for the first time since his arrest in april last year, george zimmerman began his day a free man. a six-women jury acquitted him last night of all charges in the death of trayvon martin. the story and the debate do not end there. this case has captured so much interest, in part because of combined elements of race with topics like gun violence, gun rights and self-defense. in sanford, florida, and across the nation, people rallied for trayvon martin vowing to keep fighting to honor the fallen teen. others rallied to show support for george zimmerman.

trayvon martin's relatives tried to heal going to church. pastors coast-to-coast urged peace and compassion. despite the not guilty verdict, the nation's oldest civil rights organization wants to keep the fight going against george zimmerman. the president of the naacp says he is calling on the justice department to launch a federal civil rights investigation. the justice department says the department continues to evaluate the evidence generated during the federal investigation as testimony from the state trial. light bring in cnn legal analyst and defense attorney mark dejeane and martin savidge. do you think the defense department will get involved? >> they are not going to touch it. the fbi has been down. they were down in the very beginning. they investigated the police departments and found nothing. we need to be careful for people getting people's hopes up that there is going to be something more from this.

i don't see this fitting into any of the civil rights violations as far as, remember, it's still got to be beyond a reasonable doubt. with all the depositions and public statements made by the state attorney as well as counsel for the martin family, i don't see how the government can add anything we haven't already heard that takes it to that level. >> for organizations like the naacp this is all for naught? >> justice has gotten it. you know that's got to take a look at the middle districts and civil rights division. they should absolutely do everything they can to protect civil rights. i think it's going to be an effort in futility. >> i want to switch gears here. people are pointing fingers at the media in this george zimmerman trial frenzy. listen and we'll talk about it. >> i'm not angry at the media. i think the media has to do a better job when you have people injecting race onto things. a red flag has to go up,

especially after a case like this where two crafty attorneys got away with fabricating a completely scripted narrative and selling it to the american people through the media, through cnn, through abc, through nbc. they did it themselves to borrow a line from the movie "argo," if you want to sell a lie, have the media sell it for you. >> you guys, the media. he was like a patient in an operating table where mad scientists were committing experiments on him and he had no anesthesia. he didn't know why he was turned into this monster. quite honestly, you guys had a lot to do with it. you did because you took a story that was fed to you and you ran with it and you ran right over him. >> first to mark, then martin. what is your take on blaming the media for this? >> it's an easy thing to do.

aerodamned if you do, damned if you don't. when it doesn't go your way, you want to make them the bad guys. reality, both sides use it. the state attorney's office didn't make public statements, they had other people doing that for them. trayvon's family. you had mark and his team making statements all the time. it energized people on both sides. to blame the media for reporting what people want reported then to disagree when they say something you don't want, i'm sorry. >> one question i wanted to ask robert zimmerman jr, he's on the media, using the media to speak about his brother and the case. to draw some compassion for his brother. he wasn't in that courtroom. >> we haven't seen him yet. i think that is suspicious. does he have the authority of his brother or of the defense council to be making the statements he's made? we haven't seen any statement from him that said he's representing the family or his brother asked him to speak for him. i don't know if he is a loose

cannon. he's not been alongside the family, the client, the defendant. we haven't seen them once shoulder to shoulder. >> he does have something called blood which would give him legitimacy. he has the right to speak on his behalf. >> he has the right, i'm saying permission. >> as a human being, i don't have any brothers, but if my sister was involved in something like this, i would want to be in the courtroom with my sister and my family. >> he has been very passionate. he made statements that have been more inflammatory in explaining the situation from the family's perspective. to get back to mark o'meara. that is this claim somehow this case was planted for the media to pick up on. this is what he would accuse ben crump doing. he manipulated the media. one point is the first images that came out of trayvon martin, a youthful, very young, very

small child-like figure. these were in the photographs released by the family. that is what mark o'meara points at. what are the first pictures we saw of george zimmerman? mainly as a mug shot. they looked for photos, mug shots, public domain. that's what we saw of george zimmerman. we saw a very youthful, very young child of trayvon martin. that is the manipulation he is referencing. is it a question for the media? yeah. the media must look at that. >> i remember when this story started. how it played out because there was criticism that the media, why didn't this story get national attention? and you know how the media works. whatever is available, that's what you use. if you have those photographs available. the media didn't know who ben crump was. the media had no idea. at least the national media. maybe locally, yes.

