3 33 33 3 3 &p3 3 a verrict is expected today in the trial of the two brothers accused f beating a baltimore neighborhood watch group.tteir attorney says it was an act of self defense.megan gilliland is here with the latest from &pinside the courtroom. good orning patrice, throughout this trial we heard alot from avi and eli werdeshiem s attornee that this was self defense. but. the stand. eli spoke for hims. acted in self efense the day he was on neighbbrhood watch patrol and encountered a black teen who was looking in houses in a predominntell white neighborrood. werdeshiem ttstified he became concerned when he noticed the teen his hand.he ssid to the court. quote. i got out of the car. i started to say something. he turred and looked at me. his behavior changed and he went right at me. he swung the boarr near &pmy head. 3&16:58:37 somebody was swingin &pa board at him with nails sticking out offthem and he testified that he feared for his life and thought thaa hh would h
romans off this morning. good morning. i m alina cho. i m ali velshi. great to see you. lots of it tough includinthe story about three cups of tea for those who have read it, great controversy erupting and we ll tell you about that. we re going to talk about some news potentially about the royal wedding dress. that s right. the huffington post thinks they have the answer in terms of who s designing it. lots of people curious about that. a big story we want to tell you about, people across the country picking up what s left of their lives this morning after tornadoes, hundreds of them, tore across the u.s. over the weekend. witnesses reported 230 twisters from oklahoma to virginia. the death toll rising overnight to 45 people after two more victims were reported in virginia, including an 8-year-old girl who was swept away by a flash flood. but nowhere was harder hit than north carolina. this youtube video shows a funnel cloud tearing through homes and barreling t
need in flooded north carolina for safe shelter. just take a look at these pictures out of raleigh. homes are being flooded and businesses are being flooded and boats are being used to try to get some people out. this is elizabeth, new jersey, just one of many spots from north carolina to maine dealing with the soggy fallout from what was once known as tropical storm nicole and among the hardest hit areas, bertee county, at least eight deaths are now being blamed on the high water across several states all along the east coast. brian mims is a reporter in raleigh, north carolina, he is joining us right now on the phone. so give us an idea what the greatest needs are right now. i m in windsor, north carolina, a town of about 2,000 people in bertee county, i can tell you that things are looking
her happiness back after a betrayal that sparked anger that was eating her alive. it s saturday october 2, and this is the newsroom. we begin with new worries about security for americans abroad which could lead to some important new warnings if you re traveling to europe. our senior state department producer joins us now by phone to explain, elise, what do we know about these potential warnings? . reporter: well, we have been hearing all week about potential threats to westerners in western europe, perhaps britain, france, germany that al qaeda could be plotting some signed of new attacks. we have to caution that there s been nothing credible or specific about any particular place, any particular attack. so we have been hearing a lot of what we call chatter. there s a lot of intelligence chatter about possible threats. now we re hearing that in light of these new threats, the state department and other news agencies are considering issuing some kind of alert to american
four-lane traffic here. right now, chicago department of transportation crews are on the scene. they ll be grinding the deteriorating pavement and replacing it with new asphalt. hot weather today and over the past few days most likely caused this to happen. earlier this evening, several sections of the southbound lanes of lakeshore drive had some deterioration due to the intense heat that we ve been having. as a precaution, the city closed down the southbound lanes from roosevelt road to the stephenson. our crews are arriving on site as we speak and will be performing the pavement repairs this evening. our plan is to have the southbound lanes reopened to traffic either tonight or definitely by the morning rush tomorrow. reporter: and brian tells me that this happens a couple of times a year with the chicago department of transportation crews having to come out and fix the pavement with these 90-day 90-degree days that we ve been having, it s most likely and definitely t