JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: A federal courtroom the setting for a new review of the 1993 FBI raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. Jury selection gets under way this afternoon in a lawsuit brought by survivors and relatives against the government. CNN national correspondent Tony Clark is in Waco -- Tony.</s>TONY CLARK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Jeanne, this is a trial that's been seven years in the making. You might remember back in 1994, it was Branch Davidians who were on trial because of what happened just outside Waco. Now it is the government that is on trial. All of the players are here, the attorneys for the survivors of the Branch Davidian compound, relatives of those who were killed, as well as government attorneys, and some members of the Branch Davidians. At issue, exactly what happened at Mount Carmel, seven years ago, and to the people that are not here. That's the important thing, the more than 80 Branch Davidians who were killed when the compound went up in flames April 19, 1993. The claims are that the government bears some responsibility for those deaths. At issue are four key points, key points that the jury will have to decide: whether members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shot indiscriminately during the initial raid in February, 1993; whether the FBI violated Washington's approved plan by prematurely destroying the building; whether the government bears some responsibility for the start and spread of the fire that consumed the building; and because the government had no plan to fight the fire, there were no fire trucks there, whether the government has some liability there as well. The jury selection begins this afternoon, opening statements expected to begin tomorrow morning. This trial expected to last about a month. Tony Clark, CNN, Waco, Texas.
Branch Davidian Trial: Jury Selection Set to Begin in Lawsuit Brought by Survivors, Relatives Against Government