the national media had no idea. >> i think what really happened here and many would point out is to say, all right, what ben crump did is he saw a case where there was injustice and brought it to the public using the media. mark o'meara also used the media. mark is quite right. both sides used the media here in the presentation of their case. that is not uncommon. >> but remember, this was a dead 17-year-old child. a young black teenager who was just going to be another kid that was going to be forgotten. his counsel, shall i don't fault them for being strong advocates. did what they need to do within ethics and the law to bring it to the forefront. but for their efforts, this case would never have seen the light of day. there is a conflict because that is the natural thing. as an advocate, if you're out there with a dead child, you're representing the family, you want to get the attention done. i fault nbc if they had a reporter do an editing job. that is a different story.

>> they said they are suing nbc. i want to get this in. this has been talked about. president obama added to the discussion. he said in part, we should ask ourselves if we are doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our own communities. we should ask ourselves if we are doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis. we should ask ourselves as individuals as a society how we can prevent future tragedies like this. it would be great if there was some self-reflection in society. martin, we heard similar statements before from presidents of the united states. we find ourselves in similar positions. >> the president came out with a statement a couple of weeks after this began which he said, if i had a son he would have looked like trayvon martin. state of fact, absolutely. some said it appears the

president of the united states is taking sides in this particular issue. there is no doubt that what we hope to come out of this is conversation, an american conversation of many different times. some of that happened. some is through the media. some of that is going to take place in people's homes or their churches or on the street. that is the good that comes. >> let's bring up that particular point. by saying, i have a son, if i had a son he looks like trayvon. is that being race in it? >> it would be odd if george bush said if i had a son he would look like trayvon. >> i think it's a compassionate statement. sadly in this country, there are thousands of dead young teenagers who would have looked like the president also. maybe the testament and honor to pay is to recognize we've got too many dead young black men, young teenagers who are young and wild and are not thinking. maybe we need to spend more time figuring out how we can have

laws, gun laws, stand your ground laws, cooperative community, and address not just one young dead man who's got the media, but all the other ones in unmarked grave sites or only have a couple of family members ming to visit. that's going on as we are talking. as we talk somebody is getting shot and killed during this segment. that happens routinely. why are we not addressing why that is going on, as well? >> that is a terrific point you're bringing about. i want to get back to the other point about whether or not it's appropriate for the president to comment on these sorts of things. again, it's just a question here. the president comments on soldiers. the president comments on a young lady who died after she went to the inauguration. he comments on other things. is it inappropriate for the president to comment on this particular story? is that so out of the ordinary? >> i was on the president's

national finance committee a few years ago. in light of full disclosure. i did that. i think it was inappropriate to comment on a specific case until all the facts are out. now that the jury rendered a verdict, of course he can make a comment. while you still have jurors that have not been picked and want to not influence the case. when the president of the united states says something, it should mean something. i think that was not his best choice of words. i understand the compassion as a fellow father. >> that is the best explanation i've heard for that particular point. most of the explanations i heard have been agenda-driven. it seems like it comes from someone trying to score political points. your point? >> i think what it shows is the far reaches of this case. it went far beyond the community of sanford, well beyond the state of florida, went across the nation, around the world to the point where the most powerful man in the world feels he needs to speak in some way about it. it just shows you george

zimmerman and trayvon martin and the interaction of that night touched so many lives in so many different ways. >> the unresolved issues we still have to face in this country. >> the solution we talk about, the way to start this is someone you don't know who doesn't look like you, go and start having these kinds of conversations with them. >> i read a wonderful thing on twitter. somebody said, wouldn't it be wonderful if, in fact, george zimmerman had offered trayvon martin a ride to get out of the rain? still ahead, many who did not agree with the verdict are coming out in support of trayvon martin today. in the wake of last week's asiana airline crash, we give you an inside look at the tedious process of determining how a crash occurred. the great outdoors... ...and a great deal. thanks to dad. nope

