we have seen the pictures of the burned out beds that were inside the petit home. the jury had a difficult time seeing that. a couple of them did cry. but they are in there now, they have begun deliberations. we ll bring you the latest from the courtroom when they start asking questions. megyn: what a task they have before them. the terror threat overseas, security tight in europe now a brand-new country is urging caution. details on that. the housekeeper controversy could be hurting meg whitman in the race more california governor. now lawyer gloria allred going one step further saying she has proof whitman knew her housekeeper was illegal and she ll be here live to respond to the charge that this is a political smear. her attempt to deceive the public and hide the fact that she knew that she was employing an undocumented worker long before she fired nicky in 2009,
earlier during the trial about the beating that he received at the hands of his attackers. the jurors were told today during the judge s instructions that the first-degree assault charge on mr. petit was reduced to second degree. there is no word on why that happened, there continues to be a gag order in that case. that doesn t make a difference, the death penalty is still on the table and doesn t have anything to do with that charge. jurors are going to be given over 200 pieces of evidence, including the crime scene photos, chet owes of the burned out bed and the charred remains in the petit home. they say the flames were so hot and so high that they couldn t even get into the home to help those women, to help the mother and the daughters before it was too late. again the jury as soon as we see the evidence go into the jury deliberation room that s when deliberations will occur. we ve got a producer inside to let us know the second they start deliberating. we ll bring that to you wh
the jury, we re told, it could take several hours because it s a complex case with many charges. there will be a break in the middle, then the jury will begin deliberations later on this afternoon. one those come back with a verdict if is it guilty, the jury will get two to three days off, one to two days off, come back and endure another six weeks of the sentencing phase in which the jury will decide whether steven hayes will be put to death, and there s a second trial for his accomplice, komisarjevsky, prosecutors said they broke into the petit home and tortures the family while killing jennifer hawk-petit and her two daughters. william petit is here. star jones, a former prosecutor, author, tv host, dan be a brabrams nbc chief analyst. what s going to go on, star,
sodomize 11-year-old makalia. that was very important, the judge had imposed a gag order. now there is a contempt of court hearing whether or not that gag ordered was violated. fire investigators are now on the stand for the prosecution talking about the burned-out petit home, the home invasion in which the three petit women were killed. the home was set on fire after the crimes were committed. the fire investigators are going over the burn patterns. the legal experts say that the defense will call maybe a witness or two, possibly even stephen haze. at that point both sides will rest and make their closing arguments. the judge says the case could go to the jury as early as friday. tom lewis for fox news. megyn back to you. megyn: thanks, tom. everyone in that courtroom, the jurors, dr. petit have been through hell. the jurors have broken out into tears many times looking at the
the detective also said that hayes showed, quote, no emotion and he remembers him being pretty quiet. so the guy was desperate for money, that was their plan all along, just get money? it seems so. according to the testimony today, the two men devised a plan to, quote, break into a house, tie some people up, grab some money and get out as fast as they can. well, we know that wasn t what happened in the end. we don t know all the details of course of what happened in that house, but we do know from police that jennifer hawke-petit was sexually assaulted and strangled, that was after the mother of two was captured on the bank camera as she withdrew $15,000 to try to save her family. you can see how calm she is in the security video. that s because nobody at the home had been sexually assaulted before she left for the bank. she hoped it would be okay at that time. but by the time she did return home, police testified today, that the younger suspect had already sexually assaulted the y