mirner the head of the department's drug unit has come up with an ambitious response, take down south boston'sdangerous dealers all in one shot. >> as you know we've been banging them on the street on south d where it's mostly street impact, drug dealing. >> he's chosen the head of the fugitive unit brian albert, to help plan the operation. >> they're kind of intimidating and terrorizing the residents in the development there. >> yep. >> so we want to make a difference for the people over there. what do you anticipate we should have? >> for the houses, for the warrant, six to eight cops. a minimum of two on the perimeter, then everybody else inside and then one for the front windows. so i'll have an accurate count. >> the dcu guys and the fugitive guys today. i'll reach out to gerard bailey and we'll have 70 or 80 parties based on 12 targets plus three search warrants. as you know, you've done more of these than anybody. we'll kick everything off right at six, because they live and two or three get picked off, what's going to happen? that will be the end of that. i'll get back to you before th

informant as well as a drug lord feared on the streets of south boston in the 1970s and 1980s. convicted drug dealers, bookers have been called to the stand, so have sons, daughters, siblings and girlfriends of those allegedly murdered by bulger and the mob. kevin colin, a reporter and columnist for the "boston globe" has been there for all of it. he's the co-author of a book about the story. tell us about the most powerful testimony you have been listening to. >> judy, i think it's interesting because obviously a lot of the people that have testified against whitey bulger are from the wrong side of the tracks. they're criminal themselves. there is a corrupt fibe agent f.b.i. agent named john morris who spend spent a guy days own stand. the hit man who was on the stand for several days i described in one of my columns after the first few days of testimony we were hit by punishing rain. he's such a venal and vile man convicted of murdering 20 people that it was almost as if there was a higher power that needed to wash us of our having to listen to this guy. but i think the most

inform antd and as someone who allowed drugs to go through south boston where there were some people, sycophants of him and particularly of his politician brother bill bulger who said that whitey kept drugs out of southey. i lived there in the 1980's and 1990's and i knew that was baloney because there were drugs everywhere in south boston and the last couple of days drug dealers have begun to get on the stand and they'll continue to get on the stand and what they have been testifying to today is that whitey bulger took a cut of everything in that town. he took millions of dollars from the drug trade to put out the charade that he wasn't involved in drugs, that he actually chased drug dealers out of south boston. that was the other myth that he and his apologists propagated but there was a drug dealer named billy shea up there today and he explained how whitey sent him to set up a cocaine business but instructed him "make sure no one knows i'm involved" but his weekly cut as little as $3,000 a week, sometimes when they got in the can cocaine in a big way whitey bulger was getting $10,

he was former south boston resident who accused whitey bulgar and his partners of essentially exploiting him, trying to take away the liquor store he was running. rakes claimed that one of bug gar's many -- he himself was one of the alleged victims and his life had been threaten bid bulgar, who had offered to pay him far less than the liquor store was worth. rakes had been attending the trial and wanted to testify. here he is outside a federal court. >> just can't believe we're listening to this lawyer say he had cart blanch to da -- to do anything he wanted. >> 30 years ago, never look at him. now i can't wait to look at him flight the eyes. and now his day is coming. it took a long time, but good will triumph over evil. >> the bulgar trial has been underway for a little over a month now. reportedly rakes just found out the prosecution did not intend to actually call him to the stand anymore, and had expressed his very up disappointment about that to other people that knew victims of whitey ball good, -- bulgar, or alleged victims. >> what else do we know about the circumstances soundin

for years he contended that bulger and his gang stole his south boston liquor store and took it over week. >> my liquor store was never for sale, never, never, never. >> reporter: during a nearly 20-year reign of terror from the '70s to the '90s, bulger ruled the streets of south boston. testimony shows he was also an fbi informant working with a corrupt fbi agent. a 32-count indictment against him includes 19 murders. one of those murders was stephen davis' sister. he saw rakes tuesday after he was dropped from the witness list. >> this here seems like reflecting back to the late '70s, early '80s when people were getting killed, a rat was going to testify or do this, bang, they wind up getting killed or disappearing or something. >> reporter: investigators say there are no signs of obvious trauma in rakes' death. some media reports have suggested suicide. davis isn't buying it. is there any way this could be suicide? >> 110% no. >> reporter: with no obvious trauma, investigators are now waiting to toxicology results to help explain what happened for a man's 30-year dream of testifyi