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people in sanford, florida, continue to gather in memory of trayvon martin this. rally took place just a few hours ago in a park in sanford. it's just blockes away from where the verdict was read late last night. like most of the demonstrations in florida and across the nation, this event was peaceful. the death of trayvon martin and the acquittal of george zimmerman were front and center in churches across the country. pastors of all faiths were trying to help their congregations heal hours after the jury returned its verdict. nick valencia went to martin luther king jr's church in atlanta to see how people there dealt with the decision.

>> i wanted to love so much on our children this morning. >> reporter: disappointed and frustrated. the mood during sunday's service at ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. once the spiritual home of civil rights icon dr. martin luther king jr. today the church was the site of a service dedicated to trayvon martin. the pastor's message was simple. >> trayvon benjamin martin is dead because he and other young black men and boys are seen not as a person, but as a problem. >> reporter: in perhaps the most powerful moment, the pastor asked all parishioners 18 years old and younger to join him at the front of the altar. dozens stood in unison holding hands. many disappointed by the outcome of the george zimmerman trial. who of you in this group has been racially profiled or felt they were a victim of racial profiling?

so when you look at a story like trayvon martin and you see what happened and the result, what do you guys think being young, black men? >> sometimes i be thinking i'm next. walking through my neighborhood. sometimes not only in my neighborhood, i would be out at the landing and stuff like that. there would be a lot of people looking at me. like even when i'm in business attire. i just think about all these cases and i be trying not to do some things like turn my music up loud or anything like that. i just think and use that like a tool to help me stay away from the bad stuff that be going on. >> reporter: the message of today's service was one of encouragement.

the pastor told the more than 2,000 parishioners in attendance during times like this, it maybe tempting to give up hope, but it's more important than ever not to give up or give in. nick valencia, cnn, atlanta. >> thank you very much. from triallights to verdict action, tune in at 8:00 eastern for "not guilty, the george zimmerman trial." next, susan hendricks will be back to talk about other news of the day. a popular star on the hit tv show "glee" found dead in a hotel room. ave low testosterone. there, i said it. see, i knew testosterone could affect sex drive, but not energy or even my mood. that's when i talked with my doctor. he gave me some blood tests... showed it was low t. that's it. it was a number. [ male announcer ] today, men with low t have androgel 1.62% testosterone gel. the #1 prescribed topical testosterone replacement therapy

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i'm susan hendricks at cnn world headquarters in atlanta. back to our live team coverage from sanford in a moment. first, want to get you caught up on other stories. in texas, demonstrators took to the capitol building as the senate passed one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the country. several arrests were made. governor rick perry plans to sign the legislation. he defended the bill today on cnn's "state of the union." >> in the state of texas, we put some substantial amount of money into women's health programs over the course of the last two years, partly because the obama administration pulled our funding to the state of texas because they disagreed with

texas restrictions on these abortions. most people, i think, in this country and in texas certainly believe that sick months is too late to be deciding whether or not these babies should be aborted or not. we put the limit at five months in this bill. >> critics argue the law will force the shutdown of most of the abortion clinics in texas. there is a warning today from the journalist who broke the story of the nsa surveillance program. in an interview with an argentine newspaper, glenn greenwald says the man who leaked the material has more information that would be dire for the u.s. if released. greenwald said edward snowden, "has enough information to cause more harm to the u.s. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had." the u.s. government, he goes on to say, "should be on their niece every day praying nothing happens to noden because if something happens, all information will be revealed.

