when you win, everybody, make that money grow. you do have a chance to win a 1 in 176 million chance to win. >> hire christine romans as your financial adviser. "cnn newsroom" with carol costello begins right now. >> that was a buzz kill. stop it. i have my winning tickets right here. thanks, christine. >> i'll manage it for you when you win. >> thank you. i appreciate it. good morning. i'm carol costello. stories we're watching right now in the "newsroom," lottery fever sweeping the nation for a mere dollar starry eyed players are taking a chance at tonight's record payout of $540 million. >> i would buy me a house and retire tomorrow. not tomorrow. saturday. >> i feel lucky today. >> i'm going to spend it. buy a house. >> what would you do with that mountain of cash?

some legal and financial advice straight ahead. and remember this image of a tornado slamming into a bus? now we're seeing exactly what happened just minutes before and hearing from the heroic bus driver who saved nearly a dozen children that day. >> i stopped the bus for a second. put high hands down. i said, dear lord, what do i do? a pilot's meltdown forced tuesday's emergency landing of a jetblue flight. investigators are reviewing flight data recorders to try to figure out exactly what happened. we'll dig in and see what can he wi we can learn from these tickets. down to the final four in college basketball. the battle in new orleans tomorrow with the championship game on monday night. but first this morning, are you just hours away from becoming filthy rich? if you have bought a megamillions ticket it could happen. the lottery jackpot of record $540 million and growing. in new york, tickets are selling

a million tickets an hour there. in chicago, tickets are going at four times the normal rate. in tennessee, lotto officials expect to sell 6,000 tickets a minute by tonight. people who buy their tickets at convenience stores are not spending two and three bucks but $50 or $100 worth of tickets and things will get crazier as we approach tonight's drawing at 11:00 eastern. that means the jackpot may grow bigger. cnn's susan candiotti is in times square. did you buy your ticket? >> reporter: i bought them as part of the office pool. not here yet but i'm sure i will before the day is out. and then dream. dream of what may be. we'll see what happens. any way, you know, if you take a cash payout you would take home $389 millions. here in new york we calculated it. it would be because less taxes

243 million. i think we could all live with that. lots of numbers to play with here. here this morning the lines come and go right now naturally because we came to see you. no one is here. it's been very busy. at one clip he sold about 600 tickets in that case to an office pool. $600 worth of tickets to just one buyer. we have lots of numbers for you. if you want all that money, here's what you could buy. let's see. gasoline at $3.90 an hour and if you have a 15 gallon tank you could buy 5 million tanks of gasoline. for a seven-week stay at a resort in disney word, could you make 84,000 trips to walt disney world or as i call it a little piece of heaven. how about a corvette? at $50,000 per corvette, you could buy more than 7,700. we could live with that. now, i got to tell you, everyone

is feeling lucky including jennifer lewis. jennifer, you were telling me before that you just washed this pair of jeans the other day. you put them on this morning, what happened? >> i had $6 in my pocket. i told my 11-year-old daughter, mommy is going to -- normally i only play a dollar. i'll take $6 and buy six tickets for us. i'm wishing. i'm going to take $5 extra. >> you haven't bought them yet. jump in line. what would you buy? >> a house. a car. take care of my mother. i would pay off my oldest sister's house. >> i wish you luck. i wish all of us luck. good luck to you. carol, lots of dreams. i was talking to some people last night. i said to them -- two workers at a hair salon. got the haircut. one said to the other, if you

win on friday night, are you going to be here at work on saturday morning? she said sure. to say good-bye to all of you. carol? >> i can understand that. susan candiotti, thanks so much. with more than half a billion dollars at stake, everyone wants an edge. is there an app for that? you betcha. lotto pro and lotto picks to name a couple. they same to have scoured past results to find the numbers that win the most and will even choose numbers for you. if you do not win, some apps will store the losing numbers so you won't repeat that awful combination. i want to know. what would you do with half a billion dollars? i think this morning we should just dream together. so go to my facebook page. facebook.com/carol cnn and tell me the fabulous things you would do for man kind and then do for yourself and then we'll put your ideas to the test with an attorney and cpa and will tell

you how to wisely spend your cash. also this morning, we're hearing from a person who claims to have witnessed the deadly shooting that has sparked nationwide outrage. because of all of the passion swirling around the death of that florida teenager, trayvon martin, the self-described witness does not want to be identified, not even by gender. this person spoke exclusively to anderson cooper last night and described the scuffle and the killing. >> i saw two men on the ground. one on top of the other thinking okay something really horrible is happening. and at that point not looking out the window i heard the yell for help. and then i heard another excruciating type of yell. it didn't sound like a help. it sounded painful. i wasn't looking out the window during that.

