hello, thank you for joining us, i'm j.c. hayward. new video of the man who shot and killed trayvon martin is raising questions about his claim of self-defense.

randall pinkston is in sanford, florida with more. >> reporter: this surveillance video obtained by abc news shows george zimmerman in hands cuffs become taken into the -- being taken into the sandford, florida police station. he shot trayvon martin in self- defense after the teenager allegedly punched him and slammed his face into the concrete. but the attorney for the family says the video tells a different story. >> there's no evidence from that video that he beat his head against the concrete. there's no visible evidence his nose was broken. >> reporter: zimmerman's father is speaking for the first time and says his son's nose was broken. former judge robert zimmerman said quote trayvon martin got on top of him and just started beating him. other than zimmerman no witnesses have come forward but some neighbors heard screams and called 911. >> you think he's yelling help? >> yes. >> reporter: the question is who cried out for help. zimmerman's father insists it's

his son's voice but trayvon's mother believes it was her son's voice on the tape. >> that's my boy, that's my son on the tape. >> reporter: they are hiring voice recognition experts to analyze the voice on the calls. randall pinkston, cbs news, sanford, florida. we will have to wait until june to learn the outcome of the health care case in front of the supreme court. the issue was if the requirement that all americans must buy insurance is struck down does that mean that the entire law is canceled? the white house is betting that the law will be ruled constitutional. >> there's no contingency plan thiazin place. we're focus -- that's in place. we're focused on implementing the law and we're confident the law is constitutional. >> i think even if the court did nothing more than strike down the individual mandate. it would be a significant victory and a landmark decision of the supreme court. >> court watchers believe the

outcome will come down to the vote of chief justice john roberts and associate justice anthony kennedy. they asked pointed questions of lawyers who support the law. the woman charged with shooting gay man this month was in court today. 27-year-old lashawn carson was arrested monday and charged with aggravated assault. carson is pregnant. her attorney asked for his client to receive assistance in jail saying that carson is having difficulty with her pregnancy. carson is due back in court next month and she could face hate crime charges. the victim in the case survived. federal investigators are questioning after a man after he tried to carry explosives on a plane to philadelphia. the flight was bound for san francisco. authoritiessy they found a device -- say they found a device in the plan's backpack -- man's backpack. so far they are not releasing his name and he has not been

charged. the jet blue pilot who allegedly had a healthdown has been charged. people who -- meltdown and has now been charged. people who know clayton osbon say the incident is totally out of character. susan mcginnis reports that federal investigators are leading the inquiry. >> reporter: the passengers had to pin down in midair has been charged with interfering with a flight crew. a federal affidavit states captain clayton osbon became incoherent tuesday while at the controls and turned off the plane's radios. according to documents the 49- year-old then told his copilot we need to take a leap of faith and we're not going to vegas. >> reporter: realizing there was a problem, the copilot locked the captain out of the cockpit and requested an emergency landing. mark saluk was sitting in the front row. >> i'm looking at this happening and he's getting more and more violent. >> reporter: when the incident

escalated he helped subdue the captain. >> he started yelling inside you know to the flight deck you know throttle to idle. throttle to idle. al-qaeda is here. >> reporter: what caused the captain's behavior is still noton. the fbi is forget -- known. the fbi is investigating. he has no disciplinary records. fred walker also a pilot, says he's known osbon for at least ten years. >> he was just an all-around good fella. >> reporter: walker says the incident is out of character and says pilots deal with a lot of pressure. >> it is stress in flying. especially when you got 200 people sitting behind you depending on you. >> reporter: when the flight landed in texas tuesday, security restrained osbon and he's reportedly undergoing a mental health evaluation at this texas facility. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >> tuesday's flight was scheduled to go from new york city to las vegas. captain clayton osbon faces up

to 20 years behind bars and a $250,000 fine if he is convicted. a former tsa employee has been charges with running a prostitution ring in montgomery county. police say investigators discovered the ring last month at the crowne plaza hotel in silver spring. officers entered a hotel room that had 11 people inside, some not fully clothed. one man told officers he paid bryant livingston $100 to enter the room and engage in sex. livingston who lives in manassas, virginia is free on bond. coming up when 9news now continues, bombs rock western baghdad. as leaders hold a summit to end widespread violence plaguing arab countries. >> i'm scott broom, coming up the latest effect of our incredibly warm late winter and spring. it is weeds. they are growing like crazy. and when i come back, i'll tell you a little something about

what you can do about it.

two explosions hit baghdad as arab leaders meet to discuss how to end the conflict in syria.

