arming the assad regime. we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to syr syria. we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria, which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically. moscow insists any arms supplies sent to syria are not being used against anti-government protesters. the suspect in the auburn triple murder is in custody after a three day manhunt. desmonte leonard turned himself into authorities at the federal courthouse in montgomery, alabama. facing three counts of capital murder. he gunned down three people and wounded three others after a fight broke out in an off campus party. two of those killed were former auburn football players. gabrielle giffords former aide will serve out the remainder of her term in the house. barber defeating kelly by 6 points. he ll fill giffords seat until november. in virginia, george allen easily defeated three
to stop. it s not stopping. the peace keeping spokesman says countries that are supporting them needs to stop. the peace keeping department and the u.n. saying more u.n. unarmed observers turned back and three vehicles were fired upon by a source unknown when departing the scene. a very bad deteriorating situation. based upon what we heard, he said nearly all parts of the country in civil war. are we to assume it s nationwide now? it certainly is spread. these unarmed observers, only 300, they can t see everything. groups, opposition members, people reporting the increasing death toll. syria totally violating the u.n. security council resolution. members split on what to do. nobody wants to go in militarily. richard roth thank you. later we ll talk about the torture of kids there. now to this. this is what attorney general said today in his testy exchange with senator john corning after a republican jumped on the dog pile of lawmakers asked for holder s job. he was
judge in the trayvon martin murder case. martin savidge is there. martin, how did it take place today? reporter: well, it was simple and it was uneventful, fredricka. that is just the way the authorities wanted it to be. there was always concern about george zimmerman s team. it certainly was the worry of law enforcement because of the amount of notoriety this case has received over time, and of course, because there s a lot of different opinions on this story. let s tell you how the meeting took place. it was rather clandestine how george zimmerman got into the hands of authorities. listen to the sheriff as he described how it went down. george zimmerman met two members of the sheriff s office in the area of lake mary at i-4. was placed into custody, transported to the correctional facility. he is being booked and processed. as per judge lester s order. he ll be held on a no-bond status. reporter: and so it was really kind of a meeting that was set up on the side of th
tribute to the fallen on this memorial day. we remember the sacrifices of our troops and their families. newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. it s going to be a wet and soggy memorial day across parts of the north florida and southeast georgia. tropical storm beryl is to blame. you re looking at a live picture from jekyll island, georgia. the storm moves up the coast. we learned a short time ago beryl caused major damage at the jacksonville airport after making landfall and canceling 12 outgoing flights and forced jacksonville officials to cancel holiday activities and thousands are without power this morning. meteorologist rob marciano is tracking beryl. oh, darn! bad timing. but good news to this and get to that in a second. the damage in jacksonville is where it made landfall last night shortly after midnight and came on shore with near hurricane force winds. it was almost classified a hurricane and some folks may argue that. 73-mile-an
weak candidate but yet he almost pulled it out last night, which i was amazed by. we were talking before the show, if santorum did better with women, right, he could have pulled it out this highohio. and if newt gingrich wasn t there. but his comments, radical feminists saying the only way women can be happy is if they work outside the home when he was talking about, you know, birth control not being part of women s rights. his comments have been polarizing for women. you saw the results in the exit polls last night for him. i want to bring in the former white house deputy communications director, jen, who joins me right now. jen, at his first news conference of the year yesterday, president obama tried to reach out to women, i suppose addressing people in general when he talked about rush limbaugh s comments. obviously, about that georgetown law student. let me play for you what he said about that yesterday. the reason i called miss fluke is because i thought about