kept an eye on that jury, and i didn t see any tears from them. one ever the forewomen maybe reached up to her eyes to wipe away a tear, but it wasn t absolutely clear. but they were stone-faced. they just looked very, very serious as they listened to two very passionate, teary statements, one from steven who was in the army when he got word, and then his sister samantha who s a police officer in carlsbad. she said some of those photos of her brother are worse than anything she has seen in her 11 year onz ts on the police force beth, when you look at the law, the mitigating factors, the categories don t jump out as available much. maybe victim s actionses the defendant arguing that travis actions in the bathroom serve as a mitigating factor, forcing her to defend herself. but that didn t go over well at trial, didn t seem to be a factor for the jury before. what does that seem to suggest to you? reporter: well, you know, it s interesting you raise that, chris, because they ve list
like this before? chris, i have. this happened all the time during the cold war. of course there were soviet diplomats and military officers who come to this country. we would set them up usually in the midwest. they d get homesick, something would happen and they d take off, disappear, sometimes go back to russia. as far as terrorists go, i even had a case where one of our guys was resettled here, got in an accident on the beltway, pistol-whipped some innocent guy, was chased by the police, arrested. the fbi had to get him out of jail. he took off and moved to africa. it happens all the time, yes. okay. so this is not panic mode like this has never happened. it s horrible and yet still not the kind of thing you want to hear about. the justice department s response is, to date the fbi has not identified a national security threat tied to the participation of terrorism-linked witnesses in the witsec program.
seeing right now, chris, is just the very beginning of this hearing. the judge is gotion over the instructions to the jury for this phase, telling them these are impact statements you ll hear first. this is from the family. we ll hear from travis alexander s sister and brother first off and the judge is just telling the jury how they should take in this information. we expect the first of these witness statements to start in it just a few minutes. and then it will be jodi arias turn to try to literally save her life. it will be her chance through a couple of witnesses. then we expect her to take the stand as well and give a last-ditch effort to try to save her had life to this jury. but you bring up the point that she told this television station right after the verdict she didn t want to save her life, that she wants the death penalty. it will be interesting to see what jodi arias says. this jury only took an hour 30 minutes to find there was cruelty in this murder, but i think, chri
totally legally acceptable and conditional bequeaths are. you can condition it upon anything. but not this. so i think what happened is, through the course of type, perhaps people just kept giving it out and somebody looked at the charter of this and said, wait a second, this is exclusively for whites. we can t do this. in 97? not 57. right, exactly. it came way after the 1964 civil rights act and everything else. so you have to wonder how and why university officials at this time finally got to address it. so that we don t know, we can t address. we do know that in 1997 when they did look at it they said, something s amiss. we ll stop awarding it. but then of course we fast-forward to now, chris, which is the petition that s before the court to say, look, we have to declare this invalid, void ab nish yoe, against public poli policy. first of all, give me a fist-bump for dropping that. let me ask you this, the trustees bringing this action, this is the legal representative of t
we ll see if that it changes in the next couple of hours, chris. ed, let us know what you hear. thank forz the report. we ll be back in a little bit to you. we ll go elsewhere, north texas now, ten deadly tornadoes like this one causing at least six deaths. seven people are still missing. over 100 homes were just flattened overnight. we re getting a better glimpse today with daylight just how vicious the storm was. cars and houses in a habitat for humanity neighborhood literally ripped to sleds. look at the roof of a home in granbury, texas, neighborhood just wiped out. folks are combing through what s left of their homes, like you see there. rescue crews desperately searching subdivisions for the people still missing. alina machado is on the ground there in granbury. what s the latest you re hearing from people on the ground right now? reporter: chris thshgs is going to be a very long recovery effort for these people. we ve seen a lot of destruction in this area, and we ve also