the next time i looked out the window same thing. two men on the grass. one on top of each other. i kind of felt like -- i couldn't see a lot of movement. it was very dark. i felt like they were scuffling. and then i heard the gunshot. >> also for the first time we're hearing from george zimmerman's brother. he tells us that medical records will back up his brother's claims that he was indeed injured in that fight with trayvon martin. martin savidge is in sanford, florida. tell us what else robert zimmerman said. >> reporter: good morning, carol. it's clear the family of george zimmerman continues to speak out on his behalf and as you say, the latest is his older brother, robert. here's him speaking to "piers morgan tonight" last night. >> george showed tremendous restraint. >> he had the gun on him, right? >> he had a permit to carry that gun. >> where was the gun? >> the gun, i believe, was in his inside tucked inside his

pant waist. in a waist holster. >> he has pulled it out and he has fired it. >> he has taken control of his firearm. he prevented his firearm from being taken from him and used against him and that's called saving your life. >> you believe as a family -- is this what george told you the next day that trayvon was trying to grab his gun to use against him? >> my father also is on record yesterday night saying again what trayvon said was either to the effect of i believe this is going to be easy. you die tonight or you have a piece and you die tonight and then attempted to disarm him. when you say have a bag of skittles and an iced tea, nobody just stood there with bag of skittles and iced tea. you return force with force when someone assaults you. george was out of breath. he was barely conscious. the last thing he remembers doing was moving his head from concrete to the grass so that if

he was banged one more time he wouldn't be wearing diapers for the rest of his life and being spoon-fed by his brother. and there would have been george dead had he not acted decisively and instantly when he was being disarmed. >> his brother has been suffering from post-traumatic stress ever since that tragic night. he says it's not the same brother he remembers. >> martin savidge reporting live from sanford, florida. robert zimmerman, jr., is concerned about hate speech surrounding his brother. in 2001, andrea yates drown her five children in a bathtub. now she wants a judge to allow her to go to church. yates has been committed to a mental hospital since her second trial ended with a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. doctors at the texas facility say they will ask a judge to

allow yates to leave the hospital each week just to attend church. take a look at this. this bus got launched by a tornado through a diner in henryville, indiana. do you remember these pictures? it happened earlier this month. new video from inside the bus. it shows us exactly what happened moments before the bus driver and her children escaped this terrifying disaster. >> are you guys okay? >> reporter: school bus driver angel perry is trying to calm her students as race to dodge that f-4 tornado begins. >> we're going to go to the baptist church. >> i put my hands down. i said dear, lord what do i do? >> reporter: she quickly radios a dispatcher. with chaos all around her, she makes a rash decision. >> we're going back to the school.

count how many kids we have, please. 11. thank you so much. if anybody needs to call their parents, we're going back to the school. >> i can't. i don't know my parents' number. >> we'll call when we get to school. >> tornado on the ground. i see the tornado on the ground. >> if you have a book to put over your head, do it. get in the middle. >> they have a minute and a half to get out of the way and find cover. >> there's a tornado right there, guys. look the funnel cloud. >> reporter: in frantic state of mind, she instructs students on their next move. >> guys, we're going to go as fast as we can into the school. >> reporter: they make it back to school. the tornado moves closer. they make a run for it. >> everybody stay together. our group together right now. go. go. go. go. go. go. one, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine -- come on. come on. 11. go. go. >> just moments later, the 18-ton bus moves across a parking lot into a car, lifts into the air and is thrown into a diner. a picture that will never be forgotten in the city of henryville. the bus is now inside the restaurant. what also will not be forgotten are the lives saved by the quick thinking of a heroic bus driver. >> you heard her counting heads as kids got off the bus. you hear kids crying in the b k backgrou background. how strong were the winds to drag that bus into the diner? >> ef-4 rated. 175 miles an hour. certainly could be higher than that if you're in different situations as far as accelerating winds. how intense that was. the video that we're getting now from cell cameras and security

cameras is just absolutely frightening and chilling. we showed you some yesterday as that family raced away from the fire. that certainly from henryville tornado. and not quite as terrifying but certainly vivid and when you hear the ladies in this video out of mexico from yesterday talking, it gives you chills as well. we go from inside the tornado there to outside the tornado here. this is in monterrey, mexico. it's far from the border and close to mountains. these two ladies were driving down the road. this is at the point where the tornado crossed the road. my friends down at cnn translating what they were saying which is we're safe because it won't come up and over a mountain. that's a common misconception. tornadoes don't care about mountains. they don't typically happen in them.

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the national transportation safety board has the flight recorders from the jetblue plane, you know the one forced to make an emergency landing when the pilot flipped out. passengers and crew restrained the ranting pilot and as you know the plane did land safely but now everyone wants to know what was this all about? lizzie o'leary joins us from washington. authorities are going over these night data and cockpit voice recorders. what do they want to hear from

them? >> the most important thing they'll probably be looking for is what's on the cockpit voice recorder. then you will hear what captain clayton osbon was saying to his first officer jason dowd. we know some of these details from the charging papers after osbon was charged federally for interfering with a flight crew but it's important to note that we'll actually probably only know or we may not know investigators will know what's on the last two hours of that cockpit voice recorder. it will record up to the point where the plane landed and time it two hours back from that. we may not get those initial indications of what was going on with osbon but you will hear or authorities will hear the last two hours of what happened in the cockpit. >> i'm just curious. i can't remember this detail. i know that this pilot told the air traffic controllers to be quiet or to shut up. when did that happen? before the plane took off or while the plane was in flight? >> that happened in flight. that sort of happened about 3 1/2 hours into the flight.

essentially before they had him removed from the cockpit. the first officer we know was trying to get osbon out of the cockpit but then he got up on his own and left pretty abruptly. it happened just a little bit before that. probably about three hours into the flight. >> i was just curious because how will the new information or how might the new information on these data recorders affect the charges now filed against this pilot? >> well, they will be able to use them when they look at sort of the fuller picture. right now authorities have the affidavits from fbi agents and statements from the first officer. this will give them more of an objective picture of what was going on. remember this case would have to probably go forward to a grand jury. there would be an indictment. if that happens at that point, osbon is still being evaluated mentally so there are a lot of ifs as the case goes forward. big dance and big concert.

