so far they have sent two notes to the judge and one of them was to ask to go home early on friday afternoon. pete williams is at the alexandria courthouse for us. any news, pete? >> reporter: none. but, you know, i wouldn't place too much into trying to figure out what this means at this point. think of the numbers here. this was almost a two-week trial in terms of the government's presentation. something like 340 separate pieces of evidence, more than 22 witnesses, 18 criminal counts. so if the jury is going to be fastidious about looking at all the charges and looking at all the evidence and trying to figure out what it means, you would expect them to take at least this longer to render a verdict rather than simply going into the verdict room and saying, well, what do you think, is he guilty or not guilty on each counti? they want to talk about it, look at the evidence. this is a relatively complicated