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>> thank you, larry mackey for the expertise. we are getting word of dangerous weather spotters reporting a tornado northwest of wichita, kansas. and chad meyeryers is tracking it, and what are you seeing? >> the most dangerous part of it is that it is nighttime and you can't see them or hear them and you may be wanting to go the sleep soon, but you want to make sure that the noaa radio is on. and there may be storms popping up all night long, and the nighttime tornadoes are the most dangerous there. sis the one for wichita, and it did miss the town of wichita and this is andale and way nort...

Mitigating factor at sentencing, i think, should he be convicted of this, but as the guilt/incense stage of the trial, i don't know that youth is going to have a lot to do with it. i don't think that a jury is going to care too much about how old he is. he's 19 years old, an adult. it would something that i would be looking at, but i really don't think that it's the big smoking gun here for him. >> well, what about -- what about the alleged role of the older brother tamerlan. could lawyers perhaps argue that the older brother brainwashed his younger brother, larry? >> well, we don't know enoug...

Legal plight and what this young man may face. timothy mcveigh's attorney joins me live from houston and then larry mackey. he is the man who prosecuted timothy mcveigh and co-conspirator terry nichols. he joins me live from indianapolis tonight. do you see any possible similarities in the mcveigh case and tsarnaev might face? >> i certainly do. i think it's very likely that federal prosecutors in boston will use the same statute, and that is one that prohibits the use of a weapon of mass destruction. that statute has application here, and as i said, i'd be surprise federal they don't bring th...

Ride. that's going to be the defense i'm going to use, similar to the defense that terry nichols used in the oklahoma city bombing is the defense i would use here for him. >> larry, get me your response to that. >> sure. that's a fact that is simply going to be ignored by the prosecutors. at bottom, they are building a case against the suspect who is alive. they have three dead victims. many more who were injured. their focus is building on the best case and getting a conviction, and they will likely use a statute that will give them the arsenal, if you will, of bringing the death penalty, and...

Thoughts. >> i was just going to say, if i was the defense attorney, there would be one word that would dominate my thoughts, every day, and that is delay. delay, delay, delay. everybody is completely fixated on this case. the country, massachusetts, boston is completely horrified. time is the ally of the defense. we were all outraged and horrified as well we should have been by the murders in tucson by jared lee loughner, including the shooting of gabrielle giffords. that ended in a plea bargain. jared lee loughner pleaded guilty to a crime that carried life in prison rather than the death pe...