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it's time for the big dance. ncaa final four weekend is finally here and we're preparing for our annual big dance concert series. kiss, kid rock, jimmy buffet just to name a few of music's biggest names performing this year. a.j. hammer joins us from new orleans. wow, you are lucky man. >> reporter: here i am. i am a lucky man. what a weekend this is going to be. the party is about to get under way. i'm in champion square right now just outside of the superdome here in new orleans where all of the big ncaa basketball action is going to take place. just a few miles from here is where the big dance concert series is going to be happening

with a couple of the biggest names in music along with one of the hottest bands headlining this weekend, the black keys are going to be here. kiss is going to kick it all off tonight. jimmy buffet will take us all down to margaritaville here in new orleans on sunday. it should be a really good time. last year 140,000 people showed up for all of the free music that happened in houston over the ncaa final four weekend. they're expecting it to be even bigger. i cannot wait. you can feel the energy building here and i'm going to get exclusive access to all these guys. i'll hang out with kiss tonight backstage. >> you are so lucky. i must say, new orleans knows how to throw a party. i'm sure it will be fun. let's talk about chris brown. supposedly he grabbed this fan's cell phone in miami. what went down? >> reporter: this is actually potentially pretty serious for chris brown, carol. what happened is a woman made a complaint against chris last month saying that he allegedly grabbed her iphone when she was trying to take a picture. chris is quite accustomed to

fans and people around him trying to take pictures. she allegation he snapped her phone from her and this led to an investigation. now, prosecutors in the case are saying they're not quite ready to wrap it up just yet. they want to speak with more witnesses to find out exactly what happened before they decide whether or not charges are going to be pressed. chris brown of course doesn't need this at all because he's still on probation from the assault charges that he faced and was convicted on for assaulting rihanna three years ago. chris right now waiting this one out hoping for the best here. >> a.j. hammer reporting live from new orleans. thank you. the megamillion craze is on. people around the country are snatching up lottery tickets hoping to win a record high $540 million jackpot. so, just how big will that jackpot grow? we're going to find out next. [ male announcer ] we know you don't wait until the end of the quarter to think about your money... ♪

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director for the megamillions group. gary, welcome. >> good morning, carol. greetings from exciting austin, texas, today. >> are you crazed? >> we are going nuts here, carol. i know you have been looking at all of the media reports and the lines are streaming out of all of our retailer locations. people are going nuts. they want to pay that dollar and dream of winning over half a billion. >> how big do you expect this jackpot to get? >> about 10:30 central time, carol, we'll have a call with all of the other megamillions directors and at that time we will look at how our sales have come in since saturday. i can tell you i can only speak for texas, they have far exceeded even our most ambitious projections. i can't tell you where it's going to go but it will definitely go up. >> what's your ambitious projection? >> my ambitious projection, i would venture a guess somewhere in the neighborhood of maybe 625 or 650 million. >> i just -- that's

mind-boggling. in the near future could we see the jackpot grow to a billion dollars? >> it's all in the luck of the balls. that's what makes it such a great, fun game. anybody has a chance to win. you never know if your numbers are going to get drawn. time will tell, carol. >> time will tell. gary, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. good luck, everyone. >> thank you, gary. that does mean a lot coming from the man in the know. we asked you on my facebook page what you would do if you won this huge jackpot. we have a lot of responses from you. i appreciate it. if you want to join in, facebook.com/carolcnn. i just want to like people said what they would do with the money. i want to present their scenarios to you so you can tell them if they have the best idea. let me find the first one. this is from doc. he says i would buy my daughter a new condo in los angeles and then i would my buy myself a few

condos and travel to places i have not yet seen and i would invest in a few new good restaurants. >> at least he's saying he's going to invest. i think most people just think about what they're going to spend the money. very short-term. but as history has shown us, the best policy is to think long-term and think about the fact that this money although it seems like a lot, after you take out taxes and you think about how long you have to live, it may not be as much as you think. >> he wants to buy all this stuff. he shouldn't do that at once. >> when you win something like that and you're not used to being wealthy, human nature dictates you're going to have to treat yourself. i think buying a condo or two is okay but going out and buying the whole development may be a little ambitious. >> this is from another facebook friend. travel. give most to family and friends. wants to give most money away. he also wants to buy a bunch of property and invest. >> again, you know, the family and friends thing i think issed

a miles an hoadmirable. >> let's say you give your brother a huge lump sum of cash and you don't like your sister and don't give her anything, doesn't that present all kinds of problems? >> all kinds of problems. family disputes. then they wind up in court. it becomes a whole big thing. i think the family thing is probably one of the hardest things for people who win the lottery. i say the first thing you do is you go out and hire competent advisers. tax advisers, attorneys, financial planners who can show you a strategy and show you how you can help so maybe instead of giving and paying off all their debt, it's like, i'll give you $10,000 and you $5,000. there's a strategy, if you will, to keep the family harmony. >> what is the best way to find that responsible financial adviser? >> a couple ways. we're in a society where it really is trusting your adviser is key. so a lot of people are going to do this by word of mouth asking

people they admire who do you use? who are you working with? there's also this day in age an easy way to figure out who these people are on the internet. you can check their histories with bar association, cpa society, et cetera. >> i also said on the facebook page i would continue to work but then thinking about it, it would make you much more bold with your boss, wouldn't it? >> bold with everybody.

