dahlgren who joins us from outside the courtroom. kristin, can you hear me? how many more people have been arriving in the time we have been discussing? the crowds are definitely continuing to grow and goes all the way up, almost an entire block here. it was a smaller crowd growing since the time that word got out that the jury had reached a verdict and seeing la toya jackson and michael s sister pulled up in her black car and the crowd began scramming and yelling and chanting, justice for michael. they have been very supportive of the jackson family. the family has been in court at least some of them every day of this trial over the past six weeks. they vowed to be here and they have been. his parents, joe and katherine
we are following breaking news in the michael jackson case in the jury s verdict. charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop star s death. kristin dahlgren joins us live from the courthouse in los angeles. i understand members of the jackson family have literally just been arriving. yeah, martin, they have. the jury reached a verdict about an hour and a half ago when they gave the three buzzes. that was the designated signal they had finally reached a verdict. the judge told us he was going to give two hours for all of the parties to arrive. so far we have seen katherine and joe and rebe and his brother, jermaine. we haven t seen la toya yet, but she has been tweeting. in a tweet she said she was