strengthened its case for a number one seed in the ncaa tournament by beating st. mary s 65-51. this is the 15th straight year they go the big dance. in women s college basketball baylor got 31 points to capture the big 12 conference championship. the defending national champions overwhelmed iowa state. in the nba san antonio s danny green makes a steal and takes it all the way for the jam to help beat oklahoma city 105-93. the victory over the thunder keeps the spurs in first place in the western conference. nfl quarterback michael vick s book tour for his autobiography has been canceled. apparently threats of vice has been reported to police against the convicted dog fighter, prompting his publisher to scrap the appearances. and a celebratory drenching of the head coach went terribly
that. that is very bold. very bold. can t wait to share the ending with you. good morning. welcome to early start. i m zoraida sambolin. i m john berman. this morning mitt romney is in ohio. so is bobby jindal and jeb bush. parade? coincidence? it is sort of a parade. all about the veepstakes. also the key state of ohio. more coming up. also nelson mandela s 94th birthday. we ll hear from former president clinton who just visited with the icon in a cnn exclusive. that s coming up. first, zoraidzoraida, the b story affecting so much of the country, the weather and the devastating drought conditions that have turned half of the u.s. into a disaster zone. the department of agriculture is declaring natural disasters in 1,000 counties across 26 states. blistering temperatures are making conditions even worse. across the midwest temperatures have topped more than 100 degrees. and heat advisories are reaching up into the mid-atlantic regions. the bone dry conditions
old plane to me. well, this, united states wasn t doing well in air plain design until 1943 when, because most fighter planes were under powered so what the army air corps did is they took a merlin engine from royal air force, stuck it into the p-51. overnight this thing performance of the aircraft became remarkable. and what what is more remarkable is that it was an outstanding dog fighter from the deck, all the way up to 25 and 30,000 feet. it s not only fastest and best turning and most versatile fighter of the war with the best air to air ratio but could fly as the old saying goes throughout the entire enblem. what plane replaced it?. the plane continued to fly into korean warks greta. it wasn t retired from
questioning if things might have been different if michael vick was caucasian, and not the least the writer toure, who wrote on this subject in a magazine this month comes with a picture of a white michael vick. don t show it again! that picture is horrible. i am. before the picture, you are implying that if michael vick were white he never would have been involved in the acts of criminality given the background and yet for example ben roethlisberger is hardly the paytron saint of pittsburgh, is he? well, what i wanted to do is suggest that you can t say that if he were white what would to criminal justice do to him, and entire life be like rolling back, and the same if he were born the different black parents he probably would not have ended up in the same position at all and perhaps not in the nfl or a dog fighter or dog killer, so you cannot take one aspect and