that would be their worst nightmare." snowden said he will ask russia for temporary asylum. russia so far says it has not received a request. "glee" actor cory monteith is dead. he played finn hudson on the show. his body was found yesterday in a room in a vancouver hotel. an autopsy is scheduled to. earlier this year he entered a rehab facility for substance abuse. he was released in april. the star was 31. asiana airlines may take legal action against a california tv station. the station ran a list during a newscast friday reportedly revealing the names of the four pilots involved in the crash landing in san francisco. the names were not real. they were apparently a tasteless excuse for a joke, but confirmed to the station by a summer intern at the ntsb. the news anchor did read the names out loud. >>. >> investigators are hard at work trying to find out what caused asiana airlines flight

214 to crash. those investigators have been using examples from previous crashes to help them. cas casey wyans show what they learned. >> reporter: several korean accident investigators got their training here, according to the aviation safety program. inside and old sears warehouse where the twisted wreckage of plane crashes serves as a classroom for accident investigators. >> what you see around here is a safety system that has failed. >> reporter: instructors took me through part of the training. >> what strikes me is there was a big fire here and it doesn't look like anyone could have survived this. >> reporter: what do you see on that left wing? >> i see twisted metal. it looks like some sort of significant trauma happened to that wing. crashed into something. hit something. i don't know. a pole. >> reporter: we teach the discipline of accident investigation namely to observe

the fact, document the fact and then let the facts take you by the hand and lead you to the next fact. the discipline not to conclude, not to summarize and not to think too far ahead, but to stick with the facts. >> reporter: so how wrong am? i. >> you're right. >> reporter: minutes later, i jumped to a faulty conclusion looking at different wreckage. it almost looks like a crumpled beer can what we see here is the power of a thunderstorm. >> so lightning hit this aircraft? >> there is no evidence of lightning strike. this is simply evidence of an aircraft being torn apart by the severe turbulence that is contained in a thunderstorm. >> reporter: investigators in san francisco still are gathering information, there are clues. >> we are pretty sure we are going to look at how the air speed decayed to a point where three fully qualified people on the flight deck didn't see it.

or saw it and didn't warn the captain. in today's world, with the way these airplanes are made, the weak link is always going to be human factors. >> reporter: one question these instructors are beginning to ask, have pilots become too reliant on automation? ntsb is looking into the role an automated throttle may have played in the asiana crash. >> if we can teach one thing, it is never one thing. it's always a change of interrelated causes. the reason it's safe is this, the lessons we have learned through accident investigation and through investigating the procedures, they're the ones that have changed this and made it such a safe form of transportation. stay with us. don lemon is back with more live coverage from sanford on the zimmerman verdict. how'd you d9 out of 10.iz today? 9 out of ten? that's great. ♪

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coverage of the zimmerman verdict. the trial is over. george zimmerman is a free man. emotions still strong. how one case is sparking conversations about race in america, healing in america and the law in america. despite the not guilty verdict, the nation's oldest civil rights organization wants to keep the fight going against george zimmerman. the president of the naacp says he is calling on the justice department to launch a federal civil rights investigation. this morning on cnn's state of the union, he spoke of patience. >> it's important. just as we all put our faith in this justice system here in florida and in the jury, that we let the justice system run its course. the reality is in these types of cases where there are very serious questions, we know there will be a state phase, a civil phase almost assuredly, then a federal civil rights phase. we are putting our faith in that

system. >> not surprisingly, george zimmerman's brother robert zimmerman jr sees race in this story, too, but in a completely different way. he spoke to cnn earlier today. >> there is a lot of very big push now for bringing civil rights charges against your brother. what do you take of it? >> it sounds like what you're saying is race was never a factor. she believes or alleged, which has been disproven that george criminally profiled trayvon martin. i would encourage mr. jealous, who i describe as a self-professed civil rights leader. i don't think he does anything for civil rights perpetuating a narrative that has been proven false and calling for an arrest and a conviction and it didn't happen. now there is more agitation by the same players that were insisting george was a murderer and racist to begin with. >> the justice department is gathering information. the justice department is not directly responding to the naccp's request, but is

