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this is the this is the cbs morning news for wednesday, february 25th, 2015. good morning. i m lauren lyster in for anne-marie green. a former marine convicted of killing american sniper author chris kyle and another man faces life in prison. lawyers for eddie ray routh say they will appeal. routh admitted shooting kyle and chad littlefield at a firing range two years ago, but as adriana diaz reports, late last night jurors rejected claims that he was insane. reporter: it took jurors two hours and 25 minutes after nine days of deliberations in this courtroom behind me to decide the fate of eddie ray routh. we ve waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son. reporter: judy littlefield fought back tears after a judge sentenced eddie ray routh for life for murdering her son chad along with deadliest sniper in u.s. history chris kyle on a shooting range in texas. we the jury find eddie ray routh guilty. reporter: jurors took just over tw ....
corrected a misstatement that he made last month on this broadcast about his own military record after the statement was questioned by several retired officers. this comes, of course, at a time of controversy around prominent journalists who have been accused of inflating their war records. here s wyatt andrews. that was wrong and i have no excuse. reporter: the secretary apologized for what was said during this encounter when he falsely told a homeless veteran in los angeles that he had served in the special forces. the comment was captured by cbs news last month for a segment on this broadcast. what unit? special forces. special forces. what years? i was in special forces. reporter: the fact that mcdonald was not in the special forces was first reported in the huffington post last night. the secretary explained that when he saw the veteran, he was attempting to find common ground but got it wrong. and so what i was trying to do is find a way to connect w ....
good morning. i m lauren lyster in for anne-marie green. a former marine convicted of killing american sniper author chris kyle and another man faces life in prison. lawyers for eddie ray routh say they will appeal. routh admitted shooting kyle and chad littlefield at a firing range two years ago, but as adriana diaz reports, late last night jurors rejected claims that he was insane. reporter: two hours and 25 minutes after nine days of deliberations in this courtroom behind me to decide the fate of eddie ray routh. we ve waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son. reporter: judy little field fought back tears of joy after a judge sentenced eddie ray routh for life for murdering her son chad along with chris kyle on a shooting range in texas. we the jury find eddie ray routh guilty. reporter: jurors took just over two hours to give the verdict during which his wife recounted the day back in 2013. that we loved each other and gave our ....
secretary bob mcdonald corrected a misstatement that he made last month on this broadcast about his own military record after the statement was questioned by several retired officers. this comes, of course, at a time of controversy around prominent journalists who have been accused of inflating their war records. here s wyatt andrews. that was wrong and i have no excuse. reporter: the secretary apologized for what was said during this encounter when he falsely told a homeless veteran in los angeles that he had served in the special forces. the comment was captured by cbs news last month for a segment on this broadcast. what unit? special forces. special forces. what years? i was in special forces. reporter: the fact that mcdonald was not in the special forces was first reported in the huffington post last night. the secretary explained that when he saw the veteran, he was attempting to find common ground but got it wrong. and so what i was trying to do is ....
this morning, a commuter train hit a truck that was abandoned. no one was killed but 21 of the 58 people on the train were taken to the hospital. tonight, four of them, including the engineer are in critical condition. omar villafranca is at the scene. reporter: the explosion and flames lit up the sky after the metrolink train struck the truck just before dawn. ould see three of by daylight, you could see three of the five of the 7.5-ton rail cars toppled over like toys. the truck driver, a 54-year-old man from arizona, got stuck on the tracks and jumped out when he saw the train coming. he was found walking about two miles away from the crash. was the driver under the influence of anything, according to your officers? he appeared to be very unsettled, and so the extent or the cause of that is actually yet to be determined. reporter: officials here say today s crash would have been much worse if not for new rail cars designed and purchased after a 2008 metrolink c ....