and new documents in the case of the man charged with killing trayvon martin. could shed some light on whether or not race played a role. want to get right to it. u.s. military judge held a hearing at ft. hood, texas, today a few weeks before the court-martial begins for major nadal hassan. hassan, he is the army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage in -- back in 2009. he is accused of killing 13 people, all but one of them fellow soldiers. he also wounded 29 others. now attorneys today discussed the makeup of his military jury which has not yet been convened. hassan's murder trial is set to begin august 20th. florida a&m university now looking for a new president. the school's board of directors going to hold a meeting today on -- rather monday. president james eamons announced his resignation yesterday. he stepped down more than seven months after a student was beaten to death. robert champion. he was a drum major. he died during an apparent hazing incident on a bus last year. 14 suspects have been charged in the case. about two hours, penn state will respond to a scathing internal report on the school's handling of the sexual abuse allegations against assistant coach jerry sandusky. the panel led by former fbi director and federal judge louie freeh accuses the school's former leadership of showing a total disregard for the safety and welfare of sandusky's victims. freeh says much of the blame lies at the feet of, quote, the most powerful men at penn state. former president graham spanier, also former vice president gary schultz, the school's late head coach joe paterno, and its former athletic director tim curley. freeh says that the four ignored more red flags than you can count, didn't take into account any action to protect those kids from sandusky for 14 years. here's what he said specifically about paterno's role. >> the evidence shows that mr. paterno was made aware of the 1998 investigation of sandusky, followed it closely, but failed to take any action, even though sandusky had been a key member of his coaching staff for about 30 years and had an office just steps away from mr. paterno. >> in a statement issued today the paterno family acknowledged that the former head coach made mistakes and regretted them, but they insisted that paterno did not know that sandusky was a child predator. joining us live from philadelphia, cnn contributor and patriots news reporter sara ganim. you've been covering this story from the very beginning. this is a panel that reviewed more than, what, 3.5 million documents, held 430 interviews before coming up with this report. how does this break down in terms of who was most responsible? >> well, judge louie freeh said it comes down to these four people, joe paterno, the president graham spanier and those two penn state officials who have already been charged with lying in the criminal investigation, tim curley and gary schultz. when he was asked about other employees, or more wide cover-up, he denied any other employees are responsible for actively concealing the allegations against jerry sandusky. he did lay some blame on the board of trustees for a lack of oversight. he said they were simply too lax and let a couple of people get away with too much power and not enough responsibility to report. but as far as other people that they lay blame for actively concealing jerry sandusky's -- allegations against jerry sandusky, or even knowing about allegations against jerry sandusky, the freeh internal report team narrowed it down to these four people, said they all knew about at least two incidents and did nothing to report them to authorities. >> and sarah, i understand that this report specifically talks about what many talk about this, this shower incident with sandusky and one of these boys, one of these victims here and what should have been done after that shower incident was actually viewed. can you explain what the report says? >> the report says basically very straightforward they should have reported it to authorities, to pennsylvania's department of child welfare, to police. in 1998, there was a police investigation and this is where the paterno family is kind of pushing back a little bit, a six-week police investigation that ended with a district attorney not filing charges, and joe paterno's son scott says look, my father's hands were tied then at that point he couldn't fire this coach, he couldn't discipline him in any way, because the criminal investigation ended with him being cleared. >> sarah -- >> in 2001 that's a little different. >> last month, sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing ten boys over a 15-year period and this report accuses several senior officials of what they say -- they call empowering sandusky to actually attract more victims. what did they mean by that? >> well, i don't know exactly what he means. he didn't really elaborate. he said by their inaction and actively concealing the allegations, they allowed more victims to be abused. now we know that there were several allegations in the 2000s, from 2000 to 2001, 2002, there were incidents in 2005 through 2008 and '09, there are several victims who took the stand at jerry sandusky's trial and testified that they were abused during that decade and that's all after these four penn state officials supposedly knew about allegations of jerry sandusky. >> and sarah, it sounds like so many people were held accountable and responsible for this, that it goes from the highest level here of the university, but also it talks about the lower-level staff members, specifically the janitors who actually knew in some ways that this was going on as well? >> right. and louie freeh talked about a culture of fear and a culture of silence, and that the attitudes of these top penn state officials of joe paterno, graham spanier, gary schultz and tim curley, their attitude of secrecy and silence permeated down all the way as low as employees that were part-time, that worked at night, that were cleaning bathrooms, and they understood that if they were to come forward and make allegations like this against a coach, against jerry sandusky, part of a revered program, a revered coach, that they believed they would be fired. so he talks a lot about that culture of