joining us from orlando, aphrodite jones. you were surprised at the verdict, first of all, right? >> absolutely shocked. i was. >> bill: you are looking at the jury and they are looking at -- they are listening and from all accounts they paid attention, regular folks, at any time seem to have any -- didn't seem to have any idealogiccal agenda down there in florida. could you put any kind of reasoning behind their verdict? >> awm ka couple of things. the prosecution made one big mistake. that is the whole thing we talked about before the 84 searches for chloroform. turns out there was a second computer report and in it they showed the 84 searches were for myspace, not chloroform. that gives jurors a doubt about who is telling the truth and which side it is and the same thing happened, too, with the doubt of whether or not there was chloroform in the car. it was never actually proven. >> bill: you have high level forensics experts come in and say with certainty, i heard them say it, there was chloroform residue in the trunk of

he joins us from orlando tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, kate. on a very rainy and windy evening here, the jury has been taken to their hotel. they've been sequestered since the beginning of this trial working saturdays and most recently on sunday and again today, a holiday, july 4th. it's up to the jury to decide if they believe casey anthony murdered her daughter as the prosecution said, or did her daughter caylee accidentally drown in the backyard swimming pool as the defense claims? the lead prosecutor told the jury there's no other logical explanation other than to conclude casey anthony killed her daughter because she wanted a life without responsibilities, the life of a party girl. the defense argued the evidence in this case is nothing shy of fantasy forensics, and when every piece of evidence is put together and in the balance, the jury will be left with reasonable doubt. if casey is convicted of first-degree murder, she could face the death penalty. there are lesser charges she could be convicted of, including aggravated child abuse and

and joins us from orlando. good evening, kerry. >> well good evening, kate, the prosecution and the defense were each given four hours to make their closing arguments. but like so many other aspects of this case, there was an unplanned moment that unfolded in front of the jury. casey anthony is a accused of the premeditated murder of her daughter, caylee. but today with the stakes at their highest, the personality conflicts between defense attorney jose baez and prosecutor jeff ashton that have long peppered this trial, exploded. >> he could get up here and lie all he wants. and dance around the truth, but the truth is the truth. and he, and depending on who's asking the questions, whether it's this laughing guy right here or whether it's myself. >> objection. >> sustained. approach the bench. >> it stopped the trial cold. the jury was ordered out of the room. >> enough is enough. >> a distracting sideshow in the first-degree murder case that the state told jurors today, it's proven. this morning, with casey an

gems bowman joins us from orlando with reaction to the verdict. >> the murder case that captivated the nation wrapped up on tuesday with casey anthony been cleared of murder in the deaths of her two year-old. >> as a charge of first-degree murder, the verdict as to count one, we the jury find the defendant not guilty. >> 25 euro casey anthony cried as the verdict was read. cleared of murder, aggravated child abuse and manslaughter. convicted on four misdemeanor counts. outside the orange county courthouse, cries that justice had not been served. >> no one wins in this situation. there is a two year- old that is dead. it is really dead. >> the jurors refused to speak to the media but one alternate gave some insight saying the prosecution cannot prove that to his death was murder. hopper >> the family appeared to be very dysfunctional. instead of exploiting them there was an accident, they chose to hide it. >> her parentand a televised trw national attention. >> you cannot convict someone until they have had their day in court. if >> casey anthony will be sentenced thursday morning. she

. >> diana alvear is joining us from orlando with more. diana?reporter: peggy and daniel, good morning. six hours, that's how long the jury spent in deliberations on their first day. and they have a lot to consider. the prosecution did theiei best to leave a lasting and devastating impression of casey anthony. after 45 days of arguments, evidence and outbursts both in and out of court it's now the juju's turn to weigh in. is casey anthony guilty of murder? the jury got the case monday at noon after watching home video of a giggling 2-year-old caylee and hearing from the defendant herself one last time. an angry casey ranting in a recorded phone call from jail. >> i just want caylee back. that's all they're worried about. >> what do guilty people do? they lie. they avoid. they run. they mislead. not just their family but the police. they divert attention away from themselves and they act like nothing is wrong. >> reporter: they posed a question, whose life was better wiwiout caylee and answered it by showing pictures of a tattoo casey got after th

