Dorothy Simms News Today

Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Im eun yang. Im aaron gilchrist. First, lets check on the forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts. Its a nice day out there right now. The temperatures keep moving up and up. You know, weve got plenty of sunshine too. The clouds kind of broke, the fog lifted out of the area. Now were seeing sunshine finally. We were due for it. Because we hadnt had sunshine for quite some time. Now, as we continue into really the rest of the afternoon, the ra...

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Had issues as well. attorney dorothy simms knows what its like to feel fear. wondering if the next person she meets is going to kill her. during her time serving as co-counsel for the casey anthony defense team simms office was inundated with hate mail phone calls, and death threats. >> this isnt all of the mail i received. this just is tasting, a flavor. i received birthday cards on caylees birth with personalized messages for the defense team. we were online told that we are going to rot in he...

woman in days. sunday shell be released after being found not guilty in the death of her 2-year-old daughter caylee. joining me now is the woman who was at her side throughout that infamous trial. attorney dorothy clay simms. when i say infamous, its attracting so much attention. so much speculation. and as you will be very aware, a lot of negativity towards your client. what was your overview? were you even remotely surprised at the verdict? >> well, i feared for the worst and hoped f...

casey anthony will be a free woman in days. sunday shell be released after being found not guilty in the death of her 2-year-old daughter caylee. joining me now is the woman who was at her side throughout that infamous trial. attorney dorothy clay simms. when i say infamous, its attracting so much attention. so much speculation. and as you will be very aware, a lot of negativity towards your client. what was your overview? were you even remotely surprised at the verdict? >> well, i fea...

this stadium was to expand it, to make it bigger. weve also gotten some pictures into the newsroom from the associated press and from twitter, showing the scene or the ground there, and you can see at least one person who was injured being taken away on a stretcher, again, people are still trapped, even at this hour, and the rescue operation is going on. more as we get it, but for now, back to you guys. jon: rick folbaum, thank you and good morning to you on this thursday, im jon sco...

who was missing. this body may be that of miss heard. investigators are trying to determine exactly who has been found. laurens parents are appealing to her school friends urging them to come forward with information about what happened to lauren. several of those friends have hired attorneys to help them in the event that they one day face charges in this case. again, those autopsy results could come at any moment. well keep you posted as soon as we learn anything. jon: thank you, ric...

>> reporter: this gives us an idea of the general sense, especially around here. of course ive been tweeting since the verdict came out and tweets along the same line. a great deal of surprise. i want to introduce you, talking a few minutes ago. you do not seem to concur with everybody else. you think this was fair and justice was served. can you tell us why, frank? >> well, i dont think they had enough proof. no evidence that actually proved that she murdered the child. they had evide...