our personal freedoms have also been under attack. we have the right to choose our own health care. i m count on the supreme court to say exactly that. have you heard this story about one family who runs a small business in idaho. they saved enough money to buy a piece of property and build a home on it. but just a few days after they broke ground, an epa regulator told them to stop digging immediately. they said it was sit on the wetteland. they said they couldn t build and it couldn t even be appealed. fortunately they appealed to the supreme court and they let them build, just like they should. this administration s attack on freedom extends even to rights explicitly guaranteed by the constitution, the right to bear arms is so plainly stated, so unambiguous the liberals have a hard time challenging it directly. instead, they ve been employing every imaginable ruse and ploy to restrict it and to defeat it. i applaud true conservationists like rod keck. i applaud ambassador
it s the top of the hour. i m gary tuchman in for suzanne malveaux. let s get you up to speed. george zimmerman has a status hearing just a few minutes from now. he s not expected to appear in court for it. he also has a bond hearing set for next week. zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of trayvon martin. zimmerman says it was self-defense. the affidavit says he quote profiled the teenager and disregarded a police dispatcher s order not to pursue him. thousands of syrians shouting against the government are testing the cease-fire that went into effect yesterday. so far day two is relatively calm. we are hearing though about small clashes and some civilian casualties. syrian forces and rebel fighters are for the most part keeping their promise to stop shooting at each other. north korea s long-range rocket launch was a big failure, but world leaders are worried about what could come next. the u.n. secretary-general believes north korea m
norman. our chad myers tracking it all from the severe weather center. what can you tell us? it looks like it was in norman, oklahoma. it was about 3/4 miles north of the stadium. through downtown and out towards the east of the city and up toward the lakes that are off to the east. the storm is still moving along i-40. we don t believe there is a tornado anymore with it. the storm mass stopped rotating. right in the middle of norman, this storm was rotating enough that a funnel came down, created a tornado and has created damage. there are calling for some barricades to stop people from driving on some of the roads. they are calling for some started saying there are minor injuries and areas of structural damage where roofs are off the building all together and off the apartment buildings. another storm out near chickasha. don t see anything rotating on it yet. we have spotters out there. we are watching all this. this person, vern carlson, driving, looking for the stor
cory booker racing into a neighbor s burning house crossing through smoke and flames to save a woman s life. newark, new jersey, has a new hero this morning. in control. the government taking a huge step in safety behind the wheel. a brake override. we ll tell you all about it. jackass award. the agency using your money to invent a fake award show at dinners you paid for. we re on the case. housing alert. have prices finally hit rock bottom? value of your home could go up for the first time in seven years. and it s iconic, studied in one of the most popular pieces of art around and now hitting the auction block. get ready for the scream. newsroom begins right now. up first this morning, north korea defies the world and then surprises it. the secretive regime admitting that the controversial rocket launch was a failure. pyongyang says it broke apart before it could put a satellite into orbit. the united states and other countries saw the test as a future ballistic
could be smuggled in undetected. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. it s one of the more mundane documents americans have to deal with, but for president obama, the tax return is politically charged in this, an election year. the white house released his 2011 files today along with that of the vice president, joe biden and there are some surprises in both documents. as lisa sylvester has been carefully going after these tax returns, what do you see? first off, the obamas, like the romneys, gave generously to charities. the president s income, which was $1.7 million in 2010 was down significantly as sales of his book dropped off, but the focus was on taxes and more specifically, rates. there are some surprises there. who was taxed at a higher rate? the president, mitt romney or the president s secretary? it might surprise you, but it s actually the president s secretary. she makes $95,000 a year. the obama administration confirms her rate is is higher than t