afghanistan. we're going to ask him all the questions out there about his client, about his defense, what kinds of conversations he's had. all of that tomorrow. he will be with me here on set. we're looking forward to seeing him. thanks for watching. continue to give us your twitter feedback. and "anderson cooper 360" starts and "anderson cooper 360" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening, everyone. we begin with the latest in the trayvon martin case starting with wanting to file charges against the shooter george zimmerman. and there's a divide over the facts of this case. two competing views of what happened that sunday evening with each side accusing the other of cherry picking the evidence. it begins with the younger picture of trayvon martin. the first picture the media saw of him. and george zimmerman his mug shot from an assault arrest. some say the pictures make martin look angelic.

newer photos have come to light. an older trayvon martin and better dressed zimmerman. now also in dispute the relevancy of george zimmerman's arrest record. his supporters say it has no bearing on the case. in priest weeks it was cited by the martin family. now details about martin's life are coming to light. and his family is saying they have no bearing on what happened the night their son was killed. the miami herald reporting today the teen had been suspended three times from school including once for writing graffiti on a door. police found jewelry and a screwdriver in his bag at the time. the officer called it a burglary tool. martin says it belonged to someone else. the miami-dade police uncovered z no evidence the jewelry was stolen. there were no charges. he wasn't arrested. today at a house democratic forum on the case attended by trayvon martin's parents, say that his past has no bearing on

his encounter the night of february 26th. >> whether or not trayvon was a perfect student is irrelevant to whether zimmerman's conduct that night was justified. trayvon was a kid. he was another unarmed black boy whose life was lost because of suspicions, stereotypes, and fears. >> there are competing narratives from others including the sanford police. there's a leaked account of zimmerman's statement to police saying the martin confronted him, punched him in the face and slammed him to the ground. two eyewitnesses confirming that. and one other witness saying it was martin skreemg out for help. >> zimmerman was standing over the body basically straddling the body with his hands on trayvon's back. and it didn't seem to me that he was trying to help him in any

way. it didn't seem to me -- i didn't hear any struggle prior to the gun shot. and i feel like it was trayvon martin that was crying out. the minute that the gun shot went off, the whining stopped. >> she didn't actually see any confrontation or see who it was that yelled out. there's also martin's girlfriend who's accounted her phone call suggests he was being followed by george zimmerman. aggressor or victim? two competing accounts. two views of the same incident. and it doesn't stop there. the sanford police department's chief bill lee who's temporarily stepped aside says he stands behind their investigation which resulted in no charges against george zimmerman. abc news and wftv reported that sanford didn't buy the account and wanted to press charges against him. reports the lead homicide investigator filed an affidavit

pushing for charges the night of the killing. he was overruled according to abc sources. also today the martin family released this photo of their late son taken this year. i spoke to trayvon's mother and one of their attorneys a short time ago. abc news is reporting on multiple sources the night he was killed, the lead investigator recommended george zimmerman be charged with manslaughter. why do you think he was never charged? >> i don't think he was charged because they were trying to product him. they didn't understand how serious this was. they didn't understand the value of my son's life. >> tracey, when you heard that the lead investigator wanted charges to be brought that night, what did you think? what does that make you feel? >> it certainly confirmed all of

my thoughts that this investigation had been botched from the beginning. and that people other than me knew that it was supposed to be an arrest made. >> ben, why do you think charges weren't brought that night if the lead investigator thought they should be? >> you know, anderson, i think for whatever reason, zimmerman profiled him and even worse i think the police profiled trayvon martin. it comes down to this here, anderson. you have to ask yourself why are they doing this and what do they say? not only did the lead investigator say he recommended manslaughter, he did not buy zimmerman's story. it didn't add up to him. all the world knows it just don't add up when you listen to the tape. >> zimmerman's account now, which was leaked from police reports, accounts he was headed

back to his vehicle to await police and clamd he was attacked by your son. tried to take his son. do you believe any of that? >> i believe there was an altercation. i believe my son was defending himself. >> tracy, when you hear that george zimmerman says he was walking back to his vehicle, does that -- and that it was your son who attacked him, does that ring at all possible to you? ring true? >> it really don't, anderson. and that's the police accounts. but what the police told me was certainly totally different than that. so i'm sure that trayvon didn't attack zimmerman. >> ben, information about that night is not only -- the information about that night is not the only information that's now leaked out to the public. trayvon's school records have also been leaked. why do you think these leaks are now appearing?

