that's where things stand right now here in charleston. brooke. >> remind me, nick, of the makeup of this jury. >> it was nine white women, three african-americans. there were some -- something to be made about that here in the community. some felt that it wasn't representative of the community breakdown here. but all of those jurors were asked to affirm their decision, and all of them said -- there was a resounding yes, they found dylann roof guilty, brooke. >> as far as his family. you talk about the victims and members of the church community in the courtroom wiping away tears. his mother had that heart attack last week. and were his grandparents in there today? did they react at all? >> reporter: earlier this morning i saw the grandmother. actually sat behind dylann roof's grandmother, she was flanked by a priest she brought to court. i didn't see the grandmother in court this afternoon as the verdict was read. we don't know where his family members are. dylann roof, for his part, mostly expressionless and emotionalless. that really up

a couple months ago i went to charleston to speak to those who were there that might. among them reverend norville geoff, the presiding eller of the south carolina district that includes mother emmanuel church and he spoke in that very room, in the bible study room where nine people were killed and few survived. >> this was the room. this is where he came, where people were seated around the table holding bible study. >> yes. and he was invited to join them. >> reverend norville goff left mother emanuel just before the gunman entered the church through the side door. >> left to go to another meeting and that was about 7:40. my understanding the gunman was already in the parking lot. >> a dispatch log details the initial 911 calls from survivors that night. these chilling words show their pleas for help. "shot pastor. female is hiding under the table. male is reloading." the number of shots fired? so many. were you sitting around the table or you were in the back? >> i was in the last table in the back. >> when you prayed under that table, were you asking for something?

marlie hall, cbs news, charleston, south carolina. on this 75th anniversary of pearl harbor, a wisconsin native who survived the attack talks about the 24-hundred americans who made the ultmiate sacrifice that day. lou conter, pearl harbor attack survivor:"came home got married, had children, grand children, great grand children, and lived a big life. they lost theirs immediately and ones that should be called the " heroes."lou conter is a northern wisconsin native. he was among the survivors who gathered yesterday in hawaii to recount their experiences that morning.conter...now 95 years old - was a quartermaster on the uss arizona battleship when the bombs hit.on that ship alone ,nearly 12-hundred men died - and of the 335 survivors, only five are left. lou conter, pearl harbor fire for two days and had to let it cool down for 6, i forget 7 days, and then we dove on the ship for 8-9 days under where the officer's quarters are and turret number 3 and 4 to bring bodies out." out."some 4-thousand people are expected to attend a commemor

polo sandoval has the latest from charleston. >> i went to that church in charleston and i did if. >> did what? did you shoot them? >> yes. >> the confession video is overexposed by dylan roof's motive is crystal clear. >> so your deal -- >> so is it? >> to agitate racial relations. he told them he researched black-on-white crime during the george zimmerman trial. it was then he started down a path towards hate crimes z do you consider yourself a white supremacist? >> sure. white people are superior if that's what you mean. >> short surveillance video shows roof entering the house of worship in june of last year. he was inside for about 45 minutes and then roof peeks his head out with glock .45 caliber pistol walks out of the door of the church. >> i was in absolute awe that there was nobody out there after i shot that many bullets. when i walked out that door, you know, i peeked out the door, i thought there was going to be somebody there ready to shoot me. >> reporter: roof was prepared to kill himself but didn't when he saw no flashing lights he told officials. in the video confess

nbc's mariana atenzio is live for us now in charleston, south carolina. what else has been happening inside the courtroom this morning? >> craig, the two-hour videotape confession still hasn't finished playing. the court broke for lunch. the judge urging the defense to just let the video play with minimal interruption. in it, we hear dylan roof in his own words saying, i will quote him. i had to do it. someone had to do it. he added, craig, what i did is still minuscule to what they are doing to white people every day. he called himself a white supremacist. he said he had been researching churches on the internet and that's how he chose mother emmanuel. he also said he would like segregation to be reinstated. he said it was the trayvon martin case that, quote, woke him up. he said he was surprised, in awe when he walked out of the church after the shooting and saw there were no police officers waiting for him. he said if police had found him inside the church he was prepared to shoot himself. craig? >> any idea what the reaction has been to the tape from

