terrorism center at west point. they re among thousands of documents seized by the navy s.e.a.l.s who killed bin laden last year in pakistan. well, they show that he worked until his death to organize another major terrorist attack in the united states. he is probably the most famous guy in china today and the biggest headache for the chinese government. chen guangcheng remains in a beijing hospital. he now says he desperately wants america s help to get out of china and he wants to go to the united states where he believes he s going to be safer. chen is an anti-government human rights activist. chinese officials promise to leave him alone but chen doesn t believe them. he made a personal plea to president obama. translator: i would like to say to him, please do everything you can to get our whole family out. i m very disappointed with the u.s. government. cnn is continuing to seek comment from u.s. officials about chen s claim that he was mistreated and threatened by
now we re learning the reason why they chose that specific target. it might not necessarily be what you think. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s certainly one of the most visible people on the planet that with global media watching his every single move. how did president obama take most of the world by surprise when he showed up in afghanistan. we re learning new details of this rather complex and massive operation. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is joining us. brianna, tell our viewers what you are learning. reporter: there was nothing normal about how this trip was executed and even from the way president obama entered air force one early, early in the morning on tuesday at andrews air force base. instead of taking the normal multi-story set of stairs he takes usually, he went on a smallerest is stairs into almost the belly of the plane, near the front of the plane and in addition, this is a trip th
collapse and bring down power lines. it s already started to happen. that wasn t old video from january. that s actually today in pennsylvania after the warmest march ever recorded. as much as 16 inches of heavy, wet snow expected to fall on parts of the northeast, but we don t expect it to last long. it appears likely to rise through the 40s and 50s this week. the man who killed trayvon martin is out of jail back in hiding. george zimmerman walked out of the correctional facility in sanford, florida, around midnight. he s released on a $150,000 bond. zimmerman s going to have to wear a gps monitor and check in with authorities every three days until the murder trial. in new york detectivese looking for clues whon what happened to etan patz have ended their search. patz disappeared 33 years ago. his picture first to be posted on the side of a milk carton. walmart caught in a huge foreign bribery scandal, came to light in the new york times article. company is accuse
jackpot, that s the biggest in american history. so many people have things that look like this. this is sour show s. your chances of winning, odds aren t great. 176 million to 1. do you have greater odds of dieing from a bee sting, but i want to get one thing out there right way. this is a rare lottery. usually the expected value of a ticket, of $1 ticket is well below a buck and lotteries are bad bets. the pot s grown so large this time and so many people are playing, that expected value of a ticket based on the $640 million jackpot and about 175 million playing, a little over $3. if you haven t bought a ticket, might as well. a lot of people are imagining what a win could do to their lives. there were lines for tickets in 42 states and the district of columbia s lottery tickets reach $3 million an hour. these are numbers that have never been seen before, and it adds up to more than just a windfall for the lucky winner. in 2010, lottery sales generated nearly $18 billion in
creating a lot of misery this morning, and the governor has declared a state of emergency in one state. it was indeed a big night, but that was so yesterday. next stop, super tuesday. mitt romney may have had a sweep, but you know what, in one week it is the big show, the biggest night of primary season. and it was a close one in his home state. so what? michigan s a win, right? win s a win. but what s up next? and the accused teenage gunman in the ohio school ram pain facing a judge this morning. he could be tried as an adult. we are hearing also the desperate 911 calls from inside the school. we are going to share those with you this morning. and one cruise ship hits the ground and topples over. another cruise ship loses all power and is set adrift in pirate infested seas. is it a good idea to even embark on a cruise these days? washington may have some help and some answers for you. we ll let you know why that is. and we begin this morning with breaking news. the sea