way into these children s lives. this was back in the day before facebook, before a lot of your current social media was out there. kevin met shannon in one of the chat rooms and at the time, she s a young teenage girl. she felt that her stepfather was too strict. wouldn t let her go out on dates, wouldn t let her date older boys. and so she was disgruntled with her parents, and kevin, seeing that opportunity, befriends her. he listens to her. within a month, he was telling her that he loved her, that this was a relationship that was enduring, that they were going to get married and have a life together. this is after one month of
and at this point facebook was now relevant. i was in my room supposed to be doing homework, but i was on my cell phone, on facebook, scrolling through the news feed. a message from kevin stoeser popped up. i didn t think anything of it because of the last name. my family is really good friends with them and they re really well known in our hometown, and i remember reading the message. it said hi, tory, my name is kevin, i went to high school with your mom. i said kevin stoeser? he sent you a friend request, too? she said yeah. i said well, i guess, you know, if you want to accept it you
welcome back, everybody. we continue to follow the breaking news this morning about facebook joining others on the nasdaq, starting public trading this morning. scheduled to start at 11 a.m. but now it s almost 11:28 and they haven t begun yet. we have jon fortt joining us from cnbc bureau in california. have you learned any more about the delay, why they haven t shown up, or is this trying to be fashionably late for facebook at the nasdaq? no, they re not trying to do this. this is actually some egg on the face of wall street. one of my colleagues has said one of the issues here is that the nasdaq and wall street trying to avoid the sort of moment that they had a few weeks ago where a stock went up quickly, down quickly, gave people whiplash because the ordering systems were not prepared to deal with the traffic and what people wanted.
includes photos of george zimmerman s injuries, which the police report shows consisted of a bloody nose and cuts on his head. we ve also learned that sanford police concluded zimmerman could have avoided the encounter if he d waited in his vehicle, as instructed, listening to how zimmerman s lawyer and the martin family attorney reacted to this conclusion. we heard them on the today show this morning. if he wouldn t have profiled trayvon martin and pursued him and confronted him, he wouldn t be in jail and more importantly trayvon martin would be living today. in every life event or experience, we can go back to one of the premises and say, had it not happened, had he not been going to the target store, had trayvon martin not been in the neighborhood, had he not got out of his car, we have to deal with what did happen and try to explain that away properly and in a courtroom. want to bring in kejts kofi, former federal prosecutor for the state of florida. i m getting word, and
well, i think people expect him to remain really focused on just building out the product. there s been interesting watching facebook, especially over the past few years. he s had this kind of battle in values between investors and his agenda for the company. other companies who wanted to acquire facebook and his agenda for the company and his real push has been, i want to maintain control, not so that i can be on the list of the richest people in the world, but so that i can be sure that this service and this company becomes what i want it to be. that s going to get that much tougher for him in just a few seconds when this stock starts trading because everybody s going to have a different measure to judge whether facebook is doing well or not. there are going to be people invested in this financially, not just emotional with their facebook profiles. he ll have to balance all that. that s tough for a 28-year-old guy to do. explain to us the mod fick or span of what we re seeing abo