lies. reporter: you say i don t want trayvon to die in vain. he didn t deserve to die. i pledge i will not let my son die in vain. what has to happen for him not to have died in vain? after the evidence is weighed, that a conviction comes out of this. justice needs to be served. powerful interview. please be sure to tune in later tonight, by the way, right here on cnn, 10:00 p.m. eastern, self-defense or murder, the george zimmerman trial. once again, 10:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. the jury certainly has been hard at work in asking questions. we re keeping an eye on developments inside the courthouse right now in sanford, florida.
or a concrete barrier in that case so you just understand the difference of what s going to stop a bullet and what s not going to stop a bullet. right, as the gunman comes in, we notice here he comes up to the side and he notices people people doing what? well, i m sure like a lot of people these days, they re walking down the street, you know, a lot of people are just consumed in their smartphone or, you know, not very aware of their surroundings. and i mean, this guy comes in. he apparently fired shots into the ceiling. and threw some type of homemade smoke device. but the biggest thing that i want to pass on and not have i don t want to have these people in colorado die in vain, you know. we don t want anybody to be worried about going to the movie theater either. be aware of your surroundings. that s your first tip. yeah, the biggest tip in these active shooter situations that are unfortunately happening
it s only about three feet high. witnesses say she overcompensated and made a sharp right, crossing over three lanes of traffic going in the very same direction, hit a curb that went over a fence, only again about two to three feet high, and went sailing about 50 to 60 feet. control of the suv. it could have been, authorities say, any number of things. maybe something physically went wrong with her. perhaps there was a mechanical failure, a distraction of some kind. these are all the things that they ll be looking at as some of the possibilities, don. all right. susan candiotti in new york. susan, thank you very much. this stretch of road is no stranger to bad wrecks. back in 2006, six people were killed in almost the exact same spot. i spoke to steve casamo about the safety of this particular roadway. back in 2010, this bridge was one of several in new york state that were determined to be functionally y functionally inoperable. what that definition means, it doesn t mea
i stand before you today not knowing how i m walking right now because my heart hurts for my son. reporter: and you could hear the anger in his father s voice. i pledged i would not let my son die in vain. reporter: the parents emotional words seemed to frustrate parents in the crowd who felt like trayvon martin could have been their own child, but rev reynolds sharpton warned them not to let their anger turn into violence. don t let them make you act in a way that they can say, see, that s what they were afraid of with trayvon. reporter: reverend sharpton encouraged the crowd to come back here on monday when he and others will lead a march to the city council meeting to continue demanding justice for trayvon martin. darlene jones for abc news, sanford, florida. we mentioned earlier that florida s governor has appointed a new prosecutor. the previous prosecutor volunteered to recuse himself. but this story nationwide. just hundreds of thousands of
but it s been almost a month since the shooting and still no arrest, despite growing questions about zimmerman s claims about self-defense, adding to the pain of martin s grieving parents. i pledge i will not let my son die in vain. reporter: florida governor rick scott assigned a new task force to the incident. with the tensions growing, sanford police chief bill lee announced he would temporarily step aside. i do this in the hopes of restoring some semblance of calm. reporter: for those gathered, it was not enough. the chief said he did a temporary leave. we not permanent justice. reporter: as the department of justice and the fbi continue ongoing investigations. while the patience of this community continues to wear thin. jay gray, nbc news, sanford, florida. republican presidential candidates are campaigning in louisiana today, ahead of saturday s primary. mitt romney is hoping to finally