the plane was diverted to charleston where the child and its parents are all fine. >>> on the cbs "moneywatch" now. american airlines uniforms are grounded and italian markets open lower. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. >>> the resignation of italian prime minister matteo triggered economic uncertainty. the milan stock exchange opened 2% lower and many bank shares suspended because of excessive volatility. this morning the euro hit a 20-month low and had since rebounded. >>> in this country, most analysts say the november jobs report released on friday won't derail the fed's interest hike when it meets next week. the dow finished 14 points lier lower. >>> flight attendants at american airlines want their new uniforms recalled. american issued new uniforms for its employees in september. the union says flight attendants are reporting headaches and rashes and hives and burning skin and eye irritations. they are testing the uniforms. the airline has offered uniforms made of alternative materials. >>> united airlines new fare structure is under fire from new york

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and the deadly shooting at a charleston church opens the door to healing for two long-separated congregations. >> you guys have been just around the corneror fmac eh >> 1887. this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: night is about to fall in oakland, california, and for a third night, recovery teams are searching for the victims of a fire at a warehouse that was beings used illegally as a dance club. this is a live picture. and this is our first look inside the warehouse before fire as police inspectors checked it back in october. we don't know why action was not taken then on the complaints filed by residents. today the death toll rose to 36, but it is likely more victims are buried under the collapsed roof. we are only beginning to learn who they were. some were foreigners. our david begnaud begins our coverage. was already in flames. nancy o'malley is the alameda county district attorney. >> the range of charges could be murder all the way to involuntary manslaughter, and until we know what the evidence shows us, there may be other charges if the evidence presents that.

first, let's go to charleston, south carolina. a jury is is in hour one of deliberations regarding the fate of a confessed church shooter. was he a hate-filled coward who wanted to start a race war? a man who despised black people or was he a suicidal loner, mentally unstable and radicalized online? these are the two characterizations that jurors listen to during these powerful closing arguments today in the death penalty trial of this young man accused of shooting nine black church goers at charleston's historic mother emanuel church. and here, the faces of the nine victims. pastors, aunties, mothers and fathers shot and killed in what prosecutors describe as a premeditated act of murder spurred by hate. imagine their families sitting in the courtroom crying and wiping away tears as the bodies of their loved ones are flashed on screen. let's begin with nick valencia who is in charleston with more on today's closing arguments. and hour one with the jury deliberating. >> reporter: it was a very emotional day. i sat and listened to

you're in charleston. you have been in the courtroom. describe some of the testimony you've heard. >> reporter: this has been heart-wrenching testimony here for so many people, heart-rending testimony for so many people who have been sitting in the courtroom now for about three days now, listening to the testimony, perhaps the strongest testimony coming from one of the survivors in that shooting, phylicia sanders, who watched as her son and aunt were shot and ill canned that summer day last year. but, perhaps you'll remember, the most significant development here, something many people had been waiting for, that confession video of dylann roof shot the day after he went into that church and shot and killed nine innocent people. in it you can clearly see and clearly hear the now 22-year-old self-described white supremacist say that he did it. and also why he did it. his main objective, according to what he told investigators that day, was to simply start a race war. the video is quite lengthy. they played the whole thing, about two hours

you talked to hundreds of people from ferguson to baltimore to charleston, south carolina. what did you find? >> i think that we see this through two different prisms and lenses. the reality is that very often, those lenses are determined by what our preconceived notions of race are. it plays a role in how we see these circumstances. for many people, we see individual instances. walter scott, bad shooting. michael brown, maybe not. eric garner, why did you resist? and people with pigment in skin, we see this as part of a broader longer american story. the idea that you can go from emmett till to trayvon martin to walter scott to the charleston nine and dylan roof trial happening across the street from where the slager trial occurred. the idea is that it's not one off incidents but rather a type of systemic and structural question here. as thousands of people, tens of thousands of people have taken the streets over the last few years, that has been the rallying cry time and time again that it's not just about whether michael brown's hands were up or tamir rice's toy gun look

