lagos. what do you know about the casualties, how this crash happened? reporter: hey, fred. right now, we are being told that there are no survivors from this crash. it happened at approximately a little after 3:00 p.m. local time here in nigeria. we were just down at the scene. what we saw was a fairly chaotic scene. we saw just hundreds of people surrounding the crash area. we could see the flames from the crash, that was sort of not even 50 yards away from where we were. and just tons of people surrounding the crash scene. most of them rubber necking, taking photographs. we did get a chance to talk to a red cross official on the ground, and that official told me that earlier today they had arrived on the scene at about 3:30. so not more than 20 minutes after the plane went down. they had managed to pull nine bodies from the crash. but because of the crowds, and because of this area in lagos, is densely populated, i mean, there are people on top of people in this area, ho
which appears to hope that syria s president assad will negotiate his own departure, seems utterly doomed. instead, america, the western world, indeed, the civilized world should attempt to dislodge the assad regime. but is there a smart way to do it? for a number of reasons military intervention is unlikely to work well in syria. unlike in, say, libya, syria is not a vast country with huge stretches of land where rebels can retreat, hide, and be resupplied. syria is roughly one-tenth the size of libya, but with three times as many people. perhaps for this reason the syrian rebels have not been able to take control of any significant part of that country. the geopolitics of military intervention are also unattractive. in egypt and even in libya all major regional powers, world powers were on the side of dislodging the regime or at least passively accepting that it would happen. in syria that s not the case. iran and russia have both maintained strong ties to the assad regime,
martin, zimmerman barely made the deadline to report to jail today. when we last spoke, he had 45 minutes left. why did he have to turn himself in? explain to our viewers. well, this is all going back to, of course, last friday when the state introduced evidence that seemed to indicate that george zimmerman and his family had not been completely honest as to their finances, how much money they had, and that all weighed in to the judge s decision on where to set bond. it seems the family actually had access to a lot of money. and that set up everything that happened with the judge revoking the bond and george zimmerman having to show up here and turn himself in, and he did it, as you say, with 45 minutes to spare. he actually turned himself in to authorities at the side of a highway. listen to the sheriff describe that scene. george zimmerman met two members of the sheriff s office in the area of lake mary at i-4, was placed into custody, transported to the correctional fa
on that note, good morning to you. welcome to early start. i m zoraida sambolin. just hate when that happens. just ruins your morning, doesn t it? good morning, everybody. zoraida and i are here to bring you the news from a to z. it s 5:00 in the a.m. let s get started. first, donald trump sucking the air out of the whole evening, stealing mitt romney s thunder after last night s texas primary victory. romney now has more than enough delegates to clinch the republican nomination, but not everyone is talking about that this morning. instead, it seems to be all about the trump and barack obama s birth certificate again. the donald campaigning with romney in las vegas yesterday, reviving that old debate over whether the president has born in this country. let s just say he was. it s been proven. but it s triggered this spirited exchange with wolf blitzer in the situation room yesterday. a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate. how can you say t
for a brutal attack where police say a man chewed off the face of his victim. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. the latest syrian pictures of 49 murdered children in syria have made people ask whether america must step in. the uprising has left more than 12,000 syrians dead. today the only response was symbolic. eight countries including the united states expelling syrian diplomats. in the year when the president is running on his foreign policy victories syria is becoming a lightning rod. this administration has a foreign policy which abandons american leadership. i know because i visit with these people that they are ready to help these people and they are helping them some. it cries out for american leadership. and today mitt romney said the president s lack of leadership has resulted in a policy of paralysis and we should work with partners to arm the opposition. now, that is something a lot of people that s a lightning rod in itself. and the obama administrati