silence. >> all right. sarah beganen, thank you so much. we appreciate it. it was vice president joe biden, not president obama, taking center stage at the naacp convention today. the president said he could not be there because of a scheduling conflict, but he did send a videotaped message. >> stand on your shoulders and at the naacp you have always believed in the american promise, that idea that no matter who you are or what you look like or where you come from, america is the place where you can make it if you try. >> biden praised his boss for taking a big political risk, getting health care law through congress. listen. >> he passed the affordable care act, a goal strived for by presidents starting with teddy roosevelt. it required him early on to use up almost all of his political capital. he prevailed where no president has done before. he was right, he was right! [ applause ] >> he cut -- cut $100 billion. $100 billion from the federal debt over the next ten years providing access of affordable health care to 30 million americans, 8 million black americans who would never have had insurance. >> dan lothian is at the white house. dan, take us back a little bit here, because know there was some discussion over how this was handled, whether or not there was a scheduling conflict or whether or not the president had pretaped this message beforehand to the organization and had always planned to send the vice president? what do we know? >> well, you know, as you pointed out, the white house still maintains that this was a scheduling conflict, although when you look at the president's schedule today, it's quite light. he's doing a sit down interview along with the first lady with cbs news and he had his daily briefing here at the white house. beyond that in his public schedule, we did not see anything else. although, i should point out that there are times when the president does have big meetings, important phone calls and other things, that are not on the public schedule and we do not find out about. but nonetheless, the white house said that the president had done this tape recently, but was not in reaction to the blowback that has happened over the last 24 hours or more on the president not attending the naacp convention in houston. white house spokesman jay carney when asked about that today said, quote, absolutely not, that there was no connection between the decision to do this tape and all the criticism of the president not appearing there in person, suzanne. >> is there a sense from the white house and from the campaign that this is going to blow over fairly soon, that this is not going to be an issue moving into the weeks and the months ahead of the election and when you take a look at the naacp, he's still going to have that solid support? >> you know, i think so. i don't know that you can find anyone out there that believes there's going to be any lasting impact from the president not showing up. just look at the past history in 2008, the president got 95% of the african-american vote, according to the exit polls, and in the most recent polling, he enjoys about 87% support among african-americans over mitt romney. that's among african-american registered voters. and so no one believes that this is going to change anything. the white house points out that look, the president can't make every one of these events. he is attending the upcoming urban league convention and there are times when he cannot show up in person, he will show up by tape. >> all right. dan lothian, thank you. good to see you in person. >> okay. here's what we're working on for this hour. mitt romney speaks to the naacp and receives more jeers than cheers. quite a change from his speech to a powerful latino group a few weeks ago. was there more to the message? we'll dissect the differences. the u.s. army puts the brakes on a long-running tradition, why nascar's ending its ride, despite some 75 million fans. and you don't expect this to happen when you go fishing. >> oh [ bleep ]. >> the surprising big catch that caused quite a scare. people have doubts about taking aspirin for pain. but they haven't experienced extra strength bayer advanced aspirin. in fact, in a recent survey, 95% of people who tried it agreed that it relieved their headache fast. visit fastreliefchallenge.com today for a special trial offer. mine hurt more! mine stopped hurting faster... 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>> well, if you look at the fbi investigation and we now know that they really spoke to about 30 people, it isn't clear that race did play a part in it. the fbi certainly interviewed a lot of georgeó[y zimmerman's co-workers, a lot of his friends, and many of them say, if not all of them, say that they did not believe him to be biased, they did not believe him to be prejudiced. what is also interesting, though, is that we now also have information from george zimmerman's myspace page and in his profile in the "about me" highlights page, he discusses people that are mexican and he says, suzanne, i don't miss driving around virginia scared to hit mexicans walking on the side of the street. he also in reference to mexicans says, working 96 hours to get a decent paycheck, getting knives pulled on you by every mexican you run into. and so you have that type of information, george zimmerman's own words on his myspace page, however you also have the information from all of these witnesses, co-workers and friends, and they all say that he is not someone that's biased and someone that is prejudiced. so it will be interesting how that plays out in court. i think what's also important to note, is that the sanford investigator, chris serene no, who was the lead investigator here, indicated when speaking to the fbi, that he did not believe that george zimmerman followed trayvon martin because of his race, but rather because of his attire, because of what he was wearing, the hoodie that we all talked about so much when this case broke. he says that hoodie was worn by many people affiliated with gangs and that he believed, officer sereneo that is why george zimmerman followed trayvon martin. >> sunny, do you think this report, some of these questions, do you think it answers what many people are wondering about this case? does it put