and to get news like this, 6-foot, 6 inches, 291 pounds, the whole world ahead of him, and to end it like this is just really a sad and a tear jerker and something that everybody was talking about. juliet: the whole spring break thing is really bill: 17 years old. right, i was listening to a police officer who s in panama city earlier today, he was on one of the other networks and they re trying to figure out how the guys all got the alcohol. well juliet: it s spring break, it s basically free flowing. bill: it happens in every circle time and time again. i m not sure if you get the answers on that but you heard the gentleman in the piece there, this family needs prayers right now and a lot of them. it s not supposed to go this way, when parents bury their children. juliet: terrible story. all righty, now we re going to move on to american men and women fighting in afghanistan, colonel oliver north embedded with the special task force in kandahar, battling the opium
of the armed forces. reporter: david kennedy and former defense secretary of defense william perry are the two stanford professors leading the charge to bring rotc back to stanford but it won t happen immediately. among other things, juliet, it is contingent on the repeal of don t ask, don t tell, and there s no telling when that may happen. juliet: i would imagine there would be critics of this. what are they saying? reporter: well, some clearly have a problem with the university, stanford s caliber tiving the art of war or encouraging military approaches to problem solving. other locals here don t like the idea of seeing stanford undergrads walking around catch us in military uniforms but that does appear to be the minority opinion. most people that we spoke to about the possibility of stanford reinstating rotc really do support the idea. juliet: claudia cowen, live in palo alto, california, thank you very much, claudia. bill: this is better tv can
someone who is overly ideological, i don t think you may see republicans voting against the nominee but i don t think you ll see them engaged in a filibuster. reporter: the current court term is winding up and that is why the thinking is this could happen soon if stevens in fact decides he wants to leave this year. bill: well, over the weekend, what was his motivation to go public with this in the new york times ? it sounded almost like a warning shot, hey, this is on my mind and it s time i m going to get out. exactly. his age, and i guess he says right there i will surely do it while president obama is still in office, so he clearly, as i said before, he wants to kind of preserve this balance, and he s letting people know, bill. bill: melanie, thanks for that, melanie wilkes in washington. our commercial-free coverage continues with jewel eat huddy. juliet: democrats moving a
juliett. juliet: a legal twist in the death of michael jackson his doctor with a new defense strategy and who the legal team blames for his death, coming up next. : and the ipad from apple hitting store chefs, did it live up to the hype or was it a big old bust. juliet: i want one. bill: i-sales, next. gotta get you into my analyst. gotta get you into my life. geico s been saving people money on car insurance for over 70 years.