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suspect is now talking to police again after cutting them off for several hours. we ll take you live to france for the latest on the situation in about 15 minutes. new protests, more questions and demands. there is swelling outrage in the shooting death of an unarmed florida teen by a neighborhood watch volunteer who is claiming self-defense. activists in new york city, a thousand miles from trayvon martin s killing, are planning a million hoodie demonstration at 6:00 p.m. eastern in union square. trayvon was wearing a hoodie in the rain when he was shot last month. local police are defending their investigation and their decision not to arrest or charge the alleged shooter, george zimmerman. state and federal investigations are under way as well and florida s self-defense law called stand your ground is under fire. cnn s john zarrella has more on all of this in a live report just moments from now. afghanistan s foreign minister and secretary of state hillary clinton ....
captions by vitac www.vitac.com major new backing and a brewing new controversy for the republican presidential candidate mitt romney. he s picked up one of the most sought-after endorsements of the campaign, but a remark by one of his top aides is now threatening to overshadow it. our national political correspondent jim acosta is with romney who is holding a town hall meeting outside baltimore. jim, what happened? reporter: wolf, as you just mentioned mitt romney is about to hold a town hall meeting just outside of baltimore. the maryland primary is coming up in about a week and a half, but mitt romney can take comfort in the fact that rick santorum s path to the nomination looks sketchy today, but as the romney campaign knows, this race for the gop nomination is not etched in stone. thank you. reporter: it was as if one of the biggest names in republican party politics was listening to mitt romney s call for unity after the illinois primary. join us. jo ....
mitt romney is in maryland today fresh off his decisive win in the illinois primary. halfway to the delegate finish line. hundreds of french police surround an apartment where a gunman remains holed up. he s accused of killing seven people in a series of shootings. authorities say they expect him to give up soon. another strong aftershock in mexico. it measured 5.0 on the richter scale. it s the latest of several aftershocks to follow yesterday s 7.4 magnitude earthquake. 500 homes were damaged and 11 people injured. you won t be able to find that so-called pink slime at safeway anymore. the grocery store chain says it won t sell anymore ground beef made with it. safeway says customer concern drove its decision. you re looking at a picture of atlanta under all that pollen. this is what you need to know about pollen counts. a reading of 120 is considered extremely high. levels above 5,000 have been registered in many parts of the southeast this week and no relief ....
chad myers has been following this for us. also live in atlanta. and chad, rafael says there was another tremor. what are you seeing? i am actually seeing that tremor on one of the size mo seismograms in southern california. the shaking was felt by the needle ps .thnee needles. these are the minutes as we go across. about one minute of shake. then right here, a secondary shake, chp wwhich would have bee after shock. maybe 5.5, although it hasn t been posted. there will be i know we push this to the back burn err little bit and said there s not a lot of damage. that is true. there s not a lot of damage in big cities. but let me tell you, a 7.6 and in mexico is saying 6.6. not that it s a different earthquake. it s a different scale. all of the countries have a different scale. that s where we think it is, doesn t mean it s not a 7.6. it just means on our scale it s a 6.6, on the u.s. scale it s a 6.6. so for us knowing our earthquake, it s still a 7.6. and that s ....
shooting today outside a jewish school in southern france. french president nicolas sarkozy said the shooting was an obvious antisemitic attack. the new york police department said special attention is now being paid to synagogues. do we have a significant jewish population in this city, and we have to take that into account. we know that we re at the top of the terrorist target list, so we are concerned about the so-called copy cat syndrome. mary snow is following this story from outside central synagogue here in new york city. mary, what sort of extra security is there? reporter: well, erin, you ve seen a visible police presence outside of this synagogue and several others that we pass in the city today. the police commissioner is saying basically he s stepped up uniformed police outside more than 50 locations throughout the city. you heard him say there isn t any specific threat or intelligence they have of a specific threat but they felt it was prudent to step ....