is this an attempt to basically impugn his reputation? >> anderson, i think you're absolute -- you absolutely hit it on the nail. what relevance does that have to anything that happened on february 26? you have the whole hooded thing and as you told us, you wear a hoodie. you never been stopped for being suspicious. now, anybody who's been suspended, i guess if you hear the sanford police say that's a death sentence. and that's not relevant. it has no bearing. the only relevance is zimmerman disobeyed the police and got out of his car and had this violent altercation with trayvon. trayvon is dead and can't tell us his version of it. zimmerman's version just doesn't add up when you look at where trayvon was killed at. >> tracy, you want george zimmerman's account differs from what police told you that night. what did police tell you when

they talked to you? >> i was told that -- that trayvon approached zimmerman. asked zimmerman did he have a problem. zimmerman told him no and trayvon supposedly said well now you do, homey. and zimmerman was supposedly reaching into his pocket for his cell phone. at that point trayvon punched him. and the scuffle ensued, which again, knowing trayvon -- those are not the words of trayvon. trayvon is not confrontational. he would only be trying to get home. >> i have to say this. the 911 tapes say it all. they say it all, anderson. we heard what the people said there. we know he was on the phone with his girlfriend from 7:12 to 7:16. where's this stuff that zimmerman says? where does that come into play?

where they have this exchange of words and stuff? if you listen to that tape for about 40 seconds, trayvon is crying for help. there is no self-defense here. everybody would tell you it does not last 40 seconds with him crying for help. >> some of these questions i ask you. i hate to put you in this position. but i know you've talked about this a lot. when you and i talked before you said without a doubt that is trayvon's voice crying out for help. there's now an eyewitness who says -- who's been interviewed that says he saw george zimmerman crying out for help. >> people can say anything they want to. i just personally don't believe it. i know that it was my son crying out for help. so right now we hearing a lot of speculations. and people just want to say whatever they want. >> they were looking at george

zimmerman's prior run with police several years ago. now information is being leaked out about your son's school records or things he's done in the past, do you think that's fair or do you think that's inappropriate? >> i think it's inappropriate. number one, because he was a minor. number two, because he was a victim. and i don't think that has any relevance to the case. my son was not doing anything that particular day. whatever he had dealings with school, it was not criminal. it was not violent. he's never been arrested. >> ben crump, sabrina fulton, tracy martin, thank you for your time tonight. sorry for your loss. >> thank you. >> let's talk legally what bearing the past could have on the case. areva, you're outraged by the leak of trayvon martin's school records, why? >> you know, anderson, when i

first heard of it it was last night. it just made my blood boil. because we're talking about a minor. we're talking about records protected by both federal and state law. to get someone's school records, typically there has to be written consent from the parents. some would argue that your rights to price might die when the person dies. but in this case in particular, the sensitive information and there's precedence in other cases where information that is sensitive as this, as personal as this, there's an effort to protect that information and not disclose it. we don't know when these records were sought by police. but we do know they've been leaked in order to -- we can't imagine anything was intended by those records except to malign this young man's character and to now paint a picture that he's not the good kid that we've been hearing about for the last 30 days or so. that really troubles me. kids have a right to privacy. their records are protected by law. i think in this case in

particular, the police department should have acted with more integrity. >> mark, what do you take about the leaks coming out and about school records? >> i couldn't agree more. first of all, none of these records would ever come into any case. they're just completely irrelevant. it's nothing more than a smear campaign. i hesitate to lay the blame at the police department. i don't know if somebody got bought off over at the school a and released them. but if you track this down to the police department, i can't imagine anything worse than in the middle of this fire storm that they're releasing records that they know for a fact beyond any fact, any lawyer's going to tell you this is never coming in. it's nothing more than to try to demonize or dirty up the victim in this case. >> mark, would george zimmerman's past run-in with police where he was arrested, would that be something that could come into the trial? >> actually, interestingly enough, it conceivably could. the prosecution if they decided

to go forward, they may be able to use depending on what the records were, depending how they frame it to the judge as to how they want to use it or for what purpose. it might come in. everybody's first reaction to this case is why didn't they arrest? why didn't they arrest? i think the state's attorney -- and i rarely agree with any prosecutor. i think the state's attorney when you hear the evidence coming out now and the differing eyewitness accounts, they had pause here. they want to investigate it. they want to make sure before they file charges, they didn't want to jump the gun. if you file charges immediately and you don't have enough evidence, then maybe they have to get dismissed until you do a further investigation. so some of the stuff that's come out has given a different, i think, perspective to all of this. i think they should be applauded for doing a thorough investigation first. >> areva -- >> i have an issue with that,