gathering information and there is an investigation going. >> we welcome that investigation through the fbi when they originally started investigating george. they investigated about three dozen of his closest friends and acquaintances. there is not any inkling of racism. i would encourage them to cool their jets, give everyone time to process what's going on. o.j.tation doesn't help us or do anybody any good right now. >> let me just tell you this if you're at home now sitting down watching this. you heard a lot from robert zimmerman jr. you heard a lot of what he had to say about race. now we'll hear a different take on this. he had different comments in spanish when he spoke to our sister network. you will tell us more about your conversation with robert zimmerman jr. you and i talked about this, whether or not it would be different if the media narrative

would be different if george zimmerman had been perceived as hispanic, right? >> as a minority group. first impression is very important on any occasion. in this case it took a few days, even weeks to find out george zimmerman's mother is peruvian. people kept going with the narrative he was a white man who killed a black young man. that is the story the whole world heard for several weeks. it took a while. even after we found out he had this hispanic heritage, i don't think people got that impression during the trial. it was certainly not mentioned in court. i don't think a lot of the media, including ourselves, brought that up. i asked him this morning if he thinks that if their last name would have been different the reaction from the media and other people would have been different. let's listen to what he said.

>> translator: many in our family are considered by many to be racist primarily for association with george. primarily because of the narrative of mr. crump and mrs. natalie jackson. this was a false narrative. this had nothing to do with the case. unfortunately, in this country, when people allege racism, they do not need to have proof. it's simply enough to allege and declare whoever it is can be a racist. this person has to defend himself from these charges. what must happen is that if there is a base, a foundation to accuse someone of something, that should be the first step to make such a serious acquisition. it must not be that lawyers simply declare racism and we all accept it. >> something that he said is that he feels that the last name had a lot to do with it. >> do we have the last name sound bite? i would like people to hear that where he talks about the last

name. we don't have it. >> yes. basically what he said if the last name hadn't been zimmerman, would have been gutierrez, that state of mind in the people would have been different. the whole dynamic of the case perhaps would have been different. >> what would have been different about it, do you think? people are going to perceive this as, is he saying that just because someone is hispanic they cannot be racist or cannot be bias? >> no. he later said we never heard about george zimmerman being hispanic. he said race never should have been part of this case. that's his point. he says he thinks in the public opinion, hearing a lopez versus a black person might have played out differently, perhaps emotions wouldn't have been as high. even not long ago during the demonstrations here, i heard latino people who say this is a crime against black and brown

people and a white person got away. that information didn't get out. what he is wondering is, if the percepti perception, the public opinion where we keep talking about this case, even though his brother has been declared not guilty would be played out differently. >> i think that is a very important point. i've been throughout this story brutally honest. when you came here and we had this conversation, if i were to meet you on the street and you didn't open your mouth, i wouldn't know what you were. i would assume you were a white man. >> there have been people, believe it or not because of my height and my name that some people -- >> i would assume robert zimmerman is a white man, george zimmerman is a white man. i would not know unless someone said to me i am hispanic. unless george zimmerman said, i am hispanic. robert zimmerman said i am hispanic. so most people in the world who operate in america see you as a

white person. do you realize that? >> that might be the case. perhaps the point is that. we should see the case for what it is and not the appearance of what happened. that i believe is the point he was trying to make. again, he told me he feels like they didn't make a point about being hispanic during the case because they felt race should not be part of the discussion. >> great conversation. thank you. thank you for bringing it to our attention. up next, the sunday morning talk shows were abuzz with the zimmerman verdict. the great outdoors... ...and a great deal. thanks to dad. nope eeeeh... oh, guys let's leave the deals to hotels.com. ooh that one! nice. got it! oh my gosh this is so cool... awesome! perfect! yep, and no angry bears.

