and now, the jury has concluded their deliberations in stephenville, texas, and we could have a verdictt any moment, and we could go live to the courtroom. >>> and also we will have an interview with lee dan e yellsieldaniels the creator of "the empire" and what he has to say about being black in hollywood, and the accusations against bill cosby, and the accusations against the man known as many america's dad. and join ging us now is alison cammarata, and that is powerful. i want to play a clip that stood out to me. >> in the hours that we stood out with her, she shared painful, intimate details about the past 30 years. and she was stoic, that is until the end of our last interview. >> oh my god. people are listening. my story is told. i am not lying. and now people know it. i am so sad for all of us but it validates every one of us to be able to compare our stories, and see the similarities, and knowing in our heart, pinlly, did it happen? did it really happen? yes, it really happened. and it is over. it is over. >> wow. it is tough, right some. >> it is intense. >> do you think with a

was announced here a short while ago after 2 1/2 hours of deliberating and the jury here in stephenville, texas, returning with the verdict, and this is how it unfolded here in stephenville. >> we the jury find the defendant, eddie ray routh, guilty of the offense of capital murder as charged in the indictment. the verdict is signed by miss stafford as foreperson of the jury. you may be seated at this time. >> reporter: don, this is a swiftt verdict and they started to deliberatet at 6:30 central, and 7:30 eastern. we were told the after a long day of testimony they took a break to eat dinner before they sat down to deliberation, so dinner and deliberations took less than 2 1/2 hours, don. >> thank you, ed. and now over to the panel, and kimberly priest johnson, defense attorney and former prosecutor and mark o'mara, and richard gabriel gabriel, also trial consultant, and author of "acquittal" and also here in the studio ben brafman. and now, he said that he had been suffering from a mental defect, and then he went on the say that he had been complaining in the police car about the mental state

that's how i own it. >>> a live look at the courthouse in stephenville, texas. judge charged this jury around 7:30 eastern time this evening. they decided to work into the evening. some think that may be an indication that they are close to a verdict. we don't know. but we will be on it throughout this evening. the jury was given that option of taking the case this evening. we're waiting until tomorrow, they said tonight. the moment that we hear or see any news coming out of that courthouse courthouse, we'll bring it right to you. >>> in the meantime, this also breaking this evening. the white house staying silent so far as we learn horrifying new details coming out of syria. isis targeting ancient christian villages in the northeast part of that country and taking upwards of 150 hostages. many of those that they have now abducted are women and many of them are children. the reports first surfaced about 24 hours ago. the pentagon saying it hasn't confirmed the incident. just a short time ago, texas senator ted cruz reacting saying he believes that this, what you

we have more from stephenville, texas. >> we waited for two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son. >> reporter: judy littlefield fought back tears after a judge sentenced eddie ray routh to life for murdering her son chad and chris kyle. >> we, the jury, find the defendant eddie ray routh guilty. >> reporter: jurors took just over two hours to return the verdict with restrictions on courtroom audio lifted, we're now hearing the emotional testimony from kyle's wife. she described the last time she saw her husband alive. >> we said we loved each other. gave each other a kiss and a hug like we always did. >> reporter: a panel of ten women and two men were showed a video of routh's erratic behavior and confession gl. i killed a man today. >> reporter: the defense argued routh was not guilty by reason of insanity. they said he was having a disiz friendic de-- disiz friendic delusion -- skids friendic delusion when he opened fire. >> this defendant gunned down two men in cold blood. >> reporter: defense lawyers had asked for the case to be moved because of pretrial publicity

manuel bojorquez is in stephenville texas. >> reporter: this was the night eddie routh arrested. video from the back of the patrol car was shown in court today. the judge has restrict the use of audio outside the courtroom but jurors heard as routh told police "i've been so paranoid and schizophrenic all day. i don't know what to even think of the world right now. i don't know if i'm insane or sane." officer flavio salazar was behind the wheel. he told jurors, "i noticed whenever there was a crowd around or some people talking to him, he seemed to be distraught, but whenever we'd close the squad car doors, he seemed to just kind of be laid back and relaxed." at one point routh laid down. just hours before, he had shot and killed navy seal chris kyle. >> i got a military-age male. >> reporter: who is portrayed in the film american sniper,' and kyle's friend chad littlefield. the men had tried to hospital troubled slrn and took him to a shooting range two years ago where routh opened fire on them. prosecutors must show routh knew right from wrong for a murder conviction. on monday,