>> maybe not in a good way. shannon nash, thank you for coming in. we appreciate it. the wedding has been planned for a year. the ceremony is on final four day in basketball crazy kentucky and the bride's brother is louisville fan. we'll tell you how they're handling that one. cannot be con. [ clang ] the all-new 2013 lexus gs. there's no going back. see your lexus dealer.

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show us how much you spent last year and we'll give you 2 miles for every dollar spent on your travel reward card. up to 100,000 miles! hawaii, here we come. claim your miles at capitalone.com today! what's in your wallet? can you play games on that? not on the runway. no. we've got the time final final four tomorrow. and in kentucky, everybody has a dog in the fight, right? >> one of the games, could it work out any more perfectly, kentucky versus louisville. in the blue grass state, they are going bonkers. we have talked about houses divided, and there were the men getting kidney dialysis who got

into a fight over the game. now, what is this doing to weddings? annie owens lives in kentucky and planned her wedding a year ago. the big day, tomorrow. her brother, zach, is a big louisville fan and a groomsman. she made sure there is a 50-inch tv at the reception, but her brother is still worried about getting to see the game. >> it will be about half an hour or so. the reception will start right around tip-off. >> wedding ceremonies last much longer than that, so i don't believe her. >> zak wants it to stay on schedule. >> that is an understanding bride. >> yeah. seriously, i mean, this is the day. she is supposed to be the center of attention, right? and there's going to be a tv at her reception. that's kentucky for you right there. it should be a great saturday of college hoops. and speaking of college hoops, slam dunk contest, watch james justice. he is 5'10". my size.

i cannot do this. >> wow! >> 52-inch vertical leap. that's the vince carter jam. he won of course. i mean, that is just incredible. ok. the pros. nba. two of the best in the west, lakers and thunder. time running out in the third quarter. russell westbrook of oklahoma city stops and hits the three at the buzzer. watch him. oh, yeah, put those holsters back in right there. westbrook, and his superstar wonder twin kevin durant started slowly, but power activated in the second half. they combined for 57 as the lakers lose to the thunder 102-93. scary moment for sidney crosby taking a puck to the face during last night's game with the islanders. crosby has missed a lot of times. he had a concussion last season and concussion symptoms last season. this could not help. he was bloodied but did return for really the biggest star in the nhl. the isles did beat the pens. good to see crosby back on the

ice. the nhl needs him. fans want to see him on the ice. >> absolutely. >> clearly, the buckeyes are the team for her. >> yes. go buckeyes. >> ok. and good morning to you. i'm carol costello. just ahead in "cnn newsroom," 13 hours and counting. the $540 million jackpot. tickets are selling at a record rate, meaning the prize could grow even more before the drawing. plus, new video from inside an indiana school bus that was picked up and thrown across eye parking lot into a building during a tornado. coming up later, hear the frantic bus driver making sure everyone is ok. and the teams hit the hardwood today for a final practice before the semifinals tomorrow, but the obama administration has a stern warning for teams focusing on

just the court and not the cl s classro classroom. are you just hours away from being filthy rich? you are certainly hoping so. each and every hour, millions more tickets are being sold. one lottery official tips us off that a bigger jackpot amount could soon be announced. so the big question right now, how would you spend your riches? >> first of all, i have to go to church, my 10% tithe. and i would told my son i would open up a school in a community center. >> i don't know. i'd try to help people. i bet i'd be getting a lot of phone calls. >> the dream is to help a lot of people that could use it. in you win that much money, there's plenty for everybody. cnn's susan candiotti is in times square. whenever people say that, i'm going to give my money to

charities, i'm going to help others, i never believe them really. >> reporter: carol, i don't know how i would spend that money. i've been thinking about it. but i think there would be time to figure that out. i pe prefer right now to concentrate on the odds. they say your chances of winning, 176 million to one. how about being hit by an asteroid? you have a much better chance of that. it's only, what, 300 to 1 about being killed by an insect sting if you are allergic to it. 56,000 to 1. better chance of that happening to you. >> but you know what, susan? you have zero chance of winning if you don't play. >> that's right. you can't win it if you don't get in it. isn't that right, carol? >> absolutely. >> reporter: however, if you did win, a lot of things you could buy, we are having fun with this, right? a rolls-royce costs $350,000. if you wanted two, i don't know why you would want more than

one, but you could afford 1,400 of them. let's say you wanted kate middleton's engagement ring, which is worth $500,000. do you really need more than one of those? i don't think so. on the other hand, if you wanted to buy the most expensive apartment that recently sold on central park in new york for $88 million, you could easily afford that. what do you think, carol? >> you're right. i just would take one ring. maybe i'd buy some for my friends. that's charitable, right? susan candiotti, good luck. i know you bought a ticket. $540 million. ok. let's put that in perspective. it might explain the frenzy. it is the biggest lottery jackpot in history. but the second highest was $390 million. a full $150 million less than tonight's drawing. the rest of the top five, $380 million, $336 million, and $330 million. if you are looking to cash in,

how about downloading an app to help you strike it rich? coming up in 45 minutes, we'll tell but the new apps for your phone that claim to give you an edge when you pick those winning numbers. take a look at this rare tornado sighting in northeast mexico. these pictures were shot by two women driving in monterey. they said rocks and hail hit their car, and that's when they saw the twister. in all the years they have lived in mexico, they say they have never seen or even heard about a tornado there. and look at this. this bus was launched by a tornado through a diner in henryville, indiana earlier this month. now we have new video from inside the bus. it shows us what happened moments before the bus driver and her kids escaped this terrifying disaster. >> are you guys ok? >> reporter: school bus driver angel perry is trying to calm

