and i know mark martin is the chotf good defense team down there. i do support article 3 courts, terrorism trials where appropriate. i want to acknowledge your support for military commissions in appropriate circumstances, and with your help, i think more action coming out of guantanamo bay to get some of the so thank you for that support and to all those at guantanamo bay doing their job, you're going a great service. particularly the defense counsels. >> i think that's right. i think people should understand when i sent people down for military commission treatmen revised commissions that exist, as i said in my speech at northwestern have many of the elements of due process that we consider vital to the american system. i think we have great defense lawyers down there. the military system doesn't get the credit it deserves for the fair way it deals with people and under the direction of mark martins, who is a person i've known for some time i think we'll be proud of the work they do. >> thank you very much, mr. attorney general. senator feinstein

mark martin is unfit to seeve as a judge.nsylvvnia authooities should remove him from thh bench. ast october, a couple of athhists marched in the mechanicsbuug, pennsylvania halloween paradee. one dressed as a zombii pope. he other a zombie mohammed. silly? goofy? in bad taste? peehaps. it waa halloween. this is free speech. an immigrant mussim oolooker became angry. accordinggto reports, he had a physical altercation witt zombbee mohammed. a police ooficer aaprehendeddthe assailant who confessed to the assault. he was charged. in court, the assailant testified it's agginst shaaia law to insult mohammed. he judge agreed. he disregarded the testtmony first lectured the victim &pcalling him a ""oofus." phristianity, he told the victim, is just a religion. but islaa is a culture. there are no first amendment protections when offeeddng muslimss the judge claimed. in other words, sharia law has priority. the judge never said a word to the assailant peacefully esolving differences. we are "ugly americans" because we're intolerant h

ports that are available to answer any questions, as well as mark martin. president whoo ho: thank you. public comment. we have andrea taber. >> i guess i am here as the living proof of what the investment in the america's cup would mean for our city. i am a small business owner, minority business owner operating in the printing and paper space. i have been in dialogue with the america's cup for over five months now talking about how we can bring sustainable material to all of their marketing material, and all of the sign it. moving forward with this plan would allow me to grow my business, bringing on additional resources, bringing on additional economic development through to our first city. i urge you to concur with what they are asking you to decide on. thank you. president whoo ho: norman appeapierce. >> norman pierce. i am a long-term san francisco resident and ownboat ownder. ier. i am in support of the effort to make this event happened in san francisco. we had a heck of, but just a hiccup. i think this revised plan that i first saw today and any co

i will talk about general mark martins who was in iraq and if you read the book we kind of traced some of his efforts there to show how very difficult it is and, frankly, everyone who's involved in it says it will take a generation to change the culture there and to teach them our ways and then the question is, is it really right to teach them our ways? but when you look at the competition with the taliban and shari'a law and they're settling disputes whether it's by cutting someone's hand off for stealing something and they are settling disputes and the government of afghanistan can't do it so mark martins started up field of law and they went basically down to the district law, correct, to set up these training teams that would teach the district level afghan officials how to do speedy justice or some kind of justice. their system is totally archaic they're taking notes pen and paper. they don't have a computer system to share files on, at a local level. it's getting better but there's a long way to go. and one positive step they have made is this biometric system and i think about t

. >> mike: trevor bayne and mark martin. green flag, here we go. nine laps to go. stewart gets it away. >> darrell: nobody is going to do anything with that. >> larry: i think at the same time, jimmie johnson in the 48 spun his tires just a little bit. enough to let tony get away. >> mike: nobody has been able to touch stewart on restarts today. >> darrell: looked like it was shot out of a cannon. >> mike: 23 cars on the lead lap to finish it. it will be eight to go when they come around. >> darrell: i don't think we will make it to the end without another caution. >> mike: kyle busch turn four. around he goes! no caution. >> larry: it look like nascar will see if he can get going. he is going to go down pit road. staying green. >> mike: nobody checked out in the straightaway. now the caution waves. >> darrell: i thought there would be a caution. then the 18 spun out of harm's way and got going, i thought we might be all right. >> mike: look at what happened to kyle busch on the right side of the screen. he is underneath bobby labonte. we are told the left rear tir

