the man who admitted to shooting trayvon martin may taste fresh air again. he could go free on $150,000 bond. a judge granted the bond after a lengthy hearing. and in a surprising move we heard from the man himself when he took the stand. zimmerman apologized to trayvon martin s parents who were sitting there in the courtroom. 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 younger than i am. i did not know if he was armed or not. the attorney says zimmerman s apology there is too little too late. zimmerman makes this self-serves apology in court 50 days later. the real george zimmerman website never once said i m sorry. hen when he made these statements to police, why not show remorse there if he was sincerely apologetic for killing this unarmed child. also in court this morning, we heard from zimmerman s mother for the first time. the zimmerman family testified over the phone simply for their own safe
there at their convention how he would measure progress. he literally used these words, he said we measure progress differently than republicans, presumably, but it was the fact that he said we measure progress and then he described how it was he and his party measured progress, and i think it s interesting given the fact that he laid out what his report card would be to go back and score him on the very report card he laid out. he said, for instance, that we, the democrats measure progress by whether people have good jobs that can pay for mortgages. okay. we re three and a half years later and he has not yet created a single net new job in america where three and a half years later there were job losses and 93% of the people that lost jobs had been women. on the measure that he himself put in place, creating jobs where people could pay mortgages, he fails, and there was another measure that he laid out. he said in a setting where you were having progress, you could measure i
a video-taped rap song by federal employees complete with shades and a ukelele bragging about how they will never be caught wasting your tax dollars. unemployment falls. our expert on everything economic christine romans will break down the numbers for us. the fashion police are more like death squads. why spiky hair cuts, skinny jeans or a t-shirt too tight can be prison or worse. the nfl is violent but kill they d, take out the acl. pretty damning words from the saints defensive coordinator and all caught on tape. round two at the masters and it s round 12 for the political controversy over whether women should be able to join the club. now it s hit the campaign trail and the the white house. on this good friday a pilgrimage in jerusalem as christians honor jesus for his sacrifice. but we begin this morning with those that kind of disappointing news on the economy. just minutes ago we learned u.s. payrolls rose by 120,000 jobs last month. far less than expected.
shot them one by one. we are taking you live to oakland for the latest in just about ten minutes. voters are heading to the polls today in three contests. wisconsin, maryland and the district of columbia are holding republican primaries. mitt romney predicted a win in wisconsin and holds a big lead in maryland polls. wisconsin will be a key swing state in november. it s one of the few winner-take-all stakes in the republican race. rick santorum seems to be looking beyond today s contests. he says may will be his big month for delegates. the world wants clarity in the trayvon martin case. now there is a little bit more. it s in the form of higher resolution video of george zimmerman s arrival at the sanford, florida, police department the night he killed trayvon martin. as you know, the neighborhood watch volunteer claims he fired in self-defense after trayvon hit him in the nose and banged his head against the sidewalk. the clearer footage does appear to show some mark or
outpost had been affected by the wounding of a soldier there the day before the rampage. afghanistan s president says his people have gotten no cooperation from america in their investigation of last sunday s killings. hamid karzai had a face-to-face meeting just yesterday with defense secretary leon panetta. but meeting today with the families of the dead, civilians, karzai questioned whether there had been more than one killer. one villager said the u.s. is offering the families money, but the families, instead, want justice. back in this country, gas prices are still on the move up another penny on average to $3.83 a gallon for self-serve regular as calculated by aaa. gas has gone up 17 cents so far this year and while president obama is taking the heat, he says no politician can drive prices down in the short-term. every time prices start to go up, especially in an election year. politicians dust off their three-point plans for $2 gas. they head down to the gas st