in florida, a jury returned a guilty verdict in the murder trial of millionaire bob ward. >> we the jury find the defendant guilty of second-degree murder as charged in the information. >> this trial lasted for about a week. ward argued his wife died in 2009 of an accidental gunshot to the face. the jury wasn't convinced. they found ward guilty today of second-degree murder. ward's daughters sobbed when the verdict came down and prosecutors hammered away at inconsistencies in ward's story and that he calmly admitted five times, five times in the initial 911 call that he had shot his wife. listen to that. >> all right. and then there was this bizarre jailhouse video just days after his wife died ward apparently you see him there performing a strip tease for his daughter and sister-in-law and all three acted like him being arrested was a big joke in that video. i want to bring in legal expert holly hughes, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. bob ward was a millionaire. he had a high caliber defense team i would imagine. did the defense make a mistake here? >> no. the defense was stuck with what their client had already said. we just played that tape for the listeners. when you very calmly say five times i shot my wife and you don't at the time you're not hysterical. >> no urgency in his voice. >> he's not hysterical. get here and help her. they're stuck with the statements their client made. he already admitted firing the gun but what we can do is now say it accidentally went off. he didn't intend to fire the gun. she was trying to kill herself. unfortunately sometimes by the time a lawyer gets a case, the client has already put them in a bad position. >> more on what you're talking about. prosecutors say ward changed his story. first he told 911 he shot his wife. you heard him very calmly there. when police interviewed him, he said this. >> okay. so again, he's also very calm there. now, according to -- this type of gun, it would be hard for her to do this number one as we've been talking she's right handed and she was shot in the left side of the face. >> that's exactly right. what we're talking about is trajectory. the path a bullet takes through the body. she's shot in the left side of the nostril. she's a right-handed lady and the experts on both sides testified that the gun would have had to have been 14 to 18 inches away from the wound so think about how a woman could possibly do that. you could not twist your arm in that direction because there's no powder burns escaping the barrel of the gun on her face. >> how strong do you have to be to fire that gun? >> this is a .357 magnum. to break that down for viewers, you have to stick your finger on that trigger and exert 12 pounds of pressure to get that gun to fire. that isn't something that accidentally goes off. it could have been her finger on the trigger. the reason his story fails is if he's struggling with the gun, he wouldn't have got his finger into the trigger and ex-certificaexerted at the pressure. >> can we look for an appeal here? he has a lot of money. >> absolutely. they have 30 days to let the court know they'll file that appeal and then time to perfect it. they need to convince an appellate court that somehow somewhere along the line the judge made an improper ruling and gave the jury the wrong law to rely on. >> holly hughes, thank you. stick around. you'll be back later this hour as we talk about the jury and details in the conrad murray trial. the death of michael jackson coming up next week i'll be in l.a. and we'll talk about the jury and importance of jury selection in winning a case. thank you very much, holly hughes. see you in just a bit. nasa says it knows a satellite crashed to earth, they just don't know where. some ireporters enjoyed a light show that could have been debris but cnn can't confirm that. all nasa knows for sure is that the decommissioned upper atmosphere research satellite fell to earth overnight around midnight eastern time. 26 pieces expected to survive the descent range from ten pounds to hundreds of pounds. that's a lot. nasa plans for the controlled re-entry of satellites but it didn't win this one. this was launched 20 years ago. let's talk about this now. meteorologist bonnie schneider is in the cnn severe weather to talk about satellite falling to earth. we've had sprays debris before. this is different because of its size? >> because of the size. that's the concern. you have to realize that satellites and space debris falls every single day every single week. this is the mid point prediction point altitude of 10 kilometers where it's estimated to have fallen all they we may never know where the falling point occurred because it could have occurred anywhere. naturally the most likely place will be somewhere over water since the earth is covered by 70% of water so that's likely what happened over the north pacific. the prediction point was at an altitude of 10 kilometers. that's why we expect this to be a smaller piece and scattered more about. no reports of visuals that you can see confirmed of re-entry. 