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Get word on the innocence or conviction of dzhokhar tsarnaev for the boston bombing massacre 21-year-old tsarnaev. he was 19 years old at the time of the boston marathon bombing. it was an awful, awful situation as all of us, of course, remember. give us a sense of what's happening right now, deb. >> reporter: i can tell you a couple of respected colleagues inside the courtroom saying that there are survivors who are inside waiting to hear the verdict. they include the mom and dad of 8-year-old martin richard. the father had testified during the course of the trial. and it was so fascinating b...

White. the devil when you come to arms agreements is in the details. even if we get the shadow outline of an agreement we won't know if that's an agreement worth having until we look at each and every word. bill: karl rove live in austin today. 21 past the hour. patti ann: a police officer putting his life on the line in a split-second decision. tense moments on a tennessee highway. why this head-on collision may have saved lives. bill: the california governor jerry brown does something that has never been done before. >> we are standing on dry grass and we should be standing in five feet of s...

Man flied into the water as a massive wave hits a fishing boat. mark mark heely is a pro surfer and saw the wave coming. he said he jumped because he feared the boat would capside never expected to be catapulted into the air. he was pulled from the water with no injuries. >> that's a split-second decision. and headlines, what you need to know this morning. >> would you do that? jump off of it? >> jump out or -- >> did you see the guy on the other side of the boat hanging on? you have to ask him, what about that guy? just doing it for fun? riding the wave? i don't know. could be. down acros...

>> well, you're trying to do it, the bad part about what they're talking about in a similar situation, say staten island, is that it's going to make cops in future incidents think, is this going to happen again? am i going to be in trouble for this? what am i going to do? the hesitation is like you said, the seven -- the short period of time to make a split-second decision. it can happen again like that. they could hesitate. >> is it fair that we're seeing this backlash against police officers across the country? >> i don't think so. i think it's rable rousing on the part of certain individual...

That led to the deaths of two black men in ferguson missouri, and staten island last summer and the subsequent grand jury decisions not to indict the officers involved have put a big spotlight on police making life-and-death decisions in the blink of an eye. as a governor i had more death penalty cases and execution decisions come across my desk in 10 1/2 years than any governor in arkansas history. but i had weeks, even months, to carefully review every page of the case file before i had to make the decision to order a life taken. that was the toughest decision i ever had to make because it w...