Land after that terrifying moment. The emperor is not as forgiving as i am. This morning, secrets of star wars. Were going behind the scenes and well be hearing from the people creating a galaxy far, far away. Did mystery of the light saber now revealed. The force is with you only on gma. Majestic music to get us on started on this thursday morning. Good morning, america. We have a lot to get to including the Boston Marathon bombing verdict. Bostons biggest newspaper the globe saying he should not be put to death and the bombers mother speaking out overnight. Yeah, the jury unanimous on 30 counts of murder. Will they be unanimous on the Death Penalty . But were going to begin with that Severe Weather in the midwest. Millions affected by tornadoes, hail, flash floods, and our extreme weather team tracking it all. Gio benitez in missouri. Good morning, gio. Reporter george, good morning to you. Take a look behind me. 70mileperhour winds ripped part of this roof off. Were seeing damage like this all across this country. Tornado on the ground. Reporter overnight, wild weather across much of the country. Look at that. Reporter funnel clouds forming across the heartland. A rainbow appearing in the midst of this tornado. In kansas, hail hammering drivers so hard, this storm chaser windshield shatters as they battle the elements. This morning in North Carolina, theyre cleaning up after hail cracked windows and damaged cars. In potosi, missouri it hit the transformer. There was like sparks. I like screamed. Reporter trees down, roofs damaged and reports of a possible tornado after a storm rolled through here. I was like freaking out because i saw a cloud going down in circles so then i started getting down real low and then started tucking my head. Reporter 75mileperhour winds ripping trees from the ground in ohio. You can tell theyre not small trees. Reporter in idaho, roads in need of a good plow after nearly 6 inches of hail hit the ground, drivers of cars and buses caught off guard. The st. Louis skyline lit up with lightning. This bolt getting dangerously close to planes. And back here in potosi, the National Weather service will come out here to see if this, if it was, in fact, a tornado. More storms on the way so we turn it over to ginger zee. Ginger, good morning. Gio thank you so much for being out there. You wont have to go far to find Severe Weather in potosi. More that 200 storm reports back from North Carolina back to texas and it will be a large swath again today and well go through the morning with some Severe Weather and seen some overnight in chicago hail reported. But indianapolis, to louisville, memphis and little rock into far northeastern texas youre in that elevated risk area. It doesnt stop there. It moves east, so fridays forecast from philadelphia to houston included in that risk for Severe Weather. This is a big, large event, robin, and we will be following it for the next 48 hours. Okay there, ginger, thank you. But now to new details in that South Carolina shooting. A Police Officer seen on camera shooting and killing an unarmed man. Officer Michael Slager now charged with murder. Fired from the force, Abcs Steve Osunsami is in North Charleston this morning and we want to warn you again some of the video youre about to see may be disturbing to some viewers. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning, robin, that officer remains jailed here and today authorities may release dash cam video from his squad car that might show more of what led to this shooting. In response to all of this, authorities here are ordering body cameras for every single Police Officer in this city. 223 dispatch, shots fired. Subject is down. He grabbed my taser. Reporter this morning new details about the Police Officer in this disturbing video. And new video of 33yearold Michael Slager shortly after the shooting telling his account to an officer. The North Charleston policeman and former coast guard member charged with murdering walter scott has been fired. We are doing our best here not only as a city but as a police department. Were going to continue to strive to do whats right. Reporter for the first time the man who took that video is coming forward. Feidlin santana heard the sounds of the officer triggering his stun gun but as he told nbc, he, scott, never used the taser against the cop. Slager lives just over a mile from the empty lot. Where police said he went too far, gunning down this africanamerican father of four who has yet to enter a plea. According to police reports, scott and an unidentified passenger were stopped by the officer in a parking lot a block away from the shooting where the passenger remained. The officer has a family too. His wife is eight months pregnant and his two stepchildren are 11 and 13 years old. Neighbors say they were a quiet everyday family. He was into his job. He said he wanted to go federal and that was his next step. Reporter slagers bosses say that despite his dismissal the city will continue to provide his wife Health Insurance until their new baby is born. We think that is the humane thing for us to do and were going to do that. Reporter protesters are in the streets and at city hall demanding more answers from the chief of police. Youre the mayor. We want to talk to the chief of police. Reporter with state authorities running the investigation local police could say very little. Police are struggling to respond to so many other questions about that video. One big one, why does it appear that the officers failed to administer cpr as scott lay dying . Robin. Yes, there are still are many