trucks, to pluck people from their homes and their cars. a bus filled with middle school students got stuck in four feet of water. more than 20 inches of rain came down in some areas. it s more than we bargained for. we even had some local citizens that volunteered with their boats and came help do some rescues. there s still a flood warning for lafayette parish today. and the republican presidential candidates fighting for southern support. voting underway in the alabama and mississippi primaries. shannon travis at a polling place in ocean springs, mississippi. shannon, good to see you. this is going to be an exciting day. obviously, folks, everybody s got something at stake here. you re in a pretty conservative place. what are they hoping for? reporter: yeah. i mean, this is one of the most conservative parts of conservative mississippi, right here in ocean springs. i m right outside of the ocean springs civic center, where it s been a steady stream of voters coming
states. newt gingrich and rick santorum are fighting romney for the conservative vote in the south. tiger woods suffered a tournament ending injury. watch him after this approach shot on the 10th hole at doral. look at him. favoring that left leg. tiger withdrew after the 11th hole. he injured that tendon in the masters last year. we begin this hour in afghanistan where an american is accused of a cold blooded killing spree. the pentagon has not released the soldier s name but says he s an army staff sergeant in his mid 30s. he served several tours of duty in iraq but on his first deployment to afghanistan. he s now in custody. u.s. custody. the military says he acted alone. here s what we know. at 3:00 a.m. local time, afghan troops reported seeing a soldier leave his army outpost near kandahar. the united states dispatched a patrol to find him but before they found him, he reached a village 15 miles away. the military says he went door to door shooting people. most of t
child. this is piers morgan tonight. now for the latest on the charges against conrad murray, let s go to ted rowlands in los angeles. reporter: prosecutors continued with their witnesses that were with michael jackson at the time he was dying, and specifically, the most compelling witnesses we heard from were the paramedics that responded to that 911 call. one paramedic said when he got there, jackson was cold and blueish, another actually, both of the paramedics testified they asked dr. murray point blank, what have you given michael jackson. and there was never any mention of propofol. did dr. murray ever mention to you having administered propofol to michael jackson? no, he did not. did conrad murray ever mention the word propofol to you during the time that you were at the location or in his presence? no, he did not. at the end of today, piers, we got a little bit of testimony from one of the emergency room doctors at ucla, we ll have more of that nex
murder abroad. amanda knox was going into her junior year of college. her mother etta recalls amanda the fresh-faced 20-year-old intent on adventure. she was going to study abroad going into college somewhere. she didn t know where yet. amanda would decide on perugia, italy. her sister deanna remembers when she moved into this house which she shared with three other girls, two italians and one british student named meredith kircher. why was she so set on that apartment? i think because of the people really. it was close to the college and her roommates are the sweetest people in the world. but after only six weeks in italy on the night of november 1st, 2007, amanda s overseas adventure would take a bizarre turn. amanda claims she slept over with her boyfriend raffaello sollecito that night. according to her, they cooked dinner at his house, smoked hashish and made love. on that same night, meredith kircher returned to the home she shared with amanda after watching a m
car believed to be carrying al awlaki is targeted. a u.s. drone fires a missile. and one of america s top terror targets is dead. the death of awlaki is a major blow to al qaeda s most active operational affiliate. anwar al awlaki was a long way from home. born in new mexico he radicalized and became a leader in al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. he was a top terror recruiter, awlaki s presence was felt in the ft. hood massacre. the alleged shooter, major nadal hassan is believed to have exchanged e-mails with awlaki before the rampage that left 13 people dead. awlaki is also linked to other terror plots, including the would-be underwear bomber, the plot to blow up u.s. cargo planes, and the attempt to set off a bomb in new york s times square. i consider al qaeda in the arabian peninsulas with awlaki as a leader within that organization probably the most significant risk to the u.s. home land. we had always had tremendous concern that after getting bin ladin that som