. >> south boston. >> jimmy: south boston, southie. >> southie. >> jimmy: he's like a tough -- >> he'sweiner type of problems. >> totally. >> jimmy: he would be the guy to fix that. >> right now he needs a ray donovan. >> jimmy: he needs a ray donovan right now, really bad. yeah. so like, if there's like -- say you're at a party. or you're a hollywood celebrity. and then someone has a part. and you leave and there's a dead person at the party. >> yeah. >> jimmy: you come in, you vacuum it up. you take the body, no questions asked. and that's it. and the celebrity's fine. >> right. >> jimmy: it's kind of amazing. and your dad -- >> john voight. >> jimmy: john voight who is unbelievable. oh, i love john voight. have you ever "champ"? >> oh, amazing, yeah. >> jimmy: that was my first -- i remember my parents -- >> "midnight cowboy." "runaway train." >> jimmy: i was gonna say, my parents took me to see "the champ." my parents didn't take me to see "midnight cowboy," when i was a kid, yeah. [ laughter ] yeah, that'd be weird. same thing, though. but he's unbelievable. and he's great in this

he owned a liquor store in south boston in the 1980s. he claimed bulger and his boss forced him to sell them his store at gun front. >> he put the gun on the table. and then they picked up one of my children and said you know it would be a sin. it would be a sin to see this child grow up without a father. >> reporter: the 79-year-old who's serving a life sentence for ten murders was today's star witness. it was the first time in nearly 20 years that he had come face to face with bulger. he described his relationship with bulger as strictly criminal and characterized the former crime boss as forceful. he was an informant for the fbi. after testimony, the former partners in crime glared at each other and exchanged heated words. >> the ultimate betrayal. >> it is the ultimate betrayal. in their world, you don't rat out your friends. you could see the tension. you could see the body language. they hate each other. >> police say there were no obvious signs of trauma to rakes body but the whole thing is very suspicious. >>> the bay area is giv

still furious at the notorious gangster and his ally, kevin weeks for allegedly extorting his south bostonr store from him at gunpoint in 1984. rakes was a constant presence at the u.s. district court trial in boston. he was on the witness list of carmen ortiz but was told on tuesday that prosecutors did not plan to call him to testify. a situation, steve davis, a friend of his attending the trial, one of the victim's families, devastated rakes. ortiz's office is not commenting on that. rakes perceived the decision by the u.s. attorney's office not to testify as robbing him of the opportunity to refute claims by kevin weeks, bulger's ally, that rakes sent his sister to, as an intermediary to whitey and weeks asked if they were interested in buying rakes liquor store. weeks testified earlier -- jenna: if i could, only a minute here. >> sure. jenna: stephen rakes obviously has been under a lot of post-traumatic stress disorder. there is heat wave across the northeast. at this point we don't know the cause of death. got to ask the question, does it look like a hit? >> it does not appear to be

this bizarre twist in reputed south boston mob boss. james "whitey" bulger.s named stephen rakes who claims bulger shook him down, this man has now been found dead on a roadside in lincoln, massachusetts. at this point, we don't know how rakes died. there were no obvious signs of trauma on his body. this is according to the district attorney's office. but rakes had waited decades for the chance to testify against whitey bulger. news of his death comes on the exact same day that stephen "the rifleman" fleming took the stand coming face to face with his former partner, whitey bulger, for the first time in 20 years. i want to bring in boston globe columnist kevin collin who's been in the courtroom. co-authored a book on whitey bulger. covering the trial, tweeting every colorful moment. and there have been many colorful moments. also john "red" shea used to be a member of whitey bulger's winter hill gang. welcome to both of you. kevin, first to you. you've been in and out of this courtroom for every single bit of this. i want to get to this. fleming mouthed a phr

