we re very happy you re with us this morning. it s 5:00 in the east. breaking news in france. police have a home surrounded. they say an al qaeda suspect wanted for committing that jewish school massacre is inside. france also says two officers were wounded in a shootout there overnight. we ll take you live to that scene? just a few moments now. and a big night for mitt romney after a decisive 1 -point win, he s setting his sights on louisiana. romney has near ri half the delegates that he needs to secure the nomination. and shocking new ref layings in the shooting death of a florida teenager. the girlfriend of 17-year-old trayvon martin says she was on the phone with him just minutes before he was killed. an now lawmakers are calling his death a murder and a hate crime. in assessing the damage in mexico after a strong earthquake rattled the massive capital all the way to the resort city of acapulco. hundreds of homes were damaged. at least 11 people are injured. luck
they have lines you can call in before you take your kids on a trip. get me up to speed on the elderly. didn t they change? they did. we re talking limited screening, too. people over 75 at a couple of airports, four, can keep their shoes on, a light jacket, they can go through the metal detector or screening device to try to avoid that pat-down. this is part of eliminating the pools of risk as the tsa calls it. a kinder, gentler trip for the rest of us. thanks so much, lizzie. it s the top of the hour. i m ashley banfield. time to get you up to speed. several big developments in the investigation into the florida teenager trayvon martin. that case is going to a grand jury in seminole county, florida. and the department of justice and the fbi have opened up their own investigation into this case. last hour the martin family attorney said the teenager was on the phone with his girlfriend just before he was shot. the dots have all been connected. arrest george zimmerman
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