no second chances in life. colson had suffered a brain hemorrhage on march 31 and had been in intensive care ever since. colson was 80 years old. continuing on, growing fallout in the sex scandal rocking the secret service. a u.s. senator now calling for a wider investigation and the heads continue to roll in the scandal sparked by an incident between a prostitute and agent in a colombian hotel. the secret service is forcing three more agents to resign, a total of six agency employees have all lost their jobs. the new developments continuing and embarrassing situation for the white house that started during the president s visit to colombia for a summit, or right before. molly henneberg is live in washington. republican chuck grassley wants more information from the secret service, specifically what does he want? he wants to know if this scandal is limited to the secret
about. we are a nonviolent organization and we want justice to prevail in the courtroom. zimmerman s attorney and friends are out there painting trayvon martin as a villain. how sad is that? that s very sad. he was a victim who lost his life. yet they are trying to defend the perpetrator who actually did the killing. now, mr. zimmerman, who was in pursuit of mr. martin, was asked by the police dispatch are you following this kid. he said yes i am. we don t need you to do that. mr. zimmerman should have stopped at that point but he didn t. by continuing on, mr. zimmerman is beginning to stalk mr. martin in this case. and he got out of his vehicle and approached mr. martin. it was not the other way around and if you are the aggressor, you are the one perpetrating the crime. that s what happened this this case. in the police report, it says zimmerman was allegedly bleeding if his nose and the back of his head and that the officer thought that he had been laying
palestinian territories with isra israel. 1,027 israeli palestinian prisoners held in israeli jails will be swapped for just one israeli soldier, gilad shalit, arrested in gaza five years ago. a lot of anticipation, excitement here in gaza for that to take place, in israel a lot of concern that too much of was given away for the release of just one man, brooke. when do we know yet we can expect the exchange to take place? reporter: they re keeping those details very much under wraps, at least here on the sort of palestinian side of things. we re expecting in about nine hours now, about midnight your time, that the prisoner exchange will get under way with an initial release of several hundred palestinian prisoners by israel here into the gaza strip, only then will the hamas militant group who have been holding gilad shalit for five years transfer him to the red cross and he ll be moved across into egypt and handed to the custody of israeli officials and taken home. ma
rariton river, they re pumping out their basement ps they consider themselves very lucky. the water didn t get much up to the first floor. a lot of people were riding it out in their homes. today, they re going to be pumping out that basement water, continuing on. also, just cleaning up what they lost. a lot of people took were prepared for this beforehand, moving some of their possessions to higher ground. we even heard one of the neighbors here had in his basement sort of cut out his boiler and put it in storage in preparation of the storm arriving. a lot of work left to do, and we re going to survey the neighborhood as we go on with this day. michelle franzen in what has become an all-too familiar scene. thank you. another man is mauled to death at yellowstone national park as officials are on the hunt for the grizzly bear responsible. this is the second death in that park this year. details on that in about ten
selected by paul the psychic octopus. and paul the psychic octopus is probably right now at the izod center in jersey because all those people that are mobbing around that building want to be on american idol. crowds are lining up for those auditions. those terrible auditions. we have with us john ridley, in l.a. with me, and john. good morning. from npr, you name it. american idol continuing on, without simon, without ellen. it will be interesting. there is, you know, it s still a ratings juggernaut. but not the way it used to be. they re going back to one of the original producers. people are wondering, have they jumped the shark? is this going to be this is the end. they jumped the octopus, there s no doubt about it. washington, d.c., we ve got huffington post sam stein. also, of course, willie geist in new york. and msnbc s chief d.c. correspondent norah o donnell, also in washington. let s mika s coming in in a