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william la jeunesse in the l.a. bureau with more. william, how is the case stacking up?ter: the problem for jordan graham is credibility. prosecutors say that she has zero. she lied about what happened to her husband for several days. then led police right to a murder scene she claimed to know nothing about. seen here leaving court, graham looks like more of a sunday school teacher than the stone cold killer prosecutors say she is. after a week of getting married she allegedly pushed her husband, cody lee johnson off a cliff in glacier national park she says after an argument. prosecutors say she pushed him in the back, face first, plunging 200 feet to his death. she told police she hadn't seen cody after going to church and dairy queen. police have security camera photo of couple entering the park and their car leaving. cell phone records showing jordan was in the park after her husband's death. she create ad false email address from an imaginary person to cover her tracks. prosecutors, heather, expect the trial to last little more than a week. the jury pool is 150. it

william la jeunesse is live in los angeles. he has been following this case. william, what did we learn from yesterday's testimony? >> reporter: two big takeaways from the trial so far, jenna. yesterday the jury heard a fbi recording of accused killer jordan graham say about her dead husband, quote, i pushed him and i took off. secondly, the prosecution says graham blindfolded her husband, cody johnson before pushing him head first over the cliff. prosecutors showed photographs of a black clot, the alleged blindfold. the coroner said was found closer to johnson's body than one of his shoes even after a 200-foot fall. the cloth is important because johnson reportedly claimed he knew parts of glacier national park so well he could walk it blindfolded. prosecutors suggested that graham may have usedded bravado to blindfold him before pushing him over the edge. the defense claims that johnson accidentally fell during an argument. that basically jordan tried to push one of his arms away. she is being tried for first-degree murder. so the question for the jury is thi

william la jeunesse is live from the west coast newsroom. what is the latest on the search there, william? >> reporter: jon, so far no good news. every hour that goes by the outlook looks worse. helicopters, aircraft with night vision, infrared, dogs and ground crews searching for two adults 34-year-old james glanton and his 26-year-old girlfriend, christina mcintee. four children, ages 10, three, and two four-year-olds. two belong to the couple. the other is a niece and nephew. they were last seen on sunday afternoon in a black and silver jeep headed into the mountains more than an hour east of reno in some very rugged mountains. the seven troughs refer to seven steep canyons in remote federal land area popular with hikers and campers. the problem is, not just that the area is inaccessible. you have several inches of snow but temperatures hit minus 16 and 10 below last night. raising the risk of hypothermia which can begin at just 50 degrees. shivering, poor judgment and later confusion and a loss of consciousness. dozens of volunteers and p

william la jeunesse is live in los angeles. bring us up to speed, william.eping an eye on a this case. what happens today? >> reporter: well, jon, one hour from now a superior court judge will hear testimony from two physicians regarding jihi's condition. one from children's hospital in oakland where the surgery was performed. he will say the child is legally dead. the other is paul fisher, chief of neurology of stanford university, asked by the judge to give an independent opinion. the wild charred is a family request for evaluation by a controversy asexpert who believes brain death is not actual death. the hospital oppose this is exam because it will lead to lengthy court battle. the family believes in miracles, saying that the hospital can not take her off life-support without her consent. >> she knows i'm here fighting for her. i let her know, daughter, i'm only leaving for an in. i need to leave to do something for you to keep you alive because i can not imagine my daughter in a freezer on christmas. it is, that is heartwrenching. >> reporter: this is a

our william la jeunesse is covering this. he is live in los angeles. what are we expecting today, william? >> reporter: well, jon, campbell pled not guilty though police say he already confessed to the crime and witnesses say that the 38-year-old homeless man intentionally manueverred around barriers and targeted vendors and tourists strolling on the venice boardwalk in august at the height of tourist season. >> i saw him. he was looking for blood. >> then he started going straight down the boardwalk at 60 miles an hour. >> who are risk. there were people ply flying everywhere. it looked like something out after movie. >> reporter: this is the scene caught on restaurant security cameras hours later. santa monica police campbell walked into the station and said, quote, i'm the one you're looking for and i hit all those people. today a judge decides whether campbell will stand counts on one count of murder, 16 counts of assault, 17 counts of hit-and-run. he faces life in prison if convicted. jon: you hold us he is homeless. what else do we know about camp

thank you, william la jeunesse live in los angeles, and more to come on that three years down the roaduse republican behind the new budget deal takes aim at a senate republican who says he's against it. reaction from marco rubio after congressman paul ryan says rubio should read the bill. bill: here's one way to get away from it all, right? a balloon to the edge of outer space. take a look at this thing here, huh? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ bill: we mentioned this a few minutes ago, the compromise budget deal passed by the house is now this the hands of the senate. what now? earlier i spoke with florida republican senator marco rubio about this. marco rubio, senator, good morning to you from washington. >> morning. bill: you call this budget deal irresponsible. why? >> well, because we have a government that's already spending over $600 billion a year more than it takes in, so it's borrowing $600 billion a year, and the budget actually increases that. and i think what makes it even more irresponsible is that a couple of years ago they actually passed a bill here that would lower that number, that would h

william la jeunesse in los angeles. what phil had to say. >> reporter: robertson was suspended for calling homosexuality a sin based on his religious beliefs. ironically others in hollywood gotten a free pass making gay jokes and such. after heavy lobbying by the gay community, robertson was suspended for saying this, i'm quoting. everything is blurred what is right and what is wrong. start with home sexual behavior and morph out from there. bees tee alty and sleeping with that woman and these men. don't be deceived, north adulterers, idoltores, male prostitutes, home sexual offenders, greedy, drunkards, slanderers swindlers they will not inherit the king come of god. gay rights groups immediately fired back and called the comments vile and offensive and demanded that robertson apologize for his religious views. surely a brand like a&e doesn't want to be associated with such racist and home r homophobic remarks. just for context, medical gibson made such remarks in the early '90s, major studios continued to hire them. t

