harris faulkner has the story at our breaking news desk. hi, harris. 20-year-old david kernell a 20-year-old former university of tennessee student. the nation is pouring out of the courtroom in tennessee. he is facing now a year restitution for that. could be a halfway house. the judge said that the prosecutors wanted 18 months in prison. he will not give that but give a year. it is up to the bureau of prisons to decide if he will do that year and one day behind bars or if he in fact will go to a halfway house. remember he hacked into sarah palin s private account. she and her daughter bristol testified in april that it caused the family distress. now david kernel a year and one day either behind bars or a halfway house. back to you. patti ann: harris faulkner, thanks. sure. jon: the senate majority leader says the dream act is a top priority of his during the lame-duck session of congress coming up. it would allow illegal
reporter: remember in the midst of the 2008 presidential campaign, then 20-year-old david kernell hacked into palin s personal e-mail account. and palin testified that the e-mail snoop s actions caused a huge disruption to the campaign as well as her personal life. palin used her yahoo account to share photos and stay in touch with her 16 week old son and caregivers. she was flying around the country campaigning with john mccain. palin said that if the intention was to disrupt, it was successful the reason, once her e-mail was hacked, her personal information and that of her family s ended up all over the internet. access and communication is extremely important when you are thousands of miles away from your children. you are not there to protect them and receiving threatening calls and messages. reporter: on friday, david kernell was found guilty on two counts. unauthorized access to a protected computer which carries
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the best estimate on the earliest time to stop it, three months. 210,000 gallons of oil per day for three months. a disaster is upon us. we have breaking news on two fronts. new economic news that we ll get to in just a moment. it happened while secretary napolitano was speaking. at the same time the jury in the sarah palin email hacking trial read verdicts on three of four counts. its my understanding they re deadlocked on one. they are. after four days of deliberation they still struggle with identity theft but they did issue their verdicts and it was guilty on two charges. the most serious, obstruction of justice against 22-year-old david kernell. the son of a tennessee state lawmaker, a democratic lawmaker, now guilty on two counts, obstruction of justice and
he hoped for. they had a lot of evidence to consider, a lot of issues to decide. they clearly worked very hard. they were conscientious so it happens. so next week, shepard, prosecutors can decide whether or not they want to bring a new trial for that identity theft charge and then the judge has to decide about the sentence. that s his determination. the obstruction of justice charge, a felony carries a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. shep? shepard: did sarah palin give our news division a response? she did, actually. and she testified in court as did her daughter, bristol. here is what she had to say about the jury s work and the verdict. kind of unfortunate that we had to spend so many public resources and private resources of ours to get to the point that we did in front of the jury, but, um, very happy with the verdict. david kernell spoke too, shepard, saying he appreciated his family support and also the time the jury took to consider