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Pleased in the direction that the case is going. i never thought the day we would pick jurors would come and the day has finally come. >> reporter: just to give you an idea of what they're up against, normally in a trial in glen county, they would call 150 potential jurors. they have called 1,000 jurors. first 600 showed up yesterday and yesterday they barely got through questioning a group of the first 20. this is going to take a while. brianna? >> all right, martin, thank you so much for that report. gabby petito's heart broken family is finally bringing her home. they travelled to wyoming...

Watch the process. when the judge cuts it off is when they get to specific questions to specific jurors. the judge won't allow the video to broadcast, but they do allow reporters and we get notes later. so jury selection, let's break it down by the numbers. if you look at those, they need 12 jurors obviously and 4 alternates. glen county normally in a trial would ask for about 150 people to show up to be possible jurors. in this case, they send out 1,000 jury summons. the first 600 had to show up as of yesterday. so far eight potential jurors have been dismissed, zero jurors have been selected...

George floyd case it's possible to convict someone and george zimmerman case is someone acting like a police officer and was not a police officer and you saw the results of the case. those cases stand at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to justice. how hopeful are you they will be able to find a jury of 12 people that will see this case the way you heard ms. cooper describe it? >> the actions of the people of glen county in the past year give me hope and the past year they voted out jackie johnson. in the past year they galvanized and remain outside of the courtroom now demanding ju...

Their actions showed just exactly that. i mean, we went 74 days with no arrests. they actually -- this case was almost closed. so yes, they were actually treated like they were law enforcement officers and nothing done about it. >> and do you think ms. cooper that if they had not had law enforcement ties that things would have gone differently or do you think this is simply because your son was a young black man and it wouldn't matter if they didn't have law enforcement connections? >> i think that the mcmichaels being affiliated with the police department played a factor in it however i think...

That didn't happen until video of the deadly encounter surfatesed, so the killing happened in february. the video surfaced in may, and it was after that when people were arrested. cnn's martin savidge has been following this from the beginning. what do you know about jury selection and how long this is expected to take, martin? >> reporter: well, anaa, it's very complicated and that video plays into if because remember the case of derek chauvin in the death of george floyd. there was video that showed how george floyd died. there is video. we know how ahmaud arbery died. the question is what w...