>> the petih-hawk, chapman families would like to thank the jury for their very difficult decision on this case. >> cnn's deborah feyerick cov offing this case from the beginning. she's in new haven, connecticut. take us inside the courtroom when we get the verdict, death by lethal injection. >> reporter: you know, it was very emotional during the reading of the verdict, death on all six counts, that komisarjevsky was facing. he showed no real emotion. at the enwas led out in handcuffs. members of the petit family and supporters who have been here every day of the month-long trial and the penalty phase, they seemed relieved but they were filled with i motion. finally it would end because you have to remember, this is one of two trials. but now it's over. and i even asked dr. petit, do you feel elation, exhaustion, peace? and he paused. he said, not elation, but peace. it was an enticing prospect to get to, his words, normal life and used the quotation marks. this has consumed every day, every hour, as they've come to this courthouse, tried to have their presence felt by the jurors. one juror told us there was a lot of crying but in the en, though they looked at the sum total of joshua's life, the child abuse, being ignored by his parents, just things not a happy childhood, ultimately there was nothing that could justify anything that happened in the house that night. the seven hours of torture, the forcing jennifer hawke-petit to the bank to withdraw ransom money and raping and strangling her before setting the house on fire, killing those two girls. there's a sense of peace tonight, and perhaps it's ended. john? >> perhaps. perhaps. deborah feyerick on the scene of the verdict, thank you so much. pennsylvania, the former disgraced, former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky spent his first full day at home wearing an ankle bracelet, and preparing for a court date next week. cnn contributor sara ganim has been on top of the story from the beginning. jerry sandusky's free on bail. his wife releaseded a statement saying he is innocent and asking people to have an open mind. what is the reaction in the community. >> reporter: we'll have been talking about dottie all day, what she knew, what she may have heard, specially after the release of the second grant jury presentment which say witness of the victims, number nine, alleged that he screamed out for help while being asalted in the basement of the sandusky home hoping dottie would help him but no help came. na prompted the statement dottie released proclaiming shah that she's standing by her husband, hoping people will wait to give him a chance to prove that innocence. but you know, the big question that we've been hearing today is, is she now a part of the investigation? could she be charged? the answer is that, unless you have come kind of direct knowledge of child abuse, no. but it's an ongoing investigation. we haven't heard either way on charges against several people who are kind of peripheral players, the a.g.'s office is only saying it's ongoing. that's something we've been hearing a lot today, john. >> what do we expect from the next round in court, sarah? >> well, you know, tuesday is the preliminary hearing for jerry sandusky. we expect to hear from several, if not all, of the victims that are known to the attorney general's office. that could be up to eight, maybe more. we expect to hear from them. that's expected to last all day. i think it could go possibly into another day. we dough no joe amendola was at the sandusky home all day today preparing his client, jerry sandusky, for what's going to go down tuesday. he did say to reporters, however, including cnn, right before he went in, anyone who is expecting a bombshell out of tuesday is probably going to be let down. >> sara ganim for us on the important news. the first time jerry sandusky in court face-to-face with his alleged victims. the campaign trail, more evidence tonight the romney campaign is prepared to battle aut out all out in iowa and aggressively against newt gingrich. he drew several sharp contrasts with the house speaker, including two out of this world attacks in this conversation with the des moines register. >> i saw the speaker had a measure that i read about, to put a permanent colony on the moon to mine rare materials from the moon. i think we've got other priorities for our spending before we do that. even talked about a series of mirrors that we could put in space that would light our highways. i've got better ideas for our resources. >> speaker gingrich faced a tough attack from senator rand paul, the son of congressman ron paul. >> newt gingrich is a big champion of the bank bailout. i don't know huh he could be considered a conservative or appeal to tea party voters. i don't know how once people get to know who he is what he supported, i don't know how the tea party could support him. >> rick perry also sat down with the des moines register editorial board and his christian faith was a major topic. >> my faith teaches me that this is an all-powerful creator that when a bird falls from the sky, he knows it. and i believe that. and that is part of who i am. and i'm not going to change that. if people decide, listen, you know, your religious faith is, you know, scares me off, my religious faith hadn't got in the way of texas from the standpoint of making us the most economically powerful state in the nation. >> let's come back to washington now. take a look at this. >> house will be in order and the chair lays before the house communication from the speaker. >> that's the house gaveling in for the start of the business day. their business day, lasted two minutes. that's right. how long was your workday? two