rakes had owned a liquor store in south boston in the 1980s. he claimed bulger and his partner steven flemmi forced them to sell his store at gunpoint. he described the alleged incident in an interview with cbs affiliate wbz last year. >> finally put the gun on the table, right. and then they picked up one of my children an said you know it would be a sin-- it would be a sin to see this child grow up without a father. it was a bad day. >> reporter: the 79-year-old flemmi who is serving a life sentence for ten murders was today's star witness. it was the first time in nearly 20 years that he had come face- to-face with bulger. on the witness stand flemmi described his relationship with bulger as strictly criminal. and characterized the former crime boss as overbearing and forceful. he also said bulger was an informant for the fbi, something bulger through his lawyers sharply denied. after flemmi's testimony the former partners in crime glared at each other and exchanged heated words. "boston globe" columnist kevin cullen has been covering the tr

rakes had been expected to testify that 30 years ago, bulger extorted him into selling his south boston liquor store. but the same day rakes disappeared, prosecutors decided not to call him to the stand. >> he was very much looking forward to testifying. >> reporter: at bulger's trial friday, dramatic testimony from confessed mob boss and bulger crony, stephen, "the rifleman" flemmi, who said bulger personally murdered flemmi's girlfriend after the two men decided she knew too much. flemmi, he grabbed her around the neck and strangled her. prosecutor, what did you do? flemmi, nothing. also coming out, this astounding allegation by flemmi that they made regular cash payments to about half a dozen boston fbi agents in the '70s and '80s. he said that one of them was so grateful that he gave them a case of military-grade plastic explosives. david? >> ron, thank you. >>> overseas tonight and from italy, the first convictions in the case of that deadly costa concordia shipwreck. 32 passengers died. now, five employees have been found guilty of crimes ranging from manslaughter to negligence. t

>> kevin weeks is a neighborhood kid, guy, who used to work as a bouncer in a bar in south boston thathitey bulger used to frequent. kevin was pretty good with his fists. used to beat people up. whitey recognized someone who could perhaps be useful to him in shaking down others in the neighborhood. drug dealers and everything like that. and the employment of kevin weeks began in the early 1980s and eventually kevin was along for the ride when bulger and his partner, principle partner, steve themmy began killing people in front of kevin weeks, not that he hadn't killed people before. kevin was fully incorporated into the gang. and it was sort of a father/son relationship for many, many years until bulger split. until after bulger split because kevin weeks was in contact with jim bulger when whitey bulger was on the lam for several years. >> put it in perspective for those of us who watched "departed." who played weeks? do you recall who may have played him? >> that was a combination. nicholson played the bulger guy. >> right. >> but it wasn't damo or dicaprio because he wasn't a cop. >>

. >> you don't like south boston, do you?> some jerk chicken. >> oh, man, can i eat that in the bathroom sitting on the toilet? because that's what i need to do. >> sushi? >> you have to go to the north end. >> the north end? >> yeah. >> now you're talking crazy. >> dude, how we going to work together if we can't even agree on lunch? >> across town, jen and pat switch to an unmarked car for a new assignment, tracking down a warrant. elvis day la cruise is on probation for assaulting his ex-girlfriend but allowed the battery on his gps bracelet to die, which caused for immediately arrest. >> the gps, it makes a ton of noise if the battery is dying. so probably on purpose. >> he could be out and about running the streets doing whatever. >> the victim on the case, maybe they want to make sure he stays away from her. either way, you go to cuff them up, a big deal. >> they confirmed the pizza joint where he works but when serving a warrant, nothing is guaranteed. >> we don't know how this kid will be when we get down there. who kn

it's a pretty long hike from south boston to quincy, massachusetts, south of boston where rakes livedchusetts. it's a long hike on a pretty hot day. the body was clearly dumped there with no i.d. now as to whitey bulger's role in steve rakes' death, that is really up in the air because there's nothing left in terms of whitey bulger's ability really to reach out and have someone do a contract hit for him at this stage. we have to wait for the medical examiner to come back with his report, that could be two or three weeks, but one thing is for certain, steve rakes is just one more victim in a pretty sordid story. >> and it goes on. a heated day in the courtroom as well. another big story up in boston, mike, got to get your take on, is the cover of "rolling stone" that was yesterday. now today we're talking about sergeant sean murphy, the tactical photographer who took photographs of tsarnaev at the moment he came out of that boat. you know, he said, sergeant murphy, said he was doing it to serve as a counter way to what he thought was a glamourized, romanticized version of tsarnaev on t

