to give him the death sentence. johnathon, this morning juror arors heard directly from dylanroof? reporter: there was a lot of anticipation. some people feared he would use the forum to discuss his race arist views. he made no mention of the 2015 crime in which he shot and killed nine neme the emmanuel ame church and no mention of the motives and instead explained why he decided to act as his own attorney. he did it to block the defense team from entering evidence of his mental state. saying there is nothing wrong with me psychologically. dylan roof remained calm and today exhibited that same calm
to discuss s plea deal. i am not saying john this is it without my lawyer agreeing and i am very willing to talk to you. dufrt said because of his health issues, he has a life expectancy of five years. his life has been extraordinary. it has been shocking. his murder trial is likely to be both of those things throughout 2017. and we ll bring every bit p of it to you as it happens. we look forward to learning the truth. johnathon, thank you. we would like to welcome you to the first day of winner. the shortest day of the year. there also would be a lunar eclipse and one of the largest darkest night. there will be nine hours of
and released as part of the deal brokered by the qa ta ri government. sergeant bergdahl back in court on desertion. johnathon is watching the developments from the atlanta bureau. what did we learn in the pretrial hearing? sergeant bergdahl did not enter a plea in the pretrial hearing, it focused on how both sides presented their case in summer including how to handle 300000 pages of classified documents in the case. in the hearings, the sergeant appears in the army service uniform and not allowed to earn service medals including a nato service medal and pow ribbon and heart.
and rick, thank you. you bet. in the meantime power is out from mississippi to michigan. searchers are are looking for missing people. this is usually a day full of gift wrapping and last-minute christmas shopping. johnathon, how is it looking from where you are standing? reporter: you can see the high winds. caused trees to go down. they are looking at rising water levels on lake murray. they will give resident three hour notices if they need to open the flood gates. in mississippi tornadoxd
is it possible that with the money trail, deposits that catherine reported on earlier, is it possible that the investigation can lead to others that are possibly involved with these two? it is certainly possible. we are looking abroad, pakistan, saudi arabia. there is a neighbor allegedly who may have been involved in acquiring the weapons. they are going to help us. but they have died, they have done their best to destroy the trail electronically. and that may suggest challenges in the day ahead. johnathon, we are told if you see something, say something. to whom do we saw it? you mentioned that the fbi missed the clues that farook had on target practice and asked the workers if you noticed anything?