i am dan murray. i am happy to serve as the local committee for charlotte. thank you for coming out and supporting our efforts today. it is great to see such a huge crowd out here even with the weather threatening. i knew people would show up. that is one of the reasons i love this city. it is one of the reasons i chose to move here. i know that you love this city, too. [applause] i am excited to have the opportunity to show the rest of the world what a great city this is, why we chose to move here. why we chose to raise our families here. why we chose to work here. not to charlotte but the carolinas and the region at large. we're going to take advantage of this opportunity. we have a great group of people to speak to you today. i'm honored to introduce our first speaker, eliza hernandez. she was born in the bronx. she moved to chapel hill. she's now a senior at unc charlotte or she is head of the north carolina college democrats. come on up, eliza. >> let's see here. all right. thank you everyone. welcome to the official kickoff for the 2012 democratic nati

. >> dan: he's been on the bike repeatedly trying to loosen up. murray gets the call, notre dame will stop him for a loss. ethan johnson one of the first to get to him. notre dame with a couple of time-outs left and the clock rolls on, approaching the 7:00 mark. >> mike: can't panic here. 7:00, you get a three and out and still have a great chance if you're notre dame. >> dan: michigan the notre dame opponent next week. getting the victory over western michigan. they are down to south florida, at the 30 on second and 12. murray gets across the 35 yard line. >> mike: harrison smith with the stop but a flag comes in. >> mike: i think we've got an unsportsmanlike. >> referee: after the play was over, personal foul, unnecessary roughness, number 90 on the defense. 15-yard penalty. first down. >> dan: ethan johnson. that's killer. >> mike: you want to talk about just continuing to hurt yourself, here's ethan right there. why jump on him there? he's down. i mean that's losing your composure. instead of a third down situation where you've got a chance to get th

dan: on first and goal. and this time he was there to force him back. that was murray again. mber earlier in the game, it seems like they tried to put notre dame, they had it but they didn't snap the football. that time they did. >> dan: second and goal. 13th play. >> mike: he's got man coverage on both corners. the flag comes in. >> mike: a covering here. there is movement on both sides. >> referee: there's no foul on the play. the players reacted to a whistle in the stands. >> mike: i don't know about that one. that's like -- we should have blown the whistle. we're going to try that one over, fellas. what do you do with the play clock? they put it back to 25. i think he twitched a little bit. >> dan: daniels in control. second and goal. daniels is going to run himself. third and goal. manti there to meet him. >> mike: here's fleming. he does it. he plays off the block. does an excellent job. >> dan: so a big play. in the first three minutes of the fourth quarter. can the irish defense stop the touchdown and make the attempted field goals? daniels wants to takt over. the firs

dan abrams. let's start with the conrad murray case, first of all.eak down, a little bit more, the jury. >> i'm stunned by how many trial junkies there are, that watched the o.j. simpson case and the casey anthony case. 5 of 7 feel that celebrity defendants get better treatment. i would be concerned about that. if true, those are the types of jurors who say, the system doesn't work. the celebrities get off. that's a lot of people who know how the legal system works and have an opinion about it. >> odd that so many are part of the jury. opening arguments, what will we hear? >> the produsecution will say ts was reckless. he never should have been giving michael jackson propofol. he never should have walked out of the room. they say cell phone records show that his story that he left the room for five minutes don't make sense. the defense will say, wait a second. there were a lot of drr giving him propofol. this one was trying to wean him off of it. they're going to argue that michael jackson may have taken some himself that may have been the lethal doe

dan abrams, is with us again. so much we've heard in dr. conrad murray's trial. emotional testimony.want to get a sense, what's your take so far in this case? >> well, i think that the first thing the prosecution did, while it was shocking to many court watchers, showing the dead body of michael jackson was unfortunately necessary. the state has taken a lot of flak for that. but let me remind everybody, this is a homicide trial. and the state has a big burden to carry. so far, we've heard a lot of emotional testimony surrounding how michael jackson died. the scenario, the room. his children coming into the room, seeing their father lying there in death. screaming, daddy, daddy. and it really hit hard with this jury. >> and i think, actually, the most important witness we've seen today was probably the one we saw yesterday, who was alberto alvarez. why? up to this point, we've been hearing about what dr. murray didn't do, what he could have done, what he might have done. why didn't he call 911? he was frantic. now, we're hearing about the fact that alvarez is saying, he literally tell

