they were led general retired greg martin, whom we are fortunate to have with us today. this team worked together for seven months agoing t ini inves incidents and the aircraft. general martin briefed the secretary and chief of staff on findings and offered a list of recommendations for the air force to consider as we move forward. these findings and recommendations are available in your media packet and general mart will explain them to you in further detail today. general martin? >> thank you. thank you all for being here and giving us the opportunity to share with you some of the insights and lessons that we learned as we went through this event. i was the claire of the study that the scientific advisory board, study on aircraft oxygen generation systems. not the chair of the air force scientific advisory board but rather the claire of the study. what i'll do is lay out the foundation of that study and its formation a little bit about its process, some about the recommendations, but i think you have in your press package there the complete list of findings and recommen

who's now facing second-degree murder charges in connection with the death of teenager trayvon martin. greg jarrett is tracking all this from our newsroom today. >> many demands for a repeal of florida's stand your ground law, rick scott announcing a task force to review not just that law, but potentially other gun laws involving public safety. it'll be 17 members, different backgrounds. police, lawyers, community activists and members of community watch associations. public meetings will be held across the state to get the views of citizens. governor scott seemed to go out of his way to caution people not to overreact to what has become a racially-sensitive subject involving guns. >> i'm a firm supporter of the second amendment. i also want to make sure that we do not rush to conclusions about the stand your ground law or any other laws in our state. >> i spoke to the nra, canned for a statement, still waiting for that. but, megyn, one could argue all the debate and emotion over stand your ground is utterly displaced because, arguably, it could not even apply here. you're required to retre

going to hear now from greg smith with colorado public employees retirement and brett martin, ceo ofocial media start-up. mr. martin, let's begin with you because you support this legislation which the president is going to sign. lots of friends in the banking community. lots of friends in silicon valley. why is it a good thing? >> well, you know, we're cautiously optimistic. in general we like at any time the government gets out of people's ways and let them help build businesses and build companies. fundamentally we think it's going to do two things. first, it's going to open up whole new fund channels. anyone who raises money knows it's really hard. here at sonar we were lucky enough to have k 2 media and others. this bill is going to make it easier for other entrepreneurs to get supportive investors in their start-up. secondly, and perhaps more profoundly, this will allow normal people to participate in the tech revolution that start-ups like sonar are leading right now. most of the growth in america is coming from high-tech start-ups. why only let rich people participate in that

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martin is asking for donations. says he needs help paying his legal bills greg. zia's not been charged in the case. not be called. now the latest. >> george zimmerman has launched supportersarning about groups falsely claiming to for him.ey also solicits donations for his lawyers and living expenses. the attorney for trayvon says it's noty fair >> . if the situation was reversed, trayvon martin would have been immediately. situation with this web site and everything is a luxury martin does not have and we believe he never would have had. >> the special prosecutor overseeing the investigation says that she will not send a against zimmerman to a grand jury. family attorney says that's fine. >> we look at her not impaneling positive jury as a because that means she she will have evidence gathered from to effectuaten to arrest these killer of this unarmed teenager. students onroup of monday marched to the sanford police headquarters to demand justice for martin. main entrance,e briefly closing the building. >> a roundtable discussion related to the trayvon martin held tonight at armory. topic, eliminat

greg stokes will be fired. george zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder of trayvon martin and faces a bond hearing today. is requested to meet with martin's parents, but they declined, saying it would be inappropriate to do so at this time. a badly burned firefighter will go home from washington hospital center today. kevin o'toole suffered second and third degree burns in a house fire in riverdale heights in february. that fire had been deliberately set. >> vote 2012, gop presidential candidate mitt romney is calling president obama's jobs record of failure. yesterday romney visited a factory in suburban cleveland that closed in 2008 before the president took office. romney blamed the president for failing to reopen the plant after more than three years as president. romney said the empty plant is evidence of the failure of the president's policy to get the country working again. the white house is the president is not talking about mitt romney when he says he was not born with a silver spoon his mouth. obama made a comment on wednesday at a speech at the rain community college in northeastern ohio. wh

greg bernstein called the verdict disappointing. he says his office will continue to propagate animal cruelty cases. the two twins are still in jail being held on separate charges. >>> the latest on the trayvon martin case. george zimmerman will face second-degree murder charges and the death of the 17-year-old. that was the decision of a special prosecutor looking into this controversial case. martin's parents were in washington when the announcement was made in florida. with them was the local minister, jamaal bryant. >> i have been with the family sends 10:00 this morning waiting on the call from the prosecutor, waiting to find out and be in that room and feel the emotions of the mother to see the grown father cry. it gave me strength and took away with me the nasty privilege called, complaining. >> zimmerman was arrested by sanford police. his new attorney says zimmerman will fight all charges. >>> the church fire that we first brought to you in dundalk has been ruled as an arson. police say that the flames started in two sheds behind the mount pleasant zion baptist church and quickly spread to the offices where the roof collapsed. the pastor says they are keeping their spirits up. >> everythin

