few moments, but first joe johns takes a look at how edwards went from rising politician to a guy who could face decades behind bars. reporter: john edwards, the politician, remember him? we have much work to do because the truth is we still live in a country where there are two different americas. reporter: but as it turned out, mr. two americas here had two very different faces himself, and one of them wasn t very pretty. people close to him said it was the face of betrayal, betrayal of the people closest to him, his late wife elizabeth, his supporters, staffers, contributors. granded, edwards was a promising politician at first, successful democratic senator from the south. telegenic guy, rich trial lawyer, but a spokesman for the poor. smart but homegrown. talked such a good game he got picked up as john kerry s running mate in 2004. i have chosen a man who understands and defends the values of america. reporter: but it didn t work out, so next election cycle ed
according to these plaintiffs, fredricka, it s a very uncomfortable situation. manl arriving at the airport, you ve never done anything wrong, you re told you can t board the aircraft and you don t know why. that s the situation that a former marine found himself in. he was heading from chicago to spokane for his dog training business. federal agents surrounded him and told him he couldn t go. he found out later he was on no fly list and months later he said the fbi offered to get him off the list in exchange for being an informant at a local mosque. he declined that offer. he along with 15 are suing the government over the no fly list. a lower court threw out the case but the appeals court heard the arguments yesterday in portland, oregon. now, michelle says being on the list has really hurt him, hurt his family, and fredricka, he says it has hurt his business sniet s a lot of power for them to disrupt somebody s life. in all actuality, this company s for the people, by th
landing today at the big apple. if you re flying into jfk today, you could get an interesting look. i just gave it away. you can watch those pictures over and over again. a piggybacking 747 and a shuttle? sweet stuff. let s get started off the top of the hour here. up first, a six-figure shocker in the trayvon martin case. legal experts say it s something that could land trayvon martin s killer george zimmerman back in jail. zimmerman s attorney mark o mara told anderson cooper that he just found out his client has over $200,000 in online donations, but the judge was told zimmerman had very little money when the bail was set this wee week. he asked me what do with his paypal accounts. i asked him what he was talking about. and he said those are the accounts that had the money from the website he had and that there was about $200,000, $204,000 that had come in to date. i don t think judge lester will believe i misled him. i told him what i knew at the time which is exact
girls back to a hotel in colombia as well where they were doing safety prep for a visit by president barack obama. secret service spokesman said it happened on wednesday. the agents were relieved of their duty and sent packing on thursday before the president arrived on friday. he s in colombia this weekend for the summit of the americas. within the last hour, they have learned that the five military service members who were backing up these agents in colombia are in trouble, too, and the united states southern command said they violated curfew and nay have been involved in inappropriate conduct in the same hotel. white house is trying to keep the scandal from overshadowing the president s trip. this is a matter that is being looked into in an appropriate manner by the secret service itself. it would not be appropriate for the president to characterize something that is being looked into by the secret service at this time. all i can tell you is that it was he was made awa
booker was treated for smoke inhalation and second degree burns on his hands. the neighbor is in stable condition. arizona s governor jan brewer has signed a bill barring most abortions in the state after 20 weeks except when the mother s health is at risk. now, seven states have similar laws now. and democratic state senator linda lopez said the law was a horrible thing to do to women. governor brewer said she was trying to protect both the mothers and the rights of the fetus. man who accused former syracuse assistant basketball coach bernie fine of sexual abuse now admits he has been lying about it for months. the accuser, zack thomas selly, himself convicted of sexual abuse, told a local media outlet, he has never met bernie fine and he made up the entire story. the opening bell about to ring on wall street. time for the market run down. cnbc s becky quick is here. friday the 13th?