car to this home. we don t know if that is his home or somebody elses, and he s hold up in the home and you can see the s.w.a.t. team on the scene at this time. in the workplace shooting two people died earlier this mourn. we got these first reports around 6:00am local time. 9:00 on the east coast. this has slowly developed with different crime reports popping up and some confusion amongst police in the area about how they were related. claudia cowen is now on scene. we had her on the phone and the way to this trying to again piece together what actually developed this morning, claude dea. what do you know and what do you see on scene now? well the important thing for people in this area is to know that this gunman, this disgruntled quarry facility employee is still on the loose. to add to all the confusion and chaos here it s starting to rain. sheriff s officials have released this picture of the suspected gunman.
on for a man who shot and killed two people and wounded six others at a california rock quarry. apparently there is also a 7th person that is injured. police say 45-year-old man may have shot a woman in nearby attempted carjacking. there is conflicting reports whether or not the carjacking was successful. a texas man wrongly convicted of killing his wife walking free today. imagine this. he spent 25 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. dna evidence helped set him free. jon: well there s new information as the defense begins presenting its case in the connecticut home invasion trial. josh wrau komisarjevsky is facing the death penalty in vicious murders of woman and her two young daughters. laura engle is live in the news room with more. defense attorneys tried to convince jurors it was not their who spread gasoline around the petit
tapes that showed him s accomplice buying the gas that police say fueled the deadly fire. so basically the defense, it was his fault. laura ingle this evening. what else happened in court today? jurors were shown a series of pictures of the burned out remains of the petit home, the blackened images caused some jurors to avert their eyes at times. police sergeant testified the police dogs hit on the smell of gas around the beds of the daughters. the photos give illustration to his words heard in that confession. i proceeded up the stairway. with the tv on. jurors were shown photos of all those ropes and masks and gloves. testimony continues in the morning. shep? shep: laura ingle live in new
incredibly difficult day. i guess those recordings were too much each for the judge. they certainly were. it was a brutal day in court. jurors, family members, even courtroom observers were seen leaving the courtroom today looking stunned and shell shocked after hearing that taped audio confession of joshua. it has never been heard before. it was played for the first time today in court. in chilling detail, he told detectives how he cased the petit home, entered the house, beat dr. petit and tied up jennifer hawk petit along with her daughters after he says he gently woke them up. the details of his sexual assault on the youngest petit daughter 11-year-old that kayla became so graphic the judge had to stop the tape when one of the jurors and family members became visibly distraught. heads in hands. tears in eyes. family spokesperson came out to not follow dr. petit to his car as they have con in the past. that tape from yesterday saying this has been an extremely difficult day.
welcome to american morning. good morning to you, and to you. it is a busy week. breaking news. freedom coming for two u.s. hikers held priter in in iran. they could be out with the half hour. right to mohammed jamjoon covering this. what s the latest? reporter: well, ali, we ve heard from a lawyer from the the two detained hikers tells us a second judge in iran has signed the paperwork, the bail paperwork for josh fattal and shane bauer. the lawyer says now he can take that paperwork and start the procedures to free them. he expects they will be free with the half hour. also, iranian news agency saying they will be handed over to swiss embassy officials in about half an hour from now. ali? we ve had false starts on this the last couple of weeks. the idea here, of course, it s through the judiciaries, any likely to stop this as far as you can see? reporter: ali, i apologize. having a little problem hearing you. we ve heard in the last few weeks, wrangling going on b