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
over on him and her and they say they re going to have to amputate her toes and his leg and he s in critical condition and he s waiting for a flight to the university. we ll have more on the damage from this storm system in a moment. other news we re following, nearly two years after the worst oil spill in the u.s., bp has agreed to pay nearly $8 billion for those affected by the 2010 gulf of mexico disaster. an explosion on the deepwater horizon oil rig killed 11 people, took three months for workers to contain the oil spill. fishermen, hotel owners and gulf coast residents were all impacted by the disaster. the republican presidential candidates hope to build some momentum today that will carry them into super tuesday. washington state is holding the caucuses right now. ron paul is the only candidate still campaigning there. the other three hopefuls have moved on to ohio. it is one of ten states holding primaries or caucuses on tuesday. players from the new orleans sa
surveys with a team of people. the military has also moved in with search and rescue vehicles. in the south side of town in my live stream you can see there s four to five homes farms that had heavy damage and are gone. the tornado here was about 200 yards wide and it tracked through the city on the southeast side. everybody has been accounted for. most people are we do not have any injuries, just a couple injuries, no fatalities but marked damage on the south side of town. you re talking to us at the same time you re live streaming these images for us and in these images we are seeing people walking around. are these residents that are surveying the damage or are these first responders who are there to help, volunteers? reporter: both. we have a lot of local people here that are people walking down the streets that are local residents and family members. a lot of these people s farms have been here for a while, many generations. one family here on the south side of t
this morning from the atlanta area. we will have the latest on the search for survivors and victims. and on the campaign trail. today it s washington state s turn to way in on the republican candidates who want to be president. we re watching all the angle of this developing story of the severe weather that just continues to move across our country. susan candle yoty is in henryville right now where daylight has brought a stunning new look. our bonnie schneider is in the weather center keeping an eye on the new watches and warnings in effect right now. but before we get to them, i want to show you an amazing piece of video. it comes from west liberty, kentucky. listen. take it away from us, lord. take it, lord, take it, lord. take it away from us, jesus. what we re watching is this funnel cloud is swirling, getting ready to hit the earth. you hear a woman praying to god to have the storm move away, while her prayers were achbsed, her home was spared but the town that
let s talk about what concentrated areas are kind of in the bull s-eye, so to speak right now. florida among them. north florida and southern parts of georgia. it s really this squall line we are looking at right here that has the most potential for producing tornadic storms. right now there are no tornado warnings that are in effect. some of those thunderstorms could produce wind damage in excess of 60 miles per hour. sometimes those real down burst winds can cause as much damage as a tornado. you still need to stay indoors. another place that we are watching that s included in this tornado threat is jacksonville, florida. there you can see a live picture from jacksonville at this time. it s extremely windy. that s why you see all that crazy shaking going on on the camera there. 86 degrees. it s a very warm, very moist, ripe atmosphere. as that cold front starts to come on down and move into the region, that s when we are going to start to see that severe weather threat in