here at 30 rock in new york city. today mitt romney will hold a town hall in bowling green, ohio. a state he hopes to win in a couple of months and not far from there former florida governor jeb bush and governor bobby jindal, a sleeper on the veep list, of louisiana, will also stump in ohio. as the campaign tries to regain control of the national conversation that has gotten away from it. all romney campaign s efforts to refocus things, the chorus calling for him to release more of his tax returns just continues to grow, a lot of it coming from within his own party. in an interview published jed, the right-leaning national review online romney offered this argument for withholding additional tax returns. saying quote, i m simply not enthusiastic about giving the obama campaign hundreds of thousands of more pages to pick through, distort, and lie about. why he has still not disclosed his offshore accounts for political purposes mr. romney said quote, all of my investments are
sometime before the convention. i ll be very surprised, i frequently am surprised, as you know, i ll be very surprised if he doesn t release some tax returns. he needs to release at least three to five years and probably eight to ten years. that s more or less the precedent that goes along. if he doesn t do that he s going to stay on the defensive all summer. i just don t see how his staff can allow that to happen. don t miss the rachel maddow show weeknights right here on msnbc. a skywest airlines pilot wanted in connection with a colorado murder attempted to steal an empty airplane from a small airport. the man then killed himself after he couldn t get the plane off the ground. nbc s kurt gregory has the details. reporter: a skywest pilot s plans to steal a plane tuesday at the st. george municipal airport were thwarted. 40-year-old brian joseph hedglin had parked his motorcycle, jumped a fence to the airport, gained access to a skywest jet, and started its engines. a
than twice what they asked for the in the murder of their mother. nooen a two children will get more than 60 million dollars from their father who is noted computer programmer. abc 7 news reporter smith was in the courtroom today and has reaction. these are 2 wonderful results by 2 jury one in criminal case an one in the civil case. family very appreciative and grateful. reporter: alameda county jury awarded the children of convicted killer riser 60 million dollars. according to the family attorney vipd indicated the woman who died at his hands. i can t tell you how happy we are right now. when you fight a case like this for 4 years and you have jurors come back and dot right thing like this it s a wonderful thing about our system of justice. reporter: riser serve ago term of 15 years to live for killing his wife in september 2006. their children 12-year-old and 11-year-old seen here in photo provided by their attorney filed suit for 25 million dollars in the loss of th
into the 5 furlough race. we were over the fairgrounds after racing was halted. it s the first track fatality since a jockey was killed there in 197 1975. we have a crew gathering information and we ll have more on this breaking story on abc 7 news as it develops. good evening. dan is off tonight. another story developing tonight. man accused of beating the breast he claims molested him was acquitted in a san jose courtroom. the jury acquitted william lynch in the assault of pastor lin. corrina was in san jose for today s verdict. reporter: when the not guilty verdict were read will lynch hugged his attorney and his family and then emerged from the courthouse to an equally emotional crowd. he spoke publicly for the first time. one motivating factor for me always was to try to protect other children from father jerry. reporter: his parents and sisters say they are overwhelmed the jury has given their son and brother the freedom he deserves. we couldn t ask for more t
walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic a time. nationwide is on your side. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: george pataki served three terms as governor of new york, following his time in the state legislature and as the mayor. he joins us from new york. it is an honor to have you on this program. it is an honor of being on with you. tavis: you were on most people s lists a couple of years ago as may be one who would run this time around. first tonight, why did you decide not to run? and do you regret it when you see a lot of folks in your party having trouble coalescing around mr. romney? let me start at the end there. i think there is not really a problem coalescing arou