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i don't know if you remember, but south boston went crazy when this happened. it was unnecessary.hat would have been helpful is to get better teachers and get better schools. >> wow, what happened to you? >> something is in his drink. >> did you become swedish overnight? >> wait until the next block. >> can you please allow me -- will you please allow me what i said about this at the beginning. i think there are a lot of programs that are good like head start. a lot that did breed dependancy. i am not leaving my positions here. i am trying to move this conversation along. >> good for you. >> how about the next block when we talk about the unions? >> it is great. it will go to h-e-double tooth picks. >> hockey sticks. >> whatever. detroit goes bust. you will love this, bob. becoming the largest city ever to file for bankruptcy. will the white house step in and bail it out? should it? >> ♪ >>> the city of detroit was one of industrial might. building cars that put the war on wheels and creating millions of jobs as a result. yesterday it became the largest city ever to file for bankr

the man who allegedly ran south boston's crime scene is now 83 years old, standing trial for his allegedrs. today a witness testified that his friend was murder it is, a few weeks later, he lured solomando to a dank bar in south, and he demanded $400,000. that's how much the dead friend supposedly owed him. he said if you're going to go to law enforcement, prosecutors say bulger gold along with it, because he was in cahoots with corrupt agents. we'll continue to bring you the latest on this trial in the days to kim. stay classy, san diego. they were ought set to give the mayor a lifetime leadership award until he found him facing charges of, sent out a statement, saying we do not toll rat sexual discrimination at any level, then they turned around and asked the mayor to come back for the keynote speaker. as far as the allegations. so broke, hug and -- and reprehensible, a chorus of his democratic officials have been calling for him to step down, but the mayor says he will not and believes he's not guilty. he did, however, acknowledge being a hugger. >> i express myself demonstrably. i'm

i don't know if you remember, you may be too young, but south boston went crazy when this happened. and it was unnecessary. what would have been helpful is to get better teachers and better schools. >> i agree. >> wow, what happened to you? started speaking swedish overnight. it's like you hit your head -- >> wait until the next block. >> can you please allow me -- will you please allow me -- what i said about this at the beginning which i think there's a lot of programs that are very good, like headstart, there are a lot of them that did breed dependency and i think we need to deal with it. i'm not leaving my positions here. i'm trying to move this conversation along. >> good for you. >> wait until the next block when we talk about the unions. >> yeah, this is going to be great. this is all going to go to h-e double toothpicks. >> hockey sticks. >> whatever. detroit goes bust. you're going to love this, bob. becoming the largest city ever to file for bankruptcy. will the white house step in and bail it out? should it? >>> bob, that's me. the city of detroit was once a symbol of ame

expected to say that 30 years ago, bulger personally threatened his life, to get him to turn over his south boston liquor store to his alleged gang. >> 30 years ago, i never looked at him. now, i can't wait to look him right in the eyes. his day has come. >> reporter: earlier the day he disappeared, prosecutors told rakes he would not be called to testify after all. at bulger's trial friday, dramatic testimony from his former pal and partner, steven "the rifleman" flemmi. he recounted several murders that he said he committed with bulger. including the shocking killing of flemmi's girlfriend, in his own home, because they felt she knew too much. flem flemmi, he said, i'll take it. i'll do it. he grabbed her around the neck and strangled her. prosecutor, what did you do? flemmi, nothing. i was in that courthouse. and those were chilling words to hear. one juror was crying as flemmi, actually in a matter-of-fact tone told that story. and he said bulger plotted to kill two people to stop them from testifying at trial. he is facing the same charges as bulger. >> and there's palpable tension between th