doesn't get the credit it deserves for the fair way it deals with people and under the direction of mark martin a person i've known for some time, i think we'll be proud of the work they do. >> thank you very much, mr. attorney general. we're now going to turn to senator feinstein before senator pryor leaves, thank you for mentioning the cyber exercise and all who participated. next week we'll hear from the fbi and do an open hearing and then a classified hearing. you'll get -- this would be an opportunity to ask many of your cyber questions and go into the level of detail. i think the committee would plipli like. so, thank you. senator feinstein. >> thanks very much, madam chairman and welcome, general. i wanted to say the comments of senator mikulski and senator hutchison. i think the -- died before he knew this was a faulty prosecution. that elevates this to a new height. so i think this investigation is really important, and i think that actions have to be taken, and i just wanted to express that. what -- i wanted to follow-up on senator brown's comment. it's my understanding that more -- t

jeff gordon, mark martin and joey logano the top t. >> darrell: whew! that is a nail-biter, boys. >> mike: well, the closer got to the door and it would not open. >> darrell: i tell you, probably good, maybe ran out of fuel for denny hamlin's sake. look at this. team meeting right there. >> mike: how about champion crew chief of 2011, darian grubb, picking up just where he left off at the end of last season with tony stewart. headed for the winner's circle. >> larry: so happy for darian grubb. they didn't even know if they were going to make the chase. he was told halfway through the chase he will not be returning to stewart-haas. kept his head down and won the five races and won the championship. >> darrell: joe gibbs got him a jewel right there, buddy. >> mike: hamlin, led three times for 61 laps, including the final 59 circuits. >> darrell: out of gas. >> mike: he could be out of gas. >> darrell: can i get a push to the station, please? >> truck behind you here. >> larry: brad keselowski in the 2 that finished fourth, he was out of fuel. martin truex

mark martin is unfit too pennsylvanna authorities should remove hm from the bench..d. a police officer apprehended the assailant who confessed to the assaultt heewas charged.. in poort, the aasailant testtfied it's againss sharia law to insuut mohammed. theejudgge testimony of the arresting officer and dismissed the charges. but he first lectured tte victim calliig him a "doofus." christiiaity, he told the victim, is just a religion. but islam is a culture. there arr no first ammndment protections when offending mmslims, the judge claimed. in other words, sharra law has priority. the judge never said a word to the assaiiant aaout free speech or peacefully resolving difffrennes. we are "ugly aaericans""because we're intolerant he told the vvctim. absooltely not. intolerantt is jailing rape victims, stoning homosexuals, beheading muslims who convert to christianity and flying jetlinnrs into skyscraperss pilling thousands. for morre on this story and to read a transcript of theejudge's commenns visit behind the headlines dot net. i'm mark hyman. contracts to write, the

judge mark martin thrown out harassment charge for a muslim man that confronted a man that dressed as prophet muhammad on halloween. molly is live in new york city newsroom. >> reporter: this district judge mark martin he received threats after ruling to throw out the harassment charge against a muslim man accosted an atheist. he walked down with a sign he was zombie version of the god mohammad. he was attacked by a bystander. they recorded the incident and they tried to grab the sign and made physical contact by pulling on a rope. in court, he admitted he was offended by the costume but he denied he touched him and judge decided there wasn't enough evidence to convict him on harassment charge. controversy comes from what the judge said. he made a recording in court and posted an edited verdict. he scolded pierce, saying he was outside of his bounds regarding the first amendment, it's unfortunate that some use the first amendment to provoke others which he believes is not what the forefathers intended and history lesson. it seems to say. in reality the judge is lutheran. they believe