minute. the senate wasn't even in session today. is it an early christmas in washington? the democratic leader of the house nancy pelosi and other house democrats are accusing republicans of that, setting the stage for a showdown over the extension of a payroll tax cut. >> we are working to make sure that we can honor the budget requirement that we have legislation before the end of the year. we're past the fiscal year, but before the end of the calendar year, before we can leave for christmas. we can't leave for the holidays without finishing that work. and we can't leave for the holidays without passing a payroll tax cut for the middle class. >> let's bring in our congressional correspondent, kate bolduan. maybe you can help me. no holiday cheer up there? >> reporter: i would say not so much holiday cheer at the moment. number one, not a the of people are around as you rightly pointed out. but also, here's the latest on where things stand. there was a lot of back and forth between democrats and the senate, republicans and the senate as well, as especially the republican leadership in the house. despite the fact that the senate voted down two additional proposals to extent the payroll tax cut, one democratic measure, republican measure and the fact that the president was involve with talking about the payroll tax extension and the house unveiled the details of their proposal to extent the payroll tax cut. there's no clear path to compromise because both sides have become dug in. latest today, house republicans formally unveiled their proposal to extent the payroll tax cut it extents the tax cut and unemployment benefits. here's the key that shows that republicans are spoiling for a fight here with -- especially a showdown -- with democrats as well as the president. linking extension to the provision that would speed up approval of the keystone pipeline. the president has come out to say he would reject that. he did that earlier today. earlier this week. but republicans are fupushing forward. democrats call it a poison pill. both sides are accusing the other of playing politics, it's a critical week if they make or break the payroll tax extension. >> let's hope they get it done next week. i think most americans would think coal in all of their stockings. >> not a surprise. >> thanks tonight. considered case close against boeing a contentious issue between the airlinemaker and a major union has been settl settled. the board dropped the complaint against boeing at the request of the machinist union. when the board filed the complaint it drew the ire of republicans who accused the administration and the board of meddling in business. basically the complaint asserted that boeing was retaliating against union workers in washington state billing a giant, new plant in south carolina. they ratified a four-year contract that guarantees job security in washington state. boston, occupied movement lives another day. encampment in operation. the midnight deadline for protesters to clear out passed this morning but police did not enforce the eviction notice. the mayor of boston, generally supportive of the movement but says upcoming cold weather could make safety an issue. he's asking protesters to please leave on they're own. tough talk from pakistan about its western border with afghanistan and that talk aimed directly at the united states. more fallout from the nato air strikes on a border post that killed 24 pakistani soldier. pakistan's military is thinking about bolstering its air defense system. what one official told cnn, take note tis of the language. if somebody pounds you out of existence we should be able to hit back. and he said, pakistan never expected aggression, aggression in quotes there, on its western border. today the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff here in the united states, general martin dempsey, had this to say about relations with pakistan. >> what we're trying to do is have -- show some patience asking them to show patience, and we'll try to get back in touch with each other and see if we can work through it. but, yeah it's a mess. >> a mess might be an understatement. the general dismissed that the air strikes were intentional. an american reportedly being held hostage and the desperate plea for his freedom. 63-year-old robert levinson, former fbi agent who went missing in iran almost five years ago. less than a minute long, the middle eastern style music playing in the background. you see him there and asks, please help me. levinson's family received this video a year ago. you can see and hear, emotions are still fresh. this is his wife, christine. >> when i saw it, i was very sad to see him looking the way he does. however, at the same time, i was happy to learn that he was alive. >> jill dougherty has spoken to family members. she's been covering this case. why did the family wait a year to release this video? >> reporter: they said when they got the video they tried, through various channels to reach out to whoever sent it to them. they still don't know who's holding mr. levenson. they tried to reach out. they never got anything back. so in frustration, now a year later, they're releasing this videotape on their family website and just basically hoping that whoever is holding him will hear this, listen to them, and tell the family what they want. that's the main thing, the family feels that they don't know why he's being held or what the group or person, individuals, whoever it is, wants. >> any indication, jill, that the government knows if the family doesn't know, does the administration -- this has been a priority -- any idea where he is and what might gain his release? >> reporter: john, right from the beginning, this has been a troubling and very kind of murky case. nobody seems to know where he is. some people believe that he is in iran in spite of the fact that the iranian government has no idea and they're not holding him. others believe he might be in the third country. i don't think you can say anybody really, least if they're saying, definitively knows where he is. >> jill dougherty, thank you. if you've been watching the markets in recent weeks you've seen ups and downs, a lot because of volatility, europe's debt crisis. today a big step designed to bring a solution. but one country had big objections. much more on that, next.s , so . so, kathryn, post more youtube videos of your baby acting adorable. baby. on it. matt, ignore me and keep updating your fantasy team. huh? 