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Felicia scream, he's shooting everybody. a 72-year-old woman dove under a table for refuge. she was able to grab another pa riggser's phone to dial 911. this is what she's heard telling the dispatcher. she said, he's still here. i'm afraid. he's still here. he's coming. he's coming. please help me lord. ease help me lord. she said she was praying and that's the moment when dylann roof told her to shut up. again he spared her life so she could tell the story of what happened that night in that church. with the emotional and graphic testimony from shepherd the prosecution rested its case. then i...

Mariana atencio joins us now from outside the courthouse in charleston, south carolina. mariana, what's the headline today so far? >> reporter: tamron, this morning, we learned that the defense subpoenaed to talk on behalf of dylann roof, to block all the witnesses arguing they are not proper for this phase of the trial, the guilt phase. however, it's unexpected because as you and i have been discussing for the past week and a half, the defense said early on they didn't expect to have any witnesses and barely cross examined any of the prosecution. the jury this morning seeing a parade from the...

Stands out, is the fact that for example, he didn't know what month it was, he seemed kind of completely aloof, clearly no empathy whatsoever, could the defense end up using that to their advantage to make the case that perhaps he didn't realize the extent of what he was doing. it seems like he does. >> well, you know, what is going on here is this is a conditioning portion of the trial. it's the guilt phase and the punishment phase. during the guilt phase, the government is trying to condition the jury to put him to death in the penalty phase because let's face it, as far as liability goes he...

>> well, the prosecution has to establish guilt, it's obligated by beyond a reasonable doubt to make sure they get these convictions, there are 33 federal pending charges, 18 of which are murder charges, so in order to, you know prevail on this case, they're going to have to convince that jury, and let me tell you something, you saw the tape, you heard the tape, this is repugnant behavior, sinister ghastly behavior and i think there is no doubt that a conviction will be attained. the more complicated part of this case will be mitigation, that is how is that going to be handled and to comely in...

Until last week that roof had asked to represent himself. he was there during the voir dire phase raising objections while family members of the vick fims watch victims watched on. last sunday he he he asked the judge for defense attorneys to represent him during the guilt phase but not the penalty phase. those attorneys filing a motion asking the judge to extend the trial based on what happened with the michael slager trial, saying the jurors in this case will be under intense pressure to make up for the apparent failure of the lack of conviction of michael slager in his trial, the mistrial t...