gabe gutierrez joining us now from charleston. gabe, we've been getting all sorts of signals, some formal, maybe some informal from this jury about what was going on behind closed doors. after four days, is it any surprise the judge decided to declare this mistrial? >> reporter: hi there, steve. good afternoon. we had expected this declaration on friday evening, and then we heard that the jury wanted to go home for the weekend and sleep on it and come back today. if we thought this was going to be quick this morning, it wasn't the case. the jury came back with several questions for the judge this morning, including a few questions like, for example, is self-defense -- the idea of self-defense considered the same for a police officer as it is for an ordinary citizen? and also asking why the option of voluntary manslaughter was given to the jury in addition to the option of a murder conviction. well, they debated it for several more hours. as you mentioned, steve, over four days, more than 23 hours at this point. and within the last

we are one cohesive charleston family and we say we are charleston strong, so the goal is to remain a confident in the judicial process. i am confident that the justice will be cone. >> dickerson: all right. senator scott, thanks so much. >> yes, sir. >> dickerson: look look forward to talking with you again. welcome to cbs this morning. we have a team of correspondents covering this unfolding story. a story you will only see on cbs this morning. all that matters from cbs in morning. cbs ,,,,,,,,,,,, the astronaut john glenn died this week. in 1962, glenn was the first american to orbit the earth. >> john glenn, we are underway. >> dickerson: as he rose into glenn described his everyÑi sensation. >> oh, the view is tremendous. >> dickerson: when it was announced he would be the jockey on the atlas d rocket, news cameras gave him and his wife annie a taste of a new phenomenon, the celebrity front lawn treatment. my mom was one of the ones trampling the grass. >> this is nancy in arlington, virginia at the home of colonel john glenn. he is backÑi here resting with s wife annie and the

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we are one cohesive charleston family and we say we are charleston strong, so the goal is to remain a confident in the judicial process. i am confident that the justice will be cone. >> dickerson: all ri >> yes, sir. >> dickerson: look look forward to talking with you again. welcome to cbs this morning. we have a team of correspondents covering this unfolding story. a story you will only see on cbs this morning. all that matters from cbs in morning.

i want to go straight to the federal courthouse in charleston. jurors are expected to see roof's videotaped confession before that tape is released to the public but explain what's happened. this jury being seated so fast is kind of telling about how this could move. >> reporter: very fast, thomas, and, in fact, dylann roof's lawyer in his opening statement today admitted he expected roof to be found guilty. david brook, his attorney, said, quote, there is not a great deal to dispute, but just these witness testimonies have been so harrowing. on the stand now, as you mentioned, is felicia sanders. she is one of five survivors of the shooting, and, in fact, tears rolling down her cheeks when she mentioned that her aunt was killed. her own son was killed that night, and this testimony is so emotional for her. she even had to take a small break to compose herself, just describing that night when dylann roof went to bible study at emmanuel ame church, sat there for about an hour and then just began shooting at people. we're told by our team inside th

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. >> but up next, the videotaped confession of the accused charleston church shooter is played for the jury. >> high temperatures tomorrow almost 10 degrees below average once again. good wind tomorrow. downtown in the 40s but only 32 in hagerstown and cumberland. we will talk about the prospect of a yellow weather alert day on monday. we'll explain why. >>> jurors heard the confession tape from dylan roof, the killer of the people in the black church in charleston, south carolina. he said he planned to kill himself but changed his mind. >>> former defense contractor is going to prison for life for murdering his wife, michelle. >> a jury imposed the life sentence for the 2014 murder. castillo snuck in her home in the middle of the night, killed her and tried to make it look like a suicide. several jurors came to today's sentencing to support the victim. >> it validates that we arrived at the right decision and i'm happy that michelle got the justice she deserved. >> what is it like to look at bralio castillo and know what he did. >> i hope that he will come to term with what he did. i

