and it was a bipartisan bill, there were all of the women on the senate side that voted for it. i think they did the right thing. thank you so much, congresswoman juldy big ert for your time. ladies on the panel. we are talking a couple things. one is of course the latest moves here on the violence against women act. also worth mentioning before we end the show is joe ricketts release add statement saying he is neither the author or funder of the so called ricketts plan, he intends to work hard to help elect a president that shares his commitment to economic responsibility but his efforts are and will focus on questions of fiscal policy not divisive social and cultural issues. good to know. probably take your name off of that plan. if we look at this, this kind of a jeremiah wright stuff, the strident i would say in some cases bigoted or sexist stuff floated by the arch wing of the
firefighters in dearborn, michigan, when the roof they were on started to collapse. training, quick thinking and a lot of luck saved the day. saw it on video so many times. oh, boy. i guess we really avoided a crisis there. so especially when it was my feet dangling in that hole. from cnn s world headquarters, bringing you news and analysis from across the nation and around the globe. live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning. the streets of sanford, florida, are again filled with people seeking justice for trayvon martin and the arrest of his shooter george zimmerman. people are gathered right now for a march. today s focus, the sanford police department, which has been heavily criticized for allowing zimmerman to remain free. george howell is outside police headquarters. protesters will end up here. and george, one month now since the killing of trayvon martin but the outrage certainly shows no signs of waning. in some cases it seems to be growing. what are
they have lines you can call in before you take your kids on a trip. get me up to speed on the elderly. didn t they change? they did. we re talking limited screening, too. people over 75 at a couple of airports, four, can keep their shoes on, a light jacket, they can go through the metal detector or screening device to try to avoid that pat-down. this is part of eliminating the pools of risk as the tsa calls it. a kinder, gentler trip for the rest of us. thanks so much, lizzie. it s the top of the hour. i m ashley banfield. time to get you up to speed. several big developments in the investigation into the florida teenager trayvon martin. that case is going to a grand jury in seminole county, florida. and the department of justice and the fbi have opened up their own investigation into this case. last hour the martin family attorney said the teenager was on the phone with his girlfriend just before he was shot. the dots have all been connected. arrest george zimmerman
most fascinating days in american licks in a long time. shepard: thank you. u.s. senator rand paul claimed airport security detained him, and airport security says they dip. after he refused to a full body patdown and he says it started when something on his leg at his knee triggered an alarm during a routine screening. watch. i said i am happy to show you my leg, but they wanted to do a patdown. and i said well i m happy to go through the rescene, and walk through the screener again, and they wouldn t let me. so, then i was detained in an area and told if i used my phone i got the full body patdown. shepard: that is what they told him but they dispute the word detained, because that is a word they don t like but if they hold you, are you detained? his father, ron paul, release add statement saying this the
joe paterno is up against what could be his toughest opponent yet: the 84-year-old is fighting a treatable form of lung cancer, his son, scott, release add statement saying the doctors are optimistic, he will make a full recovery. the cancer announcement is a week after joe paterno was fired in the aftermath of sexual abuse allegations against former defensive coordinator sandusky who is charged with sexually abusing eight boys over 15 years. he denied the claims and his attorney spoke with fox news. what i am hoping is if there is, that the folks at penn state who have been totally destroyed by this mess, will be vindicated as an early stage rather than later in the process. syracuse university is now in the process of investigating allegations of molestation. two former ball boys say long time assistant coach bernie fine sexually abused them first