self-defense. you saw pictures there of the reverend al sharpton and a number of the protests, that one in new york. there are others across the country. holly, what s taking place there in sanford? well, basically, fredricka, the latest we heard is from former governor jeb bush. he was governor in 2005 when this stand your ground bill was written into law. that s the law that allows somebody, a civilian to use deadly force if they feel their life is threatened. now, in this case where george zimmerman has been claiming stand your ground, he says this is not exactly the case. this was not the intent. take a listen. it appears to me this law does not apply to this circumstance. stand your ground means stand your ground. it doesn t mean chase after somebody who has turned their back. now, in response police chief bill lee who has temporarily stepped down released a written statement on the city s website. he gave the reason they were using stand your ground in this situat
cnn saturday morning. it s sart, march 24. george zimmerman s attorney. he speaks out. 100 years after the titanic disaster, thousands of items salvaged from the wreckage are up for grabs. and in the race for supremacy, which political party comes out on top, democrats or gop. the 2012 tweet states right now in the cnn newsroom. big day in louisiana. 20 delegates eight stake. rick santorum is ahead. santorum and gingrich are addressing a leadership conference. the former not will attend a couple of rallies later in the day. we ll now show you a video showing rick santorum shooting a rifle as part of his campaign stop. listen carefully to what somebody is saying in the background. all right. it might not have been very clear for you but the woman is in the background heard saying pretend it s obama. rick santorum was quick to slam that comment. no. we re nothing that s a horrible, terrible remark. i m glad i didn t hear it. the secret service has confirmed it and i
who once spoke out against the killing of civilians in a war zone. sergeant bales identity had been withheld for six days because of the pentagon s concerns about his security and that of his family. athena jones is live for us out of washington. what more do we know about bales, his state of mind before his recent deployment to afghanistan? reporter: certainly as you mentioned he s 38 years old. he s the father of two young children. he had deployed to iraq three times, was on his fourth deployment to afghanistan when this shooting rampage that he s accused of occur. if you talk to his lawyer and we ve heard from his family, his neighbors and friends, they all say that he s a family man, a love husband and they are shocked by hearing this news that he s accused of this. let s listen to what his friend and his neighbor had to say. he had such a big heart too because he was in the financial world as a financial adviser. he couldn t even take that, like losing people s mon
message that he s giving the u.n. diplomat there. so underscoring that real contradiction, nic, some are alleging that the assaults being leveled by the government is actually intensifying while these talks were taking place. reporter: this is what the activists fear. they think that while the international community tries to engage president assad in some kind of talks and what kofi annan has gone there to do today is call for a cease-fire and get political talks going. the activists fear bashar al assad will just use this as a smoke screen to continue his military advance on the ground. that what he is looking for here is time to sort of continue the maximum sort of most deadly part of his campaign so he can sort of wrap that up and sort of push down the opposition, if you will, around the country so that from now on in the future, the death toll will be much lower and people will say, oh, the situation is getting better where as he s really using this time to go after
this is cnn saturday morning. it s march 3rd, and i m david mattingly. tornadoes shred through the midwest and south killing more than 30 people, and there is a new threat of storms today. then in two hours washington state republicans will officially select who they think should go up against barack obama. could ron paul finally win one? bus t we begin with the ferocious killer storms that went through the midwest and southern u.s. at least 32 people are dead. now the frantic search is on for survivors, and there are new threat this morning of more severe weather. the monster storm stretched from the deep south, alabama, across the border into tennessee and all the way north into indiana. one of the hardest hit areas, henryville, indiana. a tornado leveled entire neighborhoods. school buses ended up slamming into buildings. businesses were demolished. lord, take this away from us. take this away from us. these people in kentucky prayed as the monster storm came clo