world news begins with george zimmerman being taken out of a patrol car at sanford police headquarters. he s wearing the same red jacket and blue jeans that he was wearing when he came across trayvon martin who was on his way home from the 7-eleven with a bag of skittles and an iced tea. now, the police report says he was bleeding from the nose and back of the head and was examined by emts at the scene before being taken in for questioning. attorney sonner says he believes that martin broke zimmerman s nose. we have frozen a portion of the video showing his nose and face so you can look more carefully and decide whether it s consistent with the kind of fight that zimmerman described. granted, it s surveillance video. it s not up close and the lighting is not good and the angle obviously could be better. but it s full of clues. here the officer touches zimmerman s sleeve and a few seconds later wipes off his hand. is it blood? that s a question. and then you see here the offi
behavior behind him. he ll talk about it as he joins us live today, thursday, march 29th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a thursday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning, i m savannah guthrie. ann is on assignment. this morning folks are looking very closely at that video of george zimmerman and what it may tell us about his claim of self-defense. that s right. zimmerman told investigators he was repeatedly punched, his head slammed into the sidewalk, and the official police report does say that he was given first aid. but does new surveillance video from the sanford police department back up or contradict his claims? we re going to hear from both sides coming up straight ahead. also ahead, some chilling new details in the murder of a vermont mother and teacher. a married couple is now behind bars, charged in connection with that killing. coming up, what they allegedly did to lure the victim out of her home.
star in a new sitcom. as he puts his anger and erratic behavior behind him. he ll talk about it as he joins us live today, thursday, march 29th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a thursday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning, i m savannah guthrie. ann is on assignment. this morning folks are looking very closely at that video of george zimmerman and what it may tell us about his claim of self-defense. that s right. zimmerman told investigators he was repeatedly punched, his head slammed into the sidewalk, and the official police report does say that he was given first aid. but does new surveillance video from the sanford police department back up or contradict his claims? we re going to hear from both sides coming up straight ahead. also ahead, some chilling new details in the murder of a vermont mother and teacher. a married couple is now behind bars, charged in connection with that killing. coming up, what
we re about to do. anyhoo mr. o don t is supposed to interview craig sonner the lawyer at the center of george zimmerman case. george sonner the courageous defender of george zimmerman walked out of studio. there is his chair in orlando. not the most enthralling television but it s miss neeb. i didn t think dressing a grizzly bear in human clothes of a good idea but you know they made that work. [ laughter ] panda, what no? [ laughter ] anyway have it it. who is page you, mr. lawyer? who hired you? when exactly did they hire you? does george zimmerman have a job? does he have any property? did you represent him when he was arrested for assault on a police officer? do you have the medical records that you can show us? he s grilling the chair! [ laughter ] no, the chair doesn t have medical records to show you. it s a chair. you should be yelling at the filing cabinet. note to self, do not go to ikea with lawrence o donnell. [ laughter ] do you call yourself a faraloggin
we begin tonight with the big story. the absolute chaos aboard a jet blue flight today of a pilot s meltdown. the video was obtained by lizzie oleary. [ yelling ] absolutely extraordinary scenes there on this flight involving a captain shouting there s a bomb on board the plane. the ultimate nightmare for any passenger. it needed some heroes to try to bring him down. two are joining me now. two passengers who as the captain was screaming and pounding on the locked door of the cabin wrestled him to the ground and kept him there. real heroes. thanks for joining me. i know you haven t spoken about this until now. congratulations. thank you for the service you showed today and what you did. but this is everybody s nightmare. tell me the moment you realized what was happening. tell me what happened. what was going through your minds? the first moment that i think something really was critically wrong was there was an offduty pilot sitting a few rows behind and the flight atten