mariana tiene los Últimos detalles desde charleston adelante. >>> no mostrÓ emociones alguna cuando un jurado federal emitiÓ un dictamen de culpabilidad en cada uno de los 33 cargos en su contra cargos por crÍmenes de odio resultado and en asesinato. crÍmenes de odio resultando en sin tents de asesinato. y crÍmenes de odio en la obstrucciÓn del ejercicio religioso. la masacre que dylan fue juzgado estremeciÓ al paÍs en junio del aÑo pasado. las 9 vÍctimas oraban en una iglesia frecuentado por la comunidad afroamericana en charleston carolina del sur. cuando fueron acribillados a balazos por el atacante. >>> un video del fbi mostrado en el juicio. contiene la confesiÓn de dylan por sus crÍmenes. confesiÓn que hace riÉndose y sin ningÚn remordimiento. el mismo jurado se reunirÁ nuevamente en enero para considerar su sentencia, la que puede incumplir la pena de muerte. la gobernadora de carolina del sur, nicky hey! li, emitiÓ en un comunicado por twitter, que espera que las familias y su comunidad encuentren ahora algo de paz, ya que se hizo justicia. pero por supuesto, pa

. >>> more breaking news now from charleston, south carolina. just minutes ago jurors found dylan roof guilty of killing nine black members of a church at bible study last year. the verdict was expected. roof had made a videotaped confession. he did not take the stand in his own defense. his lawyers say their real battle is still is ahead, to save his life by getting him sentenced to life in prison. more on that when we go live to charleston >>> the latest now on donald trump's transition. the white house is criticizing the president-elect for his statements about russian interference in the u.s. elections. spokesman josh earnest says trump should stop attacking u.s. intelligence and start supporting the investigation into what happened. today russian president vladimir putin called reports that he was involved laughable. meanwhile, montana congressman ryan zinke is nominated to being the interior secretary. he's a highly decorated navy s.e.a.l. conservationists give him a poor rating because of his support of co coal, gas, oil. >>> the metro bo

>> gabe gutierrez in charleston, thank you. >>> there's late word about president-elect trump's phone conversations with foreign leaders, some that are raising eyebrows in washington and around the world, including one that has the potential to infuriate china. nbc's peter alexander has more on this developing story. >> reporter: exactly seven weeks before his inauguration, president-elect donald trump's now raising red flags for a series of phone calls with world leaders whose relationship to the u.s. remains complicated at best. today speaking with the taiwanese president, the first contact between a president-elect, or president, and taiwan, since 1979. likely to infuriate the chinese who view taiwan as a renegade province. it follows controversial calls to the heads of pakistan, kazakhstan and the philippines, whose president recently slandered president obama's mother. >> the wrong message could be received. so he should be fully briefed by the state department before those communications. >> reporter: here at home, trump's team is planning a series of events similar to this rall

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more on charleston next. >>> and it's the worst outbreak in a decade. what is behind this unusual number of mumps cases. mumps in this country? where this outbreak is being felt the hardest. we'll talk to chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta for that. i'm brooke baldwin, you are watching cnn. >>> welcome back. it's day three in the hate crime murder trial of a man accused of killing nine people during a bible study at mother emanuel ame church. the jury heard this accused gunman clearly say "i went to that church in charleston and i did it." yesterday jurors were shown closed circuit video of the suspect arriving at the church where the bible study was under way and then leaving through that very same door, a gun clutched in his hand. before this trial began earlier this year, i was invited into that very bible study room and spoke with those whose lives were spared, including polly shepherd who said that accused gunman allowed her to live to tell her story. she asked he wouldn't kill them all, as many of them had their eyes closed in prayer. po

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mariana atencio is in charleston. roof confessed to the shootings after his arrest, or shortly after his arrest but it was seen for the first time in court. what kind of impact did it have? >> reporter: just hear him admit to the massacre left the courtroom stunned and then the why he did it. his views on race, those were tough to hear, even for us reporters. i can't begin to imagine what it was like for victims family members and the food seated in close proximity and you can sense the obvious tension in the room, they could step out of this courtroom if it was just too much to bear. the defense own mother and dylann roof in his own words explaining why he did it, he did it to start a race war, to kill as many black people in one place as possible. i want us to hear a bit of that video now. >> i went to that church in charleston and i did it. well, i did, i killed, well, i guess, i don't really know how many people really. >> how come? that's what i don't know. >> well, i had to do it because somebody had to do somet