martin. the funeral director tells mark strassmann there's no sign martin was in a fight before he was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer. is there an epidemic of autism? cases have doubled in six years. michelle miller has today's surprising new report. with gas prices so high, will the recovery suffer? anthony mason has the story. and 30 years after ground was broken on the vietnam memorial, barry peterson shows us three decades decades of love left behind. >> when people leave things at the wall, people let go of their grief. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the defense of george zimmerman rests on a violent fight that he says occurred before he fired the shot that killed trayvon martin. zimmerman is the neighborhood wa watch volunteer at the center of the case. it was almost five weeks ago that martin, the unarmed 17- year-old, was killed after zimmerman found him suspicious. we don't know what happened immediately before the shot was fired, but mark strassmann joins us tonight with important new evidence in the c

martin. today marks one month since martin was killed. focus all over the country are outraged. martin's parents gathered with supporters outside a church in sanford and they are calling for justice. he was shot and killed louisiana month by a neighborhood watch volunteer named george zimmerman. so far, zimmerman has not been arrested or charged. zimmerman claims it was self- defense and today a lawyer for the martin family admitted the teen had been suspended from school for using marijuana, but he says that is irrelevant. >> whatever trayvon martin was suspended for had absolutely no baring on what happened. >> they killed my son and now they are trying to kill his reputation. >> a special prosecutor has been appointed to oversee this case in florida. next month, a grand jury will convene to decide if zimmerman should face charges. joining us now to analyze this case from a legal prospective is the law professor who argues that despite all the passion around it, the police may have done all they could do under the law. professor, explain yourself. >> the law says that before y

here should remember which is there is a new successor to robert jackson who's called general mark martins who was appointed by the pentagon last year to be the new u.s. military prosecutor. and he is a very fine military lawyer who has -- was a former infantryman and he has studied the history of military tribunals in the united states, from george washington onwards. he knows their shortcomings and he knows how they can work and succeed. and -- he takes the position, i think, that most terrorists will continue to be tried in the federal court systems but there are some who will have to be tried in guantanamo. and for one reason, the congress has said that nobody -- none of the prisoners in guantanamo can be brought to the united states for any purpose. if you don't try khalid sheikh mohammed in guantanamo, you won't be able to try him at all. general martins made a speech to the american bar association a few weeks ago in which he listed the ways in which he's determined make these cases in guantanamo open and transparent and proper. and i'll just read you a couple of his sentences. the

where the outrage continues to grow over the shooting of 17-year-old trayvon martin by a neighborhood watch member. today marks one month since martin died. over the weekend, vigils and religious ceremonies were dedicated to martin and to his family. many people wore hoodies, the same thing martin was wearing the day he was shot. >> it's about pulling our community together in the wake of an absolute tragedy. >> band in solidarity with the family of trayvon martin. >> stop the violence. save the children. >> now, the alleged shooter, george zimmerman claims he shot trayvon martin in self-defense. this weekend, friends and lawyers saying zimmerman suffered a broken nose and a gash on the back of his head during that encounter. >>> the markets try to bounce back after the worst week in 2012, and were off to a good start for that and more of the news before the bell, we turn to jackie deangelos at cnbc headquarters. good morning, jackie. >> good morning. >> the futures are higher this morning. we saw the dow and the s&p 500 come off the worst week of the year, but still, the dow, the nasdaq, and the s&p are on tr

the killing of trayvon martin. mark strassmann talks to the new special prosecutor about the evidence in the case. dr. jon lapook on a surgery that appears to cure diabetes in many patients. and a latter-day lindbergh. james cameron's record-making voyage to the bottom of the sea. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from washington. >> pelley: good evening. can the federal government force you to buy something whether you want it or not? that is the question before a historic session of the supreme court. it's all about the president's health care law. the law is designed to give all americans access to medical care but by 2014 it requires everyone to have insurance or pay a fine. demonstrators for and against have been gathering at the court. there was a line for seats inside. a cbs news/"new york times" poll out tonight on views of the health care law finds that more americans disapprove overall than approve. 47% to 36%. at the same time