and one of the guys who testified the other day said, hey, listen, the culture in south boston was you don't rat on your best friend and your don't rat on your enemy. so that's what i grew up with and what i honored, and i also believe that you should accept full responsibility for the wrongs you do and not take it -- the wrong and put it on someone else's shoulders to listen the responsibility. >> john "red" shea, good to see you. >> good to see you. thank you. >> well, what was once the industrial capital of our nation has now gone belly up. we'll have the very later on the motor city bankruptcy filing, including word it could be facing a big road block. >> plus, the royal baby watch. yes, the world is waiting, and now reports indicate that the waiting could be over. or near over. the breaking news on that is next. geico's defensive driver,ke 13. good student and multi-policy discounts could save you hundreds of dollus. engineer: uh geico's discounts could save you hundreds of "doll-ars." it sounds like you're saying "dollus." dollus. engineeif you could accentuate the "r" sound of "

he once worked for bulger and the author of "rat bastards: the life and times of south boston's mostonorable irish mobster." red, let's go back to wednesday when stephen rakes was found dead less than 24 hours after he learned he was dropped from the prosecution's witness list. it is unclear how he died but authorities say the death is suspicious. so what's your take on this? >> well, i mean, you know, i feel -- my condolences first of all to the family, don. there was this discrepancy in the testimony of one of the witnesses. when he had said before and then changed his mind about the whole situation with mr. rakes and how he was shook down for his liquor store. that said, mr. rakes went out after the court trial was -- had ended, went out and gave an interview to the news saying, hey, he had his day and i'm disputing what he says and i'm going to have my chance on the stand. well, a few days later, i knew right then to be honest with you he wasn't going to be put on the stand by the government. the government wasn't going to let him dispute one of their star witnesses. wasn't going

prosecution called 63 witnesses, many of whom painted a colorful picture of life in bulger's gang in south boston. this month, one associate testified that "whitey" bulger wore a wig and fake mustache to a double murder in 1982, driving a car that could spit smoke or an oil slick to help him get away. a map on the prosecution's witness list turned up dead on the side of a road. the lawyer for his ex-wife says his family believes his death is not related toothily the trial but that it is not confirmed, and witnesses claim that white bulger sent tips to the fbi, and a foreigner supervisor denied he was ever an informant. there's a chance now bulger could testify. what's the thinking? >> there's a chance. it would be highly unusual for a defendant in this kind of case to actually take the stand, because of the possibility of being caught up on cross-examination, but in this case, bulger is almost certainly going to jail for the rest of his life. given his age already and given the fact his lawyers have admitted that, yes, he is guilty of some of the crimes. so, the thinking is that he may decide to

i used to live in south boston in the late '80s and it was run by whitey bulger.50, 60 years by organized crime. and i had a boxing program there, and one day i was teaching and two guys showed up and said i owed ed them $2500. i didn't have $25 hunl. i got a call one day and they said you have until 1:00 tomorrow to give us the money. i said okay, i hung up the phone. i called delta, get me a flight out of here like now. i left that day. i had an apartment there. i left everything. everything. i packed my favorite clothes, left my furniture, stereo. >> did you ever go back to get any of that stuff? >> all gone. >> you get into fights people, there's one guy you're fighting with in canada all the time? >> it's fun. i like to fight with these guys on twitter. it's fun. gives me something to do. >> ever go too far? >> no. probably. but no. i don't think so. here's the thing, if another person says something stupid to me, get ready, because something stupid is coming tonight still talking about. my one-on-one with the star witness on the george zimmerman trial. rache

he had formerly lived in south boston. and he has accused whitey bulger, james whitey bulger who is on trial right now of extorting him way back in the 80's. rakes claimed he was one of bulger's victims. accusing bulger and his partners of extortion. saying the men threatened his life and forced him to give up his liquor store the one he was riding in 1984. the middlesex district attorney's office put out a statement today regarding the autopsy that was performed saying no signs of trauma were found. the autopsy results are pending toxicology which generally takes several weeks to complete. identified as rakes. authorities said it appeared that he may have been out for a walk and had suffered possibly a medical episode. harris? >> harris: molly. i understand he had been a regular at federal court recently. >> absolutely. rakes was there very, very often. he was looking forward to his chance to testify. he wanted to tell his story. it's pretty powerful words over the course of the last few weeks outside of federal court. ta