senator bill nelson of florida joins us from orlando. senator sessions, let me start with you. the secretary of the treasury says he thinks that there will be a deal. do you think there's going to be a deal? >> there needs to be a deal by august 2. i assume he's accurate on that date. but will it be a deal that's really good for america? will it do the things that we need to do? will it put our medicare and social security on a sustained, sound basis for the indefinite future? i doubt it. the republican leadership, i have to say, have been open about this. asking and pleading with the president. in the last few days, he's seemed to open up to the possibility of long-term debt fix, but it looks like now that that's fallen apart based on demands for higher taxes. >> schieffer: so if they can't get a deal-- and you seem to be saying because... you know, i would take it if you think it's a bad deal, i take it you're not going to go for it-- if you think there's not going to be a deal here, then what happens? will they just have to go to one

fox's jessica stone joins us from orlando this morning with more. good morning, jessica. >> reporter: good morning, tony. i'm not sure if you can hear it yet, but we have chanting that just started behind us in front of the courtroom. i would guess about 100 people spread out with signs, talking about how they think this case should have been decided. of course, inside the courtroom we have a much calmer, more made up, but happier, more pleasant casey anthony talking to her attorney jose baez and cheney mason have just come in. we've seen her parents this morning. they still remain pretty stone faced, just talking between themselves. they have not spoken to their daughter since she was acquitted on these murder charges. their house is surrounded by security, this courthouse is surrounded by security, and so is the release center, where if she gets let go today by the judge on these sentencing guidelines, she has these four counts of lying to police, the maximum probably something like six months, the minimum that she walks out the door, the release

harris. >> harris: casey stegall reporting live from us from orlando, florida. casey, thank you. now to the one deal in washington that has many people wondering about the the future of america's financial security. the showdown over whether to raise the u.s. debt limits. if congress and the president cannot secure a deal by august 2nd, the u.s. risks default. right now, intense negotiations underway on capitol hill to reach a bipartisan agreement and steve centanni is live with us in washington with the latest. >> hi, with the clock ticking it's a backup plan for any defaults of the u.s. if it's not reached by the august 2nd deadline. here is how the mcconnell plan will work. that would allow the president to raise the debt ceiling in three phases, congress might vote to ace approve, but probably not be able to override the president's veto of the know vote and the debt ceiling could be raised and supporting it, and even so, some republicans still don't like the idea. >> i'm not going to support the mcconnell plan and this is going to kick the can down the road and the american

katherine joins us live from orlando. what weather is the latest on where casey anthony is right now? >> reporter: lots of sighting of casey anthony. this is her second day of being out of jail and we are hearing several possibilities where she is. here's what we do know. jose baez her attorney did send a text to her family to her mother and father only a text saying she was safe. they have not heard from her themselves but they did hear through the attorney that she was safe. there are reports of course that she has landed all over the place from phoenix to columbus, ohio. but no confirmation. because the legal team has said they are not ready. jose baez says they will not say where she is right now. they will not confirm what she is doing right now. she still needs to decide her future. is she going to try to blend into society. perhaps change her appearance and even her name or is she going to sell her story and make money. there are several civil cases against her two civil cases at least. one a defamation suit. one f

joining us from orlando, holly bristow.omorrow, the judge will sentence her on the lying convictions four of them. is there any buzz about what is likely to happen? >> you know, anything could happen at this point. it is all up to the judge, bill. she could walk out the front -- walk down the front steps of the courthouse. she could be escorted out of a backdoor if he decides to let her free tomorrow. she could go back to the jaild and be released from there or spend up to another year and a half to four years in jail. depends on what the judge decides. >> bill: how could she spend four if she spent three already and the top jail count on each of the lying charges is one. four years. four minus three is one. the most she could serve would be one, right? >> i think you just busted me on the reason i'm not working on wall street. you're right on that. >> bill: i'm a simple man that is not good at mathematics but the most she could get from the judge is one year which i think she is going to get. i don't think the judge is goi