martin truex, jr. the pole sitter, then came back to overtake jimmie johnson, who led the most lap, 156. with 30 to go. greg biffle taking the lead and is there in victory lane with our matt yoakum. [cheers and applause] >> matt: a perfectly executed slide job. your first win as a dad. first win in almost two years, what does this mean for you and this team? >> it means a lot. a fan yelled, we would never win again when we were leaving the track one day, and i was bound and determined to but this car back in victory lane. the i have to thank the fans for sticking behind the 15, and rutledge wood picked us today. so excited for my first win mitchell dad -- i just wish my family was here. >> this mile and a half track win for the biff. >> dick: jimmie, you came so close tonight, second, your fourth second place finish out of the last five spring races here. can you put into words the disappointment losing. >> we had a great racecar, and our pit stops were amazing. very, very fast racecar, and a little bit more traffic. it's a little different. got tangled up in lap traffic, and 16 made a great move and i was

martin called the hearing self-serve. >> the secret service sex scandal. military members involved are at 11. two other members randall cheney who guarded sarah palin and greg stokes have also stepped down. investigators in colombia are searching for the prostitutes that spent a wild night with 22 members of the secret service team. >> house speaker michael bush, governor o'malley, and -- all gathered tuesday for a meeting at the governor's mansion for a special session. he broke the impasse by presenting a letter of compromise tied to the budget and a shift in the cost of teacher pensions. >> the governor said in part, i appreciate this meeting. it is a positive step forward. >> baltimore employees will have to pay more for health care. right now city employees pay a premium about no deductible and are charged no co-pay for most of the medical care they receive. under the proposed changes, employees will start paying an annual ductible of $250. they will also start paying 10% of their medical bills. premiums at the same cost. >> city employees and rates of heart disease, diabetes, two to three times higher than normal. as a result, city officials want to e

martin on february 25. stay with us. we'll take you there when it happens. hello, i'm kimberly guilfoyle with bob beckel, eric bolling, andrea tantaros and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: game on for white house in 2012. and president and romney have come out swinging. >> the president will use all terms we'll be more fair in the model he has. >> are we better off when everybody gets a fair shot and everybody does a fair share? >> this is a president who is driving us to become more and more like the social welfare state of europe. >> these investors, things like education and research and healthcare. they haven't been made some grand scheme, to redistribute wealth. this is not some socialist dream. >> 2012, our job to make sure he is out of office. let's get him out. >> kimberly: who won day one, bob, of the rock 'em, sock 'em punch-up? >> bob: it's even, actually. romney did one thing we didn't catch that part of it. he talked about women a lot, which is one of his biggest problems. he went so far to say that obama is waging a war on women, which is extreme. he has to do it because he is so far down

greg zimmerman posing new attorney is asking the public not to jump to conclusions, adding that his client is scared. >> is concerned about getting a fair trial and a fair presentation. >> martin's parents were in washington washing the case unfolds. they say this is the first step in the fight for justice for their son. >> we wanted nothing more, nothing less. we just wanted an arrest and we got it. '>> s will it will file a motion today for his client to be released on bond. he is being held without bond currently. if there's a conviction in this case, after the trial zimmermann could face life in prison. brianne carter, abc 7 news. >> thanks so much. martin's case has touched so many in our region, leading to a number of rallies in support of an arrest. over the past few weeks students at howard university organized a number of protests and held a vigil. some students say they disagree on whether the special prosecutor should have charged zimmerman with second-degree murder. however, others want to wait to form an opinion until attorneys are able to present all the facts in the case. >> i don't believe we have heard all of the fax. i don't think all the facts in this case hav

martin case. >> good afternoon. does everyone have their microphone where it will probably work? looks like everyone is all right with that. my name is hal urich, greg is here with me. i'm sure you all recognize us as being the defense team for george zimmerman. we do have what we think is a reasonably important announcement to make. i'm going to let mr. sonner start first, i'll do a little cleanup and we'll answer some of your questions. >> as of today, we are withdrawing as counsel for mr. zimmerman. we've lost contact with him. up to this point we've had contact every day. he's gone on his own. i'm not sure what he's doing or who he's talking to, but at this point we are withdrawing as counsel. if he wants us to come back as counsel, he will contact us. we had contact as of, i believe, sunday, and the last couple days, he has not returned phone calls or text messages or e-mails, leading me to believe that i can't go forward speaking to the public about george zimmerman and this case as representing him because i've lost contact with him at this point. i still believe that he was acting in self-defense that night. nothing i've said about him or th

greg are talking about here. this photo the gps that is embedded in the photo reportedly shows that it was taken by an iphone three minutes after trayvon martin was shot. be advised you see there this is kind of gruesome but it shows that zimmerman's head was cut in two places and there is a wealth at the top of his head. the person who took this says he did not see the scuffle but he did hear it. remember there are several people who heard the scuffle but only one that saw part of it, and here again is that eyewitness, police even. >> the guy on the bottom who i believe had a red swart sweate sweater to me help, help, i told him to stop and i was calling 911. when i got downstairs and looked down the person on top beating the other guy was the one laying in the grass, and i believe he was dead a at that point. >> reporter: zimmerman asked the man who took the picture to contact his wife. he said what do i tell her. he said, just till her i shot someone. he had blood on the back of his head, his nose, his back was wet and covered with grass. he was treat - treated by paramedics and then arrested. when he arrived at the police station you can