jay gray nbc news, stephenville, texas. >>> now to new jersey and a violent gas explosion. take a look at this. it was all caught on a police dash cam. look at that. a home is all but disintegrated as debris shot into the air. the blast boomed and it was actually felt a mile away. the fire chief said some people nearby were treated for concussion-like injuries. it happened as a crew for a natural gas company was searching for a reported leak in the neighborhood. now, that explosion injured 15 people. two gas company employees are still in critical condition. >>> now let's take you to washington, where there could be a breakthrough to avoid a shutdown of the department of homeland security. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now says that he is willing to pass a clean dhs bill as democrats initially requested. he would instead put his party's plan to repeal president obama's executive actions on immigration -- he's going to put that up for a separate vote. party leaders are expected to discuss the issue in a closed-door meeting today. nbc's tracie potts has the latest no

nbc's jay gray with more from stephenville texas. >> reporter: the decision came quickly, 2 1/2 hours after it began. routh watched quietly as the jury was polled. their decision june announce and then stood as he was sentenced to life in prison without par role for the murder of american sniper chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield. >> many including members of the jury were openly weeping do you recall an emotional victim's impact statement from littlefield's father don immediately following the verdict, which ended with him staring staring directly at routh. you said you didn't know chad's name when you brutally murdered him. you will have the rest of your waefted life each and every day to remember his name. let me remind you, his name is chad littlefield and he slowly spelled it outlet ter by letter. littlefield's mother wimd away tears as she spoke outside the courthouse. >> we've waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son and, as always god has proved to be faithful. >> reporter: kyle eats widow taia walked out of the courtroom during closing argum

nbc's jay gray reports from outside the courthouse in stephenville, texas. >> reporter: the barricades and stepped up security is a clear indication it's anything but normal monday at the erath courthouse. >> the judge is going to extraordinary measures to select a pool. >> a pool of 800 jurors in this small farming community has been whitted to 263. now 12 jurors and two alternates will be pulled from that group to decide the fate of eddie routh accused of killing chris kyle and his friend. kyle is the former navy s.e.a.l. whose best selling autobiography turned into the hit movie "american sniper." >> the book and the movie have made it really big. >> reporter: publicity that led routh's defense team to request a change of venue. it was denied. >> the issue is not whether potential jurors have seen the movie and heard about it, it's whether they can put that aside and evaluate the evidence as it comes in fairly and impartially and make a decision a verdict. >> reporter: jury schleck is expected to wrap up in the next couple of days. if all goes as planned, opening statements in the c

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fox's richard ray life outside in court in stephenville, texas.appened today richard. >> reporter: good evening, lucy. well as you head opening statements we got gruesome detail and we heard some heart wrenching testimony on this murder trial first day. prosecutors laying out for the jurors exactly what happened on february 2nd 2013. how chris kyle the legendary navy seal and his best friend chad little field a couple of guys with a passion for helping vets have been asked boy eddie ray rouse mother to help him. they did. rouse prosecutors say spent the morning smoking dope and drink drinking whiskey before meeting up with kyle and little field to go to a gun range here. both men found dead shot multiple times in the back and in the top of the head. also today of course emotional testimony from taism kyle chris kyle's widow the first one on the stan. she got pretty emotional when she talked about how they first met. she called chris while he was at the gun range that day. said he sounded uneasy. the second person on the stand was chad little field

that he can get a fair trial in stephenville, they just don't know stephenville. >> reporter: jon koonsman is a sixth generation texas rancher and columnist for the stephenville newspaper. >> i think they're going to get in there listen to the evidence and judge based on that. >> reporter: and nothing else. >> and nothing else. >> reporter: scott 43 potential jurors were dismissed today, a dozen of them after saying they had made up their minds because of all the pretrial publicity. >> pelley: mark, thank you. american students say they are working too hard. and why are sea lions stranding themselves when the cbs evening news continues. [ hoof beats ] i wish... please, please, please, please, please. [ male announcer ] the wish we wish above all...is health. so we quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. expanded minuteclinic for walk-in medical care. and created programs that encourage people to take their medications regularly. introducing cvs health. a new purpose. a new promise... to help all those wishes come true. cvs health. because health is everything. my tempur-pedic made me fall in love with mornings