. >> william la jeunesse reporting from los angeles.am, thank you. >>> who is to say that the man who plotted a bombing at the airport is really a nice guy, more than that. >>> plus this guy has more than the heisman trophy to worry about. >> everything is not just about football. sometimes it's about rape and not football and it just so happens the rape suspect is a football player. sometimes that's what you have, and think that's what we have here. first lady lighting candles in memory of the shooting massacre at sandy hook elementary in newtown, connecticut, one year ago today and then pausing for a moment of silence. the president also devoting his weekly address to that tragedy. >> as parents, as americans, the news filled us with grief. newtown is a town like so many of our hometowns. the victims were educators and kids that could have been any of our own, and our hearts were broken for the families that lost a piece of their heart. for the communities, changed forever. for the survivors, so young whose innocence was torn away far

william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with more on this story. william, you started off the day with them missing. as you were doing reporting, they were found yesterday. what do they owe their lives to? >> reporter: it is survival 101 but it rarely happens. stay with your vehicle. it saved this family's life. putting hot rocks in the car to stay warm, that was genius. after two nights in temperatures as low as 21 below zero, two adults, four children arrived yesterday at this hospital in nevada in good medical condition with mild dehydration and exposure. their jeep had rolled over in a canyon on sunday afternoon. the first thing 34-year-old james glanton did was make a fire and kept it burning with a spare tire. then he dropped hot rocks in the jeep to stay warm and escape the wind chill. hundreds searched for this family. yesterday around noon they were found, what many call a miracle in the mountains. >> it was the work of a lot of people in the community. this community came together and, and, helped this come to a successful conclusion. >> r

william la jeunesse is live on the ongoing rescue search for them. william, what is the latest? >> reporter: right now, martha, temperatures are eight degrees below zero in the mountains for the second straight night. second straight night search teams came up empty for the two adults and four children. the area is north of reno. it is called seven troughs. it represents seven steep canyons. a popular camping and hiking area, about 7,000 feet elevation. the family is 235-year-old james and. they went out sunday to play in the show. temperatures fell to 16 degrees below zero that night. multiple search-and-rescue teams, helicopters, fixed-wing are out there. they have infrared. they see body cold or temperatures at night. they're following dirt roads into the willed derness hoping they find the black roof of that jeep against the snow. the family they have they hope the sense to stay near the vehicle. >> best choice is to hit this as heavy as we can with aircraft. ground teams are basically waiting here, we launch them out as soon as they see anything. >> reporter: we spoke to th

william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with where we are now with it all. william?rter: well, jenna, two of brian's killers remain on the loose, but we still don't know what happened that night. the white house is withholding documents, the fbi never issued a report on the shooting, and there remains a gag order on brian's fellow agents. >> three years have gone by, and we still wonder why. >> reporter: from a death in the desert to contempt hearings on capitol hill, three years after border patrol agent brian terry died, the family still has questions. >> we know who in atf and the u.s. attorney's office were found negligent in putting this operation into place that resulted in the death of brian terry. but we still don't know why. >> reporter: terry's murder prompted atf agent john dodson to blow the whistle on a government-approved operation that allowed thousands of guns into mexico where they killed countless innocent victims. >> mr. attorney general, i didn't ask you a question -- >> reporter: congress also still wants answers. >> we don't know why we were lie

william la jeunesse from l.a. bureau about this.e robertson and his supporters saying about all this now? >> reporter: supporters, this is reality and not a script a&e is writing ending. recall on wednesday the network said phil robertson was an indefinite suspension and gay rights demand ad apology. that looks increasingly unlikely and it appears the channel's decision may backfire. here's why. 110,000 people sign ad petition to reinstate him and demanding a apology from the network. secondly, sponsors of the show are sticking by the family and thirdly, the biggest blow maybe coming from the robert sons itself. they issued a statement last night saying, quote, we are disappointed that phil has been placed on hiatus for expressing his faith which is his constitutionally protected right. we have had a successful working relationship with a&e, but, as a family we can not imagine the show going forward without our patriarch at the helm. >> a&e has chosen to marginalize and, try to stifle the freedom of someone who is filled with faith

william la jeunesse is live in l.a. with more. william? >> reporter: jenna, no one really disputes phil robertson's right to say what he did or a&e's right to pull him off the air. the real question as you suggested is, where does it go? how does it end? does the family accept the punishment or do they bolt for another network? no question, gays have a lot of influence in hollywood, but, so do viewers. already 116 have signed a petition demanded that a&e reinstate robertson and they apologize. sponsors are standing by the family, which last night delivered this ultimatum. and i'm quoting. we're disappointed phil has been placed on hiatus for expressing his faith which is his constitutionally protected right. we have had a successful working relationship with "a&e" but as a family we can not imagine the show going forward without our patriarch at the helm. >> a&e executives had to know they would be alienating part of their fan base by kicking phil robertson off the air. apparently the network found the comments so offensive they felt compe