oscar pistorius back on the stand for a second day in his murder trial. he and his lawyer are building a narrative. yesterday it was the store roif his fear of attacks since childhood. today, it is the love for reeva. he is reading text messages to and from girlfriend reeva steencamp, most of them loving, angry from his first days meeting to the days before her death. is it effective? let s go to robin kerr right now in pretoria. robin, what are you seeing in the courtroom? hi, there chris. well, they called each other boo, brk a brbaba, my an yell, kissy, kissy type messages. the whole morning in court, two hours worth of messages between the two of them reread out. they were eintimate, personal, but crucial in the defense of
their tone is is l. going to be really important. and important to always remember, we saw an image of reeva s mother and family member. you can imagine how hard this has already been. imagine when he gets to the part of the story of the night she was killed. we ll stay on that for all of you. coming up next on new day, disappointing news overnight, ships unable to relocate the pinger signal and the search for flight 370. does this mean the pinger has died or the search is now harder? we ll ask an expert who helped lead the search for air france 447. you hear this one, a republican, louisiana congressman, got caught kissing a female staffer on tape. that s bad. he s married, that s bad. and he campaigned on faith and family. so what will congressman vance mcallister do now?
and for me confirm that there was a person or people inside the toilet or inside the bathroom at that time. mr. pistorius, if i may stop you. i want to talk about the passage, 173. if you re just joining us on new day right now, looking at defense counsel in the room. reeva steencamp s family as well as her sister and mother. everyone is emotional as oscar pistorius is recounting the events of the night he killed reeva steencamp.
somebody if they were at the window to where the passage entrance of the passage was, could be three or four meters, they could be there at any moment. and first the first thing that ran through my mind was that i needed to arm myself, that i needed to protect reeva and i, they needed to get my gun. so there ltht it is. i had no time to do anything else, you with the checking and the asking and the talking. there s somebody who is coming into my bathroom to kill me. i ve lived in fear of this my entire life. i have to get my gun so i can protect us. his gun is under his bed where his prosthetic legs are and the same bed that reeva steencamp is in. it just doesn t really make sense. i m focused on the threat. they re right there in the bathroom. three or four meters away. i think if you have the time to go to the bed to get your gun, you have the time to put your legs on and you have the time to make sure that reeva is in bed and safe.
cross the passage which leads to the which leads to the bathroom. i think initially you just froze. i didn t know what to do. i heard this noise and took it as somebody climbing into the bathroom. there s no door between the bathroom and my room. it s all one there s a passageway but there s no door. there s a toilet door buts there s no area between me and the bathroom. it s one room. i literally thought, somebody if they were at the window where the entrance passage of the passageway could be three or four meters, they could be there at any moment. and the first thing that ran through my mind is that i needed to arm myself, that i needed to protect reeva and i, that i needed to get my gun.