Tsarnaev Defense Admits "It Was Him"; U.S. Ambassador Attacked in South Korea
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: He did it, not something you usually hear from a defense attorney. But that's exactly what happened in the Boston marathon bombing trial. The defense attorney saying simply, it was him. The question now for jurors will be why and whether or not he should die for what he did. CNN's Deborah Feyerick has the latest.</s>DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In opening statements, the defense team for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made one thing perfectly clear -- it was him. Hoping jurors will now focus on the influence his brother had, to carry out the senseless attack and spare Dzhokhar the death penalty. The jury also saw four never before seen videos of the bombings. Bloody bodies laying on the ground. First responders scrambling and the shock and dismay of onlookers, these videos shown in court yesterday during the trial, images that make an impact.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can move. I'm with her. Here you go.</s>FEYERICK: This point of view video on the ground level revealing scenes of terror, with some images too gruesome to show.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tourniquet, tourniquet.</s>FEYERICK: Legs shattered by shrapnel from the pressure cooker bomb lay on the ground. Their blood staining the pavement. In court some of those victims testify about the blast. Sydney Corcoran, a high school senior, told the jury she could feel a tingling in her body. "I was getting increasingly cold," she said, "I knew I was dying." Her main artery had been severed. Her mother lost both legs in the blast. Besides the violence and the explosions, these new videos show people rushing to help the injured. This was the scene inside Marathon Sports. A running store located at the finish line. The blast shatters windows causing confusion in the store. You see people running out. Some bombing victims stagger inside and clothe something grabbed off the store shelves to make tourniquets to save so many who simply came to watch a race. Deborah Feyerick, CNN, Boston.</s>JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Some stunning images there. The U.S. ambassador to South Korea is in stable condition this morning. Ambassador Mark Lippert is recovering after being attacked with a knife, slashed. He was jumped from behind, cut in the face and arm by a knife-wielding man as he was about to deliver a speech in Seoul. The ambassador was in surgery for more than two hours. He needed 80 stitches to sew up those injuries. The president of South Korea calls this an intolerable attack on the South Korea/U.S. alliance.</s>CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: So from Texas to Massachusetts, 90 million people under some sort of winter warning, watch or advisory, thousands of flights have been grounded or canceled. School districts forced to close. Take a look at this. That's a FedEx truck, right? Jackknifed because of the ice on the road in Texas, just hanging off the side of the bridge. Fortunately, enough of it was on there to keep it stable. The driver, OK.</s>MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: First, you don't see it hanging off, it's really terrifying. Abid Naseer, a Pakistani man accused of conspiring with and supporting al Qaeda, has been found guilty by a U.S. jury of plan doing bomb a British shopping center. Prosecutors say the 2009 Manchester plot was part of a three-pronged plan that included attacks on New York City subways and on a news room in Denmark, none were carried out.</s>BERMAN: New information may lead the NTSB to reopen the investigation of the 1959 plane crash that killed rock and roll legends, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. A retired pilot says equipment failure and other errors may be to blame, not operator error as was first concluded. Now, a lot of people in subsequent generations know all about this from a the song "America Pie." That, of course, was the day the music died.</s>PEREIRA: Amazing to think that long after a crash, that kind of information can come to end.</s>BERMAN: Yes, what can they find out at this point?</s>PEREIRA: Right.</s>CUOMO: But the legacy for their pilots family what they lived with and obviously, the musical legacy was --</s>BERMAN: That's a really good point.</s>COUMO: The truth can never come you know whenever it comes, it's good enough for them. All right. So, listen to this, the Iranian foreign minister says a nuclear deal with the U.S.? Very close. Christiane Amanpour sat down with the foreign minister with an eye-opening interview. Why is Iran more optimistic than the United States?</s>PEREIRA: Hillary Clinton responding for the first time to reports she used a private email account to conduct business as secretary of state. Critics claim she's hiding something. We are going to tell you what the former first lady had to say about it.