. >>> jury deliberations resume this morning in the murder trial of a former charleston police with killing a black motorist,

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>> gabe gutierrez in charleston, thank you. >>> now to the fall-out tonight from a bizarre stand-off, that's left a washington, d.c. neighborhood in fear. it started with a dangerous internet gunman to open fire at a d.c. pizza shop. swept up in a conspiracy theory pushed on social media, even by a member of president-elect trump's inner circle. we get the latest from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: under arrest in washington, 28-year-old edgar wells, accused of firing an assault weapon inside the comet ping-pong pizza restaurant. welch told police he campaign child sex ring. >> let me state unequivocally, these stories are completely entirely false. >> reporter: the pizza-gate conspiracy began with a wikileaks and e-mail stolen from campaign john podesta about a fund-raiser involving the restaurant. users of the anonymous online message board, known for rogue political discussion, suggested without any proof whatever, that the word "pizza" was code for child sex restaurant. the conspiracy theory quickly spread to reddit and youtube, feeding fake online news stories, then jumping to

they only asked to see his confession to the fbi one more time. >> i went to that church in charleston. and then i did it. >> so your deal, is it -- >> i had to take racial issue. >> and make it worse. >> right. >> as he was convicted today roof just stared ahead. sentencing beginning in january. the shooting and bombing has stopped and now it's a massive evacuation effort in the former rebel enclave of aleppo, syria. the buses took about a thousand people earlier today, including about 300 children. the cease fire of brokered by turkey and russia. of course, russia alied with the syrian president to route the rebels from the city. the biggest victory so far in the five and half-year-old civil war. >>> a water crisis in texas. the city of corpus christi telling the 300,000 residents not to use or drink tap water. a harmful chemical contaminated the water supply. boiling, freezing or filtering the water will not make it safe. there's a run on bottled water. lines out the door at many supermarkets. state officials are sending shipments of clean water, but don't know when the green light

>> gabe gutierrez for us there in charleston, gabe, thank you. i want to bring in criminal defense attorney bill nettles, and reverend al sharpton. action network and politics nation here on msnbc as well. bill, i want to start with you because i think for the purposes of this conversation, we should note that you were the u.s. attorney essentially on duty there in charleston when this all went down and also during the dylan roof shooting at the church but let's talk about the slager case right now. how surprised were you that the jury deadlocked? >> i wasn't terribly surprised. it was always a plausible option. as you reported in september a year ago, there was evidence that there had been a struggle on the ground prior to the shooting and evidence that mr. scott's dna was on the taser. that was evidence that could allow a jury to arrive at a decision other than murder. also, you couple that with the fact it's a divisive issue in the country right now and, you know, in order to get a unanimous verdict, you've got to get 12 people to agree on the

dylann roof has been found guilty of murdering nine people in a historic african american church in charleston south carolina. >> pam:it's a crime that the

police say they also found a list of other black churches in the charleston area. in his confession he told the fbi he considered other targets. roof's video confession played in court is cold-blooded. why did you have to do it. >> well, i had to do it because somebody had to do something because black people are killing white people every day. >> reporter: steve osunsami, abc news, charleston. >>> a disturbing scene in el paso as an officer is hit by a car and thrown in the air. take a look here. police say officer andy rodriguez was conducting a sobriety test when an alleged drunk driver struck him. seconds before he was hit he pushed the man undergoing the test out of the way. should tell you officer rodriguez was released from t >>> intense manhunt is under way after this elaborate gold heist in france. authorities are searching for four armed suspects wanted for ambushing an armored truck stealing more than $1.5 million in gold dust. at least one of their cars and other vehicles on fire while making their getaway. >>> the same drugs that helped fight cholester

