southeast, 70s getting close to the 80s. if you are going west though, it is hot. maybe this time a little bit too hot. record breaking heat. over 100 degrees in many places spop that s the tough spot but overall everyone is warm and dry, kind of. at least by saturday and sunday. that s the key there. dry. all right. thanks. well-done. bravo, my friend. i feel the mandate was met. perfect. something you don t here often days. coming up on new day, everything we know about this teen stabbing suspect. very important we understand why this happened, how to stop it going forward. we do know this community is in shock because no one who knows this kid can believe he did this. what s his defense going to be in court? his attorney is going to join us live. plus, the prosecutor hammering oscar pistorius in court, saying he picked on reeva steencamp and never told her he loved her. more on this brutal cross-examination coming up. turn around
pretoria. it has been unbelievable to watch. what s the very latest? hi. i ve been in court the last three hours, throughout this morning s session of the cross-examination. i can say that oscar pistorius has not once looked at the state prosecutor as he has been probing. all of his answers are directed to the judge, of course, who is the only one that matters. and state prosecutor is essentially talking to oscar pistorius left ear but he s carrying on regardless, probing. take a listen to this report. i never got the opportunity to tell reeva that i loved her. reporter: a fierce second day of cross-examination leaves oscar pistorius upset. i m terribly sorry that i took her life, my lady. reporter: prosecution on the attack. it s not just about you. reporter: doingedly pressing the olympian on why he apologized to reeva steencamp s family on the stand.
he obtained outside the home, were they tactical knives, were they hunting knifes? no, they were just regular steak knives that you or i will have in our drawer another home in our own homes. they were just, you know, as his father even remarked to me, i ve never had a reason to count the knives in the drawer, for goodness sakes. just regular knives. counselor, one last question. procedurally, are you looking to remove this and keep it in juvenile court? there s going to be somewhat of an effort to charge him as an adult. why do you think he deserves to be treated as a juvenile? well, he is charged as an adult now under pennsylvania law. there s a specific law. so the burden s on the we defense to try to convince the judge to send it to juvenile court for disposition. and the factors that go into that are factors that you normally would talk about. his lack of a criminal history, his family ties, his mental capacity, those are all things
if you were wanting to do it, why would you create a spectacle in court in the public domain, in the public eye, apologize and not in private? i would love to have the opportunity one day to meet reeva s parents. i never got the opportunity before. reporter: the prosecution reading allowed text message disputes. pistorius says some of her messages were untrue. the olympian questioned about high steencamp wrote, i m scared of you sometimes and how you snap at me. why would she be scared of you? i think she s scared of the feelings that she has for me and the way that i rushed her off. reporter: the prosecution also rehashing an incident where one of the olympian s friends passed a gun to him underneath a restaurant table. when pistorius says it accidentally went off in his hands. you fired that gun. there is no other way that bullet could have been discharged without you pulling the trigger.
his classmates are describing him as smart, quiet, a typical, even well-liked kid. so how do we make sense of this? how does somebody change into something so ugly and terrible? let s get more perspective from the man who will have to defend this suspect in court. his attorney, patrick thomasy. mr. thomasy, thank you for joining us this morning. hopefully we ll benefit from your perspective on this kid. what s your best guess as to why this happened? we re trying to figure that out. the first thing we want to do this morning is to get his parents to see him. this child left for school yesterday morning and that s the last time they saw him. this is a nice young boy. nobody would expect this. this is not a dysfunctional family. they are like the brady bunch. these parents are active with their two sons. and we re trying to figure out what happened. so we re going to get some mental health experts involved