you are gender tonight. we were discussing it today. a lot of women are very tough on jodi arias. i don t think you will see a gender split. i don t know. ashleigh, go ahead. erin, yeah, you just brought up a really good point, the three of you, on the possible threats to this jury. we already know that two witnesses have been threatened. alyce laviolette was the domestic violence expert in this case and we watched as her testimony unfolded. so did the threats online. she was followed personally to a restaurant by a stalker. she also had her website deluged with people who demanded that she no longer be hired by anyone as a public speaker, and she was threatened. there was a grave concern that she couldn t be brought back into this trial. not only that, but in the mitigation phase, there were only two people who were lined up to mitigate for jodi and one of them was her best friend, who pulled out citing threats. so threats have been a big part of this already and perhaps that
so today the president delivered what had been billed as his first major speech on counter-terrorism of the second term. and we were prepared to hear layout policy on drone strikes. we were prepared to hear him discuss his long time promise to close the military detention facilities at guantanamo bay. now he did do these things. given my administration s relentless pursuit of al qaeda s leadership, there is no justification beyond politics for congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should have never been opened. not everybody bought. that and neither we nor he were prepared get ready, everybody for this today so today there are 102 people on hunger strike. these desperate people. you have to listen, ma am. you have to let me speak. i m about to address it. you are our commander in chief. can you close gouantanamo today. why don t you let me address it? why don t you sit down and i ll tell you exactly what i m going to do today. that in
0 lots of good opportunities there to do the right thing. i want you to do it. cnn.com/impact. that s it for me. thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer reporting from oklahoma. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, president obama gives a major speech on terrorism. gitmo, drones, al qaeda. but do his claims add up? after a british soldier was hacked to death in broad daylight, authorities arrested two more men. how did police track them down so quickly. and an emotional reunion between students and teachers from plaza towers elementary. they meet for the first time since the tornado. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, confronting president obama. so today the president delivered what had been billed as his first major speech on counter-terrorism of the second term. and we were prepared to hear layout policy on drone strikes. we were prepared to hear him discuss his long time promise to close the military
travis died because they don t want to sit at a table with an empty chair. travis used to write out his day on a flash card. the last one he wrote said to call steven. i never got that call. reporter: that was steven alexander, travis s brother talking about the loss of his brother. man, it was incredibly emotional last week, martha. martha: boy, it certainly was. can t imagine what it was like in there. it is hard to watch from here. adam, what do we expect in this phase now? the defense is trying to save jodi arias s life. what s next? reporter: it is going to be interesting because we thought they might call alyce laviolette, one of the defense witnesses that thought jodi arias was abused by travis alexander. that was a thought. now that has gone away. theory we ll hear from jodi
america s newsroom. . more of that coming up. martha: hey, i m martha maccallum. we ve got more pictures here. this is nature s fury caught from all angles. look at that. a massive storm system that spawned multiple tornados in iowa, kansas, oklahoma. one person is dead in all of this. boy, it could have been a lot more looking at the damage here. 21 people were injured. thousands of folks have woken up to homes that are severely damaged and in some cases that are just not there. bill: we find some of the worst damage in oklahoma where four confirmed twisters touched down late sunday afternoon, into the early evening hours. local officials described the scene as scoured earth. the wind blew the cellular door off. and then all of a sudden everything, just, seemed like it just went to pieces. everything i own. my, my pickup was sitting out there. my daughter s car. everything s gone. bill: that poor woman. the town of shawnee, oklahoma, southeast of oklahoma city, took a d