Scott: What is up? It is Thursday April 9. I am Scott Evans and Channel One News starts right now.
We are starting off today with the latest in the Boston Marathon bombing case. Arielle Hixson brings us the jury's decision againstDzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Arielle: 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty of all 30 charges against him, including ones that make him eligible for the death penalty.
The jury took fewer than two days to convict him. Over the past weeks, they heard from 96 witnesses and viewed graphic pictures, videos and physical evidence of the bombings.
In April 2013, Dzhokhar, then 19, helped his brother plant two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
The attack killed8-year-old Martin Richard, exchange student Lingzi Lu and restaurant worker Krystle Campbell. And more than 260 others were injured.
Four days later the brothers killed MIT police officer Sean Collier and carjacked an SUV,leading to a shootout with police in Watertown. Tamerlan died after he was shot during the gunfight.
Then police found Dzhokhar hours later, hiding in a dry-docked boat. Inside, he had scribbled a note, blaming America for its wars in Muslim countries.
Prosecutors described the bombing as a "cold, calculated, terrorist act" that was "intentional" and "bloodthirsty."
Defense Attorney Judy Clarke agreed that Dzhokhar definitely participated, but it was Tamerlan who built the bombs and planned the attacks. Clarke argued, “If not for Tamerlan, it would not have happened.” Her goal has been to keep her client off death row.
Now the jury will meet again to decideif Tsarnaev should get the death penalty or life in prison.
Scott: Wow, thanks Arielle. Alright, now coming up after the breakwe will take a look at what else is making news.
Time to take a look at some other top stories, and we head to South Carolina where there is outrage after a video surfaced showing a police officer shooting a man in the back.
Demonstrators rallied on the steps of the North Charleston City Hall to protest the killing of an unarmed black man allegedly shot by a white police officer.
Officer Michael Slager was charged with murder after a cell phone video surfaced showing him firing eight times at 50-year-old Walter Scott as Scott ran away. Officer Slager has also been fired from his job.
The officer pulled Scott over on Saturday for a broken taillight. Slager claims he feared for his life as the two struggled over his Taser.
But the video shows Scott ran away, then the officer started shooting.
This is another incident adding to the debate about police and their use of force that has sparked protests across the country.
Next up, detectives in London are investigating what could turn out to be the United Kingdom's biggest jewel heist. And the way it went down is straight out of a Hollywood movie.
The thieves went straight for a vault in Hatton Gardens, one that's shared by several jewelers in the heart of London's Diamond District. And they waited until the quiet Easter Weekend to make the bust.
The gang of thieves drilled right through the vault with heavy industrial equipment, breaking open a sea of gems. And while police collect clues,jewelers are counting up their loss, expected to be up to $300 million.
Police think someone had inside knowledge of the vault. It was installed in 1949 and billed as the safest place to store diamonds. Well, burglar proof until last weekend anyway.
Now, let's check in with you guys. Yesterday we told you that finding a job this summer could be tough, as the latest jobs report showed a slowdown in hiring.
We asked, are you planning on getting a summer job?
Fifty-five percent of you said yes, and 45 percent said no.
Alright coming up, the year was 1865. Four million were freed, 600,000 were killed and one nation united.
This afternoon at 3:15, bells across America will ring in cities north and southas we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Keith Kocinski takes us back in time for a deeper look.
Keith: The boom of cannons, the shuffle of feet. American men stand shoulder to shoulder and fire at their enemies, but theenemyis a fellow American.
That was the Civil War, the bloodiest war on American soil, pitting the North against the South, and brother against brother.
These men gathered recently to pay tribute and reenact the Battle of Bentonville, considered one of the last major battles of the Civil War.
It was a Confederate led offensive and the largest Civil War battle in North Carolina. But by the end it just came down to numbers. Union troops outnumbered Confederate troops three to one.
Sean Flaherty: Watching them charge out of the woods definitely sends feardown your spine. I felt that today.
Erik Chappell: It's pretty real. The sounds are exactly the same as they would've been. The sounds, the smells, every sense, except that people aren't actually dying.
Keith: More than three million Americans fought in the Civil War, and more than 600,000 thousand men died, nearly 2 percent of the population.
But what caused the Civil War has been debated for years. Was it a fight to preserve states’ rights or keep slavery?
Starting in the 1500's, America brought over Africans, against their will, to work as slaves.Millions of slaves were transported on ships, but many didn't survive the long trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Most of those that did ended up on big plantations in the South.
Years before the fighting broke out of the Civil War, tension had been growing between the North and the South. Histories say the states were divided by their different views about government power, expanding to the West, and slavery.
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, and because of his anti-slavery views, many Southerners felt they no longer belonged in the United States.Seven Southern states seceded, or broke off, toform their own nation, the Confederate States of America.
Lincoln tried to keep the country united, but on April 12, 1861 the New Confederate Army fired shots at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, setting off the Civil War. Then four more states seceded to join the South.
At first, Lincoln maintained that the war was about restoring the country, not about slavery.
Then came the Battle of Antietam.
The Battle of Antietam was fought here in Maryland on September 17, 1862. It was the bloodiest one-day battle in American history, and the first major battle of the Civil War to be fought in the North.
The North claimed victory and Lincoln announced that he was going to free slaves in the Confederate rebellion states within 100 days.
On January 1 in 1863, Lincoln declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebel states "shall be free." The famous Emancipation Proclamation recast the Civil War as a fight against slavery.
Reginald Washington: This is one of the great documents of human history and it ranks right up with the Declaration of Independence as historical significance for the U.S.
Keith: Lincoln also opened the door for blacks to join the Northern Union forces. An estimated 180,000 African- Americans went on to serve in the Army, while another 19,000 served in the Navy.
Washington: They fought gallantly, by all accounts, to free not only the former slaves but to free America.
Keith: Another turning point of the war was the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863.It was the closest the South came to victory, and the North to defeat.
The sacrifices at the Battle of Gettysburg inspired Lincoln to give his famous Gettysburg Address. In just 272 words, he paid tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives.
Scott Hartwig: Most Americans today believe we stand for equality, liberty, freedom for all; and we didn't all stand for that through a part of our history. That's what Lincoln talks about in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln is talking about who we are as a nation.
Keith: President Lincoln wrote it was important that "these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.”
The war raged on for two more years until on April 9, 1865 the South surrendered to the North, bringing to a close four years of fighting.
The states then ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, officially freeing all four million slaves and ending slavery in America.
No matter the side, 150 years later, the men who fought have not been forgotten.
Erik: It is a great experience to be able to take part to honor those men who fought and died in a very important turning point in our history.
Sean: Who knows some of those guys could've made a difference. It's sad to see cause an entire generation was crippled and you never know what could've came of it.
Keith: Keith Kocinski, Channel One News.
Scott: And for a timeline leading up to the end of the Civil War go to Channelone.com.
Ok guys, we are out of time today. But we will see you right back heretomorrow.
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