And right now on ana cabrera reports, Breaking News, Extreme Weather turning deadly in texas. At least four People Killed after torrential rain and tornados rip through the lone star state. We have the latest from houston. Plus, Michael Cohen dueback on the stand monday. Has the defense delivered any knockouts to the prosecutions star witness. And desperately needed aid finally reaching gaza by sea. Why humanitarian groups warn its not nearly enough. We made it to friday. It is 10 00 eastern, im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with that Breaking News from texas where at least four people have been killed from a powerful storm system. It knocked out the lights to more than a million homes along the gulf coast, Spawning Tornados and floods, destroying property. Heres a look at some of the debris flying just outside the lobby. This is a houston skyscraper there, and then look at that, the Blownout Windows Leaving Gaping Holes all the way up the side of houstons downtown well
To quote Stormy Daniels, when somebody attacks me, im going to defend myself. Those were some of the final words from the Adult Film Star before she was excused from the stand in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. It is good to be back with you. Im chris jansing, alongside my colleague, andrea mitchell. Defense lawyer suggested she was trying to extort him, and capitalizing on his fame with merchandise, prosecutors for their part pointing out that daniels was the target of nasty, threatening tweets for even coming forward about an alleged affair with donald trump. They asked daniels been telling the truth net positive or net negative in your life. Daniels response, negative. Over the next hour, well bring you live updates from the courtroom, the latest witness who will be back after the lunch break, a bookkeeper at the Trump Organization who handled checks, including of course the key checks, the ones in question in this hush money case. So lets bring in the panel joining us now, nbc Nati
Different style. i think jury selection is about social skills. i don t view it as a science. and prosecutors are looking for a different juror than a defense. you roll your eyes at me. if you re the no paying attention, no. i want people who read the news. i m a defense attorney, doesn t get breaking news alerts on their phone. goes to work, comes home, takes care of the family. it s a feeling you get when you re picking a jury as a lawyer. are they listening to me, did they roll their eyes at me. did they look like, you know, they re confused. so i always say it s a feeling i get. it s like, i just get a sense they re not paying attention or they don t like me. it s really sometimes as simple as that. julie, how much of what you do is a feeling and how much is a science? i mean, intuition, the kinds of things we just heard about are important, but often before trial actually begins in the courtroom, there s pre-trial research done, and so you have an opportunity to discover kind
Life, it will be front and center of mind for them. and so the people who are best able to do that, to sort of engage the moment, to set aside the time, to be smart about it, to think about the issues in play, will be good jurors. so both sides, julie have four of ten peremptory challenges left. i m going to go back to tvs and movies, which is what most people s experience is. at some point, you have a tough call and the lawyer says, julie, and then you say, yes, no, does it actually work like that? it works sort of like that. i mean, it s a collaborative process always between a consultant and trial counsel. but you have maybe just seconds or am i exaggerating, to make this decision potentially? i would say minutes rather than seconds but sometimes only one minute, particularly depending on where you are in