though, mark. i agree with you that a thorough investigation is appropriate in every case. we want all of the facts to be gathered. but what we're not hearing about is that investigation. we're not hearing an investigation was underway by this police department. you know, since the time of the young man's death. what we are hearing is that trayvon was tested for drugs and that trayvon's records were requested. we're not hearing about an investigation to get to the truth. that's what's puzzling here. this is troubling. >> right. don't misunderstand me. i don't disagree with you about the police investigation. but my understanding of how they operate down there is that the police will take a file over to the state's attorney and then the state's attorney can do their own investigation. so i think that the police, you know, they're the ones -- hopefully not but it appears they are the ones leaking this investigation. >> mark, how common is it for police to leak out information because they've been criticized now for weeks.

>> yeah. and i think that that is a fairly common practice. i see it happen all the time in my practice when we're representing the victims in a shooting. the next thing you hear about is all kinds of irrelevant stuff to try to demonize the victim to basically say he had it coming. that's what's so offensive about this. >> areva, is there a double standard? if it's not okay to look at trayvon martin's record, why is it okay to look at george zimmerman's past arrest? >> totally different, anderson. trayvon is the victim here. trayvon didn't commit any crimes. when you look at the records, this young man was suspended from school. zimmerman didn't know anything about that. so there can't even be a claim that this information may have caused him to believe that trayvon was dangerous or give his cause to act in the way he acted. these are totally unrelated matters happening at school as the mom has already told us in numerous interviews, trayvon has no criminal record. he's never been arrested.

there's nothing in his school records to suggest that this investigation is even relevant. and i wonder, anderson, if trayvon was an honor student, if he was a straight-a student, would we see these records being released by the police department? i don't think so. >> interesting. we're going to leaf it there. always good to have you on. always more on cnn.com. we're on facebook, google plus, we're talking on twitter right now. @andersoncooper. let me know what you think. should this matter? should any of their backgrounds matter? the terrifying moments when an airline captain wanders ranting in a cabin. passengers wrestling the captain to the ground. the pilot. that's not half the story. how a clever copilot may have averted disaster. next.

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i transmit the information and i stand with you. >> republicans quickly pounced on a president they painted as ready to give away. >> this is without question our geopolitical foe. they fight every cause for the world's worst actors. the idea he has more flexibility in mind for russia is troubling indeed. >> that remark and others drew return fire and campaign advice. >> translator: i would advise two things to all u.s. presidential candidates including the person you just mentioned. my first advice is to listen to reason when they formulate their opinions. reason never harmed a presidential candidate. my other advice is to check their clocks from time to time. it is 2012, not the mid-1970s. >> remains to be seen whether president obama welcomes the assist. but he did seem okay joking about the issue today. >> look.

what i said yesterday, is something i think everybody understands. >> joining me now ari fleischer and stephanie cutter. a lot of american critics will say the president will be a virtually different person if he's re-elected. that this flexibility he refers to is he's going to make a beeline for the hard left or change policies. what's your response? >> i think that that is -- just doesn't hold true. look at his record. it's one of the toughest foreign policy records of any administration. you know, we've got gadhafi. put an end to the war in iraq. we're drawing down on afghanistan. we have the toughest sanctions against iran. and russia is joining us. i think the record doesn't bear true. the president explained it. you aired a bit of the tape. that we are in the last eight months of an election year. it's very unlikely that republican congress is even going to give us funding for a

missile defense system. doesn't mean we're not focused on implementing it. in fact we're already implementing it. the facts speak for themselves. there's no secret messaging here. it's all out in the open. the president spoke to it today. >> ari, john boehner said he doesn't think he president should be criticized when overseas on a trip like this. do you agree with that? and do you agree with what president obama said? >> he's home. let me get into it. i think this is one of the worst displays i've seen of a president on foreign soil or american soil. he says give me space because i have to act one way before the election. then after the election i have the flexibility to do what i want to do. in the case of missile defense, he's saying there's no negotiation. he's saying after the election i'm going to yield to you on missile defense. if that's what the president thinks, why can't he say it now? why does he have to lean in and

