Nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. Late this afternoon, with victims of the Boston Marathon bombing looking on, the emotionally charged case was handed off to the jury. Deliberations begin tomorrow morning with accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ultimately fighting for his life. The case against him is powerful. It includes the anguished testimony of survivors and shocking and graphic images from the marathon attack and the violence that followed on that deadly fourday reign of terror. While the defense has focused its case not on who did it but who led the attack. Our justice correspondent Pete Williams was in the courtroom. Reporter Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brought terror to main street prosecutors told the jury intentionally targeting men, women and children in a blood thirsty ever to make a point. When he placed his bomb, they said he knew a boy was just a few feet away, 8yearold Martin Richard just a few feet from the blast. Prosecutors showed graphic pictures and
What i would say to the israeli people is, however, that there is no formula there is no option to prevent iran from getting a Nuclear Weapon that will be more effective than the Diplomatic Initiative and framework we put edward and that is demonstrable. Congress in town next week and ready to challenge president obama on the details of this deal. President obama indicated some openness to be able to have congress register their feelings about this deal. But without making it a binding agreement, many in congress believe that my not be good enough. Sunlen, thank you all of that backed. Lets break down the real stakes are here. Richard was a Senior Adviser to president bill clinton and kevin madden is a republican political strategist. What is the sell from the president coming to congress . What is his best bet . I think the best bet this is a historic opportunity to change the way we do business with this country and we have to keep our eye on the big prize that if the framework resul
Finally from getting off of that disabled ship . Yeah. And i think that i can probably speak for most people, i dont know how much more we could have took. I mean, it was really getting to be stressful and, you know, really taking a toll on everybody just, you know, its, like, were counting the days and, you know, when you get up in the morning the first thing youre thinking about is how many hours before i can go to sleep and get this day behind me and get closer to home. Larry, i wish you the best of luck. Good luck to you. That is just really, really difficult. I cant imagine what you are dealing with, what your passengers are dealing with. We have a be on this ship as the tugboats continue to take it into land. I do want to ask you this, larry, the company, carnival, has told us that a number of their executives and their staff will be coming out to meet you on board as well as members from customs and boarder patrol agents. Have they have you seen a big presence in terms of how th
Crash. Swarming the scene to try to figure out how there was a crash at the height of rush hour. The impact killing one person and injuring more than 100 others. Lets get to David Lee Miller live at the scene with new information that is breaking overnight. Hoeb wokhoe boek ken across the river from new york city. The train station behind me completely shut down. It is going to remain that way indefinitely as this massive investigation continues. A train originating about 30 miles away in spring valley, new york barrelled into the station at a very high rate of speed. Should have slowed down to less than 20 miles an hour. It was not the case. It slammed nude a concrete and medical barrier. The car flew into the air killing one person. That person identified now as a 34yearold mother of one. She was standing on the platform after just having dropped her child off at daycare. She was killed by the debris. As many as 108 others were injured. 250 or so people aboard the train. Passengers e
President would watch which is like we have if you notice we do that well be talking about great. Good about north korea. That he can look at what you guys shes dated i know we have seen some signs of easing of tensions and some remarks that me and a cafe tensions here. One of the favorite i would caution the president against any kind of tweeting while he is in east asia was going to hurt. A lot of good will. Also coming up a new species of primate has been discovered in the remote jungles of indonesia will introduce you to the newest member of the family coming up live day but first donald trump is all to hawaii but make no mistake this is no Tropical Vacation trump is due to meet the governors of the us. The states of hawaii and alaska and leaders of pacific u. S. Territories discuss tensions with north korea from hawaii he begins the longest asia tour by a u. S. President in more than a quarter of a century his first time on sunday is going to be japan and their travel on to south