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here's jacob rascon in stephenville, texas. >> reporter: for several minutes eddie ray routh doesn't move. the jury hears the nearly hour-long recording the media ordered not to broadcast to media. when the question begins routh doesn't answer directly. rambling about flying pigs and people feeding on his soul. but then he confesses he shot chris kyle first saying "i knew if i did not take out his soul, he was coming to take mine next." routh describes the guns he used, admits to stealing kyle's truck and trying to escape. at least three times the investigator asks routh as he understands that what he did was wrong. right, routh answers. yes, sir, he says later. at one point routh interrupts the interview to ask about his parents saying "i'd like to see them, at least hug my mom one last time, you know." and finally, routh apologizes saying "i'm just sorry for what i've done, you know. and we can work this out." and "i guess i need to be doing more thinking in this town than hurting people." during cross-examination the defense establishes the texas raininger who conducted the interv

jacob rascon has our report tonight from stephenville, texas. >> reporter: it's hard to find anyone in erath county texas, who hasn't heard of chris kyle. the welsh family lived across the street from him. >> kept asking, chris, what are you going to do the rest of your life? you going to be a cowboy the rest of your life? he said, no, i'm going to join the navy and be a navy s.e.a.l. >> reporter: kyle served four tours in iraq earning the title america's deadliest sniper. what is now the top grossing war movie of all time sold out for weeks in stephenville. in 2012 kyle sat down with lester holt. >> if i could figure out a number of people i'd saved, that's something i would brag about. >> reporter: one year later kyle and close friend chad littlefield took former marine eddie ray rout to a shooting range. they wanted to help him cope with post-traumatic stress, but rout turned on them. that night routh confessed to killing both men. here he is today inside a stephenville courtroom charged with capital murder, expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. 800 people were summone

it took the jury here in stephenville texas, less than 2 1/2 hours to convict eddie ray routh of the murders of chris kyle and chad littlefield. rejecting his claims and his arguments that he was insane at the time of these murders back in february of 2013. this means that eddie ray routh will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> we just want to say that we've waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son, and as always god has proved to be faithful and we're so thrilled that we have the verdict that we have tonight. >> reporter: eddie ray routh showed no emotion as the verdict was read. he just stood there and took it all in, which is basically the ways' acted throughout most of this trial. there's been very little reaction from him. most of the time he's just sat there and taken pages and pages worth of notes. but routh found guilty of the murders of american sniper chris kyle and his best friend, chad littlefield. john and christine? >> our thanks to ed for that. now, with the end of the trial overnight comes the release

the report tonight from nbc's jacob rascon in stephenville, texas. >> reporter: the defendant who walked into the courtroom today looks a lot different than the marine corps veteran arrested two years ago. back then the d.a. told the jury eddie ray routh shot two men in the back who were there to help him. >> one time in the side, one time in the stomach. >> reporter: that night, routh's sister called 911. >> he says he killed two guys, they went to a shooting range. he's acting all crazy. he's psychotic. >> reporter: the defense told the jury routh is not responsible for his actions that day. >> he was in the grip of a psychosis. >> reporter: a psychosis so severe, the defense said, routh feared for his life. >> he thought, in his mind at that point in time that it was either him or them. >> reporter: the world is watching the american sniper trial just as it watched the movie which depicts kyle coping with post-traumatic stress by helping others struggling. kyle's widow taya took the stand first, not looking at routh, fighting back fears. describing her friendship final moments with he

reporter: chris kyle's widow taya responded on facebook "god bless the jury and good people of stephenville, texas." the littlefield family tell me the verdict was an answer to their prayers. >> i've seen more good in this world than bad. even though i lost my son -- >> reporter: for the first time the public can now hear the evidence presented to the jury. >> and later said i'm driving a dead man's truck. >> reporter: routh's escape attempt. his rambling confessions. it wasn't a want to it was a need. had to. >> reporter: testimony from three dozen witnesses. >> said we loved each other. and kiss and hug like we always did. >> reporter: two years ago kyle and littlefield took routh to a texas gun range to help him cope with ptsd, but routh turned on them shooting them in the back. the defense argued routh suffered from schizophrenia and believed he was protecting himself. >> he said that he took their souls before they could take his. >> reporter: the prosecution said he was faking it and was high. >> only about 1% of criminal defendants actually employ the insanity defense, and it is successful