questions. Thank you, steve. Abcs Pierre Thomas joins us now for a closer look at the case and this story is resonating across the country. Its really adding to the fears that many minorities say they have. They are deeply, deeply concerned, pierre. Reporter good morning, robin, many people of color see a dangerous pattern. Minorities engaged in routine encounters with police that somehow quickly escalate to people being shot, injured or killed and oftentimes were talking about simple things, like traffic stops, for example, last year also in South Carolina, a black man was pulled over by a Police Officer and was told to show his license and registration. When he attempted to comply, he was shot repeatedly caught on tape. The officer has been charged and is awaiting trial. And just yesterday, in miami, new allegations of Excessive Force by police from the family of a young man who they say was mentally ill. They claim he was running around in his underwear with a broomstick when he was fatally shot after being chased down by police. That case now also being investigated. The big question, why are these cases escalating so quickly . Were seeing more of them because theres so many cameras out there, george. Boy, there sure are. Pierre, okay, thanks so much. Were going to turn now to that verdict in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Dzhokhar tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts. And now that same jury of seven women and five men will decide whether he gets the Death Penalty or life in prison. Abcs tom llamas is tracking the case in boston. Good morning, tom. Reporter george, good morning to you. All it took was a little more than 11 hours for jurors to reach a verdict and now Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will have to fight for his life in court. It was incredibly emotional in that courtroom yesterday with victims and even some jurors wiping away tears before the verdict was read. Prosecutors and even Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs own lawyers said it was him and the jury agreed. Convicting him on all 30 criminal counts, he was charged with. The 21yearold now facing the possibility of the Death Penalty. 27yearold Rebekah Gregory lost a leg in the first blast speaking out following the verdict. There have been children taken and parents that will never get to put them to bed at night again. Reporter gregory calling tsarnaev a coward for not looking at her when she testified. Its disheartening that somebody that took so much away from us doesnt even really care about what hes done. Reporter the parents of 8yearold Martin Richard in the courtroom for the verdict, holding each other fighting back tears. Do you hope hes put to death . I spoke with mike ward, a firefighter, who tried to save martins young life. Ultimate judgment will come to him. Reporter when the Pressure Cooker bomb exploded, liz nordens two sons were standing right next to her. Norden making it clear that she wants dzhokhar to die. I want to see the Death Penalty. Reporter jeff bauman who lost both legs testifying in court taking to social media writing, todays verdict will never replace the lives that were lost and so dramatically changed but it is a relief and one step closer to closure. And this morning, abc news has confirmed that tsarnaevs mother has posted a message through her friends saying, my sons are the best of the best. George. Okay, tom. Thanks very much. Dan abrams right now about all this and talk about this next phase. This jury, same jury, guilty on all counts but now and they all said they were open to the Death Penalty coming in. Whats the balancing test theyll have to apply. Fundamentally different question now than answered the first time. The first time the question was do we think hes guilty of these 30 crimes . Yes, yes, yes, yes, guilty on all counts. Now, its a fundamentally different question. Which is, when youre weighing the aggravating circumstances, meaning the reasons to execute, do these jurors think those outweigh the mitigating circumstances, meaning the reasons not to execute, and its not like a formula that says, well, if there are eight of these and three of these, it becomes just a gut call on the part of the jurors and, remember, the defense just needs one, if they can find one juror who doesnt want to execute, that means he gets life in prison. We already saw that boston globe headline, spare tsarnaev the Death Penalty. Massachusetts is kind of an interesting place to have this. They dont have the Death Penalty in massachusetts. Its a federal case so federal law applies, but, when you think about the fact that the defense wanted this moved out of boston, everyone saying its too emotional in boston, very different when it comes to the Death Penalty. Not a bad place to be if youre the defendant and youre sitting in boston facing that possibility. Like you say only one juror has to say spare him the Death Penalty. Dan, thanks very much. George, now to a scary moment for passengers on a coloradobound flight, lightning striking the plane midair, damaging the nose of the aircraft as you can see. Abcs david kerley has more. Reporter its a striking picture, an iceland air jet parked at the gate at Denver International with a hole in the nose of the plane, the result of a midair Lightning Strike. Its like a pop, just like a large pop. Reporter lightning struck the boeing 757 shortly after it took off from reykjavik, iceland, on its 3600mile journey to colorado and the pilots immediately notified air control. They have advised that there are Lightning Strikes and theyre