despite to think about the holidays and other things, american citizens have to be village have to be vigilant and they have to tell people if they see something that s not right. bill: why were federal authorities not called in on this? i m not quite sure on that, i m not a lawyer. as a counter-terrorism type or national security type. i m glad somebody was on top of it. the fact of the matter is, they were in concert with federal authorities. one thing we had to worry about after 9/11 was the controversy piping of information and lack of sharing. i hope there was coordination with federal authorities. because we have had 14 or 15 cases in the last 2 1/2 years. if that trend lynn continue that means we ll have more of them and that information sharing is critical.
hayes and today is the day of justice for the petit women who have now officially identified one of their killers, that is steven hayes. the family is leaving the courtroom. these are some of the family members. we seat microphones there, do we know if he ll be making a statement? reporter: we ve been sitting outside this courtroom every since this trial began with those microphones. he s only come out to talk very briefly, i believe only twice, once to say it s been a very difficult day, that was when the crime scene photos and the burned out beds of his daughters were shown, one of the worst days of the trial for dr. petit and his family. he came out and folk once more when the other suspect s lawyer came out to say that he didn t want the petit family to believe that the 11-year-old was sexually assaulted in the way
wanwanted to pursue this case aa death penalty case and try it before a jury. that jury has rendered its verdict and lawyer a ingle is outside of the courthouse in which they did it. reporter: we are waiting for dr. petit to come out with his family. we have been told from the people who were inside the courtroom as the verdicts were read one by one and slowly that it was very quiet. there were no gasps, the jurors only looked at the court clerk as the verdicts were being read. dr. william petit held his head down appearing to hold back tears. jenna: r-r s sister appeared to be appeared to be shaking. they were all holding hands and holding their breath as they waited to hear the verdicts. as you mentioned, guilty on 16 of the 17 counts. 6 counts of capital felony.
action, namely, bomb building. report are also talked about changing his name to usama hussein. we have been talking with the nypd. they tell fox he is thought to have acted alone. they devote 1,000 officers daily to combat terrorism in transportation hubs and critical checkpoints in kilo cases. the defense attorney says they will be looking into how this all went down. we don t know if there is an entrapment issue at this point. reporter: he will be back bak in court november 25. bill: lawyer a ingle, thank you, here in new york.