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They found the aggravating factors to sufficiently outweigh the mitigating factors. again, each juror is now being asked to confirm death sentence one by one. and as i stated before, steve, this marks the end of this emotional historic trial here in charleston. death for each count dylan roof and the first nern america to get the death penalty in federal court for a hate crime. more to come for dylan roof. his formal sentencing hear, that may come as early as tomorrow. the judge then has to decide whether he will be kept in a state prison or in a federal prison. and, that is dylan roof's fate....

Trial? is that completely mute now? do they just not have a trial on state charges? do they do that anyway for a symbolic reason? where does that go? >> reporter: it's very interesting you that. you'll remember that the state trial where dylan roof is facing the murder charges, that was postponed pending this decision, but that can be rescheduled any moment now. if state prosecutors want to in fact prosecute. and they may do that for several reasons. trials like it one, the federal trial, they can spend years on appeals here. this sentence, this decision that came down today, it did be changed...

Case. >> clapper also said that -- told lawmakers that president obama has received a copy of a classified report on russian and other foreign interference in the election and that an unclassified version is expected to be released to the public next week. more family members of the nine ople killed in the charleston church shooting in 2015 testifying today in the sentencing phase for convicted gunman dylann roof. roof's former attorney asking the judge today to allow him to represent his former client. right now roof is acting as his own attorney during the sentencing phase. all of this comin...

Hate crimes and other charges for killing nine people at a historic black church in charleston in june of 2015. that same jury will reconvene in january, then they will be charged with determining if roof should be put to death. he also faces a state trial on murder charges. joining us now to talk about this is john burris. he is a civil rights attorney. he's been involved in high profile attorneys, including the rodney king civil suit. being found guilty today not entirely a surprise as momentous as it is. the question, to the extent there is suspense here legally, is will he receive the deat...

Wildfires in the great spoky mountains caused more than half a billion in property damage. at least 14 people were killed. the flame destroyed or damaged more than 2400 structures. a big day on wall street. the dow jones inching closer to the 20,000 mark. dow closing at a new record high for the 16th time since donald trump was elected president. now to south carolina, winding down the case against dylann roof charged with killing nine people in a black church in charl 1207b. jurors getting to see the images found in the gunman's camera. this as prosecutors object to the witnesses the defense ...