whisper it so no one is going to hear what he's saying? >> stephanie? >> well, that's just not true. so the president spoke just this week in south korea to the entire world about missile defense. we've taken the steps necessary to implement missile defense. ari, you think this is all a rouse? you know it doesn't work that way. >> actually, it's a pattern with president obama. all you have to do is look at his race against hillary clinton. right before the ohio primary, president clinton advocated pulling out of nafta if we don't renegotiate that. he sent the top aide to speak to austan goolsbee and said to him this is political maneuvering. it's not president obama, senator obama's policy. it's a pattern with president obama. what i would love to hear from stephanie, can she assure us the president has made no other

statements like that to say, arab leaders. give me space and after the election i'll have more flexibility to deal with israel? can you assure us he's not done that? >> if we're going to have a bring up attack which is slightly ridiculous about austan goolsbee and the nafta treaty, look at the trade agreements we have gotten through that are balanced that protect american workers and protect our environment and have a greater impact. just the korea trade agreement we have have a great impact than the last nine treaties combined. i think the facts speak for themselves rather than this innuendo. the facts speak for themselves. this is a sitting president with a strong foreign policy record. with a proven foreign policy prorpd al qaeda decimated. iraq, ended a war. a war that even president obama back in 2002 said that we shouldn't have fought. we're drawing down afghanistan. we got bin laden.

and let's not forget the point of this. we are likely running against someone who says russia is our greatest geopolitical foe. but in his paper he doesn't bring up russia until page 31 of a 42 page document. so this is kind of a ridiculous debate we're having. >> you notice that stephanie didn't answer either question. is the didn't address the fundamental process fact here. not president obama's conduct with foreign policy and treaties. but that he says one thing before a crucial election. and then acts totally differently after the election has passed. in other words, what's most important to president obama is maneuvering. political maneuvering to get through. what i guess he views as flexibility day which the rest of us call election day. once flexibility day is over for president obama, then he's free to take other positions. that's what's troublesome about what he said on this issue. it's a window into how he operates. i think it's a window into what he might do as far as taxes. after the elections, he's free to raise taxes on people.

free to have more debt piled on the country. i think he's going to change his position on gay marriage as well. probably come out after the election. these are the troublesome things about a candidate who says one thing before the election and then so boldly and publicly says give me space. after the election i'll have more flexibility to be who i really am. >> stephanie, briefly i'll give you the final thought. >> well, my final thought is that this is a conversation that's based on political talking points, not based on facts. and the president has the strongest foreign policy record of a sitting president in generations. and those are the facts that remain true. if there's one thing that voters don't doubt in this election is the ability of this president to keep this country safe and make the right foreign policy decisions based on sound judgment. he's not going back and forth unlike some potential opponents of ours. he's not checking with his lawyers before he holds iran accountable. and this is no window into his

thinking. he has a proven record. >> if you can hear the whispers, it sure is. >> we got to leave it there. stephanie cutter i appreciate you being on. sorry go ahead. >> okay. thank you, anderson. i was just going to talk about some of president bush's whispers but that's okay. >> appreciate it you both. the syrian government is making yet another promise. the regime has agreed to a united nations peace plan. what we're hearing and seeing is a different action. that's next. [ male announcer ] if you believe the mayan calendar, on december 21st, polar shifts will reverse the earth's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space, which would render retirement planning unnecessary. but say the sun rises on december 22nd and you still need to retire, td ameritrade's investment consultants

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another keeping them honest report tonight. syrian regime telling western leaders what they want to hear while it continues to kill its people. accepted a peace plan that had a government cease fire. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton was less generous. >> given assad's history of overpromising and underdelivering, that must be met by immediate actions. we will judge assad's sincerity by what he does, not what he

says. >> we have heard so many lies from assad's regime in the last year. they said they would withdraw its troops from cities. that same week videos like this revealed that promise was lie. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> video shows government forces firing on protesters. again, we can't verify the video. or the others we're about to show you because syria restricts reporter's access. after its promise to the arab league government, they did this. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> assad's forces shown here on a rooftop in homs. much of it was reduced to rubble. many described it as a massacre slaughter house. can't vouch for the voracity of this video. today president al assad toured

for the first time since the siege. syrian state television posted this. while he posed for the cameras, some of them were killed in that city. this video shows injured kids at a hospital in a neighborhood of homs. hospital was not part of assad's tour today. in another neighborhood in homs, shelling left this house in flames. again can't vouch for this video or the next one shot in homs. does this look like a commitment to peace? does this next video sound like peace is coming any time soon? [ explosions ] all of this is happening in homs. the syrian regime is making another promise for peace. while bodies like this one sit in the streets waiting to be

