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Federal judges overseeing his trial asking, i'd like to ask my lawyers to represent me for the guilt phase of the trial. he seeks to do the sentencing phase on iz had own. roof is facing 33 federal charges, including for hate crimes for the 2015 massacre of nine african-american worshippers at the mother emanuel church. let's get a check on weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. here in the northeast we have some rain, some snow. >> you see the football games yesterday? game in chicago had snow, green bay was picturesque. that's the snow moving through the northeast this morning. ye...

We now should do everything we can to support the 75th governor of north carolina roy cooper. >> that was north carolina governor pat mccrory conceding the governor's race to challenger roy cooper who was up by more than 10,000 votes. mccrory was looking for a recount. he's now the first sitting north carolina governor to lose a re-election bid, partly because of backlash of the bathroom bill he signed. new details in the trial over the charleston church shooting in which nine people were killed. dylan roof no longer wants to represent himself. in a letter to the judge he requested to bring ...

Prosecution proved four aggravating factors and this moves into the next phase. it's the defense's turn to put on a case of mitigating factors, reasons why they believe james holmes' life should be spared and that he should be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. they will present character witnesses, family members, friends. we know the jurors will hear from a fifth grade teacher of holmes and likely really emphasize holmes' mental illness. during the guilt phase of this trial, we heard from several mental health experts who all agreed holmes suffers severe mental illness. now...

Guilt phase, it doesn't seem you don't have to be a mind reader to see what's going to happen here. >> i'm thinking if you're the defense right now, and you're so roundly rejected by mental issues, what do you put up now? >> well you put his parents on the stand. the kindergarten teacher, you put on anyone who is going to give sympathy to mental illness and how this affected him and that he committed suicide as a child, and these issues have been ongoing, and therefore, they should be merciful. and yes, that may be a mitigating factor but at the end of the day, aggravating versus mitigating be...

Unanimous on that. the mitigating factors, 12 jurors have now found tsarnaev was 19 years old at the time this happened. 11 jurors found no prior history of violence. so not all 12 found that mitigating factor. so they're moving right along. we're getting close to finding out if the jury is sentencing him to life or death. >> jean casarez, thank you. let me ask you to stand by. jeff toobin our senior legal analyst. i want to talk through some of these attorneys, especially very high-profile defense attorney judy clarke. knowing these jurors deliberated for 14 1/2 hours, today was day three, wh...