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we re standing by from a statement from deborah hersman from the national transportation safety board. today they had a chance to interview the pilot who landed that plane. he had very scant experience with the 777 and no experience landing one of those 777s at the san francisco airport, which can be tricky. today federal investigators, they questioned, they interviewed him. we re going to get information from debra hersman on what he had to say. we ll have coverage of that news conference coming up. stand by for that. back to the george zimmerman trial. the jurors are not in the courtroom right now but they re continuing this hearing on whether or not a computerized animation on what happened in the exchange between trayvon martin and george zimmerman should be allowed to be shown as evidence to the jury. you see there rich mantei, one of the prosecutors, he doesn t
shut off your phone. it s not mine. mine s here. is it in your pocket? no, it s on vibrate but it s not vibrating anymore. but it s not yours. go ahead. i m sorry. your indication is that she, according to you, somehow testified that she knows that it must have started there? may i have ask a question? if you want a clarification, you can ask mr. mantei to clarify. so for evidence which the judge is asking, does that include police reports? no, sir. i want you to assume that any time i m asking you about actual evidence or testimony, i mean something that has gone on in this courtroom during trial, okay? okay. what someone said outside of
looking at live pictures from inside the courtroom right now in the george zimmerman murder trial. that s rich mantei, one of the state prosecutors who is questioning daniel schumacher on this animation that he created. the defense really wants this animation to be shown to the jurors. the jurors are not in the courtroom right now. it shows a recreation of what happened between trayvon martin and george zimmerman. the prosecution doesn t want this to be shown. they re arguing it strictly speculative, if you will. the judge will make a imagine decision on that momentarily. we ll continue or monitoring.
defense hopes fills that gap in the minds of jurors, and of course it will fill it in a way that the defense says favors them. so that s what they re worried about, that this jury could be sent off with still questioning, doubting that two-minute gap and that means it could go either way and the defense doesn t want that kind of gamble. they want it to go their way. and rich mantei seems to be scoring some points in undermining that this is a reliable de depiction of what