beaten and bloody? this is tape taken of george zimmerman the night he shot and killed trayvon martin when he claimed the teenager bashed his head and broke his nose and made him fear for his life. trayvon martin said something to the effect of you re going to die now or you re going to die tonight. but martin s father says this tape is the icing on the cake. it s like a horror movie with fire as the beast. [ bleep ]. there it is. right here. my gosh. it s okay. this is a real horror story. a family barely escapes a fast moving wildfire. one of the kids catching the drama on video. who wants to be a megamillionaire? jackpot has gone into orbit. some players making plans for the $500 million fortune. i want to be a millionaire. early retirement. i ll be partying like a rock star. just one problem. the odds are 176 million to 1. we begin this morning with new details and new developments in the shooting of trayvon martin. we know the public outrage has d
that the cold war ended more than two decades ago. wolf blitzer is off today. i m gloria borger and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the average price for a gallon of regular gas today is about $4. make that $3.92. our new poll shows nearly half of americans expect that price to hit $5. that s $5 this year and most blame the oil companies. president obama tried to hitch a ride on those sentiments today. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here. jessica, is the president going after big oil? again. believe it or not, it really felt like today was let s play politics with gas prices day in washington. the president played his part from the rose garden. think about that. it s like hitting the american people twice. he called on the senate to pass a bill that would have eliminated billions in tax breaks for oil companies. american oil is booming. the oil industry is doing just fine, with record profits and rising prod
passes paul ryan s 2013 budget plan. i applaud my colleagues for the tough decisions they have made to try to do the right thing for the country. the problem is we already now how this story will end. zero democrats voted for this budget which means it s dead on arrival in the senate. democrats say it ends medicare as we know it. as for the president s budget, it s a no-go too. it s a campaign document that raises taxes and doesn t rein in spending. here s the bottom line. america hasn t had a budget in 1,065 days. both sides say this is a tragedy but instead of compromising or embracing the revenue raising and the blueprint of the gang of six or the simpson-bowles commission, both sides put their own budgets out knowing full well they won t pass. the blame, they say, goes to the other side of the aisle. we don t think that the president s led on this issue by virtue he s given us four budgets with literally no proposal to prevent a debt crisis, to get this debt under c
that are not true about george. how he s being portrayed is just an absolute lie. robert zimmerman insists his son acted in self-defense. he talked about taking a, quote, leap of fate. federal charges filed against that jetblue pilot that had a midair meltdown. the captain s mental health coming into question, whether he should have been at the controls in the first place. where s mom? what are you stopping for? here it is, right here, right here. we re out, we re out, we re out. dramatic cell phone video captures one family s harrowing escape from a fire burning in colorado. two key endorsements for mitt romney to tell you about. one, a potential running mate. the other, a former president. the polls show the gop front-runner has a lot of work ahead if he plans to beat president obama. we start with new developments overnight in the trayvon martin investigation. just released video obtained by abc of george zimmerman on the night he fatally shot the 17-year-o
the newt machine gets lean. gingrich cuts a third of his staff and turns back his schedule. he s still in it to win it. nationwide outrage over a florida teenager s killing may not have been so fever pitched if local police had charged the shooter the night it happened. they wanted to do just that. why didn t they? the rocky mountain wildfire that won t let up. more lives, homes and property lost. hundreds of firefighters from across the country are coming in to help get that fire under control. and from basketball legend to baseball owner, the l.a. dodgers might be calling magic johnson the boss. we begin this morning with much more information on about the captain who had a mid flight meltdown. we have more information on who the pilot is and the jetblue passengers who pounced on him when he unleashed this terrifying rant. a federal law enforcement official identified the jetblue pilot as clayton. he s flown with jetblue for just under a dozen years. it also shows o