near alabama. they re already taking some of the kids out of school already. the last time we happened we remember the vivid pictures of tuscaloo tuscaloosa. those kids are going home. more tornados in southern mississippi and some of the patien parishes of louisiana. this is going to be one of those days, if a storm is headed your way, assume the worst. get inside, get the pets inside. don t go outside. don t take pictures. protect yourself. it will be into georgia later tonight, brooke. chad myers, thank you. we ll get more information as you re reporting. we re making phone calls. we ll try to get some videos as soon as we possibly can. i want to move along though. we want to give you a heads-up. any moment, history in the making today. president obama will present the medal of honor to the family of an american priest who died more than six decades ago.
charged today in a 33-year-old missing child case that set off a national movement. police in new york say pedro hernandez confessed to killing 6-year-old etan patz back in 1979. prosecutors are expected to charge hernandez with second-degree murder. etan disappeared on his way to school. of it his first time walking to the bus stop by himself. historic meeting in space happened about an hour ago when the space x dragon linked up with the international space station. check it out, see how it went down. capture is confirmed. [ applause ] congratulations on a wonderful capture. you have made a lot of folks happy down here over in hawthorne and right here in houston. great job, guys. houston, it looks like we got us a dragon by the tail. private spacecraft is bringing clothes, supplies, experiments to the space station. it has been exactly one week since the jury in the john edwards corruption trial got the case. they are still deliberating. four women, eight men hav
landing today at the big apple. if you re flying into jfk today, you could get an interesting look. i just gave it away. you can watch those pictures over and over again. a piggybacking 747 and a shuttle? sweet stuff. let s get started off the top of the hour here. up first, a six-figure shocker in the trayvon martin case. legal experts say it s something that could land trayvon martin s killer george zimmerman back in jail. zimmerman s attorney mark o mara told anderson cooper that he just found out his client has over $200,000 in online donations, but the judge was told zimmerman had very little money when the bail was set this wee week. he asked me what do with his paypal accounts. i asked him what he was talking about. and he said those are the accounts that had the money from the website he had and that there was about $200,000, $204,000 that had come in to date. i don t think judge lester will believe i misled him. i told him what i knew at the time which is exact
hadlock live in tuscaloosa for us. good day. schools are reopening here today. has that done anything to lift the mood there? it is, alex. in fact, i just got back from the pleasant grove elementary school in the small town of pleasant groe pleasant grove, 50 miles from tuscaloo tuscaloosa. the school is still intact. the classes have resumed there. of the people going back, nine teachers lost their homes. a cafeteria worker lost her daughter who went to school here at the university of alabama none of the students were killed but many of them lost loved ones and their hopes. today was a connection with reality, getting back to school, getting back to normal as best they can. and the teachers there said we re putting away the math books, we re putting away the e english books. today we re just giving hugs. probably a lot of talk amongst themselves and sharing stories. thank you.
situation today. chad meyers stand by we will talk again. again, we are watching and waiting for alabama governor robert bentley and the ema director to speak, they are from tuscaloo tuscaloosa. you see the bottom right hand corner of your screen, the live picture we have. as soon as we have them, we will take that to you live. show you something else, video we have gotten in from georgia, where we are just hearing of this horrific story but it is a story at least of survival t is bittersweet a young girl asleep in her bed is sucked up by a tornado. we will tell you what happened to her, next. [ lane ] here s the trouble with most anti-wrinkle creams.