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Convicted him of illegally accessing sarah palin's yahoo account during the 2008 election. prosecutors said he posted some of her emails online in what they called an effort to damage her political campaign. though he denied it. sarah palin is now a fox news contributor. the defense argued the hacking was but a college prank. the jury though sided with prosecutors on two of four charges. and kernel faces the possibility of up to 2 oyears in prison. jamie colby is in our new york newsroom tonight. jamie, the jury was split on some of this. >> they were, shep. after four days of deliberation, he...

He hoped for. >> they had a lot of evidence to consider, a lot of issues to decide. they clearly worked very hard. they were conscientious so it happens. >> so next week, shepard, prosecutors can decide whether or not they want to bring a new trial for that identity theft charge and then the judge has to decide about the sentence. that's his determination. the obstruction of justice charge, a felony carries a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. shep? >> shepard: did sarah palin give our news division a response? >> she did, actually. and she testified in court as did her daughte...

>> and what you are not seeing either is more of this boom this floating barrier. the water simply too choppy, shep. >> shepard: at this point they won't be able to stop this 200,000-gallon per day leak for at least three months. is there anything that can be done to prevent this disaster from getting so much worse? >> still at this hour, remotely operated vehicles are down 5,000 feet below the surface working to trigger that cut off switch. they have been trying to do that for nearly a week now, shepard. so that is not working. the federal government though says every resource is now availabl...

All the charges and make their decision. shep? >> shepard: jamie colby live tonight in new york. jamie, thanks. now news from planet blago. president obama will not be forced to testify at the ex-illinois governor's corruption trial. a federal judge in chicago ruled today objecting the request to subpoena the president as a witness. fighting charges that he tried to sell president obama's former illinois senate seat to the highest bidder. his defense claims the president could shed light on those charges. but the judge ruled blago's team has no evidence, has shown no evidence, at least that pr...

Oil containment boom. that's 2500 feet of 42-inch boom that you see up on that reel. right now a support vessel is being used to unfurl this boom. it's being pulled out in the water, corralling what would be oil if we were in a heavy oil situation. crews can do a couple of things. burn it, skim, it or move it. >> and as we know, there are a lot of these oil skimming vessels working the gulf coast. and just to give you an idea of how expensive this portion of the clean up will be, the boat here behind me cost $9,700 a day to operate. $3,000 for fuel and that is just for a 12 hour shift. we know...