. >> i asked dan simon earlier, he said, it's too early, the attorneys hadn't necessarily revealed whether conrad murrays, how could he not take the stand? >> i think he's going to have to. because basically what they're doing is attacking his standard of care as a physician. they are saying this man did not do what she was supposed to do. so even though he is innocent until proven guilty under our legal system, the jury is still going to want to hear, because if they say michael took it himself, who was in that room that night, fred? dr. murray and michael jackson. so during that crucial time frame when something went terribly wrong, there were two players present. one of them is deceased. if we want to know what happened, we're going to have to hear from the other one. dr. murray will have to tell his side of the story. >> holly hughes, thanks so much. >> thanks. >> and of course, we'll continue to monitor the testimony in the trial and bring you live coverage here on cnn as the developments happen. for completely trial coverage throughout the day, you want to tune into our sister network, hln. >>> al

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murray from doing it. but to say he died from stop giving him propofol, very aggressive position. >> i have to tell you, dan right away, putting the picture up of michael jackson soon after his death, seeing him on the gurney, the audiotape, hearing his voice, how does that play on both sides? >> i think the prosecutors want to make sure these jurors realize that this is about michael jackson's gruesome death. and i think that's what the picture shows. you're right. you can argue with regard to the audiotape, that there's a sense that michael jackson was on this sort of downward spiral. and maybe there's nothing that dr. murray could have done. but when you're his doctor, and you have a guy who is talking like that, and you continue to administer propofol, that's exactly what the prosecution's case is about. they're saying that is the definition of gross negligence. and so, i do think it becomes an important point for prosecutors. >> we heard in jim's report, the security guard going on the stand today. you think that is very key. >> absolutely. he's the one who arrives at the scene and sees how dr. murray

murray. if they get into that in the prosecution case, that may actually help the defense in not having to call him, number one. as danit is a squishy, legal standard. and he's gotten the benefit of the doubt by them not charging second-degree murder in this case. the maximum he's exposed to here is four years in state prison, which is a long way from a life sentence with a murder charge. >> certainly is. mark, always great to have you with us and your perspective. dan, same goes for you. >> thanks. >>> let's get over to sam with the weather. >> good morning, everyone. one of the biggest problems in the country this is cutoff low. separated from any system that can kick it out, has been bringing 20 of the last 26 days around the chicagoland area has been cooler than normal. a lot of rain. warm air and rain up against the west coast. and finally, a pattern that is strong enough to push it out by wednesday night into thursday. this cold air that comes in behind it. and that's a system that's shooting off in the west coast. the big system that took the trees down in the western area of the washington coastline. well, tha

murray was or wasn't doing, i think that shows you a real need on the part of the defense. >> well, i would imagine they are concerned. the testimony, dan, yesterday, explosive. what was one of the most important thing you heard? >> and consistent. you're hearing from the personal assistant and the security guard, echoing similar themes. that is, no immediate request to call 911. a sort of frantic nature of the scene and the fact that dr. murray didn't seem to be in control of the situation. and both of them were suspicious of him to a certain degree. neither of them wanted him to go back into the house. and you heard the personal assistant saying he lied to him about -- well, the cops have my keys. you can't go back into the house. they're worried about what it is he wants, back in the house. and remember, michael jackson's just died. and this is what they're thinking about. >> you said they're saying he didn't call 911. that's one of them. you say there's another theme the prosecution is trying to get across. what's that? >> the money. the money. you hear, not as much from these two witnesses, but previous witnesses talking about the