adriana deyasz cbs news stephenville, texas. >>> now to the weather and the winter that will not give up. this morning another winter blast of snow, sleet, and freezing rain is spreading across the south to the atlantic coast. two to four inches of snow is expected in the atlanta area. most schools are closed there today as are state offices. states of emergency have been declared in georgia and alabama, and the governor of north carolina is thinking a >>> more snow is also expected in new england by this morning. it's been so cold in maine that many lobster boats are stuck in the ice. meteorologist eric fish e of our boston station wbz has more on the latest winter storm. >> well yet another southern storm under way here as we head through. winter storm warnings stretching from texas right across the north carolina. this is going to put dom some pretty significant snow. it starts this morning. dallas area and southern arkansas. by this evening it's tracking its way across mississippi, alabama, and georgia right around the commute time. birmingham, atlanta, right on the line. we could

. >>> now to late word from stephenville, texas, where the jury is about to get the case in the "american sniper" trial. closing arguments are under way, and nbc's jacob rascon is there. >> reporter: the prosecution's final piece of evidence was an apology. in a jail house recording played for the jury, eddie ray routh says, quote, it tore my expletive heart out when i did it. i don't know why i did it, but i did it. two weeks of testimony from three dozen witnesses boils down to this. was routh insane or deliberate when he shot chris kyle and chad littlefield at a texas gun range two years ago? a crime scene analyst told the jury today routh waited to strike until his victims had their backs to him and shot them from only feet away saying they especially kyle quote, absolutely never saw this coming. routh has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. his attorneys argue he was psychotic at the time of the shooting. the prosecution arguing he knew his conduct was wrong. kyle's widow taya spoke to al roker at the oscars where the movie inspired by her husband's autobiography "american snip

nbc's jacob rascon has been following the trial for us in stephenville, texas. >> reporter: for the first time during his capital murder trial, eddie ray routh appears to be watching closely. more than 30 witnesses have testified including chris kyle's widow, taya, members of the routh family and law enforcement. but now routh's mental health is up for debate. two years ago, during what was meant to be a therapy session to help him cope with ptsd, routh shot chris kyle and chad littlefield at a texas gun range and fled in kyle's truck finally surrendering and later confessing in a rambling 50-minute video. the defense's mental health expert tells the jury routh suffered from schizophrenia at the time believing pigs were taking over the world. saying his victims were pig hybrids and assassins. the psychiatrist told the jury after leaving the marine corps routh checked in to mental health centers many times including the v.a. and was diagnosed with psychosis, ptsd, depression, mood disorder and substance abuse problems. but experts on both sides downplayed ptsd as a possible factor in the c

nbc's jacob rascon is covering the trial for us in stephenville, texas. >> reporter: eddie ray routh didn't know he was recorded. for 23 minutes he says nothing, sitting and sometimes lying down in the back of a parked patrol car after his arrest. hey, marine, an officer calls out, you all right back there? just so nervous about what's going to happen to me and my life today, routh said. then, quote, i've been so paranoid and schizophrenic all day. i don't know what to even think of the world right now. i don't know if i'm just insane or sane. the jury will weigh that very question. did routh know right from wrong when he killed chris kyle and chad littlefield? in five days of testimony from the prosecution, we heard two dozen witnesses, including kyle's widow, taya. today the defense began with a texas ranger who held up kyle's sniper rifle recovered at the crime scene. then routh's mother jody took the stand saying routh was never the same after military service, suicidal and in and out of a v.a. medical center. she said doctors diagnosed routh with ptsd and prescribed him nine med

will car reports live from stephenville texas.are we expecting we will hear from the defense in this case? >> reporter: good morning, martha. a long line of people getting set to go into this trial this morning. now there is no dispute that routh pulled the trigger and did kill chris kyle and his family friend chad littlefield. what this trial will revolve around routh's state of mind that day. we're anticipating that his attorneys will launch an insanity defense. his family is adamant, routh, a former marine in iraq and haiti suffered from ptsd. they say they had been in a mental institution just a short time before the shooting. prosecutors though disagree. they say on february 2nd, 2013, kyle and littlefield took routh to a shooting range. kyle, who is now famous for being the most lethal sniper in american history was helping vets with physical and mental disabilities, and he would use trips to the range like that as a form of therapy. routh later admitted to his family and to authorities that he did shoot both men who were tr