covering the trial in charleston, she joins us with the latest. obviously this is something from a legal standpoint that is necessary to go through. they are reliving in a painful and wrenching way in the courtroom. >> it has been tough to read the statements in the videotaped confession to you. happening now, the defense is reading two letters from dylan roof to his parents. he said dear mom, i love you. i'm sorry for what i did, but i had to do it. that videotaped confession, he did admit to the shooting. he basically said, "i went to the church in charleston and i did it." then he chuckled when he said i killed them. he chuckled again and then said glock 45 referring to the weapon he used. he said he considered himself a white supremacist. he said he favored segregation. he said that somebody had to do something to stand up for whites, not only in america, but also in europe. in that video when agents asked him what would you say to the families of the victims? he said i couldn't even look at them. when you think about it, the families are sitt

temperatures outside, 39 degrees on the cooler side of things at west career and tech near charleston and the 215 in comparison with slightly warmer temperatures. 49 degrees at southeast career and tech. the rest of the numbers in the 40s right now. but like we talked about we're going to cool back down into the 30s again and the cooling trend is going to continue actually. av headed our way. it's going to drop out of the north and not only bring us more cool temperatures in the forecast but also gusty winds. i'll show you how windy it's going to get coming up in the weather segment. >> reed: a former junior high school teacher will spend at least two-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with a 14-year-old student. nicole wilfinger was a close friend of the victim's family. the victim's mother says her son has cried nonstop in her arms because he feels embarrassed about what happened. the teen's mother told the judge wilfinger betrayed their trust and the trust of the community. >> some of my son's concerns was he doesn't want us to think he is disgusting. wi

and opening statements are expected to start today in the charleston church shooting trial. jessob is in the newsroom with details. a south carolina judge denied dylann roof's attorneys' request to delay the trial. the motion came after a judge declared a mistrial in the michael slager trial earlier this week. attorneys for dylann roof believe the jury may impose a harsher punish up for the judicial system's apparent failure. slager is a former charleston police officer charged with shooting and killing an unarmed man. dylann roof is accused of shooting and killing nine people at a charleston church last year. a louisiana man is charged in the shooting death of a former n-f-l player. joe mcknight was shot and killed last week in a road rage dispute. initially, 54-year-old ronald gasser was taken into custody... but, then released criticism of police. but police have now charged gasser with manslaughter in mcknight's death. officials say gasser was involved in another road rage incident a decade ago ...at that very same intersection. and a former n-f-l player has been found d

a motion for a mistrial in the case of the shooter, the man who murdered those nine people in that charleston church who wants to represent himself. details on what's happening inside the courtroom today and the u.s. house of representatives just voted to pave the way for general james mattis to become the next defense secretary but there are hurdles, we'll take you live to capitol hill. >>> exactly one week from today, president-elect trump will be holding his first news conference since winning the aelection, alongside his children, he's set to announce the future of his business empire. new reporting indicates how trump plans to extract himself from his corporate endeavors and how far he'll go. a source tells cnn the president-elect's two adult sons will take a leadership position within the trump organization and trump i's daughter ivanka trump and son-in-law jared kushner will have roles in washington. with me, jo becker. i read your piece this morning, thank you for swinging by. you take it a step further suggesting trump may actually keep a stake in his company. >> yes, our sources tel

abc's steve so sun sosunsami in charleston. >> reporter: jurors learned today this admitted racist and accused murderer, seen here entering this historic black church, had staked out the church several times, months before the killings in 2015. an fbi agent explains that a gps device in dylann roof's car shows he drove nearly two hours from his home in columbia to the church in charleston twice in february, again in april and then twice in may. in this cold-blooded fbi confessi confession, roof admits to killing nine people and explains why he hates black americans. >> i had to do it, because nobody else is going to do it. nobody else is brave enough to do anything about it. >> reporter: police say they found more of these. pictures of roof with confederate flags and even wearing white hoods on computers at his home. they found drawers and closets full of hollow-point bullets. >> well, i actually bought them at a different walmart. not for any reason, it's just, i didn't have the money. >> reporter: the trial could close soon, and the last witness will be one of three survivors who say