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Zoraida, thanks so much. there is a lot of news developing at this hour. straight to mikial for the latest. >> fire crews reporting good progress battling the beaver creek fire near sun valley, idaho. the fire scorched 106,000 acres and is at 30% containment. meantime, an out of control wildfire near california's yosemite national park is threatening thousands of structures. in all nearly 50 major fires are burning in 11 western states stretching fire fighting resources to the limit. ft. hood massacre suspect nidal hasan begins his defense today. the former army psychologist faces 13 murde...

>> no. we're good. that's fine. the only issue with that is we then have to repeat because the firearm findings for each of the murder counts are different than the firearm findings for manslaughter because of the 1020 life language. >> the 1020 life doesn't apply to third degree murder. >> it does. >> it does, too. it even applies to aggravated assault. >> yes. >> well, i will have to -- >> it does apply. you will just have to put it in a a that would make sense. the court's ruling will be the charges the first and then the special finding by the jury. before we recess for lunch, let me give ...

Miscarriage after she got pregnant. does that make any difference? that it wasn't just once or twice? it might have been three or four times? >> well, it does make a difference in that that establishes a sort of a special level of kul cruelty in the infliction of the death of the fetus or fetuses as the case may be. it still doesn't get around this prlem of proof. how do you prove she really was pregnant? how do you prove that the fetus was loss because of the beating or the stress of being kidnapped. it's a real uphill battle. i might add, wolf, i did some quick calculations. on the 329 count...

Ashleigh, for the four murder counts, the jury can go two ways. they can go first-degree murder or they can go third-degree murder, which would take this out of death penalty land and into perhaps life in prison. but i believe that is what everyone here at the courthouse is sort of talking about, where is this jury on the capital offenses? and i've got to tell you, this is the only day that we haven't seen as much activity on the streets. a lot of people are inside. everyone is talking about this case here in philadelphia. pro-life people have been protesting for days and days and days. so thi...

Our conversations daily on this, sunny. if you could clear this up for our viewers because when anybody hears hung jury, it just sends a chill given that the issues that that causes for possible retrial or not for those who believe he may be guilty or not. so if they have found that he is -- or at least they can't agree on say two of these charges or counts, can he still move ahead with say some of the more serious if those aren't the ones they're hung on? can the trial still continue? >> sure, it can still continue. it could reach a verdict that is sort of a partial verdict. so perhaps they h...