jacob rascon has our report tonight from stephenville, texas. >> reporter: it's hard to find anyone here in texas who hasn't heard of chris kyle. this family lived across the street from him. >> kept asking, chris, what are you going to do the rest of your life? you going to be a cowboy the rest of your life? he said, no, i'm going to join the navy and be a navy s.e.a.l. >> reporter: kyle served four years in iraq now the title of america's deadliest sniper. in 2012 chris sat down with lester holt. one year later kyle and close friend chad littlefield took former marine eddie ray routh to a shooting range. they wanted to help him cope with post-traumatic stress, but he turned on them. that night routh confessed to killing both men. here he is today inside a stephenville courtroom charged with capital murder, expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. 800 people were summoned to court for routh's trial including clifford sexton who was dismissed. >> i feel like possibly out of this many jurors they can find a fair panel, but i think it's going to be pretty tough. >> reporter: ret

nbc's jacob rascon is covering the trial for us in stephenville, texas. >> reporter: the days leading up to the crime were bizarre. eddie ray routh's former girlfriend told the jury he threatened her with a ninja sword and called her a demon. he heard voices and saw things and even asked her to marry him the night before the killings. in the morning, they fought and routh smoked pot with his uncle until chris kyle showed up. routh shot kyle and chad littlefield at a texas gun range and drove to his sister's. the person who came to my house, his sister told the jury, was not who i know is my brother. routh told her, "he killed two guys" and "sold his soul for a pickup." before routh drove away leading police on a chase, his sister told him "i love you, but i hate your demons." all evidence the defense hopes will convince the jury routh is not guilty by reason of insanity. >> the standard is high and it should be if you think about it. there's really no issue about whether routh murdered these two young men or not. it's whether he was insane or not at the time of the offense. >> reporte

manuel bojorquez is covering the trial in stephenville, texas. manuel. >> reporter: scott, the issue before jurors is not whether eddie routh killed two men. it's whether he knew what he did was wrong, and this afternoon in closing arguments prosecutors say he did. they reminded jurors of a dash-cam video which shows routh leading police on a high-speed chase after the killings two years ago. prosecutors say he fled because he knew he'd committed murder. his behavior sparked pie a morning of drinking and smoking marijuana. but routh's attorneys say the veteran was battling p.t.s.d. and schizophrenia. they argue he was having a delusion when he thought kyle and his friend, chad littlefield, uponned to kill him at a shooting range and should be found not guilty by reason of insanity. scott, the judge has asked jurors to begin their initial deliberations tonight. >> pelley: manuel, thanks very much. today, in the biggest showdown yet with the new republican-led congress, president obama vetoed a bill to clear the keystone xl oil pipeline between can

breaking news this hour, the verdict coming down out of stephenville, texas. eddie ray routh found guilty at around 1:15 minutes ago. chris kyle, chad littlefield, the victim in this case. he will spend the rest of his life in jail. joining us now by phone. the former public defender and professor at the national criminal defense college. any surprises as we have been talking this evening? the timing certainly was very quick. less than three hours. 2:45. that's one element. another element of interest here is this whole idea of a social verdict. this being a very well publicized case. we had, as i was mentioning earlier in the program, the oscars just not two, three days ago. and the widow being there and bringing the dog tags there of chris kyle. >> let's be clear. this was a tragic incident compacted in my mine by a tragic verdict. there was so much evidence that this was a very deeply, deeply disturbed person. i mean, you have a mother pleading for the v.a. to keep him. you have the text messages. but the burden in this case to show that he didn't know what

. >>> breaking tonight live pictures from stephenville, texas, where we just got the verdict in the americany went into the room around 6:30 eastern, 7:30 p.m. in texas. we the jury fin

cnn's ed lavandera is following the trial for us in stephenville texas. >> reporter: he did not appearon to speak before the jury. he appeared in the form of a two-year-old videotaped confession taped hours after kyle and littlefield were killed in 2013 in the town of lancaster. he led police on a high-speed chase and taken into custody. this is significant because it is really the first time the jury has been able to see and hear eddie ray routh in the moments and state of mind in the hours after chris kyle and chad littlefield were murdered. he comes off rambling and speaking inn coherently about his soul. a lot of issues that point to someone that was disturbed. the detective described him as someone not normal. he is repeatedly asked if he knew what he did was wrong. after initially saying he could not tell if he had done right or wrong, he said he knew what he did was wrong and if he was given the chance to speak to the victims' families he would apologize. >> ed lavandera. thank you. >>> a big blow in the pocketbook for lance armstrong. he has been ordered to pay $10 million as a