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so what new stories dominated the sunday morning talk shows today? i'll give you one guess. here is a quick look around the networks. >> in the circuit court of the 18th judicial circuit in seminole county, florida, verdict, we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty. >> you said you were outraged by this verdict. who are you -- who is the focus of that outrage? are you upset with the jury, the prosecutors? what went wrong? >> we're upset with a situation in this country where as black people, as black parents, as parents raising black boys, black girls in society, that it

feels so awful that our young people have to fear the bad guys and the good guys. the robbers and the cops and the self-appointed community watch volunteer who thinks they are keeping folks safer. >> it goes to the justice department. clearly, there are grounds for civil rights charges here. write think we would be intellectually dishonest if we don't acknowledge the racial undertones in this case. there is a reason why everybody was watching this case and they wanted to see if everybody got equal justice. >> we have the chamber of commerce, conservative groups all over america running ads telling republicans, vote for this. this is a good bill. it gives security on our border and it gives people who are here a pathway to citizenship. >> i'm a big fan of what legal

immigration has done for our country. i hope, even though the senate bill, in my view is deficient on the issue of border security, i hope we can get an outcome for the country that improves the current situation. >> i don't think the will is in washington, d.c., to secure the border. so until that happens, i'm not sure the american people are going to trust washington to come you the with some immigration bill until they secure the border. >> we are going to hear more reaction to the verdict all weekend. we'll get back to cnn's susan hendricks with what is going on in the week ahead and other stories. >> good to see you. it looks like we may see a clash in congress over obama care this week. the gop-led house of representatives is expected to vote on possibly delaying two key components of president obama's health care law. the obama administration opposes delaying the individual mandate that would require most americans to have health insurance. both sides seem to agree on

delaying the employer mandate for a year. michael jackson's mother katherine may soon tell jurors about her famous song. the wrong of the death trial is reaching its halfway mark. 83-year-old katherine jackson sat on the front row of the los angeles courtroom almost every one of the 46 days of testimony. she has shed some tears, sometimes laughing, and last week shouted out the name of one of her son's movies when a witness could not remember it. the trial of infamous ex-goldman sachs trader fabrice "fabulous fab" torre starts tomorrow. a former s.e.c. attorney says it could be a rare opportunity to punish somebody with the housing bubble that almost sank the economy years ago. the world is watching and waiting for the royal baby. katherine duchess of cambridge is expected to give birth any day now. they are waiting to find out if it's a boy or girl.

some clues have people thinking the baby will be a princess. we have to wait and see. an enormous typhoon is bashing south eastern china this weekend. the storm made landfall yesterday. it's the equivalent of a hurricane with sustained winds over 70 miles per hour. already more than 300,000 people have left their homes on the coast for higher ground. the same storm dumped eight inches of rain in one day on taipei, taiwan. it is triggering landslides. emergency officials are preparing for the worst in case rivers flood there. a flurry of activity as egypt's interim government tries to get on its feet. among the most significant developments, the swearing in of muhammed elbaradai. a state-run egyptian newspaper says prosecutors have frozen the assets of at least 14 people including several members of the

muslim brotherhood and other islamist leaders, as well. people who knew cory monteith are sharing their memories today. "i never lost a friend this close. this feels like a mistake." john stamos, "we talked about how lucky he felt to be alive and sober. glad i knew you cory." "how sad to read about cory monteith passing away. what a shame. he was a lovely, kind, talented guy and will be missed." he played a clean-cut guy on tv. as nick valencia reports, the actor had his demons. >> reporter: sudden and tragic. news of the death of 31-year-old "glee" actor cory monteith stunned his closest friends. the hollywood star found dead in a downtown vancouver hotel room. his cause of death was not immediately clear, but at a

press conference late saturday, police ruled out foul play. >> mr. monteith checked into the hotel july 6th and was due to check out of the room today. there were others with mr. monteith in but video and key entries show him returning to his room by himself in the early morning hours. we believe he was alone when he died. >> reporter: the died. >> he was patient. he always knew all of his lines right away. he was, you know -- he was the first to laugh when things were muddy. >> reporter: monteith skyrocketed to fame in 2009. he was credited with making the

fox tv series a hit. but for all of his success, there were stumbles. since he was 13 years old, he openly said he battled with his sobriety. his friends and girlfriend were encouraged by his steps to stay clean. >> he even said i'm feeling fantastic again, and, you know, he was obviously referring to, you know, that moment he had this year with going to rehab. so i'm, like everybody else, really devastated and confused by what happened. >> reporter: investigators have not officially tied monteith's death to substance abuse. an autopsy will be conducted on monday. nick valencia, cnn, atlanta. >> our thanks to nick for that report. you know, the woman who brought harry potter to life is the secret author of a new book that's about to get a lot more popular.

