and, ryan, you were there today when the verdict came down after 11 hours. you know, many were uncertain. nobody knew how this would go. tell me what it was like there as that announcement was made. reporter: so very interesting, erin. a lot of times, it s hard to feel the emotion through the screen. i can tell you when i walked out of court and was walking amongst the people when the announcement was getting ready to be made, everyone had their phone glued to some sort of streaming service to see exactly when the first announcement was going to be made. and not only in the court did you hear the emotion from ahmaud s father but this crowd was emotional. they were yelling every time the word guilty was read. i think people were in shock. i had one woman grab my hand, and literally say to my to me, she was like i cannot believe this is actually happening and when you think about how this has played out the last two weeks, this entire area has been on pins and needles waiting for tod