26 pieces reached the ground of various size. as you mention on average one satellite re-entered the area so small it burns up before reaching the earth. once a week a larger satellite re-enters the prediction messages are issued if something is larger and that's what we saw with this one. doesn't look like there were confirmed reports or anyone being injured from it which was a concern for many this past week. luckily the chances were slim. we do have some more updates to tell you about in weather that we're watching. a brand new tropical system and we're monitoring that. we've been talking about ophelia but tropical storm philippe just formed. this one like ophelia is not expected to impact the u.s. as it is anticipated to turn farther to the north. it's still hurricane season so we monitor all of the activity in the tropics. don? >> let's talk about that falling satellite and space junk again. some ireporters took pictures and believe that's what it is. we can't confirm that. those pictures are amazing. as we said earlier, a spectacular light show. i guess it's possible it could be part of this debris, right? >> it absolutely is possible for sure. you can see the different particles and how small they appear from such a large satellite. that's what happens when it does re-enter because we do have that burning that take place and that break up of the debris. >> cool to look at i do have to say. things fall to earth all the time. >> chances are it won't hit you because it will hit the ocean. >> let's not make too much of this. thank you very much. appreciate it. finally heading home after nightmare in iran that lasted more than two years. shane bauer and josh fattal are on a plane. they were arrested after straying over the border from iraq to iran. they were accused of being spies and sentenced them to eight years in prison. they left under a million dollar bail deal and they have been soaking up every moment of freedom ever since. >> just hours after we left prison, we were able to swim in the calm waters of the gulf. we stayed up all night with our loved ones and we watched the most beautiful sunset we have ever seen. these experiences will be with us for the rest of our lives. >> the third of those american hikers, sarah shourd was freed a year ago for medical reasons and on friday shourd became officially engaged to fellow hiker shane bauer following his release. they are making their way back to u.s. soil. he made that ring from a shirt he wore in prison. will russia's old leader become the new leader? that's what president dmitry medvedev wants to see happen. he threw support behind putin to succeed him next year. putin is backing medvedev for his current job of prime minister. putin was banned for running for a third term but helped his protege win. president obama will talk tonight. as a gay teenager he empowered others to stand up to bullying but it became too much for him. we'll have the story coming up. life insurance companies treat you like a policy, not a person. instead of getting to know you they simply assign you a number. aviva is here to change all that. we're bringing humanity back to insurance and putting people before policies. aviva life insurance and annuities. we are building insurance around you. african-americans are among president obama's strongest supporters but as a group they have also felt some of the worst effects of the struggling economy and in just a few hours president obama will speak at a dinner hosted by the black caucus. it will be a crowd of supporters and tough critics at the same time. what can we expect the president to say and what do cbc members want to hear from him? >> reporter: certainly the president has come under fire not just recently but all along for what many in the black community not just members of congress but others believe is a lack of a focus or enough focus on the problem of the black unemployment rate. as of august unemployment in the black community was 16.7%. that's a lot higher than the national average of 9.1%. nearly twice as much. there's been a lot of concern that the white house isn't doing enough. now, the white house would say the president spends a lot of time and has spent a lot of time talking with plaque leaders and black organizations about their concerns and that this jobs bill that he's proposed he introduced this month will go a long way to addressing some of their concerns. we expect to hear him touch on those issues tonight. he has also taped an interview with b.e.t. network that airs on monday and talks about the economy and the difficult time the black community has had. let's listen to a bit of a clip of that interview. >> right now we are in a situation where the economy is stabilized but it stabilized too high an unemployment rate. if we get this jobs bill passed, that will make a difference right away. it's estimated that would grow the economy by an extra 2% and put 1.9 million people back to work. those aren't our estimates. those are independent estimates. that could make a difference. >> reporter: so tonight we expects the president to talk about this jobs bill in the context of the african-american community. this is certainly the kind of thing that cbc members and staffers said they want to hear. a couple weeks ago president obama spoke briefly with an interactive panel of black media and talked specifically about some of the effects this job bill could have on the african-american community. he talked about 20 million african-americans who could benefit from the proposal to cut the payroll tax in half and talked about 1.4 million african-american families that would benefit from an extension of unemployment benefits. he also talked about plans to encourage hiring of low income workers, training for low-income workers. >> how have they reacted to the president's job plan and the speech and the plan he came out with afterwards. what's their reaction? >> reporter: you heard the well publicized criticism leading up to the speech by maxine waters who wanted to see a big plan and questioned his tour of the midwest saying why are you going to iowa when you could go into the black community to talk about jobs and so interestingly enough after the speech, waters and others said that they liked what they