recovered. >> president assad visited homs today for the nirs time since the city was bombarded by his forces. the syrian news agency says that he inspected destruction caused by armed terrorist groups and that he was greeted by people saying we are with you until death. when you hear those reports, what do you say? >> yeah. this was heroic. wonderful. declaring victory over his own people. this was -- i should envy myself. i envy my own people for this. our government has reached a point where declaring a victory, shelling and bombarding. civilians has become a victory. this was wonderful. i don't know what did he find? that sure there is no single

person right now. but this is fantastic. why shouldn't he be so happy? our president has declared victory over his own people. wonderful. >> the syrian government also says they've accepted the u.n.'s six-point peace plan today. assad has agreed to other reforms in the pass, other peace plans in the past. he's failed to implement them. do you think this is going to be any different? >> along with other activists, i could meet who last visited syria. and i think there is another next week with visiting other cities. we explain the situation. we said that international communities are silent at us just looking at us being killed. but we are just trying our best to see what is next.

now, what i can say. the government said yes it is accepting the six-point plan. but believe me, if the government says good morning i believe it is evening. this is exactly what i told mr. annan. if the government says it is evening, i believe it is morning. they lie even of their names. they say they accept. i have my doubts. i should keep my hopes. this is true. but this is really hard to believe. >> we've seen the bombing. we've seen attacks in idlib and elsewhere. and we've heard the death toll now for a year, for more than a year. has the regime won? i mean, has the regime effectively crushed the opposition? >> no way. there is no way they win. there is here 23 million syrian

people who will win. there is no way we surrender. there is no way we give up. kill as many as you want. we are here. we will stay forever. >> zaidoun, thank you for talking to us. >> you're welcome. thank you very much. >> talking to us at great risk i should point out. is it discipline or violence? former employees and students of a boarding school say the kids there were being abused. gary tuchman went to see and find out for himselves in part one of ungodly investigation. >> some of the students tell us you used to choke them. >> that's totally false. >> what is it you did to them? >> used pressure points to restrain them. >> what does that mean? >> you have places on your body where nerve endings are close -- >> show me. where on my body.

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welcome back. a new report in our ungodly discipline series tonight. we've been investigating child abuse under the guise of discipline. we've looked at small religious schools where students say they were disciplined in the name of god and virtue is taught through

violence. tonight a new report. another school this time in western montana. gary tuchman investigates. >> reporter: here in this part of big sky country, disturbing allegations are just over the horizon. in the town of st. ignatius, montana. this school has been run for four decades by this 82-year-old preacher. >> is it troubled kids or kids with troubled parents? who's coming here? >> all sof the above and more. >> reporter: and bob larson is blunt. any kid who comes here is expected to behave and praise the lord. >> what do you try to teach these children, first of all, about christianity? >> well, that god loves them. and god is the answer of everything. he's the ruler of the world. he made the rules. >> reporter: but some say there's more to pinehaven than teachings. they say there's violence.

in charge of taking care of children who lived in one of the cabin style homes on the ranch. >> children are hurt at pinehaven. when kids won't obey, physical pain is used to get them to comply. whether it's pressure points, sometimes they were drug down the hill. sometimes they were choked. but it was used to get them to comply. i think god weeps about the wrong been done. >> reporter: the owner of pinehaven says this is untrue. >> i'm not saying they lied. i'm saying this is their perception when they look back on it. >> reporter: james mason was a child at pinehaven entering for six years. >> first time i was choked in april of 1995. it was in my bedroom. >> reporter: mason was then 14 years old when he was physically disciplined after being accused

of misbehaving. >> and at that point he lifted me up by the neck against the door and held me up until i pretty much went limp. and i was subdued and i was contained. and i was no longer a threat as much as a 14-year-old can be to a former army full grown man. >> reporter: melissa was also a child at pinehaven and dealt with the same house parent. >> he picked me up by the -- under my neck. just like at my trachea. and he's about 6'2" and i'm about 5'0. he picked me up by my throat and slammed me down on the kitchen table. >> reporter: the house parent is named ned kent who still works at pinehaven. >> some of the kids who are now adults tell us you used to choke them. >> that's totally false.

