talk to his team. the tape that could be the nail in the coffin for his career. ♪ >> that's not going go of very well. the agency in charge of cutting government costs makes a joke out of it in a new web video, this after it blew almost $1 million on a las vegas conference. a japanese ghost ship that was drifting off the coast of alaska now sleeps with the fishes. new video of the coast guard unloading the cannons on it. up first, it's the missing piece of the recovery, the critical jobs report for march is due out in about three and a half hours. a report with the potential to shake up the 2012 election. christine romans will tell us what we can expect today. christine? good morning. you're right it has the potential to shake up the election but more importantly we hope it shapes up your jobs prospects. this is the trend over the year. looking for in march 200,000 jobs created for the month. 200,000, an unemployment rate of 8.3 or 8.2%. i want to put it in context for you. you know it's been a really long, slow slog here. some have criticized the fact that the jobs have not come back more robustly. others say look where we have came from. i can show you where we came from since the last months of the bush administration into the early months of the obama administration. look at all these jobs lost. all of these red are hundreds of thousands of jobs lost, then a slow, slow jobs gain pattern. now we're hoping for a trend, at least many workers are hoping for a trend that shows 200,000 jobs created consistently. when we bring you those numbers, we will bring you instant reaction to it at 8:30 eastern, but i'll dig into those and find out what kinds of jobs are being created wh created, what they pay and the trend overall. >> the spin. >> that's right. >> thank you very much, christine. two minutes past the hour here. did george zimmerman use a racial slur moments before shooting 17-year-old trayvon martin. zimmerman and his attorneys say he did not and they may have science on their side. a renowned audio expert listened to the 911 recording separating zimmerman's voice, and the word zimmerman used is punked. we put that portion of the tape on a loop. >> punks. [ bleep ] punks. [ bleep ] punks. >> i think it's three for three here. it's tough to understand it. trayvon martin's family claims the neighborhood watch volunteer racially profiled their son because he was black. zimmerman says he acted in self-defense. no charges have been filed. florida's controversial stand your ground law is at the heart of the trayvon martin case. it says you have the right to kill if you feel your life is being threatened. the law prevented police from arrested george zimmerman. the task force evaluating the statute held its first meeting last night it is headed by florida state senator chris smith. he talked to erin burnett last night about their goal. >> we are looking to modify the goal. i think the law is being misused, but the premise of it is something floridians believe in. i think we need to clarify the law more and send a signal out to people that this is not what we expect as floridians. we do not expect you to be the aggressor, to start the fight and avail yourself of this law and hide from prosecution. >> at least 20 other states have similar stand your ground laws. florida state senator chris smith will join us live here at 6:30 eastern time to talk about the outcome of last night's meeting. another embarrassment for the general services administration. this is governmentment agency in charming of saving the government money. the head of the gsa resigned after details came out about a lavish conference she held in vegas, a concert that featured a clown, a mind reader and $7,000 in sushi. now a new web video surfaced showing another gsa employee joking about excessive government spending. ♪ ♪ can't touch gs 15 ♪ because i buy everything ♪ probably get a top hat award ♪ love to the nation ♪ i never be under oig investigation ♪ >> never be oig investigation, the office of the inspector general. it also mentions an awards program for employees that gave out $200,000 worth of taxpayer-funded ipods, gift cards. house republicans plan to hold a hearing on this, on the gsa issue later this month. you have to feel bad for the guy who is just the worker who put together the video. i'm sure they were encouraged to try to do team building. i'm sure they had no idea they would be on national television. >> why would they do something like this? i don't understand it. even jokingly, right? choose another topic. do something different. >> when you're in the era of budget cuts, very politically charged atmosphere of trying to figure in how to rein in government spending, it's the optics. >> in an era where everybody pushes everything to the web, you'll be find out. >> nice to have you this morning. >> thank you. the white house is weighing in on the controversial men-only member at augusta national, home of the masters golf tournament. we talked about this yesterday. aga augusta traditionally offered admission for the head of ibm. but the new ceo is a woman. jay carney says president obama believes the club needs a course direction. >> the president believes that women should be admitted. >> the president and mitt romney agree on this. mitt romney said if he were running augusta international, women would allowed as members. >> the head of ibm does play golf. we have not heard what she says about this. but in the rarefied era of american business there are not many women at top spots and it puts ibm in a tough spot. >> she could be a game changer. >> her job is to return shareholder value, not make history at the masters. we'll see how that pans out. >> it still would be nice. new video came in overnight of the coast guard blasting away at the ghost ship. it was unlit, unmanned, just drifting around out there. the coast guard said it was posing a navigation threat for other vehicles in the area. so they took it down. >> at home with the fishes now. forget the $10 million chandelier, after comparing himself to a really expensive light fixture, keith olbermann puts a much higher price tag on what he's worth. we'll have all those details for you ahead. and it's all about the dress, right? the wedding gown. you find your life finding the guy and then lose the dress? the effort to reunite a bride with a wedding dress that was taken by a tornado. you're watching "early start." 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those iconic azaleas. temperatures at augusta 16 the last 20 days have been above 80 degrees, so they have passed their peak. in terms of the forecast a beautiful holiday weekend for so many. northeast, we are at some seasonal temperatures. southeast dries out, saturday and sunday quite nice. sunday night, this looks like a rainy sunday in seattle and portland, it's not. that rain coming in late on the night. sunday in the northwest, rain moving in late in the day, southwest looks great. and really much of the northeast will be dry. we have just been watching this one front, our next weathermaker, it moves east so a few rain showers around the great lakes on sunday. for the most part, finally after such a rough weather week, it's all progressive, moving eastward and sets the stage for a nice weekend. >> that's nice to hear, because we have eggs to catch. >> that's right. >> eggs to catch and eggs to collect. >> that's right. 15 minutes past the hour here. we are getting an early read on your local news making national headlines. this morning we have papers from new york, los angeles and denver. we are starting out with battling op-eds breaking down president obama's speech on tuesday. during his speech the president blasted the budget plan proposed by paul ryan and social darwinism. >> this budget is something different altogether. it is a trojan horse disguised as deficit reduction plans, it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. it is thinly vaileiled darwinis. governor romney hoped he hoped a similar version of this plan last year would be introduced on day one of his presidency. >> we have been talking for a few weeks how the president and romney lay out their economic strategies will win this election. how they feel about their money will win this election. that's the talking point on the trail. both the "wall street journal" and the "new york times" tearing apart the president's speech. i guess what is most interesting is that it's all us versus them. normally at this point, early in an election year, an incumbent president operating within a rounded none threatening blur. mr. obama isn't doing this. he wants it all stark and sharply defined early on. is this good politics? 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