not sure if the approach lights are working, but they are trying to find out and visibility is very poor. Reporter the passengers jolted. Outside of the windows the whole plane was electric blue. Reporter the pilots inform the passengers the plane had been hit by lightning but would continue on. Apparently not realizing how big the hole was. All their engine instruments showed everything is perfectly normal and it wasnt until they landed at daybreak that they actually saw the damage that it caused. Reporter lightning striking a plane is actually relatively common. Just last week two jets were struck in seattle as they prepared to land. I was kind of in shock, i was just thinking about how amazing that was to see. Reporter and jets are designed to take a Lightning Strike in this boeing Lab Engineers test to make sure the electricity flows outside the jetliner never entering the cabin but that doesnt mean parts of the plane can be damaged. For Good Morning America, david kerley, abc news, washington. Always a frightening moment when that happens. Our thanks to him. Gma weekend anchor dan harris is here with the other top stories. Starting big news the iran nuclear deal. Big news, everybody, that Nuclear Agreement with iran may have hit a fresh roadblock. Overnight, irans president insisting he will not sign any deal unless economic sanctions imposed on his country are lifted immediately. Meaning on the first day the deal goes into effect. So far the u. S. Has promised to lift those sanctions only gradually. A new scandal at secret service, a senior supervisor is accused of making unwanted sexual advances on his subordinate, even allegedly trying to kiss her after a party celebrating his promotion, hes now on paid leave pending an investigation. A major cyberattack overnight by a group that claims to have ties to isis. Hackers knocked 11 channels of a French Tv Network off the air for a brief period. The network is calling it an unprecedented attack. Violence is breaking out in panama ahead of the summit of the americas which president obama will be attending tomorrow. Supporters of cubas government scuffling with cuban exiles, some of them from miami. Cubas president will be attending this summit for the first time. And before heading to panama, president obama is visiting jamaica. Overnight he took time out to visit the Bob Marley Museum where the president revealed he still has all of marleys albums. He did not reveal whether he has them on vinyl or eight track. Soon you may not have to sit through those ads before watching youtube videos but itll cost you. Youtube is planning to charge a monthly fee to eliminate the ads. They still havent set a price yet. Some expect itll be around 10 bucks a month. And finally, you are about to see a moment, the moment when a longheld dream comes true for a mother of six boys. [ screaming ] oh, my god. That is cher lair screaming and falling to the floor after cutting the cake after her gender reveal party. The inside of the cake, pink. Indicating that cher again the mother of six boys is finally, finally pregnant with a girl. That is awesome. Even though the boys are all happy about this but one of them did say, quote, i love my brothers but im tired of all the dirt piles. Can you imagine the first time this little girl has a date and the boy has to come over with six older brothers. Dangerous. Thats a lot of kids. Hey, kept on trying. Good for them. Good for them, michael. Well, now, were going to talk about those directv ads that weve all seen featuring rob lowe, showing a reallife version of the star who uses the service and his alter ego who doesnt. The commercials get laughs from a lot of people but theyre not getting laughs from the competitor, abcs Rebecca Jarvis has the details. Hi, im rob lowe and im poor decisionmaking rob lowe. Reporter this morning, those hilarious directv ads featuring a ravishing rob lowe and his awkward alter ego. I just ate this Tuna Sandwich i found on the bus. Reporter no longer on the air. With cable you get pictures and some sound. I love the smell of other peoples hair. Dont be like this me. Reporter directvs competitor, comcast, filing a complaint with the Better Business bureau saying directvs ad campaign contains false claims including having better picture and sound quality and more sports channels available than cable outlets. The ads featuring rob lowe are incredibly funny but comcast obviously isnt laughing. Reporter the Better Business bureau says that while some of the claims in the ads could be substantiated it urged directv to modify or discontinue the ads concluding that humor and hyperbole do not relieve an advertiser of the obligation to support messages that their advertisement might reasonably convey. This morning, directv is running a new ad Campaign Featuring a talking horse. But it says it didnt pull the lowe campaign adding, we definitely reserve the right to bring back the rob lowe campaign. I saved 200 bucks by having motel room surgery. Reporter lowe himself tweeting overnight, recent events have underlined my belief that for something to be truly original, funny and subversive there must also be fallout. Life. For Good Morning America, Rebecca Jarvis, abc news, phoenix. That got a laugh out of everybody. Well give you that. I have friends in maine and theyre saying enough already. They are saying that, enough already, and it is snowing again this morning, thats right. Weve got snow from manchester, new hampshire, this is a live look from yesterdays camera but a look this morning in portland, maine, theyve got opening day for their Baseball Player