and cnn's david mattingly joins us from orlando.avid a little bit of a dust-up in the courtroom between the prosecutor jeff ashton and defense lawyer jose baez. what happened? the judge didn't like it. >> while jose baez was reaching a critical point in his closing arguments in front of the jury, he looked over and saw jeff ashton, the prosecutor, smiling. and he made a note of that. he called him laughing guy. that, of course, brought everything immediately to a halt. the judge called them both up and later came back and said you know my rules. this is against the rules. if this happens again, if either of you does anything like this again, i'm throwing you out. it was a stern warning. very late in this trial. but it just shows you how emotional things have got and how sensitive everybody is inside that courtroom. >> david, stand by. i have another question for you. i want to bring in holly. holly, it was unusual for a judge to do that, and he meant business. >> in fact, what he's told them, it's kind of like the umpire throwing yo

diana alvear is joining us from orlando this morning with more. diana? morning. this is what the nation has been waiting for. a look into the deliberations of those 12 jurors who decided to acquit casey anthony of murder. and one tells abc news their decision was not easy. not guilty of murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter of a child. jurors acquitted casey anthony of the most serious charges against her. and abc news knows why. juror number three, jennifer ford, says -- >> how did she die? if you're going to charge someone with murder, don't you have to know how they killed someone, wear they might have killed someone, where, when, why, how? those were important questions that were not answered. >> reporter: prosecutor jeff ashton defended his team's performance. >> we put on everything that an investigation, a really thorough investigation over three years, produced. >> reporter: casey was found guilty of lying repeatedly. she admittedly made up stories and even invented suspects in caylee's disappearance. >> who has her? >> her

sean laving joins us from orlando, florida, this morning. sean, good to have you here back with us. how is this process going to work? they have been in session just about every saturday of this trial, but not today. >> reporter: that's right, t.j. tomorrow, though, they will be starting about 9:00 in the morning eastern time. that's when all of this will get underway. it will start with the prosecution going first. they're going to go up and argue to that jury that they should convict casey anthony of first-degree murder charges. after they go up and do their arguments, the defense will go up and the defense will argue the state has not proved its case, do not convict casey anthony of these charges. in florida, the prosecution gets a second chance after the defense goes to plug any holes the defense may have poked in their case. once the prosecution goes after the defense and rebuts that, the judge will read some instructions to the jury and then the jury will begin deliberations in this case. >> how long do they expect this to go? what are they planning for? of course, the judge i

jane velez-mitchell is joining us, and she hosts "issues with jane velez-mitchell" and joins us from orlando. and it could be moments away, jane, what is going on? >> well shg, we know there are protesters outside of the orange county jail, and they have one called honk for caylee and more center ones rot in hell and burn in, h ell and many think that casey anthony was gotten away with murder, and acquitted of the most serious charges shoochlt se sk. she is going to be released slightly before midnight or right after midnight. so a still photographer and a journal itself and a reporter will go in there and look at it and see it and then they are going to come out to tell the rest of the media. there are 20 satellite trucks outside of the jail, and everybody it seems in the entire world wants to see what is going to happen next. and what is expected to happen is that she is expected to leave in a caravan of vehicles possibly with tinted windows. you will not see her drive away, although, obviously, the still photographer and the individu videographer are going to hope to get a shot of her at

david is joining us from orlando, florida.or her. >> it happens tomorrow. she is back in court to hear the sentence he hasnnds down for th four counts where she lied to investigators in the search for the case. what will happen is each of the misdemeanors carries a maximum of one year. the judge may have the option of sentencing her to four straight years to one year of the sentences running concurrent or he could go with time served. she's been in jail for three years awaiting trial and while this trial was going on. it's possible that casey anthony could walk out of the courtroom tomorrow a free woman. keira. >> all right, david, live from orlando, florida. we will follow the next moves with you. meanwhile, casey anthony could walk out of the courthouse a free woman, then what? former prosecutor holly hughes is back with us. there's talk casey anthony and her family could make millions of dollars off this, a book deal, a movie deal. are there any restrictions on them with regard to selling the story? >> no, there are not. es