her students as the race to dodge that f 4 tornado begins. >> we're going to go into the baptist church too. >> i stopped the bus for a second, put my hands down, and said dear lord, what do i do? >> she quickly radios a dispatcher. >> i know you're busy. it's 3:38. >> with chaos all around her, she makes a rash decision. >> we're going into the church. >> how many kids do we have, please? 11. thank you so much. if anybody needs to call their parents, we're going back to the school. >> i do. i don't know my parents' phone number. >> we'll call them when we get to the school. >> there's a tornado on the ground. >> tornado on the ground, guys. be quiet. >> i see the tornado on the ground. north of the school. >> if you have a book to put over your head, do it. get in the middle. >> they have a minute and a half to get out of wait and find cover. >> there's a tornado. right there, guys.

look, the funnel cloud. >> in a frantic state of mind, she calmly instructs her students on their next move. >> don't block me truck. don't block me. guys, we're just going to go as fast as we can into the school. >> they make it back to school. the tornado moves closer. they make a run for it. >> everybody stay together. our group together. right now. go, go, go, go, go. go go go. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. come on! come on. 10, 11. go go, go go! >> just moments later, the 18-ton bus moves across a parking lot, into a car, lifts into the air, and is thrown into a diner. a picture that will never be forgotten in the city of henryville, the bus is now inside the restaurant. what also will not be forgotten are the lives saved from the quick thinking of that heroic bus driver.

i just -- it's just amazing. just to give you an idea of what it took to move that bus across the parking lot, the tornado was an ef4 with winds of up to 175 miles per hour. and it was one of two that struck henryville that day. this morning we're hearing from a person who claims to have witnessed the deadly shooting that has sparked nationwide outrage because all the passion swirling around the death of that florida teenager, trayvon martin, the self-described witness does not want to be identified. not even by gender. but this person spoke exclusively to anderson cooper last night, and described the scuffle with george zimmerman and ultimately the fatal gunshot. >> were you able to observe who was on top, who was on bottom? were you able to see faces or any details of the people scuffling? >> no. just that it was -- that it was dark. i mean, the only reason i could

say if i would have to say who you think it was, i would have to say only the larger man because after the larger man got off, then there was a boy, obviously now dead, on the ground. facing down. >> what did you observe after the shot? >> it was dark. but after the shot, obviously someone -- a man got up. and it was kind of like that period of him -- i can't say i actually watched him get up, but maybe only within like a couple of seconds or so, then he was walking towards where i was watching and i could see him a little bit clearer. and see that it was an hispanic man, and he was, you know, he didn't appear hurt or anything else. he just kind of seemed very, you know, worried or whatever.

>> also for the first time, we're hearing from george zimmerman's brother. he tells us that his medical records will back up his brother's claims that he was injured in that fight. martin savidge is in sanford, florida. tell us what his brother had to say, martin. >> reporter: well, the day before it was the father that spoke out on george zimmerman's behalf. now it's the older brother speaking out. in both cases, they paint a very dire, a very desperate fight taking place between trayvon martin and george zimmerman. here's how it was described last night. >> when you say have a bag of skittles and an iced tea, nobody just stood there with a bag of skittles and an iced tea. you return force with force when somebody assaults you. george was out of breath. he was barely conscious. his last thing he remembers doing was moving his head from the concrete to the grass so that if he was banged one more time he wouldn't be, you know, wearing diapers for the rest of his life and being spoon fed by

his brother. and there would have been george dead had he not acted decisively and instantaneously in that moment. >> reporter: now i will try to balance that very dramatic description with of course the video that we saw, which was of george zimmerman about half an hour after that struggle in the police station. again, the wounds not obviously visible in that video. the family says he had been cleaned up by paramedics. carol? >> martin savidge reporting live for us from sanford, florida. join us tonight for a cnn special event. soledad o'brien hosting a town hall meeting about how this tragedy became a nationwide story. what does it say about racial tension in our country? "beyond trayvon: race and justice in america" tonight at 8:00 on cnn. the obama campaign is reportedly studying its supporters online, making note of a lot of their activities. find out why they are gathering the personal information and what they're doing with it, next.

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mitt romney must be pretty darn happy this morning. he scored another key endorsement, this one from congressman paul ryan. he is a tea party favorite that helped craft the gop budget bill that passed the house yesterday. here's what ryan told fox news this morning. >> i have two criteria i am using to make my decision in our primary on tuesday. who will make the best president, and who has the best chance of defeating barack obama. in my opinion, mitt romney is clearly that person. >> the wisconsin congressman's endorsement comes just before that state's primary on tuesday, and by the way, romney leads

rick santorum by seven percentage points in the latest poll there. president obama's campaign is trying to boost its support by reportedly building up an enormous database containing all kinds of information about supporters and potential supporters, everything from individual donation records to someone's interaction online with the campaign. lois beckett is a reporter for propublica and wrote an article about this. welcome, lois. >> great to be here, carol. >> tell us what kind of information, exactly what kind of information, is being gathered by the obama campaign. >> we don't know what information they're gathering because they won't tell us what they're doing. if you sign up for emails on the obama campaign website, you're just going to be entering in your email and zip code. you might think that's all the campaign actually has on you. but in fact if you look at the obama privacy policy, you'll see a lot of other things they might be collecting on you, everything from how you interact with the campaign website, so what pages you click on, what topics

interest you, if you visit the health care or foreign poly page. that might be saved and put into a database with your name so they know what interests you. if you log in with your facebook profile, that gives the campaign access not only to your name and your gender and your location but also a list to your friends and any other information you make public. we don't know how that's being linked into the database. there's also a lot of other marketing information that campaigns can buy. we don't know what if any of that information obama is collecting and integrating into their database. >> so how might the campaign be using this information? >> so one of the things that we did is earlier this month, we collected almost 200 different campaign emails from across the country. we just asked users to submit them. and we analyzed them and found that there were six different versions of these emails going out to different people. and we don't know to what extent these different versions were going to different people based on gender, their location.