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because the other countries are going to go ahead with reforming the euro anyway. and it is 26 against 1. and, john, vie to tell you, tonight just walking around this room earlier, which was full of journalists from all the other european countries, who, frankly, have had enough of britain's dog in the manger always complain, never going along with it, attitude and policies. so here there is a certain amount of, to use that phrase, the fact that britain is on their own and seemingly out of favor. >> and so help the average american family sitting around the dinner table watching this conversation say, that's across the pond, why do i care? >> reporter: they care very clearly if they are in manufacturing around that dinner table, they will be sending goods and services to the european union. if they are in any form of banking, they will have been seeing investments in the european union. if they have an i.r.a. or 401(k) they are invested or part are invested in companies that trade or do business or are in the european union. these days, the 3,000 miles of the atlantic are just about a pinprick wide and anybody that doesn't see european union as one of the single biggest trading partners for the united states, that is the significance, john. it remains that case. and that is why geithner was in europe, that is why secretary of state clinton spoke about the deal, and it is why the white house has welcomed today the announcement of this bailout fund and the new deal for the euro. >> richard quest, as always, many thanks. let's look closely at this deal what it means for us in the united states. in new york, krista freeland. let's pick up where richard left off. an american watching this tone at dinner table, he says he talks about the interrelation of the economy. the markets like this today up nearly 200 points, the dow was, the other markets, s&p, nasdaq up as well. is that because they think it's a done deal or that is a one-day blip? >> i think it's actually neither, john. i don't think that anyone, you know, even the most fervent european patriot thinks that everything is now absolutely fine with europe. but i do think that this is more than a one-day wonder. this is really important progress towards both europe solving its economic problems and europe solving its political problems. and crucially what it does, the germans are the key to all of this and they have been very reluctant, you know, to promise to sort of guarantee the debts of the weaker european economies unless they have some confidence that going forward there would be more budgetary discipline in the rest of europe. and that's really what this deal promises. the rest of europe effectively saying to germans, please promise to pay our debts and we promise we'll stop spending so much. >> and so does it put any pressure on the political system here in the united states? do the president and the republicans in congress need to get more serious? maybe we should pick them up and sent them to brussels for a meet z ing. >> or ask merkel to come over here. it's a victory for her and for the u.s. economy. we have started to see green chutes here and the economy starting to recover. one thing that a lot of people feel could knock the u.s. off course would be in you had real disaster in europe. the other people who, i think, are celebrating today are bankers. bankers both in london and in new york. because one of the big reasons why britain said no, we're not going to do this, is their fear the europeans would impose this robin hood tax on financial transactions. and i think britain's saying no could have a knock-on effect on the u.s. where that tax has been debated, too. if london doesn't do it, it's much harder for new york to do it. >> does washington have to follow suit here with a serious deficit reduction plan? problem say they're a flashing warning sign. >> yeah, absolutely. i think that example is going to be important. on the other hand, john, i think we -- there is still a fear and i think that it's a real one that the kind of alwausterity t germany's trying to impose on europe it will help avert financial disaster, could also mean that growth is pretty slow. so i think that the jury's still out on that one. >> growth versus deficit reduction, that conversation will continue. thanks for coming in tone? next, has nasa discovered signs of water on mars? if so, what does that mean for potential life on planet? some answers after the break. the employee of the month isss... the new spark card from capital one. spark miles gives me the most rewards of any small business credit card. the spark card earns double miles... so we really had to up our game. with spark, the boss earns double miles on every purchase, every day. that's setting the bar pretty high. owning my own business has never been more rewarding. coming through! 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