there are new questions this morning about those charges and why some are saying the numbers just don t add up. closure and questions. the whitney houston toxicology report. cause her to go down and we know that when she slipped under the water she was still alive. new details and new reaction coming out this morning. it s being called a temporary resignation but trayvon martin s family calls it absolutely nothing. sanford florida police chief bill lee stepping aside saying he s a distraction. this morning new efforts by the state to calm the outrage. the obama contraception mandate at college. one school is threatened to shut down if it s forced to comply and they re taking the white house to court. moving into overdrive this morning. mitt romney looking like he can t shake the erase controversy. rick santorum now drawing himself into the story. did he really say obama should get another term? hungry for the hunger games ? make sure they remember you. i ke
martin was returning to his future stepmother s home with a bag of candy and iced tea. that evening george zimmerman, armed with a 9 millimeter automatic, pursued him, confronted him and shot him dead. today after weeks of withering criticism about his department s handling of the case and a vote of no confidence by sanford s city commission the police chief temporarily stepped aside. he did not step down. nor did sanford s city manager fire him even though he has the power to do so. in a moment we ll ask him why. first john zarrella who is at tonight s rally. john? reporter: anderson, some of the late developments today is that governor rick scott, florida s governor, has appointed a special task force to also contribute to this investigation. and it s being headed by state attorney angela cory from the northern district of florida. we assume she ll get her group together and em panel that task portion pretty quickly on. we are here at this rally, as you know. many thousa
with by texting the word awake, followed by 632. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this february the 13th. a lot going on today. including a fight between mick romney and rick santorum, over the cpac straw poll taken last week. and we get reaction from clint eastwood s halftime in america clip in the super bowl. more details could come in today in the death of the great whitney houston, whose body was found in a hotel bathroom on saturday afternoon. the results of an autopsy won t come for a number of weeks. investigators looking into whether houston may have drowned in her suite at the beverly hilton hotel, just hours before she was scheduled to attend a pregrammy party.
observati observations. we wish him recovery. and steven taylor will be back on face, despite knocking out a couple of teeth and cutting up his face in a nasty fall in his hotel bathroom. he s got a pair of new denial implants and is good to go for tonight s show. and you thought the two missing teeth would keep him down, so you can just dream on about that one. illegal immigrants fled alabama in the face of one of the toughest anti-immigration laws in the nation, leaving bisz and farms in a lurch. well, thegrio.com went to the state to find out if african-americans were filling this void. their special report, coming up. and how the man who wants to be president became a corporate titan of the 1980s and 90s. a look at mitt romney s revolution from wall street to today, and can we expect him to bring that same winner-take-all attitude to the white house? that and more right after this. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart have teamed up
murkowski by more than 10,000 votes. nick brooks the boyfriend of sylvie cachay has been arrested in new york and charged with attempted murder and strangulation. officials would not say why the charge is attempted murder. she was found dead in a hotel bathroom with bruises and bite marks on her body. he is the son of the composer who produced the song you light up my life and was indicted on multiple counts of sexual assault earlier this year. a top drug lord has been killed in mexico during a two-day gun battle with armed forces. a national security spokesman said five federal police officers and three civilians died during that operation. and a chinese dissident was awarded the nobel peace prize, an empty chair marking his absence from the ceremony in norway. he is a professor, critic and writer serving an 11-year sentence co-writing appeal for democratic reform, what the chinese government calls inciting subversion of state power.