it to rest or just bring up more questions about this? will this satisfy the critics is this. >> i don't think it will satisfy the critics. i mean certainly we don't have any definitive response from the civil rights division, the justice department, that sent the fbi to investigate whether or not there was a racial angle to this case. so all we have is this limited information, this is the second round of discovery that was released by angela corey's office, but still, many, many more questions out there, suzanne. >> all right. sunny, good to see you. thank you as always. details are emerging about what is wrong with illinois congressman jesse jackson jr. his office says he is receiving, quote, intensive medical treatment for a mood disorder. the 47-year-old lawmaker, he has not been on capitol hill since late may. and last month his office announced he was taking a leave of absence due to a medical condition. want to bring in our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen to talk a little bit about it. it's a little confusing here when we saw this statement, a lot of us didn't really quite know what to make of it. they said a mood disorder. can you define that at all? >> a mood disorder is not very specific. it sort of covers a whole bunch different disorders. let's go over what the two big ones are. the two big mood disorders are depression. we hear a lot about depression, all of us know probably someone who suffers depression and bypolar disorder which some call manic depression. those are the two diagnoses that come under mood disorder. >> is this the thing he could be treated and go back to work be? >> the psychiatrists we talked to said sure, people who have these disorders work all the time, but at the same time, it is something that they deal with, usually for the rest of their lives. it's not something where you go in and get treatment and you're fine. they said that often you will have to go back for treatment, maybe just outpatient the next time, but it's not something that gets cured with one hospitalization. >> we know he's probably under a lot of stress, there's a house ethics investigation that is looking into him as well. could that actually contribute to something like a mood disorder? >> yes. the doctors we talked to said a stressor like that can send someone into a mood disorder. that's a pretty big deal, right? you're a person of stature and now your peers are judging you and investigating you, that that's not a small thing. something like that could send you into a depression or into some kind of a bipolar situation. a divorce could do the same thing. stress plays a huge role. >> we hope he's okay. we're going to try to get more information to see what kind of condition and shape he's in. thank you. appreciate it. the army has a lot of techniques when it comes to recruiting new soldiers, including using nascar, but soon the relationship is going to end. we're going to tell you why. and the old toys lying around your house could have a second life as life-saving medical devices. that makes "the next list." >> my name is jose and i use toys to make affordable medical devices. when you're using toys it demisfis the process of medical technology. we use at these and think they are a black box. you need an expert to take a screwdriver at it. you may not have the courage to have a thousand dollar device but you have the courage to have something that's $5. if you add a little ingenuity you have something as powerful as the $5,000 device. a route map shows you where we go. but not how we get there. because in this business, there are no straight lines. only the twists and turns of an unpredictable industry. so the eighty-thousand employees at delta... must anticipate the unexpected. and never let the rules overrule common sense. this is how we tame the unwieldiness of air travel, until it's not just lines you see... it's the world. you need an expert to take a nc i bought the car because i could eliminate gas from my budget. i don't spend money on gasoline. it's been 4,000 miles since my last trip to the gas station. it's pretty great. i get a bunch of kids waving at me... giving me the thumbs up. it's always a gratifying experience. it makes me feel good about my car. i absolutely love my chevy volt. ♪ web the navy's newest aircraft carriers hit the high seas going to come out with something that ships have always had, but -- urinals. this is not going to be on the ship. the navy says the decision was made in part to give the service flexibility in accommodating female soldiers. urinals clog more than toilets and cost more to maintain. they are named for former president gerald ford and will debut in 2015. u.s. military has spent millions of dollars on advertising at sporting events hoping to attract young people to get them to sign up. as barbara starr reports, when it comes to nascar, the army is doing an about-face. >> reporter: nascar has some 75 million fans the army says they're just too old. so after ten years of sponsoring a nascar sprint cup team, the army is ending it all, stopping its $8.5 million sponsorship of ryan newman's number 39 car. nowadays, the army insists only 5% of nascar fans are men aged 18 to 34, the target audience for army recruiters. >> it was a good investment, not a great investment, and so we made a change. >> reporter: the military has long used sporting events to advertise and encourage young people to sign up for military service. when i visited the daytona 500 preps in 20, i spoke to newman about his main sponsor. what is it about representing the u.s. army? what's different here? >> i'm representing people and it's an honor to represent people that are not just people, they're people that are fighting for our freedom or have fought for our freedom or will fight for our freedom. >> reporter: now nascar fans at a florida hangout have a mixed reaction to the army's decision. >> having the army or any military branch sponsor a car is only going to help instill pride in our country. >> men and women on the front lines, i would rathersee it go to them and their families rather than to a sports car driver. >> rorter: some in congress think it's high time to get out of sports sponsorships in the face of federal deficit. >> i started looking a