it seemed they were targeting people and asking for different amounts of money based on the donations that people have given previously. >> so why is this a bad thing or a good thing? it sounds creepy, but tell me why. >> so that's a really interesting question. people have totally different reactions to this. one of the comments on my article actually was someone on facebook posting and saying, obama can know anything about me except for my facebook pass word. anything else i'm wocomfortable with. but some people think it's creepy. it's unclear what boundaries the campaign has. we don't know where they draw the line in terms of what information they will use and what information they won't. a lot of privacy experts are worried about personal information, information about health care information you're searching for, for instance. vulnerable things, personal things, that people might not want to be targeted on. and we don't know where the campaign draws the line because they haven't told us. >> and you have reached out to the obama campaign, and no

response? >> they have said minimal things. i asked them on barack obama.com right now, there's a health care interactive where you can find out how obama care has benefited you. and i asked them, are you tracking how individual people are clicking through and what they are telling you about their health care? and they said no, they are not. it's possible they have a policy when that. we don't know. the line from all campaigns about this is, if we tell you what we are collecting that gives an advantage to our opponent. we don't want to tell you that. so voters are really in the dark. >> lois, thank you so much. >> of course. the final four celebrates what's best in college basketball. but not always what's best in the college classroom. coming up, a champion who didn't make the grade. and what do you do when the ground literally falls out from under you? these michigan firefighters answered that question on camera and quick thinking saved the day. [ male announcer ] any technology not moving forward

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carlos, kentucky is the only top seed left. their fans not only want a title, they expect one. >> yeah. they are expected to win because they have won seven times in the past seven national championships for kentucky. but it's been 14 years since their last national championship, and the kentucky players will tell you, there's no pro team in the state of kentucky, so all the pressure is on them this weekend to satisfy their wild fans. >> from day one, you know, they screaming at you, we want it. they love basketball in kentucky. we know it's really important to them. >> you're supposed to win every game by 25. and if you win by 15, what's the issue? what's going on with our program? >> they're supposed to be a contender, they are supposed to get all the good players, and the games are not supposed to be a competition as much as a display of how good kentucky basketball is. >> they're crazy.

they watch the game tapes three times. i don't watch the game tapes three times. but that's coaching and playing at kentucky. it's a little different, let me just say that. >> reporter: the only thing crazier than the kentucky fans down here is the environment of new orleans. carol, we went and saw a tarot card reader last night, and he read our cards and told us that kentucky will play kansas in the final game on monday, which is bad news for you, carol, because i understand you're a big ohio state fan. >> that is so clearly wrong. i have ohio state going all the way. there has to be some love in new orleans for the buckeyes. >> reporter: there is actually. let me tell you this. i see you wearing the ohio state colors. i'll tell you this. ohio state has the home-court advantage. because the court was actually painted and detailed in the state of ohio. so buckeyes and buckeye fans were the ones who painted the court kelly green, so there you go. there is your ohio state nugget, if you will.

>> my people are smart and crafty. thank you so much, carlos. that was fun. saturday's winners in new orleans will move on to monday night's game, where a champion will be crowned. last year's champ, uconn, excelled on the court but not exactly in the classroom and now the huskies are paying the price. drew griffin has our story. >> reporter: when it came down to the big dance last year, the university of connecticut men's basketball team was the big winner. national champs. >> welcome. >> reporter: nationally praised. >> and congratulations to the huskies. >> reporter: standing behind president obama alongside the team and the coach was the university of connecticut's new president, susan herbst. she knew the championship smiles were hiding a huge failure.

uconn may have been the best basketball team in the land, but in the classroom, they were darn near the worst. just 25% of uconn's men's basketball team players graduate within six years. and if you break it down racially, a black player's chances of graduating from uconn is just 14%. under new rules instituted by the ncaa, uconn, the 2011 men's basketball champs, will be banned from postseason play next year. banned because of its terrible record graduating basketball players. >> there's plenty of blame to go around at least in our men's basketball program. >> ok. drew griffin is joining us live. she says there's plenty of blame to go around, but who should our finger be pointing at? >> you know, i pointed at the coach in our report because he is the person closest to the team. the president pointed at the

whole entire school, which needs to cultivate these players, make sure they are in class. and they are doing things better at uconn. and at other schools too, primarily because they are facing this ban next year. >> when you say they are doing things better, what are they doing better? like making the kids go to class? >> making the kids go to class. it's that simple. >> come on. >> that's what i don't get. but, carol, there is blame to go around in all aspects. and i think the big of the problem in college basketball is, coaches get judged by who wins on the court. so they are recruiting basketball players. they are not -- >> they get bonuses based on how many times they win. >> exactly right. so they are not recruiting students. and in our report, you will meet a student who went to uconn and had no intention of going to class. his only goal was to go to the nba. he is now without a degree, sitting at home. >> which is a tragedy for that young man, because, you know, there's this thought that these basketball players in college should be paid. if you're going to hire them, just to play a good game of basketball, why not pay them?

