Jury Deliberating in Boston Bombing Trial
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: A second round of jury deliberations in the Boston bombing trial gets under way this morning. On Tuesday, the panel could not reach a verdict after seven hours, and they sent out two undisclosed questions to the judge. Let's get right to CNN's Alexandra Field tracking all of the latest for us from Boston. What do we know this morning, Alexandra?</s>ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey there, Alisyn. This case isn't exactly a who done it. Dzokhar's attorneys have admitted to his role in it. But the jury does have the responsibility of looking at each of the 30 counts that Dzhokhar is charged with and determining whether or not the government met its burden of proof. A lot of people thought the process would move swiftly. This is the first time that the jury has been together behind closed doors where they're able to talk freely about the testimony that they've heard and the first time they've had access to every piece of evidence that's been entered into the case over the last couple of weeks. We know that already this process has raised a couple of questions for the jury. They submitted two notes with questions for the judge. Those questions have not been publicly revealed in the courtroom. We expect that the judge will help the jury resolve those questions later this morning. But we should point out, this is certainly not irregular. It's pretty routine, Chris, for juries to come back with questions, wanting clarifications, definitions, maybe a little more guidance. We should know more when the jury returns here at 9:00 a.m.</s>CUOMO: All right. Alexandra, we'll stay on that. We have big news this morning -- murder charges for a South Carolina cop after disturbing video surfaces depicting what happened. This officer shooting an unarmed man in the back. That man, Walter Scott, 50 years old, obviously running away from the police officer. This all started with a traffic stop Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m. local time. The officer is Michael Slager. He says he had to shoot Walter Scott because Walter had taken his stun gun in a scuffle and there was fear for his life. But that was before the officer knew that video existed.</s>BERMAN: The fate of Aaron Hernandez now in the hands of a jury, which resumes deliberations later this morning. During closing arguments on Tuesday, the defense team admitted that the former New England Patriot witnessed the murder of Odin Lloyd. Now, this was a surprise. This was the first time we heard this in the courtroom. The defense has always maintained that Hernandez had no part in planning Lloyd's murder.</s>CAMEROTA: Washington, D.C. was in the dark, a voltage drop briefly knocked out electricity in parts of Washington and Maryland, including the White House and the State Department. Officials blame a downed transmission line at a power plant in Maryland. The White House, which switched to back-up power so quickly, we're told President Obama did not even notice this. They dismissed any terrorist connection to this outage. But it was so bad, even Oprah Winfrey was left in the dark.</s>BERMAN: To thousands --</s>CAMEROTA: Yes.</s>BERMAN: When it happens to Oprah --</s>CAMEROTA: This has never happened to Oprah before, she was giving a speech honoring Maya Angelou when the lights went out.</s>CUOMO: I thought she had the power to create light, no?</s>BERMAN: Chris Cuomo right there, @ChrisCuomo.</s>CAMEROTA: Wow, she's been revealed.</s>CUOMO: She's big enough to do it. I stick with my statement. All right. So, bad weather news coming your way. Tornadoes could hit central U.S. today. With severe weather in the forecast as well. Let's get to meteorologist Ivan Cabrera for the latest. What do we know?</s>IVAN CABRERA, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, talking about lights going out, I think we'll have plenty of that later this afternoon. Clash of the air masses here, Chris, is what we have going. Thunderstorms right now in parts of Michigan and just to the north we have snow. So, it's that clash of air masses that's going to set up the severe weather threat later on. Thunderstorms right now in Illinois. Temperatures well into the mid and upper 80s ahead of the frontal boundary, to the north, we have 50s and 60s. So, we have the temperature difference, the moisture difference, dry air from the north and that we have upper level energy that's going to be coming in from the west, all of that is going to transpire late this afternoon to some thunderstorms that include large hail, damaging winds, and the potential for tornadoes in some of these super cell thunderstorms could be producing some strong tornadoes. We'll watch that closely. Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kansas city, heading up into St. Louis, that is an area we're focusing in on today as we continue heading through later this afternoon. And the severe weather threat continues tomorrow, a multistate, multiday tornadic threat. We'll keep you posted on it, back to you.</s>BERMAN: Yes, pay attention to this one, guys. It doesn't look good. Thanks, Ivan. We have a disturbing breach at the White House, Russian hackers manage to infiltrate the computers there. So, how much information did they get? Was any of it classified? Christiane Amanpour joins us next.