jay gray starts us off from orlando, florida. >> as to the charge of first-degree murder, not guilty.porter: after more than six weeks of testimony and more than 400 items entered as evidence -- >> as to the charge of aggravated child abuse, not guilty. >> reporter: decision was quick. the jury deliberating less than 11 hours and delivering a resounding message. >> as to the charming of aggravated manslaughter of a child, not guilty. >> reporter: overwhelming nerves shifted quickly to tears and celebration as the verdict was read. at one point casey anthony could be seen saying thank you, but there have always been two different and very distinct aspects to this case. what happened inside courtroom 23. >> she's not guilty. >> not guilty. >> and the reaction outside. >> this is wrong. this is bad. >> reporter: the end was no different. so many who had followed this high-profile case for so long stunned, many angered by the outcome. >> this is no justice. this is incredible. >> reporter: prosecutors jeff ashton and linda drane burdick who said so much during the trial remained silent af

shawn lavin joins us now from orlando, florida. walk us through what we expect will happen. >> reporter: sure. first up will be the prosecution. they're going to try to convince this jury that they should find casey anthony guilty of first-degree murder for killing her little daughter caylee based on all the evidence they've seen throughout this trial. after the state go, the defense will go and give their closing arguments. they're going to try to convince, of course, the jury to find her not guilty. the defense will argue that the state has not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that casey anthony killed her daughter caylee. in florida, we have the prosecution get the last word in cases like this. the state will go ahead and rebut what the defense said and try to plug any hole the defense may have poked into the state's case. after that happens, the judge will read instructions to this jury. the jury will begin to deliberate and it will be a high stakes decision for them because, of course, casey anthony is fighting for her life in

nbc's kerry sanders joins us from orlando. kerry, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carl. most of the day the jury will listen to those closing arguments, just a short time ago the spectate here's have tickets were escorted into the courtroom. here's how it will go. first, the state will present its closing argument. then the defense will respond, and then the state will get the final word. the judge then gives the jury its instructions and the deliberations begin. for 33 days in an orlando courtroom, casey anthony has cried, remained stoic, at moments, even smiled and laughed, as 61 witnesses for the prosecution and 49 for the defense detailed what they believe happened to 2-year-old caylee anthony. prosecutors claim casey murdered her 2-year-old daughter caylee so she could live the life of a party girl and didn't reveal caylee was missing for more than a month. >> we ask you to return a verdict that reflects the truth. >> reporter: but the defense says caylee's death was a horrible accident. >> she never was -- caylee anthony died on june 16, 2008 when she drowned in he

thank you so much for reporting live for us this morning from orlando.lvear. >> thanks for staying u u late. >>> the jurors, seven women and five men, would not talk to reporters and their identities are being kept secret by the court. we may never hear from them about how they reached the verdict. we asked abc's legal analyst dan abrahams for insight into their 36s. >> she could confess in the future. she could say, i did it in a year from now and it would still be over. because of double jeopardy. the bottom line is she has been tried for this criri and she cannot be tried again. i think a lot of people expected that she'd be convicted of something. be it aggravated manslaughter, be the aggravated child abuse, first degree murder. but the notion that there was not guilty, not guilty, not guilty, was something that very few who watched this case expected. so i think the jurors probably focused on cause of death. which is that the prosecution couldn't demonstrate based on physical evidence that the cause of death was a homicide. meaning that she definite