why be hypocritical about it? >> well, there's a lot of discussion. maybe there be a minor league and leave the student athlete to be a student at the school and go to class and get a degree, if they want one. a lot of discussion, but this ncaa rule, if you do not graduate at least 50%, that's the high bar, 50% in four years average, you are not going to play in the ncaa tournament. and that is a wake-up call. >> it certainly is. drew, thank you. you can see all of drew's reporting on the dismal graduation rates in the ncaa tournament. it's part of a brand-new cnn presents that airs sunday night at 8:00 eastern right here on cnn. mitt romney picked up the endorsement of a former president. george h.w. bush threw his support behind the candidate, but the conversation quickly turned to george w. so will we see george w. bush surface in 2012? our political buzz is next. [ male announcer ] fighting pepperoni heartburn and pepperoni breath?

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why bother? chris? >> well, why bother is because from the republican perspective, the issue here is about tax increases. listen, if what you do is end up ending the subsidies on oil, what you essentially will do is result in a tax increase. and so as a result of that, if you want to talk about subsidies, define exactly what subsidies are. if you want to get rid of the research and development subsidies, for example, get rid of that. but at the end of the day, the oil companies are simply going to pass that on to consumers resulting in a net tax increase. [ buzzer ] >> goldie? >> tax increase on who? this is a subsidy. this is the very corporate welfare that people are railing about. i mean, if you, you know, you are a tried and true conservative and you want, you know, government out of the way of business, then let's get them out of the way of the business. i don't understand why, you know, it is so gosh darn, you know -- such a big problem to

pull money out of big oil, you know, when wages are declining for everyday americans. >> sam? >> well, why bother? i guess maybe president obama thought the entire republican caucus was going on a field trip or something, and they would be able to end these bailouts for the big oil companies. but i guess to no avail. >> you're right about that. second question, tom harkin wants to raise the minimum wage 35% over two years from $7.25 to $9.80. should we start laughing now or does he have a prayer? goldie? >> fat chance. i mean, you know, certainly wages have been depressed over recent years with this economic downturn, and certainly productivity is up by american workers. but when you look at raising the minimum wage in this climate, i just don't see it happening. you'd have to have control by democrats of both the house and senate, and the white house. don't know if that's going to happen this fall.

i think that, you know, the pressure on small business, you know, to raise minimum wage is just going to be too tough in this climate. >> sam? >> well, i'm going to start laughing because i don't think there's anything funnier than an entire roomful of millionaires denying the working poor an extra couple of bucks an hour. i'm just going to be laughing. >> chris? >> well, i actually have a solution relative to the minimum wage increase. actually, i think a lot of the fact that congress really does nothing, perhaps what we can do is congress can be a volunteer congress, take that money that it would have otherwise been paid, and use that money to actually raise the minimum wage. there is a solution for you. but the fact of the matter is, i don't think that it's going to happen at this point. not the time for it to happen, especially not such a dramatic increase. ok. third question. your buzzer beater, 20 seconds each.

a lovely warm moment between mitt romney and george h.w. and barbara bush. listen to this. >> you know, i haven't met with president george w. bush. we speak from time to time. >> has he endorsed you? >> no, no. >> we'll talk about that. >> we are digging president bush's socks. i like them. but i digress. we haven't seen very much of bush 2. will we see him in 2012? goldie? >> you know, i think it's really pretty doubtful at least until this primary season is over and we get on to the general election. i think, you know, mitt romney has really been the king of endorsements that just don't matter. there have been several in recent days. and none of them are going to help him tamp down what's happening with santorum today. >> chris? >> well, i mean, you know, w is his own guy. he is the decider. so i don't think that you're going to see him at this point.

the only issue with endorsements really is endorsements matter only if you are going to give money, if you're going to give organization, if you're going to give that kind of support. so from the standpoint of w, i don't think we're going to see him until after this is all over. i wish we would. [ buzzer ] i'm yerning for him. not going to see him. >> oh, sam. >> you have to feel bad for mitt. he is endorsed by the father who was voted out because he was out of touch with regular voters. and can't get the endorsement of the guy who presided over the financial crisis. so that's a tough place to be for mitt. >> goldie, sam, chris, thanks for playing today. >> thanks. if you find yourself on top of a burning building, how much worse can things get? well, much worse as it turns out. just ask these three michigan firefighters who scrambled to survive this terrifying ordeal. and a dollar a ticket for a chance at a record lottery jackpot. are you willing to spend another

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visit floodsmart.gov/risk to learn your risk. it is time for the big dance. the ncaa final four weekend is finally here. and we're preparing for our annual big dance concert series. kiss, kid rock, jimmy buffet just to name a few of the names performing this year. "showbiz tonight" host aj hammer is in new orleans for the party. hey, aj. >> hey, carol. and to be clear, this is not just some concert going on with a big sports event. the big dance concert sooers here at the final four weekend. and kiss, as you mentioned, firing everything up tonight. i can't think of a better party band to kick off one of the biggest parties in the country this time of year. kiss, by the way, will be on tour with motley crew this summer. these guys haven't performed

together since 1982. so for fans, it will be cool to see a little preview of what kiss will be bringing to the tour this summer. and jimmy buffet will be here on sunday. and, carol, as a part-time parrot head, i am particularly looking forward to hanging out with the great jimmy buffet. i actually have exclusive access to many of the artists that will be here this weekend, all of which you can see on "showbiz tonight." but me and jimmy will be hanging out in margaritaville. let's talk about this forbes list, a list of overexposed celebrities. who's on it? >> who's on it? you know, i think everybody said in their mind, well, it's got to be kim kardashian at the top, and indeed kim does top the list of the most overexposed celebrities according to "forbes" magazine. rounding out the top five, lindsay lohan, snooki from jersey shore. the octomom. a decade ago, being overexposed was kind of the kiss of death.

