the deadliest terror attacks against americans has died. abdul bassett al megrahi is the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland. al megrahi s family says the former libyan and intelligence officer passed away today at a hospital in tripoli. he was 60 years old. his death comes 2 1/2 years after his release from a scottish prison. al megrahi was let go on compassionate grounds because he had prostate cancer. he was expected to live only a few months. at the time of his 2009 release, the victims families were outraged after he received a hero s welcome in libya. 270 people died when pan am flight 103 went down just minutes after takeoff from a london airport. the plane was bound from new york and more than half of the passengers were american. joining me now from new york, burt amorman. he lost a brother in that attack. he s also a former spokesman of an organization representing the victims families. good to see you, burt. s
yes, it is spring. here we are april and downpours, heavy winds expected, up to a foot and a half of heavy, wet snow, too, expected in parts of the northeast. this could be a perfect storm for power outages. and walmart caught in a huge multimillion dollar foreign bribery scandal, accused of buying its way into mexico and blowing past its competition with years of payoffs. there you go. all right, shark boy. keep them up. keep them up. shark boy? i ll say. a little boy, right there. hello. reeling in the beast. his epic battle with that guy, a shark. we ll show you in a moment. up first, breaking news in the trayvon martin murder case. george zimmerman is now out of jail. he was released overnight in sanford, florida. simm s zimmerman walk out of jail around midnight after posting bond. he awaits his murder trial. zimmerman is required to wear a gps tracking device. his release comes a couple days after bond was set at a court hearing in which zimmerman offered
releas released. what are some of the great heros saying? new leads in an old mystery, why police are scouring in the case of the 30-year-old disappearance of a now famous child. later, pizarro picasso, how she rising money. george zimmerman could be out of jail as early as today, a judge set bond for zimmerman at $150,000 at a hearing yesterday. his family needs to post $15,000 to get him out. while he awaits trial for the killing of 17-year-old trayvon martin. zimmerman called itse self-defense. he offered this apology to the teen s family. i wanted to say i am sorry, for the loss of your son. i did not know how old he was, i thought he was younger than i am, and i did not know if he was armed or not. zimmerman s attorney says he wants his client to leave the state while he waits for the trial for security reasons but no decision has been made on that request. much more on this story a little bit later on. three more secret service agents are out as part of the
penguins, how this one is using her talents to raise money. good morning, everyone i m randi kaye, it s 7:00. a lot to tell you about. george zimmerman could be out of jail as early as today. a judge has set bond for zimmerman at $150,000 at a hearing yesterday. that means his family needs to post $15,000 to get him out while he awaits trials for the killing of trayvon martin. zimmerman called itse self-defense. he took the stand and offered this apology to the teen s family. i wanted to say i am sorry for the loss of your son. i did not know how old he was. i thought he was a little bit younger than i am. and i did not know if he was armed or not. zirmmmmerman s attorney want him to be able to leave the state until the trial. we ll have more on that later on. the fbi is expected to continue their work today digging up a manhattan basement, looking for evidence in the 33-year-old disappearance of a young boy. 6-year-old etan patz disappeared on his way to school in
some pretty deep ties with the white house? and why is it that the company with deep ties to the white house, the company that just got a big contract for a drug that s not been proven yet, why is it going to make an 85% profit on its government contract? coming up we re going to talk with a member of the company s board of directors, a familiar face here at cnn. we first got wind of this story in the los angeles times but since then have learned a lot more. investigator drew griffin is keeping them honest. reporter: it s just another good business deal for billionaire investor and big-time democratic political supporter, ron perlman. this major political contributor to both parties but particular friend of the obama white house owns the controlling shares in a company called siga technologies, and siga this year won a sweet $432 million no-bid contract from the u.s. department of health and human services that even a democrat says is a little bit too sweet to ignore. h