Of the jury. Closing arguments ended late today and now the jury seven women and five men, they will decide whether to convict him and whether he should pay the ultimate price for the act of terror. Witnesses in court today described tsarnaev as fidgeting during the closing arguments. Prosecutors have painted tsarnaev as a coldblooded terrorist who along with his older brother murdered three people and wounded 264 more during the Boston Marathon two years ago. Hes charged with killing a Police Officer three days later during the manhunt. The defense says tsarnaev was brainwashed by his brother. Alexandra field has been following the trial. The defense says it was him. This is not about guilt or innocence. Its about whether he will be put to death. Reporter yeah. They laid that out in Opening Statements that it was him. This has been about how to spare tsarnaevs life but the prosecution has a different task. They have the burden of proving his guilt in some 30 different charges that he
Emergency landing while flying this helicopter with a flight instructor. Down the runway like federal investigators will be back on scene this morning. But one thing they wont be able to investigate is this vintage plane it does not have a black box, chris. Thats for sure. At least it has somebody who can tell the story of what happened. Thank you for the reporting. Back in new york a much bigger situation. The ntsb investigating a near disaster at new Yorks Laguardia airport. Delta flight 127 passengers aboard. Skidded off a snowy runway nearly went into the waters of flushing bay. We have cnns Miguel Marquez, live at laguardia with more. Miguel . Chris, amazing that so few injuries happened in this situation. Right now that fuselage that plane is being taken off the runway here at laguardia so things can get back to normal. There are a few cancellations here a few delays but for the most part, this airport is struggling back into action. This morning, the priority to lift the battere
But who is speaking today . Hi fred. Well senator rand paul of kentucky just got off the stage. He did some predictable things he bashed the president. He bashed his potential rival, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. But he also did something that may be a little bit less predictable. He talked about the need for the Republican Party to expand its base. Lets listen to what he had to say. The one thing i would like to leave you with is id like you to think about how were going to move forward and how were going to win. I think we need to stay true to principle. I think our message needs to be carried to new people. We too need to talk to the Business Owners the workers, rich, poor, white, black, brown. We need to get out there and go to places we havent been going. So senator paul has been one of the most vocal voices in the party for trying to expand beyond the traditional Republican Base hes talked about engaging black voters. Gone to speak at historically black colleges. It
The centers for Disease Control now investigating as officials reveal samples were shipped under less rigorous conditions since it was believed the bacteria was dead. Nbc news reporting fed ex transported the samples. Fed ex tells cnn theyre working with officials to gather information. No known risk to the general public and no suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax infection. This comes less than a year after a similar mishap at the centers for Disease Control. They shipped what they thought was dead agent so several locations and it was not. It was live anthrax. Alisyn. All right. They have got to figure that one out. Barbara, thanks so much for that update. We have some breaking news this morning. The new York City Police department and other Law Enforcement agencies across the country ramping up surveillance on suspected isis sympathizers in the u. S. Cnns justice reporter evan perez is here with all the developing details. What do we know evan . Good morning, alisyn. There are h
News. Rube rubio for president. His announcement 24 hours after Hillary Clinton also announced she is running. More on that in a moment. First, the 43yearold son of immigrants, the third republican in the race along with texas senator ted cruz and a man rubio describes as a mentor the former Florida Governor jeb bush. Well now the time has come for our generation to lead the way towards a new american century. That is why tonight grounded by the lessons of our history but inspired by the promise of our future i announce my candidacy for president of the United States. Well rubio took the stage, Hillary Clinton was on the road. Clinton opening her run with a road trip. New york to iowa. She had reportedly two aides and three vans and they stopped, talked to voters. And apparently they stopped to eat chipotle. Dana bash is at the Freedom Tower where rubio made his announcement. Freedom tower the first stop in america for many cubans that were fleeing the castro regime. This is the third