championship. the game that sent new england patriots to the super bowl. roger goodell also revealed today that brady destroyed a cell phone containing evidence that investigators wanted to see. goodell upheld brady's four-game suspension, the penalty originally handed down for a scheme to under-inflate footballs, apparently to make them easier to handle. we have more now from our cbs news special correspondent james brown. >> reporter: after five weeks of speculation about the fate of the superstar quarterback nfl commissioner roger goodell left no doubt about his view of brady's guilt stating the evidence proves, "that mr. brady knew about approved of, consented to and provided inducements and rewards in support of a scheme" to tamper with game balls. the league released new evidence that brady had his cell phone destroys descroid. the league had asked for the phone in mid-february. brady had his assistant destroy it on march 6. brady said that he routinely recycles his phone but it was destroyed the day brady met with the nfl lead investigator ted wells. he did not inform the league until june 18. today's decision comes seven months after brady and the patriots were accused of deflating the footballs used in the a.f.c. championship game against the indianapolis colts in january. four days after the game, brady denied any wrongdoing. >> you know, i didn't alter the ball in any way. i have a process that i go through before every game. >> reporter: in june, brady appeared before goodell for his appeal in a 10-hour marathon session. but today the commissioner was emphatic about his decision saying the patriots' super star's actions were detrimental to the beth or of the performance of the game of professional football. scott, tom brady's agent issued the statement calling the appeals process "a sham" resulting in the commissioner rubber stamping his own decision. >> hill: j.b. what's next for tom brady. >> reporter: i spoke to the union and they have given tom brady permission to pursue an appeal in federal court. the crux of their case will be that the process used by roger goodell was unfair. >> pelley: and to be fair to the patriots as a team, they have also denied any wrongdoing. james brown in our washington newsroom tonight james, thank you. to put our next story in perspective, it's as if someone had killed lassie. a lion named cecil beloved in the african nation of zimbabwe, was lured off a protected area earlier this month. today, zimbabwe accused an american, a dentist from minnesota, of killing the animal illegally. we have more now from debora patta. >> reporter: cecil was the star attraction at the national park an iconic and rare blake mained lion. his carcass was discovered skind and heads the victim of illegal poachers. conservists say cecil was baited into leaving the protected reserve by hunters who tied a dead animal to the back of a truck, luring the lion to a neighboring farm. there, cecil was shot with a bow and arrow. but he was only wounded. he was hunted for another 40 hours before being shot dead. zimbabwean officials say walter palmer paid $55,000 for a permit to kill a lion. a seasoned big-game hunter, palmer has traveled the world in pursuit of animal trophies. today, the minnesota dentist defended his actions. "i had no idea that the lion i took was a nobody, local favorite until the end of the hunt," he said. "i relied on the expertise of my local professional guides to ensure a legal hunt." but african wildlife expert dex kotze says it is impossible that palmer's hunting team didn't know it was cecil. >> i mean, the black male mane lion like that you can see from afar from a photographic point of view and you definitely can identify this and say this lion is a collared lion and is cecil. all the hunters and conservationists and the people in the wildlife industry in the area would have been very, very familiar with the lion cecil. >> reporter: reaction to cecil's death has been swift and brutal online. "you are truly scum of the earth" wrote one. "his patients should know that their dental work funds the killing and butturing of beautiful animals," wrote another. in zimbabwe, we reached brent stapelkamp, who was part of the oxford scientific team that colexpard tracked cecil. "i believe throw the book at him. he's coming in here to shoot a lion, a national emblem, and he's been caught. i would hope he gets everything that justice throws at him. >> reporter: this is not the first time palmer has been the center of a wildlife controversy. in 2008, he was fined for illegally shooting a black bear in wisconsin and then dragging its carcass 40 miles to a legal hunting zone to cover it up. >> pelley: debora patta reporting for us from south africa. thank you. tonight, the defense is trying to save the life of the gunman convicted of murdering 12 people in a colorado movie theater. today, james holmes' father took the stand in the sentencing phase of the trial. barry petersen is at the courthouse. >> reporter: this was the moment for james holmes' family to literally plead for his life. his father robert holmes jr. was questioned by the defense attorney. he showed baby pictures and videos of a grandmother giving five-year-old holmes a hair cut all an effort to soften the image of the mass murderer. >> do you still love him? >> yes i do. >> why? >> well he's my son and, you know we always got along pretty well and he was always-- he was actually an excellent kid. >> reporter: before the shooting, he said he had no inkling of his son's mental illness. >> prior to july 20, 1212 had james ever confided in you any suicidal or homicidal thoughts he was having? >> no, he never expressed anything like that. >> didn't