heard. some of the television interviews that representative waters gave she said that the president has heard cbc so why some wanted to see a bigger step to help the african-american community, they believe this is on the right track and what they really want to do and see is the president fight for this plan and really fight and internalize lessons from some of these past debates. some people believe he gave up too soon on some of these past issues like health care. >> we hear folks in the background. don't know if they are protesters. anything to do with what you're reporting or just protesters? >> not as far as we know. there is often protesters out here. >> appreciate it. we'll look forward to the president's speech and don't go anywhere. i'll tell our audience in 15 minutes we'll talk more about tonight's speech and with sheila jackson lee, congresswoman from texas and member of the congressional black caucus. we'll get reaction from her. florida republicans voting on who they want president obama to face in next year's election. the florida straw poll results expected at any minute. we'll bring that to you live next. but first, more about money. love and money as a matter of fact. what impact has this sluggish economy had and have rules changed when it comes to dating? we sat down with a third generation match maker and star of the bravo show "base" on her business. the millionaire match maker. it's this week's smart is the new rich. >> if you are out there in the world, you got millions unemployed struggle to pay down debts. if you are out of a job, do you let your date know. do they need to know the 580 credit score? >> the problem is women if you are down trotting a man wants to rescue. that's attractive sometimes to the millionaire man. he likes the woman had a doesn't challenge his opinion. doesn't have a better job than him. >> sounds boring. >> that is biology. if you are a man and you said that to a woman, what would we do? we would run for the nearest exit. >> has 24 chanthat changed in t economy? >> no. >> you shouldn't date because you can't take a woman out for dinner or cocktails you shouldn't be dating. >> to what degree are you honest about your financial situation? >> talk to someone about your financial situation. you may not be able to do date two. >> when you date successful guys they would whine and complain they had no money and look at the bill at the end. never, ever do that. you want to be able to be generous and say i'm into this hobby and maybe it's wine, maybe it's, i don't know becoming a helicopter pilot which says i spend a lot of money but not leading with your money. when you lead with your money, you attract a gold digger. >> dating advice for these economic hard times with the millionaire match maker. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the centuries. the strength of a global financial leader. the heart of a one-to-one relationship. together for your future. ♪ i tell you what i can spend. i do my best to make it work. i'm back on the road safely. and i saved you money on brakes. that's personal pricing. time to talk politics. republican presidential candidates are in a key battleground state. in 20 minutes or so, we'll hear from the straw poll in florida. the outcome could be crucial to candidates who are trailing in the polls. peter joins us now on the phone from the event. he's in orlando. who is expected to come out on top? how close are we, do we know? >> we're about 20 minutes away. this is really interesting. most straw polls some of them aren't very important. they won't determine a nominee. but rick perry came into this thing the republican front-runner expected to win but his off kilter and uneven debate performance on thursday night really hurt him here if you talk to delegates at this convention, they are concerned about his support for a bill in texas that gave in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. that really hurt him. now there are questions floating around that he may lose or come up short. i think he's still the favorite but if he loses to romney or herman cain or newt gingrich, that would be a serious blow to rick perry as the momentum is stalled right now. >> i guess we don't know until the final percentages and where they are so i guess who is going to come out on top is a more appropriate question. florida governor rick scott is going to make the announcement here. what will these results mean for the candidates who are struggling in this campaign? i guess if you're struggling and you come out on top, it gives you a boost. if you're not, what does that mean? >> think about rick santorum, the former pennsylvania senator who has really been in this whole race. he's had several strong debate performances and an event like this, strong showing here could give him momentum. it's about image and momentum because santorum is struggling to come up. he needs to do well in a place like iowa. that's where his candidacy has really hinged. he's emerged as an alternative to perry on the right among conservatives. if he shows well here today, that's a great story line for him to take back to iowa when he goes there tomorrow and say, guess what? i'm more conservative than rick perry. i'm more conservative than michele bachmann. you need to give me a second look. there's two or three months to go. there's time for lesser known candidates to get traction. >> good analysis. rick scott expected to announce in about 15, 20 minutes. we'll bring it to you. the jury is set in the trial of michael jackson's doctor. will the makeup of that group play in the favor of a prosecution or the defense? 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