of marijuana use by trayvon martin, the florida teen zimmerman is charged with killing. zimmerman s defense cannot use martin s toxicology report or mention his marijuana level at the time of his death. plus zimmerman s attorneys have been barred from using any evidence showing that martin is familiar with guns. he s supposed to go on trial for second-degree murder in two week and a pretrial hearing has been going on for an hour. victor blackwell is there at the trial. reporter: george zimmerman himself is not in court today. we contacted his team and said it was a last-minute decision. that defense team suffered even more blows than you mentioned. the school records of trayvon martin will not be introduced in front of the jury. neither his history of fighting, social media postings, photos of martin with gold teeth. that pretty much wipes out all
those will not be introduced. i want to talk about the toxicology report for a moment. the test that came back after the medical examiner s autopsy showing that there was the presence of thc, which is in marijuana, was in trayvon martin s blood system. she said there would be no mention of it during the opening statements. but she will hear from an expert to determine if the jury should hear it during trial. still to be decided if there will be this gag order. this is the third time it was requested by the state. the first two were denied. also if there will be a delay of trial. the defense has asked for six weeks to continue to prepare for the case. the way that the judge is running through the motions today and she has shown a commit m to stay on trial, that s a tough call. i know you ll monitor this pretrial hearing. victor blackwell from florida this morning. one week after the monster tornado tore through moore, oklahoma, a daring crew of storm chasers gives us the view from i
plant, the spokesman says it is highly unlikely that the federal lieser plant will be rebuilt. a former ems worker arrested several weeks ago on an unrelated firearm charge. brice reid still in jail and we re told that he s still awaiting trial and several city officials over the past few days say they don t believe he had anything to do with this explosion, but investigators say that that has not been ruled out. the fact that perhaps this fire might have been intentionally set. still one of the things they are looking at, carol. and he hasn t been charged in the west, texas, explosion? correct? no, not directly to that. on an unrelated firearm charge. just wanted to make that clear. ed lavandera live from west, texas, thank you. the u.s. supreme court about to change america, momentous rulings could come down today, on same-sex marriage and
the same ship was supposed to go on another voyage on may 31st, and vacationers scheduled to go on that can t get on the damaged ship, so they get a full refund as well and half off a future cruise too. carol. it s raining hard, i ll let you get out of the weather. thank you, so much. raining hard. it s less than two weeks until george zimmerman goes on trial for the death of trayvon martin. zimmerman s attorneys are asking for a delay in the start of the trial. the pretrial hearing started just a few minutes ago. the judge must decide if a voice identification expert should be allowed to testify for the prosecution. should there be a gag order imposed in the case? should the jury be kept anonymous and sequestered during the trial? victor blackwell live in sanford, florida. good morning, victor. reporter: good morning, carol. right off the top, you mentioned the request by the defense to keep this testimony from an expert on voice analysis outside
this trial and that is because the defense team believes that it just does not meet the minimum standard, and the analysts agree. there were two teams that were hired by the prosecution to analyze the calls for help, the screams and the background of a 911 call on the night martin was shot. the analysts say there is a minimum, the industry standard is a minimum of ten seconds cumulatively to answer analyze. only eight second. that is a technical reason, as it relates to the argument. one analyst says that the voice was heard just before the shot was fired was trayvon martin saying stop. he says that, because he believes that the voice came from the younger person instead of the older person. of course, that would not work well to the defense s storyline. he s asking for a hearing to make that testimony and the information inadmissible, carol. likely the trial will start on time?