martin. today marks 1 months since the teenager was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer. there are reports that the teenager was suspended from because of drugs. rallies are being held in washington and across the country. altria godfrey has the latest. hoodies on the hill to lining the streets, and the call is larger foreign rest to be made. new information coming from authorities is painting a different picture as to what to place the moment before he died. in in a flier circulated by the panthers, a $10,000 bounty on the head of george zimmerman, the man responsible for the death of trayvon martin, the latest in the call for justice. zimmerman had maintained that he the 17-year-old boy in self-defense. details could help prove motive. a new witness claims it was zimmermann heard on the 911 call begging for help. he contends he was walking back when martin approached him. words beforenged martin punched him in the nose. he then slammed his head into the sidewalk. het is when zimmermann said fired the shot. they say the backlash had become is nowed that zimmerman in hidi

reports tonight from anthony mason and mark phillips. david martin has learned more about the u.s. soldier being held in the massacre of 16 civilians in afghanistan. anna werner on a planned parenthood dispute that may leave women without health services. and from jim axelrod, their advice to college grads who can't find a job? grow one. they did. >> inspire our whole generation to take a difference course. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. no country has ever been isolated in the way that iran is about to be. we learned today that iran will be electronically severed from world commerce. it's possible because the world's financial transactions go through a central computer hub in belgium, a hub that's called swift. disconnecting iran from swift is the most severe step yet to try to cripple iran's economy and force the country to end its nuclear program. and if that doesn't work, israel can continues planning for the military option. we have two reports tonight. first, anthony mason on this latest economic sanction

and i went with a brigadier general named mark martin's was running something that he called the rule of law field force. and general martin's showed me the map of the districts in afghanistan that don't have judges or prosecutors. and then he showed me a map of the districts in afghanistan with the taliban is strong. guess what? it was the same map. in other words, places where there's no justice, the taliban comes in and provides it. because there's really a demand from the people for somebody who will arbitrate all the claims that are built a. every piece of land in this war-torn country is disputed sometimes it seems. so general martin's has been trying to recruit the good judges and prosecutors to go into these areas. that's the kind of program that i wish we been doing a long time ago. it's the kind of program that i hope we will keep doing, even as our combat forces reduce. because it gets to the problem that this caller was talking about, which is what does afghanistan we need to hold a better as a country. it's not going to be switzerland, but if you can get basic, kind of ju

>> well, i think martin luther -- i -- well, at that time, i thought the mark -- the martin luther -- martin luther king was too much of a compromiser. i was willing to go in to confront people, to demand things. and my career in the army was a -- was a part of that vision of confronting racial discrimination. >> how tall are you? >> six feet five. >> and you were that -- were you that height when you were in the army? >> oh yes. i was. i was not as heavy. i was in better condition. i was about 185 when i was in the army. >> how did you get into the army? >> i was -- i was getting ready to say -- i was drafted. i'd much rather say my labor services were confiscated. >> when? >> in 1959. i was -- matter of fact, i was driving a taxi cab in philadelphia and i was making about $300 or $400 a month driving a cab and i got -- i essentially got this letter saying well gee, you're going to stop making $300 or $400 a month. you're going to begin to make $68 a month. and so, normally people don't switch voluntarily in that direction. so, my labor services were being confiscated. >> what was th

. >>> today marks one mother mo since trayvon martin died. the outrage continues to build. several rallies around the area demanding justice for the young man killed by a neighborhood watch captain. >>> president obama about is to sit down with dozens of world leads are in south korea. the nuclear security summit officially kicks off later today and before it starts, the president addressed a crowd of students at a university. he warned north korea against provoking the international community. he warned iran against developing nuclear weapons. >>> the rain this weekend may have knocked a few of the cherry blossoms off the trees, maybe more than just a few but that shouldn't put a damper on the national cherry blossom festival. >> for people coming to visit, there is still a lot to celebrate. it is only the second week of the five-week festival. organizes of the centennial event have a lot planned to keep everybody busy. >> reporter: it is a lot of pressure for the folk who put on the cherry blossom festival with so many people planning a trip to the nation's capital. timin

