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>> extremely happy. i think all of those boys had a great childhood. >> the defense plans to wrap up the mitigation phase next week. >> humanitarian croisis that shoes no signs of slowing down. thousands of migrants taking a dangerous journey to fight famine and war. itily an irish navy ship rescued migrants floating in the mediterranean sea. they included 45 children and nine pregnant woman. the majority from mali and begana and bangladesh. 2000 have died making the dangerous trek this year. >>...

>> extremely happy. i think all of those boys had a great childhood. >> the defense plans to wrap up the mitigation phase next week. >> humanitarian croisis that shoes no signs of slowing down. thousands of migrants taking a dangerous journey to fight famine and war. itily an irish navy ship rescued migrants floating in the mediterranean sea. they included 45 children and nine pregnant woman. the majority from mali and begana and bangladesh. 2000 have died making the dangerous trek this year. >>...

Semiautomatic weapons and planned it for months and shoots at an unarmed crowd and two were actually my friends. >> lets go live outside the courthouse in centennial colorado. what do we expect today in court? >> reporter: well good morning, jose we expect as this whole thing unfolds over the next month or so more emotional testimony like we saw in the trial itself. this penalty phase is divided into three distinct parts. the first part today is whats known as aggravation phase. what aggravating...

>> you are gender tonight. >> we were discussing it today. a lot of women are very tough on jodi arias. i dont think you will see a gender split. i dont know. >> ashleigh, go ahead. >> erin, yeah, you just brought up a really good point, the three of you, on the possible threats to this jury. we already know that two witnesses have been threatened. alyce laviolette was the domestic violence expert in this case and we watched as her testimony unfolded. so did the threats online. she was followed ...

Both convict the defendant and also implement the death penalty. less receptive to mitigation phase. so yes, the deck is stacked in their favor already. the thing that come into play here is really that personal element. which happens to be the principle versus the personal. there is this person in front of them and theyre not quite sure. thats where the real question comes in. the other huge question here is how many jurors are opposing it. if it is just one jurors, then sometime the pressure o...

This case, at this point, is that it is unpredictable as every hour moves forward. and we keep going forward in this case. but what were seeing here is nurmi trying to make strategic moves. here hes saying i want a motion for a mistrial because we have to do everything we can. this is life or death. and this is it. the moment is now. we have to put forth a case in the mitigation phase. how can we do that? we do not have all the witnesses available. because, guess what, the jury, theyre going to ...

Professional witness, so to speak. and with darryl brewer, hes already testified. he hasnt been on camera yet, but were not sure why hes not being called at all. if it is the same reason or not. >> it is bizarre. we often find out, i mentioned this earlier in the air, sometimes it takes a little bit of a lag time for seals to become unsealed and information to become public. we may find out more about why darryl brewer is no longer part of this, the sentencing phase, and the mitigation phase any...

Bed situation so there would be room for somebody else but she cant, shes essentially in solitary. she sleeps on the bottom bunk and turned the top bunk into some kind of desk where shes got a lot of documents and other food stuffs. i noticed that on the ground there was a magazine that said "the optimist." well i dont know if shes optimistic about her chances at this phase of her trial. theyre getting into the mitigation phase. we heard from her attorney that jodi arias is going to take the sta...

Alexander 27 times, slit his throat all the way across and can shot him once in the head. the jury agreed that martinez that she knew exactly what she was doing and intended to inflict as much pain as possible. >> the last thing that mr. alexander felt as he laid there, as he could see up there was this knife, this woman and this bread coming towards him -- this blade coming towards him. and it was only death that relieved that pain. >> reporter: and the whole hearing yesterday lasted about five...

Investigator to show how much blood was around the scene. and the jury heard all this before so it will be nothing new. but the state has to jump over this hurdle. martha: stabbed 27 times and a throat slit from one side to the other may meet that measure. but well see what they think. then comes the mitigation where they would try to argue for a live penalty over death. she herself said she would choose death. >> if the state proves beyond a reasonable doubt that there is that aggravating fact ...