pakistan. and north korea prepares for a rocket launch. we have an up-close look at the launch pad, could a nuclear test be next? i ll ask bill richardson why the rest of the world is so worried. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. but we begin with the obama administration, pressing hard right now for legislation that would ensure that the wealthiest americans don t pay a lower income tax rate than the middle class, this drawing iss let bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. jessica, the president s getting ready to score some political points on this issue? reporter: the white house says this is all about policy, but on a campaign conference call they could not behind the push for the buff let rule. it s the front page of the website, president obama bushing the buffet rule. if you make more than a million dollars a year, you should not pay less than 30% in taxes. the buffet rule says if you make more than a million dollars a
has had three options in front of her. one was to aarest and charge george zimmerman, one was to drop the case completely and the other is to go to the grand jury. now she says she s not going to take this case to the groond jury. this isn t that big of a surprise. she indicated that she never had a case like this before that she did come to a grand jury with. it does not, however, provide any answers and the press release was really pacific. don t read anything into this that would tell you what she s going to do. the special very will decide whether or not george zimmerman will be arrested and not the grand jury. we reached out of the man representing the family of trayvon martin. they say they want to see an arrest made here in this case. but today s words that they believe were encouraging. listen. we re praying that an arrest is imminent. ms. corey has a track record for being a very good prosecutor. we hope after an arrest is made, it is a very public trial so everybo
day before the shooting. apparently the second anniversary of his father s death, those blurred words, a racial slur. the police chief says, this may not be enough to add hate crime charges. more details on the shooting and suspects live from tulsa in just ten minutes. for singer, jennifer hudson, a painful 3 1/2 year wait for a trial is over. jury selection begins today in the trial of william balfour, the man charged with killing hudson s mother, brother, and 7-year-old nephew. it happened after hudson won an academy award and an grammy. she is the estranged husband of hudson s sister. he has denied the charges. he acted in a fit of rage because he believed his wife had a boyfriend. a live report in chicago in just 30 minutes. live pictures now from the white house. president obama hanging out on the south lawn. it is the annual white house easter egg roll. 30,000 people why all 50 states get tickets to come to the party. when he gets back inside, the president is sched
all five victims were black. the two suspects are white. officials are not calling this a hate crime but jake england, the suspect on the left, he made a remark on his facebook page the day before the shootings that could indicate a motive here, today is two years that my dad has been gone, shot by a, blank and blank. it s hard not to go off between that and sharon, i ve gone in the red, rip dad and sharon, i love and miss you. i think about both of you every second of the day. sharon was a reference to england s 24-year-old fiance, sharon hart wild, who had recently committed suicide in front of him, leaving behind their 6-month-old daughter. we re joined by tulsa mayor dewey bartlett and tulsa police chief chuck jordan. chief i want to ask you first what do we know about a motive? we have the facebook postings which certainly are leading investigators in the direction of a hate crime but what do we know about motive here? well that s not something we can really discuss a
courageous move. while an attorney for trayvon martin s family says the family is trying to have patience. north korea thumbing its nose at the world. any day now could launch this rocket which would violate a u.n. resolution. much of the world sees this as a possible test for a long-range missile that would be capable of reaching the united states. now south korea is warning that the north is trying to provoke an angry international reaction. it says that the north plans to use that reaction as an excuse to go ahead with a third nuclear test. 75 people were killed in syria today. just a day shy of the deadline for the government to pull its forces from cities across the country. now, the mounting death toll is dimming hopes that the assad regime is actually going to follow through with its pledge to withdraw. earlier we also saw clashes between rebel forces and syrian troops at the turkish border. republican presidential candidate newt gingrich says campaign front-runn