arena, the courtroom. zimmerman has to make a case for his reimbursement and he may not get everything he s asking for. but whatever taxpayers pay, add it to the bill they re already picking up for jury costs, court security costs and the costs to the city of sanford. a list of expenses the orlando sentinel recently estimated at $902,000. and all of the numbers that are being thrown around right now, they do not include the big number which is what george zimmerman actually owes his attorney, mark omara just based on his billable hours george zimmerman owes him about $1 million that hasn t been paid and that goes also for other attorneys working on this case, jessica? that is a lot of money. david, what kind of reaction have you heard from trayvon martin s family? we reached out to them for a comment through their attorney, but we did not hear back from them today. i did have a very interesting
bob woodward secretly met with his source deep throat, aka, fbi official mark felt. the real estate firm that owns the garage said they are demolishing it to build office buildings, but they say they ll incorporate a historical marker, which is basically a plaque. they say it will likely take up to 18 months or more before they even break ground. kind of sad to see that go. our fifth story outfront, george zimmerman, he s asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money. well, today, zimmerman s legal team said they plan to ask the state of florida for a reimbursement of between $200,000 and $300,000 in legal fees that would cover the cost of his defense team s expert witnesses, transcripts and other expenses which he rang up before he was acquitted for the murder of trayvon martin last month. david mattingly is outfront with the story. reporter: there is nothing free when it comes to george
administration wake up and realize this is a question of at what point in time do we stand for our principles. mr. president, you don t have to put boots on the ground in order to be a merciful actor from the air. you re thinking things like sanctions short of military action. even if we have to take covert military action, it s time that we did so. we re going to wake up two months from now and see another chemical weapon and our hands are going to be agonizing again? we have to stop doing that. ambassador mark ginsberg, thank you very much. coming up, the president and vice president will be speaking in joe biden s backyard figuratively. we ll bring ta to you live. but first, the ugly intersection of race and crime. i think that in the post trayvon era, there is kind of a perverse tug of war going on now. conversely conservatives are saying, hey, wait a second. why didn t the liberal media so exercised over the trayvon martin slaying take up the three
i have to be optimistic. gun violence affects people of all races in this country. the fact is we have a duty to our children and to one another to create more harmony, moraysal harmony. that s what this moment of recollection of the last 50 years and this moment particularly for our generation, our generation, the most diverse in america s history to the really fulfill that promise of being a multiracial country where we all get an equal say and chance. i hope one day we can have qualcomm passion for a trayvon martin and chris lane, both no longer with us. heather and james peterson, thank you both. and still ahead, the day s top lines featuring the unreasonable return of the i word. [ dog ] we found it together. on a walk, walk, walk. yeah, we found that wonderful thing. and you smiled. and threw it.
youth and the way they become disconnected from pr society. unfortunately, political opponents are going to fight over who can use race as a political football from here till the end of time. that does not serve the case well here for chris lane. absolutely. chris lane is getting lost in it, as is the issue of guns. i want to go back for a second to the trayvon martin case. that is what spawned the desire for revenge for people on the right. he got off scot-free. what do they need revenge for? just for the fact that african-americans dared to be outraged about the case. there is a sense of vengeance on the other side. one of the things you did see, heather, was trayvon martin portrayed as a thug and a criminal. one person said he was a rabid dog that needed to be put down. because for whatever reason, angry that people were upset, this need to portray almost all black menace criminal, almost inherent