have any idea he was having these disturbing images in his head? >> no, i had no idea. >> reporter: his mother arlene, will also testify. deeply religious she has published a book of her prayers since the shooting, including one saying, "you lived so that we could understand you and others could study you and learn to prevent future tragedy." yesterday, it was his younger sister chris telling defense attorney rebecca higgs that her feel investigation not changed for her brother. >> and do you still love him? >> i still love him. >> reporter: the jury must now meet and decide if holmes' mental illness means he serves life without parole. if not, scott, the jury then hears from victims victims victims and families and deliberates one last time to determine if he gets death. >> pelley: barry petersen at the courthouse for us this evening, barry, thank you. today, the prison seamstress who helped two murderers escape an upstate new york prison last month pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors 51-year-old joyce mitchell could get as much as seven years. one of the convicts was shot to death. the other was captured. officials in wallard county, texas, today released several hours of video showing sandra bland in custody in part to dispel rumors on social media that she was dead before arriving at the jail. bland was found hanging in her cell three days after being arrested following a traffic stop. her death was ruled a suicide but it is being investigated by a committee of outside attorneys. today, the justice department confirmed that jonathan pollard has been granted parole. he will be released from prison in november. pollard, now 60 years old has served nearly 30 years for stealing secrets from the united states and giving them to israel. margaret brennan is following his case. >> jonathan pollard was a u.s. naval intelligence analyst when he was arrested in 1985, trying to flee to israel's washington embassy. among the most damaging documents he stole a top-secret manual that listed every communication circuit in the world monitored by u.s. intelligence and used for its own correspondence. the manuel let industrial identify some of america's covert agents. u.s. officials said he did it for the money and he also gave classified information to pakistan and south africa. >> what was in the past was in the past. >> reporter: israeli leaders like benjamin netanyahu lobbied for pollard's release, a request rejected by three u.s. presidents. but with pollard up for parole this year, the business obama administration did not object. former c.i.a. director jim woosley was opposed to pollard's release but now believes the damage he did was not as bad as initially thought. >> i know of nothing that pollard stole whether it went to a third country or not, and i know of nothing that he stole and it stayed israel that damaged the united states at all. >> reporter: both pollard's lawyers and the obama administration deny any connection between his release and an effort to assuage israeli concerns over the iran nuclear deal but scott this issue at least will resolve one source of tension between the two countries. >> pelley: margaret brennan at the state department this evening. margaret thanks. well, folks on both coasts and the deep south are in for some of the summer's hottest weather. more than 30 million people are under excessive heat varieses. eric fisher is our chief meteorologist at our chief cbs station in wbz in boston. eric what's coming. >> the story this week is heat on the move. we'll start northeast. a lot of northeastern cities, hasn't been too tough of a summer to take, very few 90 degree days. that will change in the week boston, new york, tacking on a couple as well as washington d.c. pittsburgh a couple of days of 90s before the cool air comes. the sweltering heat has been in the middle of the nation. this is where we have excessive warnings, heat varieses. the system that created snow in wieming and montana yesterday will help drive a coastal to the south, bring something relief tomorrow, more relief on thursday, cooler temperatures, but most notably lower humidity really taking down the heat index values. the same ridge creating all the heat moves to the west late week and, scott, trimle digits moving to the west coast. we could see record highs and difficult conditions for people fighting wildfires. >> pelley: as eric mentioned there is no heat wave in the northern rockies. more than an inch of snow fell overnight in parts of wieming 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( applause ) >> reporter: at a news conference today zion waved to the crowd. >> i just want to say this-- never give up on your dreams. it will come true. >> reporter: he says he's happy to have new hands, but does it feel different? >> it feels the same because i never left who i was. i'm the same person who i still used to be, but with some cool new hands. >> i'm going to do a little massage. >> reporter: doctors expect zion's hands to become stronger and grow with him but he's already reached one milestone-- today, he signed his name. anna werner, cbs news, philadelphia. >> pelley: never give up your dreams. that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org they witnessed a murder. now the cops are pleading to them to break their silence. thanks for being here. i'm deb alfarone. >> al deb alfaronei'm derek mcginty. >> stephanie ramirez reports that not one of those witnesses to a beating has come forward. >> reporter: i'm stephanie ramirez. 60-year-old bradley colm es was beaten to death. a month and a half later there are no arrests. bobby williams says he and his partner of over 20 years were planni