Benthall was running the black internet site known as silk road. This is what that site looks like now. An fbi notice of seizure. But this is what it looked like before the bust. An internet marketplace for cocaine, heroin, phony passports, and computer hacking services. 8 million a month in transactions, which generated 400,000 a month in commissions for benthall and his confederates. Does this look like him . Uhhuh, yeah. Reporter Gladys Martinez says benthall was always friendly to her. Nice. Reporter the neighbors say he drove a 2014 tesla model s. Last november, he tweeted that he was hyperlooping to his tesla. Fbi agents say that was the same week he took over operation of silk road 2. 0 from its previous operator. He reportedly bought the car using bitcoin. I think it was black. You dont see it now . No i saw them confiscate it yesterday. Reporter oh, they did . They did, yeah. Reporter you may remember that a year ago, silk road was taken down. The previous owner of the website
Skies should make it nice. High temperature will be below the typical high in the 80s. A breeze will call you down into the afternoon. Its 52 in lansing. Bartlett is a 53. Satellite radar composite shows no motion. A lot of people may be surprised at how long we are expecting to be dry. High temperature of 78. Here is the 3 day forecast. Get used to this. Keep these handy, we stayed dry through monday. A few construction spots. The state street bridge is block between walker and tennessee. Thats in place for now. Express lanes on the kennedy are closed a lot of construction out there. Will have more trouble coming up in a few minutes. Chicago police are looking for two men who robbed several people at gunpoint on an orange line train. Chicago police are looking for two men who robbed several people at gunpoint on an orange line train. Time has more. It was a bolt robbery in daylight with several witnesses including cameras that were on the train and the train platform. It also helped g
The newest member of our family about to be revealed. We cant wait to meet him and tell you why he is a puppy with a purpose today wednesday, january 14, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. We have a new member of our team, he is hafry and has bad breath. A puppy. Well tell you about that. An interesting story. Lets start on a wednesday morning with our top story. Defiant Charlie Hebdo releases its first issue since that terror attack. With the cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on the cover. Nbcs chief global correspondent bill neely is in paris. What can you tell us . Reporter good morning from paris, at this time almost exactly a week ago a dozen people lay dead in and around the offices of a magazine the terrorists tried to kill it off. This morning, Charlie Hebdo is back on the streets again seemingly stronger than ever. It looks like all p
Is about to be revealed. We cant wait to meet him and tell you why he is a puppy with a purpose today. Wednesday, january 14th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a wednesday morning. We have a new member of our team to tell you about. He is hairy and has bad breath and has a purpose behind him. Its an interesting story. Lets start with our top story, a defiant Charlie Hebdo releases its first issue since the terror attack on the paris offices with a cartoon of the prophet mohamed on the cover. Bill neely is in paris. What can you tell us . Good morning. Almost a week ago at exactly this time a dozen people lay dead in or around the offices of a magazine terrorist had tried to kill it off. Today Charlie Hebdo is back on the street seemingly stronger than ever. All of paris seems to want to buy it. Its a satyrical magazine that used to sell 50,000 copies a week.
What in the world were you thinking . Well, clearly i wasnt thinking. U. S. Soccer star hope solo at the center of that huge firestorm speaking out for the first time this morning about her offthefield trouble and her hope for the future. And good morning, america. We have a lot to get to this wednesday morning and we begin with that american sniper verdict. The jury got the case a little after 7 30. By 10 00 they had a verdict. Eddie routh convicted of murdering chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield. Of course, this case made so famous by the movie american sniper, you see Bradley Cooper playing chris kyle right there. And six of the jurors will be joining us in an abc news exclusive taking us inside their deliberations, but first abcs ryan owens has the latest from stephenville, texas. Good morning, ryan. Reporter good morning, robin. It did not take this jury long to decide they did not buy the insanity defense. They only had the case for about 2 1 2 hours and nearly an hour of