these days, it works for them. kimma ra raked in around $12 mi last year. also on the list, sisters kourtney and khloe at eight and 10. reality stars really need the overexposure. they depend on it to keep the money coming in, carol. it is just the new reality these days. >> although you could argue paris hilton, we don't hear much about her. i don't think the media is interested in anything she does anymore. so maybe overexposure is good in the short-term but not the long? >> yeah. i think that would definitely be the case. and it is interesting for me to still see paris hilton and octomom on this particular list, but paris, you knows, we encouraged her to lay low for a while and maybe things will be brighter for you in the future. and i think he is succeeding at least in the laying low part now. >> octomom. i don't even want to mention what's out there right now about

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for all of us. could the impossible happen? no, not you winning the lottery, but augusta national golf club admitting a member who can wear a skirt and heels. this woman could be the first. she is ginny rometty. she is president and ceo of ibm and a sponsor. martha burke sought to break the gender barrier in 2003 and is also the author of "your voice, your vote" is in washington this morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> this is pretty simple. there are three sponsors of the augusta tournament, the golf tournament. and their ceos usually get a

membership to the augusta country club. so you would assume they would give a membership to this female ceo. do you think it will happen? >> i don't know. but i fear what will happen is that they will try to work out some sham solution with the company. the company has a huge responsibility here not to undermine its first female ceo. and if they accept anything less than a full membership, or resign their sponsorship, which is another option, they're going to undermine their new ceo, and they'll be making a statement that they don't consider her an equal to her predecessors. >> this puts ibm in a tough place too, because, you know, augusta national said, we don't really want your ceo in our club, that puts ibm in kind of a tough spot, you know, publicitiwise. >> well, it does put ibm in a tough spot, but it's of their own making. they have had nine years to help this club come into the 21st century.

they've done nothing about it. now they are both in a bind. there's only one way to solve this. well, there are two. ibm can pull out and say we want nothing else to do with this, these are not the values of our company, or the club can relent and say we welcome women as members. those are the only two options that are viable that are going to wash with the public. >> well, i know, but you said that augusta could work out this temporary thing and like just this one time, we'll let a woman in because she just happens to be ceo of ibm, which is one of our sponsors. >> they could do that, but i think that is putting the company at great risk of, as i said, undermining the credibility of their new ceo. and the credibility of their board. i wouldn't put this on the ceo to do. it is the board of directors' responsibility. samuel palmasano, who is a

member of the club, has a great responsibility as chairman of ibm, and they need to just step up and do the right thing and get this over with. >> you tried so hard a few years back to get women admitted to the augusta country club. didn't succeed. >> right. >> so is it something that has left you bitter? >> not at all. we did raise the issue. you know, if we had not done that, this wouldn't be on the table now. they would be doing some quiet little accommodation that didn't mean anything. but we brought it to the public. and whether it's now or 100 years from now, the united states women's movement is going to get credit for this deservedly so. >> martha burke, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you so much. we did reach out to augusta national. they told us, quote, the club does not wish to participate and won't be offering a statement at this time. lottery fever sweeps the nation as millions of americans

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the economy may be recovering, but millions of people are still struggling to make ends meet. now one lawmaker says he wants to help with a huge hike at the minimum wage. allison kosik is at the snoix. so -- is at the new york stock exchange. how big is it going to be? >> it would be a big, big deal if it gets through. right now the minimum wage is

$7.25. this proposal looks to raise it to $9.80. that's a 35% jump in pay. if you have an annual salary of $15,000, it would go to $20,000. and at $5,000, that's really a big difference if you work for minimum wage. this proposal is coming from iowa senator tom harkin, a democrat. he unveiled the plan yesterday. also he wants to peg it to inflation. so that means if inflation or your cost of living rises, so will minimum wage. right now, only congress can raise the minimum wage, and that's hadn't been done since 2009 under president george bush. >> since it's kind of partisan in washington these days -- >> you think? >> yeah. >> just a little bit. >> yeah, good luck in trying to get this thing passed. expect it to face a huge fight in the republican controlled house, because the increase is huge. it would wind up hurting employers. it could raise their costs. and some businesses may not be able to afford the increase, so they may not hire or they could

lay people off so people may see this as counterproductive. >> allison kosik from the new york stock exchange. checking stories across the country now, a motorcyclist escapes disaster in san antonio and it's all caught on camera. a car, you can see it there, loses control and swerves towards the biker on the left. the rider, the biker, did not panic. he hit the throttle and coolly accelerated out of that sticky situation. another narrow escape for firefighters in michigan also caught on camera. these three guys were on the roof of a burning building trying to ventilate it. the roof collapsed, forcing them to scramble for their lives. all three escaped serious injury. wow. and a tractor-trailer gets into an accident and spills loads of money, $5 million worth of coins, rolled from the truck after it crashed on a canadian highway. it would all be fun and games except that two people involved in the resulting collisions suffered life threatening injuring. "cnn newsroom" continues right now with kyra phillips.