and i'm a southie transplant, south boston transplant.ich and famous celebrities and athletes. >> jimmy: like if someone were to wind up with a black eye you would help them cover it up? >> i would figure out something better than a car door. [ laughter ] [ applause ] and i would shoot a compelling and realistic re-enactment. >> jimmy: what part of that wasn't realistic? oh, yeah, my abs are a little tighter than that guy's were. >> that's what i thought. >> jimmy: and jon voight is great in the show. he's very menacing. he's scary in the show. and elliott gould, who i have not seen in a while, is a great actor. a very interesting character. loopy and a little bit nutty on top of that. >> it's an incredible cast. i mean, the people that we got. i was so, so grateful that they wanted to do this. paula malcolmson dashed my heart. eddie marsan. just incredible actors. i think that's been the story of the show for me this year. >> jimmy: were you the first one on board and -- >> i was. >> jimmy: -- then they asked the others to be part of it?

this is part of a whitey bulger jail house conversation regarding the south boston liquor store. >> seeut one in the chamber, and he looked up. and -- says a bag of peanuts please. >> trials in civil and criminal courts are public events. anybody can go in, if there is room for you. most people don't do that, let alone travel across the country to do that. but when trials are nationally public, the casey anthony trial, the jodi arias trial just a couple of months ago. and now there is the george zimmerman trial being televised on national tv. george zimmerman is pleading not guilty to the second degree murder charge of trayvon martin. mr. zimmerman claims he shot him in self defense. when the case first broke, much of the attention centered around the "stand your ground law." now that the trial is being televised, there is just as much focus on the human drama of it all. and it has a huge television audience, today, the prosecution side called the 33rd witness to the stand, a former professor who had taught george zimmerman back in 2011. the professor is in colorado, and the trial is in

for years he contendeded bulger and his gang stole his south boston liquor store and took it over as a mob headquarters. rakes recently made that clear to reporters outside court. >> my liquor store was never for sale, never, never, never. >> reporter: bulger croney kevin weeks testified rakes offered them the store, and there was a dispute over price. on the stand, weeks made it clear he didn't like rakes, and rakes responded. >> dislike me if you will, but that's why we're here today, and we'll get to the bottom of this. >> reporter: steve davis is trying to understand why his friend is dead. >> would weeks ever do something like that, no. i couldn't see him going that far. >> reporter: what about whitey bulger? >> does he still have that kind of pull outside? i don't know. >> reporter: davis' sister was allegedly murdered by bulger. davis last saw rakes tuesday after he was dropped from the government's witness list. >> i've had a weird feeling since he hasn't talked to me tuesday. >> reporter: and didn't know what to think when he went by rakes' house and couldn't find him. >> th

this is part of a jailhouse conversation about the triple o's, his famous south boston liquor store.and aim it at them, the guy looked up. >> see you later. >> i put one in the chamber like, and he looked up and i'm aiming and he says to the other guy, a bag of peanuts please. >> trials in criminal courts and civil courts are public events. anyone can go in and watch if there's room. when trials can be nationally televised people really do watch. the menendez brothers trial, the o.j. simpson simpson trial with johnnie cochran and marcia clark. the casey anthony trial, the jodi arias trial, and now there's the george zimmerman trial being televised on national tv. mr. zimmerman claims that he shot the 17-year-old mr. martin in self-defense. when the story first broke, much of the debate centered around florida's stand your ground law in the intersection of race and suspicion and fear with that law. now that the trying's being televised, though, there's just as much focus on the drama much of it all. and it's had a huge tv audience riveted every day. a former professor of criminal just

week. >> my liquor store was never for sale. >> reporter: from the '70s to the '90s bulger ruled south boston was steven davis'ist isser. he last saw rakes tuesday after rakes was dropped from the government witness list. >> seems reflecting back to the late '70s action early '80s, people getting killed, someone going to testify and they find up getting killed or disappear. >> reporter: investigators say there are no signs of obvious's drama in rakes' death. is there any any this could be suicide? >> 110% no. >> reporter: so with no obvious signs of trauma investigators are waiting for the results of tax nolg kess to plain what happened to a bhan whose 30 year career of testify before quhity bulger. >> susan thanks so much. >> come twist in that story. >>> coming up the latest in the story of a congressman who said his swimsuit model who had theeding he was her ahead. >>> where the royal baby is expected to be borp but could the duchess of cambridge split? ♪ [ male announcer ] some question physics. some question gravity. and some... even have the audacity to question improbability. with best

