well, it was supposed to be the first day of jodi arias's sentencing hearing, but that hearing was suddenly postponed yesterday without any given reason. the hearing now rescheduled for this coming wednesday. right now, arias is unde

new legal maneuvering for major nidal hasan, ft. hood shooting.trial. a judge will consider his request. he's accused of killing 13 people and injuring 32 more after a shooting in 2009. a dallas reporting shoots that he has been paid $287,000 since his arrest. his salary cannot be suspended until he is found guilty. >>> e-mail scandal had nothing to do with her decision to step down. evelyn hammond, first female african-american dean of the school says she will take a sabbatical. calls forress ig nation after a secret search of e-mail accounts happened of residents deans after finding out who leaked information concerning a cheating scandal. >>> a saddened for a missing quarterback quarterback from michigan. colin finnerty has been found in a lake. the grand valley's player had teammates look for him. no foul play is suspected. >>> hundreds of passengers finding their way home from the cruise that was a nightmare. investigators don't know what caused the fire on "grandeur of the seas." over 2,000 passengers were found stranded in the bahamas. they

nidal hasan was watching the website with al-awlaki. he was listening to his sermons online.ng we saw and whether we're willing to prepared and able to act on these individuals becomes relevant to boston. tamerlan was tipped off to us by the russians. we know the fbi at least talked to him. what kind of red flags were sent up then? that is the kind of thing that joe lieberman can on your committee, right? >> joe lieberman has been a leader for years on this issue saying we have to be more aggressive. we have to put political correctness aside. again on this, we knew the older brother. we knew about the web sites. we knew about the some of the contacts yet nothing was done. seems once the preliminary investigation was ended, and i think more could have been done at that stage but it was not kept open, but the subsequent information going from russia to chechnya, coming back into the country about what he was posting, about the radical sermons, dealing with the radical imams, none of that, was brought back by the fbi. and also, when word came back, had come back from chechnya o

the judge will ask nidal hasan's attorney to stay on board in case he has yes kwes. ive paychecks while victims of his attack struggle. >> it's an embarrassment to all the fallen that have paid the supreme sacrifice for his consider and it's an embarrassment for the injured. >> it not her fault. jodi arias feels betrayed, she says, by jurors who convicted her. she said she never felt sorry for killing her boyfriend because she thought it would be meaningless. jurors are having a tough time decide wlg she deserves the death penalty or life in prison. if the jury can't come to a unanimous decision, a new jury will be picked to decide her fate. >> here's what happens when a science experiment goes very, very wrong. >> oh! >> yes! >> the teacher tried demonstrating what happens to natural gas when it's lit. the flames set off the classroom sprinkler system. other than the room being flooded, no additional damage was caused. mysteriously they were advertising for a science teacher for next year. >> bill nye the science guy, police report to the science lab. let's check in

least one american was killed, carlos bledsoe killed an army recruiter in little rock in 2009, nidal hasan killed 13 at fort hood later that same year, and now the tzarnaev brothers killed four and severely wounded many more in boston during the week of april 15, 2013. the boston attack was the first successful terrorist attack either homegrown or launched from abroad on a non-military target in america since 9-11. could it have been prevented? from what i know of the facts and what i know about homegrown islamist terrorism and our efforts to prevent it, i believe -- it would have been possible to prevent the attacks in boston. you must acknowledge that it failed to stop the brothers. out your help, we must find why and fix it. ira member a leader who want said to me the terrace to keep coming at us, they'll have to succeed once. we have to stop them every time. that is almost impossible. that is the standard our defenders hold themselves to, and we have to as well. i am grateful you begun this investigation. you to go step-by-step, pull apart and ask what more could the public and private

least one american was killed, carlos bledsoe killed an army recruiter in little rock in 2009, nidal hasan 13 at fort hood later hat same year, and now the tzarnaev brothers killed four and severely wounded many more in boston during the week of april 15, 2013. the boston attack was the first successful terrorist attack either homegrown or launched from abroad on a non-military target in america since 9-11. could it have been prevented? from what i know of the facts and what i know about homegrown islamist terrorism and our efforts to prevent it, i believe -- it would have been possible to prevent the attacks in boston. you must acknowledge that it failed to stop the brothers. with your help, we must find out why and fix it. ira member a leader who want said to me the terrace to keep coming at us, they'll have to succeed once. we have to stop them every time. that is almost impossible. that is the standard our defenders hold themselves to, nd we have to as well. i am grateful you begun this investigation. you to go step-by-step, pull apart and ask what more could the public and private ind

hood which is still officially classified as work place violence even though the shooter major nidal hasanbar as he started firing shots at military it was the narrative they gave in little rock when a radicalized young man from memphis carlos bledsoe so who he ho became mohammed akim told everyone he had did it because he had been radicalized. an act of jihad. never been given any indication that really was terrorism. even though everybody except the administration understands. >> this one the administration came out and said it was terrorism. >> how could they not? they still do not want to come out and say we have a serious threat because of radicalized islam. not all muslims are terrorists, for lesson's sakes. no one that i know of suggests that. it's just -- it's dishonest and disingenuous for us to continue to say right after the bombing this is probably the work of some right wing antitax, antigovernment person when no one knew. never like on air apology from people who made those ridiculous speculations. that's why i think that it is very important that americans understand we do h