>> what is it you did to them? >> used pressure points to retrain them. >> what does that mean? >> you have places on your body where nerve endings are close -- >> show me. >> like right there. >> show me. >> right there. >> two hands or one. >> usually just one. >> you'd put your hands on pressure points, what was the purpose? >> to stop them from flailing or to stop them from hitting somebody. or to stop them from whatever behavior. >> could that not be interpreted as choking if an adult puts pressure points on children. do you still do that? >> no. i've been told we cannot do that. so we don't do that anymore. >> reporter: bob larson said he was the one that total kent no more pressure points. but former student said she experienced other types of violence with different house parents. >> he grabbed me by the ponytail

and is drub drug me up the stairs. >> reporter: bob larson disputes that. >> no, there was tough love. but there was nothing cruel or unusual. i mean, tough love means separating people from drugs and alcohol and bad influences that brought them to pinehaven in the first place. >> if i would have gone there, i would have had a criminal record and had stuff i shouldn't have. it kept me on track and gave me a better place to be in ethics and stuff like that. so i'm thankful for pinehaven. >> reporter: but the accusations of abuse are details and numerous. to bob larson, there's a reason. >> why do you think so many people are saying such bad things? >> ultimately we only have one enemy who wants to defeat the good that's in the world and that's satan. and i really believe that he is a real personality and he works to try to stop the works of god and caused the evil that keeps

going on that will happen. i think that he influences people. people sometimes believe his lies. >> so you think that people are saying bad things because they're influenced by satan? >> underneath it all, that is what's happening. yes. >> i'm -- it's an interesting defense. how many alleged victims did you talk to? >> we talked to 12 people. former teachers and former students who alleged abuse. we also talked with many more people on the telephone and via e-mail. >> and did the students pay to go to this school. >> bob larson says it's just donations. but the students we talked to said their parents shelled out thousands of dollars a year for them to stay there. they say they had to do most of the construction work. the students built the houses on the ranch. and they believe that this ranch could not survive without the student labor. bob larson denies that but he does admit the students do the

work. he says it's a good life lesson. >> part two of your story tonight, what does it include in. >> it may surprise you much to know that pinehaven is unaccredited, unlicensed, uncertified by the state of montana. the only people that look over pinehaven is pinehaven. >> reporter: if teachers and counselors were certified and licensed by the state of montana, could they have helped to prevent or deal with horri horrifying situations? james mason says he was sodomized by another student. >> i was raped. i never told anybody that. he threatened me with pliers to my throat and testicles if i would ever tell anybody. >> the stories have a counterpoint.

but it doesn't bode well for pinehaven. that kent said he applied pressure points. >> did he say when they couldn't do that longer? >> not of the timetable. we were told by some the day they arrived. bob larson says it was a long time ago but he can't remember when he told kent. >> stunning stuff. gary, thanks. incredible moments on a flight to tell you about. passengers wrestled the plane's pilot to the floor after he apparently started talking erratically talking about bringing the plane down. hear what happened next. you'll be delighted to discover how good they taste. chocolate lemonade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with these 4g lte tablets, you can do business at lightning-fast speeds.

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a 360 update. >> a chaotic scene aboard a jut blue flight from new york to las vegas. the flight was diverted to texas because the pilot was acting erratically. passengers say he was talking about taking the plane down. flight attendants and passengers wrus ld him o the the ground. jet blue described it as a medical situation with the captain. he was taken to treatment. lawyers for dominique strauss-kahn says he didn't know women were being paid for sex at parties he attended. accused of participating in a prostitution ring. and the third largest mega millions jackpot in history is up for grabs tonight. that's an estimated $363 million. anderson, i should tell you, the odds of winning are about 176 million to one. >> i put down $5 for you.

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time now for the ridiculist. batman got pulled over by police. in maryland batman was driving southbound in his lamborghini/bat mobile. looks like it's the middle of the day. was he speeding to foil a plan by the penguin?

nope. the caped crusader was pulled over because of improper tags. holy minor traffic infraction, batman. apparently in the state of maryland the batman symbol alone is not a sufficient lienls plate. duly noted. the police told batman to get the right tags and released him without charges leaving him to return to the bat cave. and this went on to pull over spider man without a seat belt. police sap he dressed up to visit sick kids in the hospital. hopefully batman will get proper tags. if this happens again, a tip for the montgomery county police. everybody knows the best way to get him to do anything is bring on the laughing gas. >> it's the funniest trick anyone's pulled on us. >> it's even funnier than the joker. i can't stop laughing. take this. it's a sad pill.