nbc s scott cohen is live outside the courthouse in centennial colorado. scott, good morning. the younger sister of holmes testified about her brother? what did she say? reporter: well she was at times very emotional, and you know, jose in this trial that s been going on since april, we ve seen no shortage of emotion from survivors, from family members, from first responders, but now a different sort of emotion but every bit as raw from holmes immediate family including chris holmes his younger sister, 22 years old. she s a music production major. she described a happy childhood, loving parents, a big brother that she looked up to who always had her back until three years ago. they plunged headlong into this nightmare. i ve been to the hearings twice, and it was nice even just to be in the same room. is some of this kind of hard for you to talk about? yes.