. >>> and joining us from orlando is former prosecutor beth karas, a correspondent for "in session."e you with us. so you were there outside during this release. what was it like? >> well, i'll tell you, there was a crowd of several hundred people. we were facing the front of the jail. the booking and release center. which is where she ultimately came out of. and i had just averted my eyes from the door to move along the crowd and watch when she came out. and jumped in a car. and i saw the caravan passing and i just stood back as i watched the crowd surge toward the caravan of cars. they were barricaded by a fence, they couldn't actually get to the car. but people went out into the street and there were mounted police officers keeping the crowd back. and some people in the crowd were yelling killer, killer. people had signs. and it was just surreal as i saw this reaction to this woman who, you know, is trying to get her life back. it was strange. >> and then we see this caravan of cars take her away. no one is saying where they were taken to, but do you have a sense for where she mig

from the courtroom. lots of eyebrows raised about how appropriate or not that was. this new video coming to us tonight from orlando affiliate wkmg. a little later we'll talk to jean casarez invited inside that restaurant and was able to talk to member thes of the defense team. as for the prosecution, word that this will be assistant state attorney jeff ashton's last case. she's retiring. other than that no comment. no comment from voting members of the jury nor from casey's family who left the courtroom quickly and quietly, issuing a brief statement through their attorney later it read in part "while the family may never what has happened to caylee marie anthony, they now have closure for this chapter of their life. they will now begin the long process of rebuilding their lives". again sentencing for the lying charges happens thursday. second guessing on the other hand is forever. there's plenty of that tonight. an awful lot to talk about no matter what you expected to happen. we have a wide range of views tonight. we begin with the facts the very latest and martin staff advantage who was -- martin savage. take us

jane velez-mitchell hosts "issues"ing with jane velez-mitchell and joins us now from orlando. okay, it could be just moments away, jane. what's going on? >> well, we know there's about 20 protesters outside the orange county jail, don. and they have signs like like rot in hell, burn in hell. there are a lot of people that are very angry with casey anthony, feel she got away with murder as a matter of fact because she was acquitted of the most serious charges and she is scheduled to be released sometime after midnight. of course, they could maybe pull a fast one and release her slightly before midnight. as you mentioned she is three journalists, a still photographer, videographer and a journalist reporter are going to go in and look at it and see it and then they're going to come out and tell the rest of the media. there's about 20 satellite trucks outside the jail. so everybody it seems in the entire world wants to see what's going to happen next and what's expected to happen is, she's expected to leave in a caravan of vehicles possibly with tinted windows. you will not see he

. >> david mattingly now joining us live from orlando.vid, casey anthony being released tomorrow possibly as early as 12:01 a.m. what do we know about security arrangements for her release? >> reporter: the security is in the details that they're not releasing. we don't know where, when or how she will be departing the jail. this is a massive facility behind me, multiple buildings, multiple ways that you can exit the property. what they have made clear is that they're going to do everything to make sure she stays safe while she is in their custody. but as soon as she's out of the parking lot, she's going to be treated like any other citizen, that the only way they're going to be able to protect her is if there is a specific threat that she reports. and they will follow up on that just like they would for anybody else. but for right now, they're not letting a lot of information out there. in fact, they're only going to let three members of the news media inside the jail. they're going to be embedded in there. they're not going to be allowe

martin savage has all the news and joins us now from orlando. casey anthony, possibly new legal challenges tonight. what can you tell us about them? >> reporter: good evening, john. the state of florida tonight has filed a motion to tax casey anthony for what it says are special costs, that for going after her basically in the prosecution and also the investigation. in other words, it appears what they are looking for is some sort of restitution here. now the state says it needs about 60 days to figure out what those costs will be. well, if it needs that long, it would imply the numbers could be fairly significant, and this plays into the idea that some fear that with her fame, casey anthony may gain a lot of money. the state may now be looking to claim some of that money. it's all going to be work out tomorrow at sentencing. we'll wait to see how that happens. >> as we wait for that to happen, dramatic new examples tonight. two of the jurors speaking out about why they decided to acquit casey anthony of killing her child. here's what juror numbe