>>> civil rights leaders are rallying to end racial profiling in the wake of trayvon martin's desmght today marks the -- death. today marks the one-month. members of the maryland black legislative caucus protested the kelling. >>> tonight a mother is taking on the harford county school board. janice wright's 14-month-old son lives with the disease. she pulled him out of the john archer school in bel air after he was improperly strapped down to a restraining device. investigators later determined while the divis was used improperly the staff was poorly trained and any abuse was not intentional. she will ask for members to meet with parents. >> the sun returned to normal but the temperatures not quite so much. it was chilly and windy. wyatt is in the storm center with more of the freeze watch. >>> it's actually -- we did have a freeze watch for parts of the state except for the deep southern county, calvert, southward toward st. marys. we will go at or below freezing. that will create a frost. any tender plants or flowers, you'll want to bring that in or wrap that area with some plastic. keep it wa

and to break it down is jonathan martin an nbc news senior political editor, mark murray, generally,k murray, we noted this little thing, forget the exit polls yesterday afternoon. 28, 28, 26, 28, those were the respective percentages mitt romney had gotten in the previous southern state and he got last night 29 and 30, an improvement. >> and the polls were all over the place, looking at that demographic and geographic. >> we knew exactly what would happen. >> we knew what would happen, and mitt romney goes in and aces the perception problem, the delegate math is all on his side right now, but what he's doing in the heartland of the republican, the nerve center of the gop, he's losing. >> and that's what's happening, jonathan, look at the exit polls, 50% in alabama said he wasn't conservative enough, 27 and 32 said he was about right, well, that was about his number, 29 and 30 is the actual number. among evangelicals, romney got under 30, 27 and 29 in both states. the same income split was there. it comes to -- i mean, this is the same issue and these were states that -- >> the romne

mark. >> reporter: scott, trayvon martin was buried in mime wea gunshot wound to the chest, but otherwise, according to richard kurtz, the funeral director who prep prepared martin for burial, his body showed no injuries. >> we could see no physical signs, like there signs, like there had been a scuffle, there had been a fight, you you know, the hands, i didn't see any see any knuckles bruises or what have you, and that is something we would have covered up if it would have been there. >> reporter: and the surveillance tape shows george zimmerman zimmerman in handcuffs 40 minutes after he killed trayvon martin. he seemed to he seemed to show no apparent injuries, either. yet, zimmerman claims martin beat him and threatened his life, so he shot the teenager in self-defense. but ben crump, the lawyer for martin's parent're parents, says the video shows a murderer. >> look at that video. do you see any blood on his head? head? he said he broke his nose. look at that video and look at how easy he walks out of the car. >> reporter: zimmerman air, crime watch volunteer, thought martin looked su

the killing of trayvon martin. markstrassmann talks to the new special prosecutor about the evidence in the case. dr. jon lapook on a surgery that appears to cure diabetes in many patients. and a latter-day lindbergh. james cameron's record-making voyage to the bottom of the sea. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from washington. >> pelley: good evening. can the federal government force you to buy something whether you want it or not? that is the question before a historic session of the supreme court.

analysis of shields and brooks-- syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. welcome, gentlemen. trayvon martin, mark, of course, the florida teenager shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer, allegedly. president obama weighedn today, said if he had a son, he would look like trayvon martin. are you surprised at how personal his comment was? >> well, the president's not somebody given to personal remarks about himself or his family, and biographical, and it seemed appropriate in this case. rick santorum also made a personal commentary, comment as well. there are two kinds of issues in american politics, judy. there are position issues which should the defense budget be cut, taxes ineased? yore on one side. i'm on the other. and there are valence issues. and this is a valence issue where nobody is on the other sides of trayvon martin. this is a terrible thing. the question is how convincing and sincere one is seen by the position that candidate or that politician, a public figure takes. and i think as of this point, everybody has been plausible, and i thought the president was quite convi

