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eito, 27 years old, about to become a free man. both their guilty verdicts in the murder of meredith kercher, 21 years old at the time four years ago, overturned by six jurors, two judges in a dramatic moment we all saw live here on cnn. you re looking at these live pictures coming in from perugia. we want to welcome our viewers from united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in situation room. let s listen in right now. amanda knox s sister speaking in perugia. not only did they defend her brilliantly, but they also loved her. we are thankful for the support we have received from all over the world. people who took the time to research the case and found that amanda and raffaele sollecito were innocent. we thank the court for having the courage to look for the truth and overturn this conviction. we now respectfully ask you give amanda and the rest of our family the privacy we need to recover from this horrible ordeal. thank you. you heard the younger sister o
there are several departments responding to the fire. still attempting to put it out. all of our employees and anybody who was visiting the plant at the time the fire began has been evacuated and accounted for. so that was obviously our first concern. everybody is out and safe. i want to ask about this wedgeworth elementary school which is in that area. so if everyone is safe, does that mean that the school has been closed or where are the students at this point? that i don t know. they re not in visual range. we are next to a college that has been evacuated. as far as the elementary school, i don t know the status but i do know they are upwind from the fire so any of the fumes and smoke are all being directed the opposite direction of the school. can you help us understand what caused this and how it got so big so fast? no, i m sorry. we don t know that at this time. can you give me an idea of what type of gases are in the air and how dangerous this might be? i m
and on a plane back home to seattle. brooke? just to confirm because we have these two judges, six laypeople, jurors, all together that s eight. if the decision is split, it ultimately then goes to who, the defense to break the tie? reporter: there cannot be a split decision. if you know they re coming back now, we expect the verdict within minutes here, that means it will be a majority decision. i see. reporter: that means they will never tell anyone how much of a majority. that s all that s needed. there s no unanimous verdict. if they re coming back with a verdict, most likely it would be very rare in legal history for this to happen they he have a ruling in hand on this appeal. paula newton, we ll check in again. defense secretary leon panetta had pretty strong words regarding israel s increased isolation in the region. barbara starr has details. brooke, leon panetta is traveling to israel, egypt. today in israel meeting with leaders and palestinian auth
our pentagon xpont barbara star has more on the air strike that killed al-awlaki. reporter: this is important. this man posed a direct threat to the united states had inspired him by all accounts ordered attacks against the u.s. now this apparently is the result of a two-year effort between the u.s. intelligence community and the people to go after him to find him, target him and take him out. very controversial as he is an american born citizen. killed for his activities in another country. by all accounts, it was a drone strike that killed al-awlaki. there were three other persons in that convoy with him. they are believed also to have been killed. this is something that the u.s. long wanted. this is a target that they were making a great effort to go after inside yemen even as that country remains in a good deal of political social and economic unrest. joe? barbara, if we know how much was yemen actually involved in this strike? and if we don t know that, typically wha