tina krause has more. >> reporter: arab foreign ministers gathered at one of saddam hussein's former palaces for the first arab league summit in iraq in 20 years. two blasts hit baghdad just as the conference began. iraqi officials hosted the event to prove the country can maintain security. after u.s. troops left in december. only ten of 22 arab league members are taking part. media leaders disagree on how far arab countries should go to stop the violence in neighboring syria. >> there's no time to waste. >> reporter: secretary general moon says syrian president bashar al-assad must act quickly on the u. n.-backed peace plan he has agreed to. the deal demands the cease fire but dropped the call for assad to step down. the sunni power of saudi arabia is pushing to stop the violent

one year crackdown. but iraq's shiite prime minister is urging caution. saying forcing assad out could spark sectarian violence. similar to what happened in iraq after saddam hussein was toppled. tina krause, cbs news. >> u. n. officials say that more than 9,000 people have died in syria's year long battle. coming up next, howard has the forecast. >> j. c., bright sunshine right now. but we've got some chilly weather tonight. some of the area is under a freeze warning once again. we'll let you know who might be suffering from that. we go to break though with a look at the noontime temperatures. haven't moved much on this morning, still in the mid 50s in places like great falls and springfield. i'll be back and we'll look at when the next rain system is coming your way and the full seven day forecast. 9news now returns in just a moment.

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>> they actually grow faster than the grass, the weeds. >> this is the one that a lot of people have been seeing, it's called harry -- >> reporter: at the university of maryland's cooperative extension home and garden center it's like an experiment gone out of control. >> anytime you get spring three weeks early. it's a shock. you know, a few days early we're happy. but it almost feels like we're on a different planet this year. >> reporter: in the case of dandelions -- you can eat them. >> the main weed people are concerned about is crab grass. and there's still time to put down a crab grass preventedder. >> reporter: as long as there are blooms on the forsythia. >> a lot of times people have weed problems in their lawn, scott because they're mowing too low. raise it up to three inches and come back and overseed the lawn to thicken it up and that will help keep the weed problems down. >> my 77 years i've never known any weather like this before. >> reporter: and here's a last word of advice from the

experts, if you try to fertilize your lawn right now. you missed the boat in the fall. if you do it you just make the weeds grow like crazy and it's bad for the environment too. scott broom, 9news now. and we're having beautiful weather. >> yeah, we are. you know one thing would be worst if we had rain. i mean we've only had an inch of rain this month as opposed to 3 which we normally should have. it's been a little dry or else they'd really be growing like weeds. >> i'm telling you they're all in my front yard, i really do. >> the neighbors have been talking jc. weather-wise a nice day out there but tonight we could have some problems especially north and west of town. a look at the freeze warnings, they're not even close to the metro area but i point them out because anybody watching us and we got some viewers there in adams county, pennsylvania. you have a freeze watch currently and alleghany county and points west, freeze warnings have been posted. you notice it around pittsburgh and eastern ohio as well and it's not out of the question that later today, national

weather service, i tell you these areas going to get cold too. maybe a frost advisory posted later on especially up to the pennsylvania border and some of our areas west of i-81. now today, it's been a windy day and look at winds in a moment. still got the gusts out of the northwest close to 30 miles an hour. sustained winds at 20-mile-per- hour range and a windy afternoon. temperatures will get to the low to mid-60s for highs and stay sunny all day. tonight the mid 50s by 9:00. partly cloudy skies. but going to be clear to partly cloudy with lows by tomorrow morning mid 30s in the suburbs. maybe 40, 42 here in d.c.. lookinged a winds gusting to -- at winds gusting to 26 right now at reagan national and easton and 23 in hagerstown. earlier we had some gusts close to 30 and that would not be out of the question as we go through the afternoon. as far as the teemments, we're up to -- terms, we're up to 60 at reagan national.

64 at the pax river naval air station but look at the chill up north with cumberland 52 and only 42 in garrett county in oakland. looking outside on the michael & son weather camera just a few fair weather clouds here. some of that in the distance to the north, that's the cloud cover up in pennsylvania but otherwise a really pretty afternoon. 60 degrees, winds north- northwest at 20, 21. see the flags in the wind? dew points have dipped into the uppers. yesterday that was in the -- 30s. yesterday that was in the 50s and seeing the air really dry out. here's the next weather maker up across northern missouri and moving into illinois. this area of showers and storms is going to move east and we're going to start to see the effects tomorrow afternoon in the form of clouds and maybe a stray shower but the storm is going to gather itself a little bit. looks like the bulk of it is going to stay north of us as we look at the futurecast. today got the northerly winds. now tonight the winds relax. that's one of the reasons that the temperatures will drop. with light winds clear skies, escapes into space and then we're looking at the clouds

thickening tomorrow afternoon and here come the showers, slight chance tomorrow afternoon, better chance tomorrow night into saturday morning. and today 64 breezy. 30s and 40s tonight. 65 tomorrow. with the showers' best chance tomorrow night into -- into saturday morning. saturday may be a lingering shower 62. but sundays looks better at 72 and it is thursday at noon. so that means it's time for pet line 9. diana foley joins me from the society and you've brought bear. >> bear is an absolute gem. he's about 5 to 6 years old now. might be hard to see but he's a really big dog. he's about 110 pounds and he's the gentle giant and he really fits that description. >> he's a really sweet guy. he does know how to sit and shake and down like he is now. he knows some basic commands there. what are you looking for? what sort of home?

