battle. later this hour. you saw the movie, well wait until you see this. artifacts from the real titanic, we ll bring it to you live in studio. you re watching weekend early start with news doesn t take the weekend off. we give you context and analysis, that is the killing of trayvon martin as the national fury grows, vigils and marchs are spreading. demonstrators have become the trademark signal wearing hoodies and holding skittles. george zimmerman said he did it in self defense. last night his attorney broke the silence. here what is he told anderson cooper. what is your client has your client told you about the night he shot trayvon martin? that, i believe he should have made a statement to police at that time. i think he did, i don t know for a fact because i haven t seen the police reports on this case. i have not discussed the evening of what occurred that time. i think that will come out through the investigation process, done by law enforcement. you have
south, tornadoes hitting eight states, tonight at least 14 people are dead, an entire communities have been wiped out. nbc news meadologist bill karins with the latest. reporter: good evening, ed. an amazing show of force from the tornadoes, incredibly strong we heard stories of asphalt ripped up in southern portions of indiana. debris blowing 50 miles away in cincinnati from these storms. we still have a tornado threat as we go throughout the late night hours here and after we go past midnight but the tornado threat will slowly diminish as we go throughout the evening. areas of concern are switching moreorless toward areas of eastern alabama, northern georgia, up through the mountains of appalachians. big cities out of the woods. amazing number of severe weather reports. 60 to 80 tornado reports. a lot of damaging hail. center over kentucky, southern indiana and southern ohio, that writes we want to bring you
from the edges. by the anti-abortion movement and conservative movement more broadly. when you look at the approaches to the legislation, trying to state change laws, the approaches they ve taken in terms of federal legislation, is there any connection that i just can t see because i m a liberal? between the way they have approached this issue as a policy matter and the rhetoric about supporting small government? you know, there is none. it makes no sense for a party that purports to want to shrink government down to the size that you could drown it in a bathtub to then sort of insert it in your uterus, it makes no cognitive sense but it s important to see where this comes from and you and i talked about this over the years. this is an invitation from just continue anthony kennedy, the swing voter on the court, who in 2006 in the gonzales case, the partial birth abortion case, moreorless announces to america in a 5-4 decision that women are
moreorless announces to america in a 5-4 decision that women are going to have regrets about their abortions, that they don t really fully appreciate what they re doing and that more information is better, and that the government is entitled to do what it can to make them understand the consequences. and bracket how sexist it is, it opened the flood gates for any law including trap laws, that determined the size of a janitorial closet in an abortion clinic, but opens the door for any kind of legislation by any state that thinks they are helping women understand that which women are cognitively not able to understand. do you think that this ultrasound law in virginia, there is a number of ultrasound laws around the state, the virginia is notable for having language that would likely force it to be an internal ultrasound, invasive one, if you want to think about it in those terms. do you see that it would be
reelected, barack obama will guarantee irrepairable damage to american supremacy. this campaign is about more than replacing a president. it s about saving the soul of america. president obama and i have very different visions of america. president obama wants to fundamentally transform america, and make it something perhaps we wouldn t recognize. i want to restore to america the values and principles that made us the hope of the earth. if you want to make this election about restoring american greatness, then i hope you will join us. mitt romney promises to very explicitly restore american greatness. that message is simple and straightforward for mr. romney. as we enter in moreorless the general election season, the central rhetorical challenge for barack obama is telling story of his presidency that speaks to the duel layered anxiety. about the economy generally and