mark. >>> our chief meteorologist bill martin joins us from the weather center. tracking great weather. >> need weather next few days. next week going back to winter. nice bay area friday coming up, temperatures into the 70s. in san francisco, richmond, beautiful, clear, temperatures in the low 60s. no fog along the coast right now. avenues here, golden gate park, ocean beach, towards the twin peaks area, panhandle, plenty of sunshine. really nice day shaping up for tomorrow. these are the highs today. highs tomorrow come up from these. tomorrow will be nicer. we have had a heck of a run. but next week, looks wet. return to winter but not before we get tomorrow and part of the weekend. cooler for the bay area weekend. more clouds, maybe a sprinkle sunday night. change your plans next week as we get going. at 10:00 tonight, i will have the new model runs and we will look at that. mean time, chilly tonight. not that bad, but chilly. tomorrow afternoon, 70s. high pressure sits off shore and keeps us dry. next week, storms are developing out in the pacific and the je

martin. the funeral director tells mark strassmann there's no sign martin was in a fight before he was killedneighborhood watch watch volunteer. is there an epidemic of autism? cases have doubled in six years. michelle miller has today's surprising new report. with gas prices so high, will the recovery suffer? anthony mason has the story. and 30 years after ground was broken on the vietnam memorial, barry peterson shows us three decades of love left behind. >> >> when people leave things at the wall, people let go of their grief. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the d the defense of george zimmerman rests on a violent fight that he says occurred before he fired the shot that killed trayvon mart martin. zimmerman is the neighborhood watch volunteer at the center of the case. it was almost five

now to new information in the trayvon martin case as communities across the country rally to his defense. marches here in washington and in florida are helping mark a month since martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watchmen in sanford, florida. george zimmerman has told police he acted in self-defense. he has not been arrested. a friend of zimmerman's is now speaking out on his behalf. he says he cried for days after the shooting. we're also learning that martin was in sanford because he was suspended from his school in miami after an empty marijuana bag was found in his locker. his mother says that's a diversion from the real facts of the case. >> they've killed my son and now they're trying to kill his reputation. >> right now hundreds are rallying in sanford to demand an arrest in this case. >>> l's also a rally outside the justice department here in washington. news 4's derrick ward has more on that. >> reporter: the protests continue. today here at d.c. demonstrators showed up outside the justice department offices on new york avenue that house the u.s. inspector general's office. locations change but the goal of the demonstrations st

. >>> today marks one month since trayvon martin was shot in florida and there is no end to the outrage. communities across the nation are holding rallies to remember the 17-year-old shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain. this is video from in front of the justice department just this afternoon. elizabeth corden has the latest in the case. >> i said no justice. >> no peace. enter supporters in hoodies standing in solidarity with the slayed teen's family. martin's parents defending their son after acknowledging trayvon was visiting his father while on a ten day suspension from school. a baggy tested positive for marijuana. >> whatever trayvon martin was suspended for had absolutely no baring on what happened on the night of february 26. >> they killed my son. now they are trying to kill his reputation. >> george zimmerman remains in hiding. the neighborhood watchman says he acted in self-defense when he shot martin when he was unarmed. one of zimmerman's friends is seeking out on his behalf. >> this is an incident when someone who was just trying to do the right thing ended up

. >>> thousands of supporters are expected to rally in sanford, florida, to mark one month since trayvon martin lawyers for the neighborhood watch volunteer who fired the fatal shot say his aks were justi justified. >>> after wrapping up his first ever visit to mexico, pope benedict arrives in cuba. he'll visit santiago before visiting havana tomorrow. >>> let's look at today's weather. late-day rain from seattle to just north of france. windy with snow in the sierra nevada. a wet day into minnesota. >>> and finally, a man who says his memory is just average is the national memory champion for the second year in a row. he set a new record at this weekend's contest. he's here in new york. how and why did he do it? "nightline" anchor bill weir put him to the test. >> reporter: they say dogs have a short-term memory of about 20 seconds. honestly, mine is worse. jack of spades, jack of clubs. >> nope. >> reporter: it's all the more humiliating because the guy sitting next to me can memorize the order of an entire deck of cards in 63 seconds. just one of the skills that makes nelson dellis the reign