of the jewish community in pittsburgh who said they felt a lot of relief when that conviction came down. just to describe the tone inside the courtroom, it was also silent as they read the first charges and the first guilty verdicts. it shows you intently the community has been paying attention to this trial. i want to touch on the charges that robert bauers was found guilty of. 63 federal charges, also guilty of 22 of the capital offenses, it was the instruction of the free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death. the jury said robert bauers killed jewish worshippers while they were exercising their religious freedom. it has been a long time coming and a hard trial to listen to over the past three weeks. i ll bring up one testimony we heard. we heard from carole black. she was a survivor of the shooting. she described hiding in a closet while bullets were ringing out above her. she saw her friend mel wax be killed. she testified he immediately went down on his back.
news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, bulls eye, the direct hit to retail giant target. it stopped on a downward slide following the pride merchandise controversy. and rescue plan, the demolition is now on pause as the search continues for two people possibly left inside that iowa apartment building after the horrific partial collapse. we ve got a live report on the ground in davenport. also, quote, i expected to die. the powerful words from a rabbi during the pittsburgh tree of life synagogue shooting trial. we ll bring you the latest from that second day of testimony. plus, in just the last few minutes, the house officially took up the fiscal responsibility act, also known as the debt ceiling bill with the first round of votes expected in the next 90 minutes. where things stand on the hill right now. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and i want to begin ri
For roughly 80 years, Albert Farhy has held onto a button-sized piece of yellow cloth cut into the shape of a star that the Nazis forced him to wear as a teenager in Bulgaria during World War II. On Monday, the Holocaust survivor held up that fabric — a Star
PITTSBURGH The Squirrel Hill community woke up Thursday morning, the day before the city was set to mark the fifth anniversary of the violent rampage at the Tree of Life synagogue in which 11 congregants were shot to death, to pro-Palestine graffiti scrawled across the front of Allderdice High School in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood.