jay cod zuma. by saying our thoughts and those of americans and people all around the world are with nelson mandela and his family and all of south africans. nbc s kristen welker is traveling with the president and is in johannesburg. president obama held a town hall today amid protests. what is president obama saying about his visit with nelson mandela s family. what are you hearing? well, richard, good afternoon to you. the president is calling that meeting a privilege. he sat down and spoke with two daughters of nelson mandela and eight grandchildren for about half an hour. he said he expressed his heart felt support for the entire family as they went through this incredibly difficult time. he also reaffirmed the importance of nelson mandela s legacy. the president also placed phone call to nelson mandela s wife bep also learned today that the president will not be going to the hospital to visit the former president of south africa out of deference to what the family
0 more testimony in the george zimmerman trial. a neighbor describes the fight he saw and heard the night that trayvon martin was killed. president obama at the moment on his way to south africa as nelson mandela clings to life. he said he will let the family decide about any hospital visits. my exclusive interview with former president jimmy carter. welcome to around the world. i m suzanne malveaux. it s been a fifth day of dramatic testimony. i think we ll be using that word a lot as days go by. we re talking about george zimmerman s murder trial. there s a witness, a neighbor, who saw the fatal fight and offered a detail account of what he saw and what he heard the night zimmerman shot and killed trayvon martin. that witness was one of the people who called 911. george howell is outside the court in sanford, florida. george, this is a state witness, isn t it? he clearly supports zimmerman s story that he was the one being pummelled in that fight. tell us about it. go
zim zimmerman zimmerman. i think he s thought to be bigger because he s older but in truth he s probably the smaller figure. as the testimony comes in it sounds like the witnesses believe that trayvon martin was in sort of the submissive position with zimmerman on top. it s not very clear this testimony. a lot of it fairly subjective too in way. another thing that s interesting is trayvon martin s mother was told she couldn t hold back her tears. no doubt jurors saw that too. yesterday the father walked out when jurors were shown photos of trayvon martin s body. tell us about those shows of emotion, graphic pictures, testimony and the like, hold up they impact the jury and the outcome of the trial. reporter: this is part of the building block of murder case. i ve tried a lot of murder cases as a prosecutor myself and i always would sit down with the parents and say there s going to be some tough moments. you re going to see pictures of
0 together, there s no limit to what we can achieve. good evening, everyone. an emotionally powerful and significant day in the george zimmerman trial. we ll bring you the testimony about trayvon martin s final moments and hear from zim zimmerman s lead attorney. edward snowden, nsa leaker, is at the airport in moscow, but not in russia. how is that possible? and later the high wire act that ahead tens of millions on the edge of their seat. he made it, but now nik wallenda has something bigger in mind. we begin with the powerful testimony at the george zimmerman trial. so powerful that trayvon martin s parents could not bear to hear it. it s centered on what happened in the seconds and minutes after george zimmerman shot trayvon martin as martin lay dying. it was by no means the only big moment today. there were others including a legal battle what the prosecution considers the linchpin of its case. but the testimony from the sergeant that tried to revive trayvon martin packed
that happened today from martin savidge who joins us now. what new evidence did we hear today in the courtroom? reporter: it was photographs, anderson. i ve seen all the photographs in this case, but i had not seen these before. these were photographs of the body of trayvon martin laying on the ground. i don t care who you are, they have a strong impact to see a young person you know lying lifeless on the ground. so clearly it would impact the jurors and it impacted everyone else. we saw the gun that george zimmerman used, that s the cal tech 9. and then we saw the sweatshirt, very powerful. that s not a piece of evidence to the family, it s an icon. it represents the racial profiling they believe george zimmerman is guilty of. the sergeants gave very emotional testimony about finding trayvon martin on the scene. tell us about it. reporter: yeah, this was another one of those aspects that humanizes trayvon martin, because he s not there. so we hear these accounts. this