we re still working to get more information. we ll bring you the latest tonight on eyewitness news at 6:00. justice for a promising johns hopkins researcher, who was murdered, just blocks from his baltimore home. today, his killer learns his fate. but he still says he didn t do it. wjz is live at mitchell courthouse. weijia jiang is there for today s sentencing. reporter: denise, frankly, the judge clearly didn t care what john waggoner had to say. he said he would show john waggoner the same mercy shown to the victim by handing down the harshest punishment allowed in this case. reporter: 38-year-old john waggoner will die in prison. a judge gave him a life sentence plus 20 years, for felony murder of stephen pitcairn, a johns hopkins student in 2010. since the beginning, pitcairn s family have said little. they left the courthouse without a public comment. it s hard for them. because they have to move on with their life, without their son and brother. reporter: ste
good thursday morning to you. 7:00 a.m. on the west coast and 10:00 here on the east, i m erica hill. took over libya when he was 27 years old, but it appears moammar gadhafi has not only been captured, but killed. we want to begin this morning with breaking news. libyan s leader for 42 years when he was driven out of power over the summer. i want to show you a photo that i want to warn you, is graphic. it was released this morning and it shows gadhafi wounded or dead. pentagon officials tell us they cannot tell exactly that there has been no official confirmation on the death. but the national council says gadhafi was, in fact, killed. another picture there you can see. he was killed as his defenders were overrun in his hometown of sirte this morning which rebel forces say they captured. charlie dagata has more on those developments. good morning, erica. al jazeera showing some of that graphic video of a man that certainly appears to be moammar gadhafi. at one point th
it was a jungle out there. lions and tigers, monkeys and bears, wolves and baboons, all kinds of wild animals, dozens of them on the loose in normally quiet zanesville, ohio, once known as the pottery capital of the world and home to 25,000 people. one of those people had kept these animals on his farm, and last night, the police say, for reasons we may never know, he set the animals free and then took his own life. then it got very dangerous, very fast. who was this 62-year-old man? we asked cynthia bowers in zanesville to find out. cynthia. reporter: good evening, scott. terry thompson, who opened this exotic animal farm had a number of run-ins with the law, many of them animal related. out of the more than 50 exotic animals he kept here, only four had state permits for black bears. this was the headline this morning in central ohio, and this is how jack hanna, director emeritus of the columbus zoo, put it. this is like not just a nightmare. it s like noah s ark, wrecki
disaster which some think could be the iceberg that sank the ship courtesy of a young couple who survived their honeymoon on the titanic s only voyage early this thursday morning, october 20th, 2011. good morning on this thursday morning. a little fog here in new york city. i m erica hill. nice to have you with us. nice to have with us as well. nice to be sitting next to you. i m completely confused on a thursday morning. i m jeff glor. chris wragge is off this morning. on a more serious note not confused but clearly pained jack hanna when he had to make decisions when the wild animals escaped. we will talk to him later on this morning. we begin with the story out of zanesville ohio. the hunt for the wild animals set free on tuesday is now over. most of the animals were shot and killed by police. this morning, animal lovers are asking why? cbs news cynthia bowers is in zanesville with the latest. reporter: you re right, the death toll was staggering and inexplicable
in the nato. when tripoli fell in august, gadhafi disappeared. the libyan people now have a responsibility to build a tolerant and democratic nation. reporter: revolutionary forces still need to deal with fighters that remain loyal to the former leader, but without gadhafi. they see an easier path to the future. reporter: tara mermener, mergener, wjz eyewitness news. libyans all over the world are celebrating the fall of their former dictator. news of cal daffy gadhafi s death spread quickly this morning. many are learning about it in phone calls from family members woare over who are over in libya. reporter: gadhafi s demise, welcome news to americans. terapolsi was born in tripoli, but his family spread to the united states. many extended family are still in libya. my entire adult life, we ve always said, once we go back to libya, we ll do this. once gadhafi is gone, we can do this. and finally, when the day finally arrived, we were just overwhelmed with