>> bear could fit very well into almost any home. he's a perfect family dog. in his previous home he lived with children. we think he'd do very well in another house with children. he knows a couple of tricks and really an idea laidback -- sweet family dog. >> gentle giant. going belly-up. he just wants a good rub like any good family dog would. oh nice guy. now how can people see bear? >> bear is currently for adoption at the washington humane society's georgia avenue adoption center and they can also view him on the web page, washhumane.org. >> good boy, and don't worry if you missed any of that. get the information at wusa9.com, click on pet line 9. we're going to go to break but i'll be rubbing bear for i think a few more minutes. we'll be right back. every day potentially harmful germs

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let's have today's one-on- one segment. i recently had a conditions to experience a -- chance to experience a taste of tuscany without leaving the country. you can go to italy too in our own kitchen. you know i love italian food and i have an expert here with me. who knows all about italian food. gina stipo is from the tuscany region of italy. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much for having me. >> and you have the ecco la cucina. >> that's the name of the company that i own in italy. i do cooking classes and we do culinary tours and it means here's the kitchen.

>> oh right. and today you're going to prepare very simple recipe that even i can prepare. >> absolutely. >> with chicken. so how do we start? >> i have two things to prepare for you today. the first is roasted chicken. roasted economicken is always wonderful whether it's cold outside or hot outside and it's extremely simple to make. you take a cut chicken and put it in the roasting pan. i'm going to ask you to go ahead and pull the leaves off of the sage. >> oh i love sage. >> we're using two herbs to flavor this. sage and rosemary, just pull it off and toss it right in. they are the two most commonly used herbs in tuscany. they set our cooking apart from other regions in italy. we toss that and i have some whole garlic and we're just going to throw those in. >> that's it? >> that's it. and then we take the lemons and we squeeze the lemon whole pieces cut in small pieces like this. >> okay. >> toss those in and you will eat the lemon too when you roast it all up and it's just beautiful. the skin and everything. >> look at this. >> then we take some extra virgin olive oil. very important. little bit of oil gets dressed

all over that. >> you didn't put anything underneath the chicken. just sat it in the pan. >> nope, then we used some sea all the. i always -- salt. i always use sea salt. much better for you than anything. then i'll do this part. >> all right. >> then we're just going to toss this. >> okay. >> now you want to bury the pieces of herbs and lemon so that they don't get burned. you're going to be -- turning the chicken as it browns. >> oh really? >> and so you just bury that like that and wash my hands off here. and then we have some white wine. a little white wine. that's going to keep it moist while it's cooking. >> uh-huh. >> it's also going to give you a little bit of a sauce. okay? >> we put this in the oven? >> that goes into a hot oven. about 400 degrees, as it browns turn it and -- >> how often -- >> once or twice. just to see how it's cooking and when it looks like this you take it out. >> look at this, isn't that beautiful? then you have kale. running out of time. that's the kale. that's beautiful. >> right. kale and swiss chard. this is what we eat for

vegetables in the wintertime in tuscany. and we're just going to steam that and drizzle oil on top of it. >> thank you for being with me, i'd love to come visit you in tuscany and take a cooking class. >> please do. seven day? >> you know we got a nice day today. 64. tomorrow night into saturday a few showers and then nice sunday. 72. and j. c. i understand you actually made that dish -- >> let me tell you i made that dish with the sage, rosemary garlic and lemon for a dinner party. >> you were the knock of the party weren't you? >> it's so good and so easy. go to jchayward.com the recipe is on the website and thyme telling it -- i'm telling u it so easy -- you it is so easy. i marinated it on saturday and saturday night and cooked it on sunday. >> that's oak. you're making me hungry. >> it was so easy. even you can do it. you just put sage, rosemary, garlic and lemon throw it on the chicken. >> even i can do it.

>> marinate it. put a little wine in it. thanks for being bus. come back and visit -- with us. come back and visit us at 5:00. >> i'll see you monday, anny is in for me tomorrow. bye bye. [ captions by: caption colorado, llc 800-775-7838 email: comments@captioncolorado.com ]