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A jury late today found james holmes guilty of multiple counts of first-degree murder in the july 2012 shooting rampage at a midnight screening of "the dark knight" movie in aurora, colorado. 12 people were killed, 70 more wounded. holmes lawyers had acknowledged that their client carried out the attack but holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity with the defense citing his delusion that each person he killed would increase his self-worth. police said he knew what he was doing was wrong ...

Again. so -- it is irreversible. >> what i heard you say is that accrues something positive for you. >> right. >> his words likely to linger with jurors. >> what about the wounded? >> they are collateral damage, i guess. >> reporter: prosecutors played 22 hours with the court appointed psychiatrist. dr. reid. one of two mental health experts who concluded holmes suffered mental illness was legally sane when he carried out the attack. >> the delusion propelled him to commit the acts. >> one docto...

Could not control his thoughts. that he could not control his actions and he could not control his perceptions. >> reporter: the public defender argued james holmes was insane overcome by severe mental illness, driven by a delusional belief that killing would increase his self-worth. >> thats not logical. no, its not. its psychotic. >> reporter: 11 weeks of testimony now brought to a close. 165 charges, including first-degree murder and attempted murder now in the hands of 12 jurors, nine women ...

Killing would increase his own self-worth. >> i do not believe this is a delusion of him being mentally ill, this would have never happened. >> reporter: and video of holmes acting strangely before being hospitalized for a psychotic episode, proof of his insanity they say. each side pointed to a notebook holmes sent hours before the shooting to a doctor the psychiatrist who treated holmes at the university of colorado while a grad student. the defense highlighted ramblings that dont make any sen...

Prove that holmes was insane at the time? >> remember, here in colorado it is the prosecutions burden to prove holmes was sane at the time of the shoots but the defense did just wrap up its side of the case last week and they did present two mental health experts whom they had asked to do mental evaluations of holmes and who told the jurors they believed he was insane at the time of the crime. one of those experts was a specialist in schizophrenia and she was last to take the stand for the defen...

Explosives or weapons through checkpoints in 67 out of 70 tries. >> anytime theres a high rate of misses, that causes concern. the terrorists do watch this thing. they do watch and go to school how they can learn from possible vulnerabilities. >> the acting administrator of the tsa has been demoted in the wake of that investigation. sources tell us in one instance agents failed to find a fake bomb taped to an agents back during a patdown. >> jurors are hearing from the gunman about his mental st...

Those women who work at home? all moms are working, right? you know, im just, even the topics have a certain bent to them. >> greg, you used to edit "mens health" magazine, and runners world. a lot of people dont that about you. you used to be a magazine editor. do you see this changing? >> i had a column for "cosmo" or glamour at one point. i had written for "marie claire." there is great contradiction in womens magazines. they claim to be for strong women but make money preying on insecurities...

♪ >> maybe that mary had some kind of mental illness, perhaps it was depression. who knows? but whatever it was, her encounter with jesus was a life-changing one. >> following jesus intervention, she is one of several women who join him as followers. >> one of the things about jesus is that he has very inclusive group of disciples. its a very open kind of movement and included women who a lot of the time might have felt themselves somewhat marginalized. being with jesus gave them a sense of id...

>> one of the things about jesus is that he has a very inclusive group of disciples. its a very open kind of movement and included women who a lot of the time might have felt themselves somewhat marginalized. being with jesus gave them a sense of identity and self-worth in a way that they often didnt find in ordinary society. >> mary magdalene seems atypical for a jewish woman of her time. most jewish women in the galilee would have been in some kind of a domestic setting, either as a daughter o...

Group of disciples. its a very open kind of movement and included women who a lot of the time might have felt themselves somewhat marginalized. being with jesus gave them a sense of identity and self-worth in a way that they often didnt find in ordinary society. >> mary magdalene seems atypical for a jewish woman of her time. most jewish women in the galilee would have been in some kind of domestic setting, either as a daughter or a mother or a wife, but to be out in the wilderness with a itiner...