heat warnings for the philly area, hartford, providence and areas just south there of boston, where itdangerous for the elderly and young children. so, it's pretty much the same today, as yesterday. d.c. may be a degree hotter. someone may have a chance of hitting 100 today. the changes do come this weekend. the cool air starts saturday up in the great lakes. by sunday it arrives in the northeast. the end of the heat wave by the time we get to monday next week. >>> coming up at top of the hour, on morning joe, lynn cheney hits the campaign trial in wyoming. >>> when we come back here -- we huddle around the cooler, the rap you need to see to believe. look at larry. come right back. my mother made the best toffee in the world. it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. i never really thought i would make money doing what i love. [ robert ] we created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. go to legalzoom.com today and make

he co--owned a bank account with his brother that was used to collect on big south boston debt long afterrun. after that jurors got to see everything pulled out of bulger's apartment turned hideout in santa monica california. more than $822,000 in cash hidden in walls alongside 30 pistols, rifles and other weapons. the witness testified he screamed and swore when arrested but eventually calmed down and told katherine to say, yes and, they're going get it. he used his real name joking quote, this is the first time i've signed this name in a long time. when agent gary hola asked if he would have ever used this arsenal to engage in a shoot-out with police, he said no because a stray bullet might hit someone. it was a powerful day of testimony and images but some are not confident of a conviction. >> i don't know how deep it is. >> reporter: it's expected to be brief. so brief, in fact, there's a chance this case goes before a jury by late next week. for "cbs this morning saturday," i'm jim armstrong in boston. >> joining us now is cbs analyst rikki klieman who's been following the bulger tri

extorted by whitey bulger so that bulger could use it as sort of his criminal headquarters there in south boston. this guy turns up dead before he could ever take the stand. what do you make of it, sort of a side show here? what do you make of the whole thing? >> you kind of wonder when you have a mob trial going on and one of the key witnesses turns up dead, everybody is going to suspect something. and i wonder if this is -- this may be payback. maybe somebody else is doing this on the outside and they're saying, hey, we're going to pin more on you, bulger, or maybe bulger does not want this person to testify because there's something else this person knew so he wanted to make sure he wasn't going to testify. definitely throws another kink into this trial. rick: ashley and dan, we'll continue to follow the goings on in the courtroom. thank you both for coming out today. >> thank you. jenna: we have amazing dash cam video of deputies risking their lives, pulling a man from a burning car seconds before it explodes in flames. we'll show you the full video. plus a move that the government says coul

rakes had been expected to testify about how he says bulger extorted him into selling him his south boston liquor store 30 years ago. but last week, prosecutors decided not to call rakes to the stand, which would seem to take any incentive to silent him. at the bulger trial tuesday, more fireworks. as the key prosecution witness admitted mobster stephen flemmi came under intense cross-examination, by bulger's defense lawyer, who was trying to shake him from his testimony that he personally saw bulger kill several people, including deborah hussey, flemmi's stepdaughter, to keep her quiet. >> the worse criminal conduct in the history of this city. >> reporter: the prosecution is expected to rest by the end of this week. for "good morning america," ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >>> and now, we turn to the new drug scandal rocking baseball. former mvp ryan braun has been suspended for the rest of the season. alex rodriguez of the yankees could soon be slapped with an even stiffer penalty. and abc's paula faris has more on what this means for the game's biggest stars. >> reporter: ryan bra

