network s decision to dump deen. great move. it had to be done. disrespectful slurs will not be tolerat tolerated. and the fallout could continue. listen to what qvc told cnn. we re watching those developments closely and reviewing our business relationship with miss deen. and walmart which sells her products has not commented on the future of their relationship. her cookware is also sold at target and k-mart. the case is ongoing and she thanked the food network for 11 great years. but she has endured bad publicity in the past. never with so much fallout like this. you have that right. pamela brown, thanks so much. the senate is getting ready for a crucial vote on immigration reform. today lawmakers are set to vote on an amendment to better secure or borders. even though the bill is expected to pass, the question is by what margin. by how much?
zimmerman was the aggressor. they ll argue that he profiled and continued to pursue trayvon martin even after a dispatcher told him not to. there s also the question of who was screaming for help on this 911 tape moments before the fatal shot. do you think he s yelling help? yes. all right, what is your reporter: prosecutors may also call on witnesses who claim it was trayvon martin screaming for help. but over the weekend, judge deborah nelson denied the testimony of the state s audio experts. cnn legal analyst called it a setback for prosecutors. their audio expert was one of the major cornerstones of their entire case from the beginning we ve been saying that whoever s voice it was crying for help suggested, in fact, showed that the other person was, in fact, the perpetrator. reporter: the jury was sworn in last week. a panel of all women. five who attorneys say are white
and one black hispanic. their identities kept anonymous in order to protect their privacy. back to live pictures here in sanford, florida. the camera a moment ago there on george zimmerman. these attorneys debating and a couple rulings before the jury comes into the courtroom and we understand that attorney don west will open for the defense. carol, we know that his opening statements could take at least two hours. wow. george howl, thank yell, tha much. that was a bad mistake, wasn t it? george, thank you so much. if the zimmerman case were tried in the court of public opinion, he might have a hard time successfully defending himself. a cnn/orc poll conducted a week ago 62% of those asked said the charges against george zimmerman were probably or definitely true. only 20% did not believe it. a big difference between whites and nonwhites.
michigan case it in the pipeline. so here is the big question. is it a narrow ruling, is it broad sweeping, how will this decision impact an issue as you well know, a huge legal issue politically it can become very divisive issue. and this is an issue that involves a public university, the university of texas at austin. but private universities will be watching it very closely because so many of those private universities get federal funding one way or another. tom foreman is watching what s going on. we re awaiting the decision. but you have more background. yeah, we can t take you inside the supreme court, but we can virtually give and you scene setter there. there are about 300 people gathered in the room right now. it looks like this. and they re waiting to hear what the justices are saying in their completion about this case of fisher versus the university of texas at austin. this case was argued in oral arguments here way back in october. what that means is that at that time
qualified. so will the court draw a new line on state based and perhaps even more broadly affirmative action questions. and the school is making the case that race is viable as one factor as long as you have several factors in trying to develop a diverse student body. that is the big case there. what do the american people think? let s take a look. this is being done by the nine justices, but in the court of public opinion, you see nearly 7 in 10 americans think this is wrong. that state based schools should not be able to use race as a factor in admissions policies. that s a pretty striking number. but remember that s the court of public opinion. and there is a breakdown probably not surprising to you, whites are overwhelmingly against this, nonwhite as majority approve of this affirmative action. the impact is the big question mark. because there is a case just a few years ago, there is a