Late last night in the american sniper trial, i case we were all watching closely. Jurors finding Eddie Ray Routh guilty of murdering chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield. Apparently not buying the insanity defense. It was a highly emotional end for the victims families. Heres abcs bazi kanani. We the jury found the defendant Eddie Ray Routh guilty. Reporter a quick verdict deciding eddie routh knew what he was doing when he attacked the navys most famous sniper chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield. Abcs ryan owe wince covered the trial from the beginning. The clerk tells us of that 2 1 2 hours an hour of it was for dinner so a very quick decision from a jury of ten women and two men. The defense had argued strenuously for not guilty by reason of insanity. A jury rejecting that sending eddie routh away for the rest of his life. Weve waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son and thats always god has proved to be faithful. Reporter their families lea
From issues with his hip. He said he feels fine and coach ditka, says its not that big of a deal. Balboa bears receiver Brandon Marshall is tweeting it get well ditcoach didtka. And we got this text message from meier romijn emanuel who said that he is chicagos coach. An exit chicago cop sentenced to eight years in prison and convicted of driving drunk and causing a fiery crash that killed two young men. Two boys, to lives taken wheres the justice in that . Maria velez is outraged she says that the eight year sentence for a former Police Detective is a gross injustice and she breaks down after talking to reporters. Her only son just 21 years of age and his friend andrew 23 were killed by a drunk caught in april of 2009 they were rare ended on the dan ryan expressway and the car burst into flames, the cop fled the scene of running across the freeway and when police finally arrested him hours later his blood alcohol limit was three times over the legal limit, in tears before the sentenci
Well, first it was brazil, then france, then mexico, now its germany. Another ally has accused the u. S. Of spying. German chancellor Angela Merkel comcomplained to president obama that there have been spying on her cell phone. What else is the white house saying about these accusations. Reporter allegations that the spying program that has been so controversial in the wake of edward snowden, first it was france alleging that french citizens of 75 million telephone conversation have been eavesdropped on by the nsa. Today out of the blue here comes the german government, the spokesman for the chancellor making those charges that you just outlined. Today jay carney was asked about it. This was his response. I can tell thought president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor. The United States greatly values our close cooperation with germany on a broad range of shared security challenges. The president sai
Good wednesday morning, everyone. Im john muller. And im Marci Gonzalez in for diana perez. A police chief raised the death toll again overnight in the washington mudslide. Rescuers say 24 people are likely dead, and hopes of finding any more survivors are fading. More than 170 people are missing and no one in the mudslides path has been found alive since saturday. Abcs Tahman Bradley has the latest on the search. Reporter along the disaster zone, the rescuers are battling mud and debris and the weather. A Flood Warning is in effect, and there are fears of another landslide. We had a very challenging day today with the rain, and that just further complicated things. Reporter the National Guard and even dogs have joined the search, but the mud is so dense, its acting like quicksand. Theyre literally getting stuck, sometimes all the way up to their waist, which means then they need help getting out of that area. Reporter experts say the slide was like a mud tsunami traveling as much as 3
Enough to write a vast symphonic work, to inspire a magnificent novel and bring down a great emperor. On this day of battle more russians died than were killed or would die of illness in the whole of the war of 1812 on all sides. This really was a titanic clash of two emporers and two vast armies numbering close on 200,000 men each. The war of 1812 would not be fought by armies of 200,000 men. In fact, it wouldnt be fought by 200,000 men all told. As 1813 began James Madison knew that napoleon had lost. His army was in full retreat. Indeed, it was in complete collapse. He had taken his country to war on the premise the french would win. They had lost. Now what was going to happen . This also took the pressure off brittain and it released naval reinforcements from the british fleet in the baltic which had been keeping it open for trade the previous five years. Those ships and key personnel were moved across to the north american station. The british picked out the right ships and the ri