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that bulger had threatened him in front of his daughter, until he, rakes, let him take over his south boston liquor store and turn it into his alleged gang headquarters. >> he was very much looking forward to testifying. >> reporter: on thursday, prosecutors called their star witness, steven "the rifleman" remy, who admitted he was once bulger's close pal and partner in organized crime. the two later had a falling out and now are bitter enemies. but today, the focus for many here is on the witness who was never called to testify and will now never take the stand. the bulger trial resumed moments ago. with him resuming his testimony, going into details about how he and bulger allegedly ran their criminal empire. yesterday, that session ended with the two men standing and glaring at one another, and mouthing expletives that were not hard to decode. josh, more fireworks are expected in that courtroom before it's over today. >> and, ron claiborne, i know you'll have it for us. thanks for that. >>> we're going to turn to some disturbing video out of new mexico. police pulling a woman out of her c

one of the big issues, a lot of people think this reign of terror in south boston was allowed to go ons relationships. when the see the body language between the two men, i'm pretty sure that whitey bulger's hate is an underestimate of what he feels. >>> so the f-bomb to a talk of rats, pretty gruesome testimony, too. >> yeah. there's a lot of gruesome some. for the families who sit in that court day in and day out listening to the horrendous details of how the loved ones were murdered, this is very, very real for them. there was the brother of you hear how bulger strangled them with bare hands all the way down the stairs to the basement. how they basically folded her into a fetal position and dumped her body. looking -- he was really so real to him, and that's why this trial is so important to all the families sitting in that court, and putting themselves through this horrific testimony. >> day in and day on the. deborah feyerick for us in boston action thank you. >>> a possible plea deal is being discussed in this care for air yet castro, facing 977 charges including kidnaping and ra

. >>> a terrifying face to face meeting with reputed south boston mob boss whitey bulger described in who lived it. cnn's deborah feyerick was inside that courtroom for the fist pounding testimony in this trial. fist pounding? tell me what happened. >> reporter: absolute fist pounding. that fist pounding got everyone's attention. this is a real estate developer who essentially was called in to offer an opinion about a fence that was along the property line of someone of an associate of james bulger's. the real estate developer did not give an opinion that bulger liked. so bulger called him into a meeting, and during that meeting, whitey bulger pounded on the table and said, he should have learned and known when to keep his mouth shut. the real estate developer that testified that bulger took a shotgun off the table and then stuck it in his mouth. then he pulled the gun out, punched him in the shoulder, said, rich, you're a stand-up guy. then he took out another gun, put it to the man's head, and basically said that he could make amends by cutting him a check for $200,000. which is exa

rakes claim head was forced to give up his south boston liquor store so whitey bulger could turn it intoential witness, has that now shaken up the case, potentially scare off other potential witnesses, avery? >> wow. well, i'll tell you something. rakes really wanted to testify in this case and they find him dead this week. on top of that, the number two guy in the winterhouse gang headed up by bulger testified. that was stephen t rifl m"the r flemmi. and he talked about having to work with number one, with bulger, in strangling his girlfriend. on top of that, who's a rat to whom and which fbi was taking money? fredricka, you couldn't hire screenwriters to come up with this kind of a story. it is absolutely amazing, and wait for the cross-examination which will start on monday. >> oh, my. and then, richard, you have a situation where you've got potential -- a witness leaving the stand. mouthing off saying a few things to bulge per's he's saying a few things in return, and then they go, you know, their own way after not seeing each other for many, many years. this is quite the soap opera

certainly on in the northeast, and that's why we have heat advisories in place all the way from just south of boston on down to new york city. also heat advisories in washington, d.c. and down in baltimore, now in philadelphia, it's an excessive heat warning in place, and this is going to last for the next few days, unfortunately, so today's highs that we're looking at. we'll see 90s in philly and d.c. and new york city as well, even up in albany, new york, as we get into what it will feel like with a factor of the humidity thrown in there. boy oh, boy. 97 in philly. that's what it's going to feel like for you. 92 for you up in new york city and 99 degrees is what it's going to feel like for you down in washington, d.c. high pressure in control, and that is going to stay. the heat going nowhere soon so tomorrow expect more of it. the break this weekend. >> yikes. all right. check out some of the utility stocks. i mentioned that they are under pressure. diminjob resources, duke energy, cms, american electric and dte energy are all on the minus side today. for the year so far though, stocks though are