honored tonight to be joined by the joint chiefs who are scattered through the audience with general george casey, general rick sanchez, and rory austin who have done some incredible heavy lifting for our nation over the past decade. you all stand tall in an exceptionally long list of dedicated leaders who put their heart and soul into seeing are difficult mission in iraq through to completion. for more than two decades iraq was a dominant part of our lives. and in a sense, it was a family affair. what i mean by that, some of us send our own sons and daughters into this conflict over the past 20 years. all of us left our families behind and tour after tour they supported every bit as much as we did. the road we traveled every day was tough. every day it required us to balance contacts in consequence. everywhere and at every level we learned the power of relationships, relationships rooted in trust and respect within ourselves, but also with our iraqi brothers and sisters. we saw just how profoundly impressed of the armed forces of the united states, soldiers, airmen, marines and coast guard's and

george bush is using your tax dollars to have that happen. clinton/gore, for people, for a change. >> i'm going to turn to casey foster. your comment or reaction to that ad? >> i thought it was kind of a different kind of ad. it seemed really personal. there was a lot of use of the word "your" in a lot of individual testimonies in the ad, which is something i don't think that i've really witnessed in current political ads. >> and ariel, what do you think? >> i actually also saw that it was more of a negative outlook on the morning in america and kind of instilled fear. people tend to thrive on negativity and they use the every day american as the show, like, instead of giving the stair owe typical end of the world scenario, nuclear war, they seem to show you a more hits at home type of thing, it's more realistic, it shows american people losing jobs. >> two good points. darrell west? >> i think that are both picking

george bush it has come to this. >> what has helped you the most? >> drinking. i really -- i don't know what else to say. >> caseyly hope he will someday, somewhere find a place for himself in this country that sent him to war. david martin, cbs news, denver, colorado. >> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," live reports from the scene of deadly tornado damage in the midwest and south. and the early warning system that's saving lives. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching everyone. i'm betty nguyen. thanks for watching everyone. i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com a bigger event. " does eliana have anything to >>> college students hold a nationwide day of action today. how this is just a prelude to an even bigger event. >>> does eliana have anything to say? >>

very willing to put for evidence they have, with casey anthony being an example, and we have gotten into this discussion of race, and it was put out that georgeas white, but he is of a hispanic and multicultural background, and george was not the aggressor for the actual contact between trayvon and george. >> were you surprised when he used the racial slur? were you surprised he used a term like that? >> that's a term that i listen to over and over on there, and to me it's a matter of interpretation if he is saying coon or goon. there are place that's call themselves -- on the other hand, i'm a 53-year-old man, and i don't know too many people, younger than 40, that use that term as a racial slur. as far as the other word, goon, i have been informed by my 17-year-old daughter that is is a term of endearment. >> so, let's go on. here is reverend al sharpton today with an interview with trayvon martin's parents. they responded to george zimmerman's claims that trey von was the aggressor in the incident. let's listen. >> trayvon would have defended himself. if he was afraid, i think he would have. >> i think he was confronted and doing his best

casey anthony trial. also, marcia clark is joining us. marcia, this video, the first time we are seeing george zimmerman. no one wants to make any rush to judgment. there's still a lot we don't know about the facts of this case. looking at the footage as you see it, does anything jump out to you? >> well, i have to agree with your former guest, mr. columbo. i don't see any injuries in this tape, with all of the caveats. regarding angle and lighting and the distance, et cetera. nevertheless, the injuries described by george zimmerman that made it sound as really he should have been on a stretcher are not apparent in this tape at all. he moves freely. he moves fluidly, not someone that has just been through a beating in any way, shape or form. someone whose head has been pounded in the way he described, this is someone that requires immediate treatment. police, when they see somebody in that kind of extreme or trouble, the first thing they do, if only for their own protection, is make sure medical treatment is given because otherwise they can be held accountable for any aggravated injuries that

casey anthony being the perfect example. one of the reasons we have gotten to this point is the misinformation that was put out that george isnd is hispanic and multiculture background and this information that george was not the aggressor as far as the actual contact between trayvon and george. >> were you surprised when you heard he used the racial slur? the f'ing word. were you surprised he used a term like that? >> that's a term that i listen to over and over on there. to me it's a matter of interpretation of whether he's saying coon or goon. there's a lot of people in this country where people call themselves coon [ expletive ] . i know too many people that use that term as a racial slur. goon, i've been informed by my 17-year-old daughter that's a term. >> let's go on. here is reverend al sharpton with his parents this afternoon. they responded to george zimmerman's claim and trayvon was the aggressor. >> he would have defended himself. if he felt afraid i believe he would have defended himself. >> i think he was con fronted and he was doing his best to try to get home. if that meant defending himself, then he had to d

as we saw with the casey anthony case, there was a preponderance of evidence released to the public to the extent she was convicted by the public before the trial started. if george zimmerman had been arrested, we would have seen more of this evidence come out. >> i mean, does he feel that -- when did you last speak to george? >> yesterday. >> does he feel it would have been easier now for him to have been arrested? >> i haven't spoken with him about that. i have spoken with his attorney that he's asked to help him with this, craig sonner, who he believes the best thing that might have happened would have been to arrest george to start that clock. so we could get that information out. and so that we could get the truth out. >> i mean, again, i suppose i come back to -- forget the racial part of this for a moment. let's concentrate on the law. the stand your ground law which has allowed somebody to shoot somebody at point blank range. forget the race element to this which may or may not be proven in time. but the fact somebody could shoot a 17-year-old boy who's armed with just a pack of skittles and not only be arrested, doesn't that to you say there's something

. >> as we saw with the casey anthony case, there was a preponderance of evidence released to the public where she was convicted before the trial even started. if george then we would have seen more of this evidence come out. >> reporter: both the family and, of course, george zimmerman would say they have been painted badly by the leaks that have occurred, and the leaks will continue until there's some official ruling one way or another. >> martin satisvidge live from sanford, thanks so much. >>> it is 36 minutes past the hour now. just released, wild video of a police chase in new mexico that brought traffic to a standstill on interstate 40 in albuquerque earlier this month. it happened the morning of march 9th. so the cops respond to a call about a stolen bus. you're taking a look at pictures there. the officers unsuccessfully tried to ram it. so what did they do? they added more police officers in pursuit, dozens of them. road spikes slowed down the bus thief. the tires shredded, but the suspect, nathaniel shipman, just kept on going. the officer in pursuit, his tires also shredded. he had to pull over. check out the police dash cam view of the fi