autopsy report. the report finds houston died of accidental drowning but cocaine was a factor and it wasn t the only drug in her system. charges could come today. the u.s. military about to begin the long process of prosecuting army staff sergeant robert bales who s accused in that massacre of afghan civilians. he s expected to be charged with 17 counts of murder. an explosion at a silicon factory in portland, oregon, sends at least two people to the hospital. the fire was reportedly sparked by a chemical used to make silicon. haz mat crews were called to the scene there. rick santorum slamming mitt romney and raising a lot of republican eyebrows while doing it with how he did it. we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk at what may be the etch a sketch candidate for the future. what we have. stay with what we have? really? the fallout from a republican candidate putting the president before his party. and up first, cries of justice for tra
toss the head set fell. zimmerman says he was acting in self-defense and has never been arrested or charged, but martin s family and their many supporters claim that racial bias in the shooting and the investigation. so now the fbi has stepped in and the justice department has opened a civil rights investigation. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin joining me now with more on all of this. why don t we go ahead and start with trayvon s cell phone friend. i understand you actually have a copy of her sworn affidavit. give us the details, sunny. we ll kind of unfold the conversation from there. good morning, kyra. i do not have a copy though of the sworn affidavit but i did speak to one of the martin family attorneys this morning for at least half an hour, and she and i discussed this phone call. apparently trayvon martin on that night had been trading phone calls with a 16-year-old friend, a girl, and as they traded phone calls, one of the last phone calls, w was at abou 7:04. tr
chad myers has been following this for us. also live in atlanta. and chad, rafael says there was another tremor. what are you seeing? i am actually seeing that tremor on one of the size mo seismograms in southern california. the shaking was felt by the needle ps .thnee needles. these are the minutes as we go across. about one minute of shake. then right here, a secondary shake, chp wwhich would have bee after shock. maybe 5.5, although it hasn t been posted. there will be i know we push this to the back burn err little bit and said there s not a lot of damage. that is true. there s not a lot of damage in big cities. but let me tell you, a 7.6 and in mexico is saying 6.6. not that it s a different earthquake. it s a different scale. all of the countries have a different scale. that s where we think it is, doesn t mean it s not a 7.6. it just means on our scale it s a 6.6, on the u.s. scale it s a 6.6. so for us knowing our earthquake, it s still a 7.6. and that shaking
check out this video of the moment the quake hit, also in mexico city, so remarkable about this footage is remember how far away this was from the quake s center. chad myers is tracking the very latest of this down in atlanta. chad, how many people felt this hit? some sobering numbers now, john, coming in really here. we ll talk about strong shaking, 600,000 people in mexico felt strong shaking with moderate damage. 2.3 million people felt moderate shaking but i think the number here that may really surprise us tomorrow is the u.s. geological survey has the new computer model that will tell them how many fatalities are estimated. there s a 42% chance that somewhere between 10e and 100 people died in this earthquake. there s a 30% chance of up to 1,000 people dying in this earthquake, and now we know this is just the very latest, igualapa, cnn just confirmed this town is reporting 800 structures have collapsed, mainly homes, but this is very close to the epicenter of the 7.4