Hes been fingerprinted and processed more recently in the case of florida. All of this should happen very quickly. And then we expect that the judge will start setting up a timeline, which the Justice Department wants to happen, obviously, before the 2024 election. Something that i think is very, very possible. What we know about the judge assigned to hear this case . Because i believe shes had some pretty strong dealings with january 6th defendants. Reporter she has. And look, the judge is a jamaican born obama appointee. Shes been on the bench since 2014. Like a lot of the judges there, they dealt with this violence at the capital, right across the way from the federal courthouse. They have been processing a lot of the january 6th defendants in that courthouse. One of the things that she and others have said is, you know, essentially that people who carried out this assault on American Democracy needed to have their day in court and needed to make sure that they paid the consequences
plus, clock ticking. the economic impact we are already seeing as the president and house speaker try to avoid a historic default with just days to go. and former president trump set to appear via video today in the manhattan hush money probe. but is he already facing more trouble in another case? this is a fake story and you don t want to give it credibility. one thing you i have no idea who the hell she s a whack job. e. jean carroll seeking more damages after those comments made during a town hall. ahead, the legal peril piling up for trump. we re going to begin with the breaking news in washington. a driver is under arrest and a nazi flag seized after a u-haul truck crashed into the white house security barriers. a law enforcement official tells nbc news that the suspect made threatening statements about the white house. joining us now, nbc s ryan nobles and jim cavanaugh, retired atf special agent in charge. ryan, what exactly happened, what are you learn
killing 14 students and three staff members at marjorie stone douglas high school. kerry, what do we know at this hour? reporter: well, the families of the victims who have been enduring this really difficult penalty phase where all the information of every minute of every second of what happened have been notified by the court that the jury of 12 has now reached a decision on what the sentence will be and we expect that sentence will be delivered here at about 10:30. family members have been notified to be ready to go in the courtroom and sit where many of them have been sitting for the last four months. these are the pictures of the 17 victims. the students as well as the staff members who were massacred four years ago. it has been an extremely long journey for what they hope will be some sense of justice. the jury needs to be unanimous. if they are unanimous, it is a decision for death, then it will be up to the death to go forward with that as the actual sentence, but i
shooter robert bowers to death. the jury deliberated for ten hours. today was the hardest day. i think it was the hardest day for the jury, too. it was a hard day for the judge. i m sure everyone here, as we move on and see justice, the justice system work, just thankful for the jurors doing what they did. as the verdict was read, survivors of the shooting hugged each other in the courtroom. the judge presiding over the case choked up as he thanked the jury. 50-year-old bowers only briefly looked up at the jurors as they affirmed their death penalty decision. returning a sentence of death is not a decision that comes easy, but we must hold accountable those who wish to commit such terrible acts of anti-semitism, hate and violence. the verdicts include a stunning rebuke of the defense s core arguments to spare bowers
the small courthouse behind me as the prosecution weighs that death penalty decision, speaking to experts here in idaho, they believe that the prosecution will go forward, pursuing the death penalty, given the heinous nature of the crime. ana? erin mclaughlin in moscow, idaho, thank you. turning now to a plan to keep the colorado river flowing. arizona, nevada and california have agreed to a new conservation effort to save the drought stricken river. the goal is to conserve at least 3 million acre feet of water by 2026. that s roughly the same amount of rough as 6 million olympic-sized swimming pools. the colorado river is critical supplying drinking water to over 40 million people. this could avert a potential crisis, but scientists say even more concentration will likely be needed after a decades long drought. up next on ana cabrera reports, tiktok strikes back.