are arguing they be allowed to introduce into evidence at trial that trayvon martin had a history of fighting and wanted to introduce past drug use, texts from trayvon martin and they wanted to introduce cell phone pictures from trayvon martin s phone. we understand that judge deborah nelson has ruled that the jury will not will not hear any evidence of prior marijuana use by martin, and regarding the history of fighting, the judge has ruled there will be no mention of his prior fighting incidents, unless, of course, the defense can find a way around the hearsay rules of evidence. so this pretrial hearing is ongoing, there are many matters to settle before the actual trial gets under way on june 10th. it has been nearly six weeks since explosion leveled a texas fertilizer plant and as the cause is narrowed down, the small town of west slowly works to rebuild. on april 17th, the explosion
he is not in the courtroom this morning. that is somewhat of a surprise as attorneys for both sides are arguing this long list of motions. judge debra nelson already deciding this morning a number of things. martin s cell phone pictures and texts are not going to be relevant for the jury to see. pictures such as martin smoking pot, pictures of marijuana plants, a photo of a handgun, perhaps he was trying to sell a gun and was involved in fighting. aside from the fighting the judge rules it is not really pertinent, all of which zimmerman s attorneys want it available. the idea of marijuana use is going to be intertwined with the behavior that happens the night that for whatever reason led to the altercation. the state says my guy was the aggressor. the state says trayvon martin is the aggressor. studies suggested aggressive behavior can be residual from marijuana use. reporter: judge nelson did allow the toxicology
place. cell phone pictures of him blowing smoke. text with a friend where he references an apparent fight. all of those things. those are trying to come in but because zimmerman and martin were strangers on the night of the encounter he wouldn t have known that. they said you cannot present this picture of trayvon in opening saying look at what he texted in november, look at the foe foes from his phone. that cannot come in and the martin attorneys says he knew it wouldn t come in but he has gotten it out there. it s in the media and part of the public conversation. and part of a potential jury poll. and the same reason they say there was information released about zimmerman and exfiancee and order she had against him. this is just beginning. thank you for coming in. and to be clear, we do want to say that george zimmerman has sued nbc universal for defamation, an allegation nbc strongly denies. she hasn t stepped into the roll and already rutgers
figure out what sparked a deadly limousine fire. it killed five women. among them was a bride about to celebrate her wedding. five other people in the limo, including the limo driver managed to escape. claudia cowan live in san francisco. any further word on what caused all of this? reporter: jon, we re hoping a press conference later today will shed more light on what caused the fire that trapped five friends in the back of a limousine, a horrible tragedy on what should have been a night of celebration. these dramatic cell phone pictures show the 1999 lincoln town car engulfed in flames. there wasn t any accident. just this one car involved. happened saturday night around 10:00 p.m. on the san mateo bridge as the new bride, just 31 years old and her friends were heading westbound to a party near san francisco. officials say someone smelled smoke in the back and banged on the partition for the driver to stop. coring to the san francisco chronicle he mistakenly believed the women wo
were other things put in the explosives packages to increase the likelihood of injury. often they do, right? they put all kinds of things whether it s ball bearings, nails exactly. that s right. so they re looking for that sort of thing. they made clear to me while they re calling the fbi has designated this a terrorism event, they don t know whether it was perpetrated by a domestic group or a foreign group. they re going to go through all sort of investigative steps. they re pulling video. they re doing interviews. they re looking for people to bring cell phone pictures and videos so they can use those. they re going to put together the clues to understand what is the motivation. as the president said, who perpetrated this and what was the motivation? tom, as you know, the two press conferences that the boston police commissioner has spoken out. he was asked drkt directly did you have any warning? he was very clear, no. nothing. no warning. no, you know, sense in advance tha