thanks for joining us. i m cannily crowley. john king is off. the parents of a florida teenager whose death ignited outrage. also on the eve of the presidential primary, a rye alt check for rick santorum and newt gingrich. plus a big bank has a new way to help people stay in their homes even if they re facing foreclose. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with the fatal shooting of florida teenager trayvon martin and the florida police department s decision not to arrest the person who pulled the trigger. this morning there was a message for trayvon martin s parents. if i had a son, he d look like trayvon, and, you know, think they are right to expect that all of us as americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we re going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. cnn s john zarrella is in sanford, florida, where trayvon live and died. john, how are trayvon s parents reacting to the president? reporter: you know, can
there you go. indiana took their basketball program which obviously bobby nooig had a few influence. it was an amazing program back in the 90ed and early 2000s. and thul of a sudden fell apart in the early part of the decade. now this coach, coach carerean brought this team back. save something for the interview. you re excite popped. we loi am. ewith love it when you re passionate. i m dpon lon lemon in today for brooke baldwin. president obama s about face of a controversial oil pipeline and housing number, some good, some bad. roll it. police have pinned down a suspected jihadist of a rabbi three schoolchildren and three soldiers. [ no audio ] ening okay, parentally we re having an issue. we ll get back when we get it fixed. barack obama will speak a little more than an hour from now. bree i brianna, i saw the note last night when you got the information on this story. this is the beginning of an energy tour for the president. that was very interesting wh enyou unc
mitt romney is in maryland today fresh off his decisive win in the illinois primary. halfway to the delegate finish line. hundreds of french police surround an apartment where a gunman remains holed up. he s accused of killing seven people in a series of shootings. authorities say they expect him to give up soon. another strong aftershock in mexico. it measured 5.0 on the richter scale. it s the latest of several aftershocks to follow yesterday s 7.4 magnitude earthquake. 500 homes were damaged and 11 people injured. you won t be able to find that so-called pink slime at safeway anymore. the grocery store chain says it won t sell anymore ground beef made with it. safeway says customer concern drove its decision. you re looking at a picture of atlanta under all that pollen. this is what you need to know about pollen counts. a reading of 120 is considered extremely high. levels above 5,000 have been registered in many parts of the southeast this week and no relief is ex
learn what exactly wanted to the pioneering female aviator a mellia earhart? i m wolf blirts. i m wolf blirts. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com this is cnn breaking news. lettay get right to breaking news from mexico. a powerful earthquake from acapulco to mexico city. let s go to our meteorologist chad myers. what are you seeing? what s going on? it has been reduced to a 7.4 earthquake, wolf, but that is still a very major shake. about 200 miles to mexico city, but there are cities or towns at least, much closer to the epicenter. let me take you to a few because there are 4,000 to up to 17,000 people in some of these cities and we know that they were right on top of the epicenter. there you see the towns with the roof, the tile roofs here. a beautiful part of mexico here. other towns not that far right over the other side of the hill. this is only about eight miles from the epicenter at a 7.4 shake and now about 12 miles deep. those t
out of puerto rico into as rick santorum heads into the next two primaries. somewhat the opposite for mitt romney trying to gain the upper hand. he s now in puerto rico, where santorum may have offended some spanish speaker, romney is courting them in their own language. jim a costa is in san juan. what s the latest from there, jim? reporter: candy, mitt romney is in puerto rico for a series of events. after rick santorum s trip to this island, the trick is pretty simple. don t get lost in translation. mitt romney is out to show puerto ricans he is speaker that i majority. if the majority of the p we realizo ricans wish to become a state, i will support that. reporter: romney has not only written letters to voters translated into spanish, he s running a radio ad featuring his bilingual son craig also in spanish. his arrival comes after rick santorum seemed to stumble over whether the predominantly spanish-speaking island should adopt english as a condition of statehoo