but holly joins us now from orlando with word casey anthony has a new set of problems to deal with. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, pam. yeah, casey anthony is due back in the courtroom this morning to hear her fate. although she was released from some of the more serious charges, she still faces four misdemeanor counts for lying to police during the investigation of the disappearance of her daughter caylee back in 2008. after three years in custody, casey anthony could be set free today. the 25-year-old faces up to four years in jail on four misdemeanor counts of lying to police. but many legal experts believe she'll be sentenced to time served. but her saga is far from over. >> have you ever sexually molested your daughter, casey anthony? >> no, sir. >> reporter: after anthony's defense attorneys painted her family as disfunctional during her seven week murder trial it's unlikely she'll return home with her parents. >> i don't see how this family reconciles. there's so much blood drained out of the system it's almost impossible to heal something like this. >> reporter: an

nbc's kristen dahlgren joins us live from orlando with a look at today's hearings. sentencing. kristen, good morning to you. >> good morning, eun. yes, still hard for a lot of people to believe, but this could be the last morning that casey anthony is waking up in jail. at 9:00 a.m. this morning, here at the orange county courthouse, there is a sentencing hearing on those four misdemeanor counts of lying to police. the only counts that she was found guilty of. judge belvin perry who oversaw the trial, will make that decision. now, each of those counts carries a maximum one-year sentence. so the most she could get is four years, if she's sentenced to serve them consecutively. the judge could also have her serve them concurrently, and then could give her credit for time served. she's already spent almost three years in jail. she's been in jail since october 2008 on these charges. so she could conceivably get out later on today. a huge crowd expected out here at the courthouse. and one other note, we finally did hear from one of the jurors who made the decision to acquit her on th

he joins us now from orlando, florida. martin, first of all, what explains in your mind the chasm between the generalized sense of the public watching this on that she of course was guilty and the quick ten hours of deliberations leading to a not guilty verdict on the three most significant counts? >> reporter: you know, eliot, i wish i had an absolute answer on this. many of us are still wondering and trying to decipher from the limited conversation you had with the alternate juror as to what was really going on, where was the disconnect between what the public thought they knew and heard about this case and what the jury heard and how they ruled. one thing to keep in mind, of course, as you would know is the fact the jury was not bombarded with all of this for years as far as the last couple of weeks. they have not been inundated with the immediate attention. they haven't heard all the lawyers on tv, haven't heard all the speculation, haven't heard all the minutia that's been talked about on and on and on. instead they h

. >> joining us from orlando in front of the courthouse is host judge alex of the "judge alex" show. at we can expect today from the prosecution on this rebuttal? >> they're going to hit on all the points that the defense raised. the prosecution had a masterful closing argument yesterday and then jose baez' defense attorney got up and did a lot better than i thought. he hit on a lot of points, but enough may be enough to raise a little reasonable doubt with one juror and that's all the defense needs is one juror to have reasonable doubt. the prosecution will get up, they've had the night to prepare and they'll go right after all of those points. >> is there enough evidence do you think, to convict here? >> absolutely. i think they've got enough evidence to convict first-degree murder. it's really a question of whether or not the jury believes that the duct tape that was placed over and certainly appears to have been placed over killly's mouth and -- caylee's mouth and nose was placed there before death to suffocate her. i think that is a logical up presence and if they -- inference an

he's leaner, faster and healthier than he's ever been before and joins us from outside his home in orlandon. you look great. we've had a chance to catch up a few times. knowing how close you are to your kids it's amazing that one of the biggest breakthroughs you experienced in this challenge happened on father's day. tell us what happened, specifically. >> yeah. on father's day weekend, i entered a dueath lon, for viewers that don't know what that is, it's kind of like a triathlon except limited to two sports, a run, a bike and a run at the end. and it was an amazing experience because it was the first time i got to really test myself with all the training i had done and i learned a lot. >> one of the things i've talked about and talked about with you and others, when i decided to do a triathlon it changed my life in ways i could not have imagined not just in terms of fitness and health but in other ways as well. what has all this training and commitment done for you? >> i mean, that's a tough question to answer right now in this limited time. it's done so much for me. i would have to say,