j. j.k.rowling admits she wrote a new book under a new name. >> reporter: of all the spells author j.k. rowling has cast in her popular "harry potter" series, this may be the one piece of wizardry she couldn't pull off. it turns out it's the work of rowling. >> oh, wow. okay. that's awesome. >> exciting for all the fans now that there's a new book. >> reporter: the book called "the coo coo's calling" was released in april and hailed a scintillating debut, astonishingly mature, and this on amazon, a book so well written i suspect some years down the read we'll hear the author's name is a pseudonym of some famous writer. it didn't take long. london's "the sunday times" got suspicious, did some digging, and found out rowl iing and the

book's author shared an agent and publisher and outed the author. rowling told cnn, i hoped to keep this secret a little longer because it's been such a liberating experience. it has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation and pure pleasure to get feedback from publishers and readers under a different name. >> i was surprised. i was caught off guard. i didn't know that j.k. rowling was up to anything else at all. >> reporter: after the news broke, sales on amazon skyrocketed 507,000%. now it's their number one selling book. at strand bookstore in new york, the six copies the book seller had flew off the shelves. >> i'm sure the printing pressers are going full force at this point. but we'll order, you know, a lot

is i can really say. >> reporter: it's the story of a war veteran turned private investigator looking into the mysterious death of a super model. the publisher says a second book is already in the works. >> everybody now is doing a double take saying, whoa, j.k. rowling flew under our radar. >> this is fascinating to me. this whole pseudonym business, is it common for authors to do? >> you know, susan, it's not uncommon. in fact, it's being called the best act of literary deception since stephen king was outed as richard bachman back in the 1980s. as for "the coo coo's calling," rowling's publishers saying the company is planning to reprint the book with a revised author biography now that reads in part, robert galbreath is a pseudonym for j.k. rowling. the second book in the series, we're hearing that book will be

released to great anticipation sometime next summer. so it'll be a great beach read. >> i'm looking forward to that. i really am. it's fascinating to me no matter what she calls herself, she's still so talented. she can't hide behind the talent. >> that's right. >> all right. thank you so much. >> you bet. >> want to go back to don lemon now, who's live in sanford. real name don lemon. >> goes to show you, when you got it, you got it. still ahead, a cnn special that will look at all the aspects of the zimmerman trial and verdict. we'll talk with anderson cooper about what we can expect. that's next. meet the newest member of the quicken loans family:

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so it has taken 15 months to come to this. finally come to a verdict. this particular case has captured the nation's attention. at first it got some local media coverage. there is george zimmerman in the courtroom last night awaiting his fate. it got some local media coverage. then it picked up national immediate a coverage and really outrage around the country. people wondering why this particular case had not gotten any attention and what happened between a 17-year-old boy and a

28-year-old neighborhood watchman. then that confrontation culminating into a not guilty verdict for george zimmerman. my colleague anderson cooper picks. up coverage now with a special show. it's called "not guilty: the george zimmerman verdict." anderson, take it away. >> welcome to this special report, the george zimmerman trial, not guilty. not guilty, two words that ended a trial that riveted the country, a trial that brought to the surface difficult questions about justice and race, issues we'll talk about over the next two hours and for days to come, no doubt about it. for the family and friends of trayvon martin, there is no closure. there is no such thing, of course. not at the end of a trial where the 17-year-old young man, 17-year-old brother, 17-year-old son is dead. there is no closure, no matter the verdict. after the verdict, trayvon martin's father wrote that his heart was broken but his faith is not. what happens next for george zimmerman remains to be seen. all we know right now is the judge said he has no further business with the court. with that, zimmerman left the courtroom