spike lee tweeted the address of george zimmerman. t he erroneously blasted out an elderly couple's location, prompting death threats and hate mail. he finally apologized. we are learning that lee settle welted couple. now, according to their attorney, lee agreed to compensate them for their loss and the disruption to their lives. it is important to note that spike lee, like bill maher is a big obama supporter n. january, he held a fund-raiser for the president at his house that netted him $1.6 billion. now, in light of the president's position and lectures on civil discourse, wouldn't returning the money that spike lee helped him to raise -- wouldn't that be the right thing to do? no pun intended. joining us now are tam raholder and de19virely, author of the book, black lash. tam ra, there has been a bunty on the head of george zimmerman. he has been talked about in congress on the house floor that he quote, executed somebody. that he hunted him down like a dog, without anybody knowing all the facts, with the one eyewitness that the p

did you know who spike lee was? >> yeah, yeah. i've seen some of his movies. >> reporter: now their doors are locked, their blinds closed. they worry every minute of the day that just this one tweet has put them in danger as it sure has put them in the middle of a story gripping the nation. now they want it to stop. >> you know, we are loving caring people and to have this put out on the internet -- or i mean twitter is just -- i think it's beyond -- it's gotten too bad. i mean it's just gotten terrible that somebody can get out to 250,000 people something that is totally incorrect and they never checked on that. >> reporter: irresponsible? >> definitely irresponsible and scary. i think it's life threatening. >> reporter: now how did this hall? well, alana is 70 -- happen? well, alana is 70, her husband is 72 and they have seven kids. one of them is named george zimmerman. he hasn't lived with them in years, but somehow someone used that address and tweeted it ruining what they say was a quiet life and now they just could sue and

let's see what else is in store for spike lee. let's bring in attorney grege yang to car row to talk about this. how much trouble is spike lee in? >> legally, he's in quite a bit of trouble. and, frankly, i think, losing his twitter account is going to be the least of his problems. alisyn: and so what sorts of charges can he face for e roan usually tweeting this address? >> i don't think he really faces criminal charges, but under the circumstances civil liability is absolute here. i think this is the kind of case that lawyers dream about. imagine if mcleans were your parents. imagine how emotionally damaging it's going -- i mean, you're talking about a situation where this is a group, and this is not to weigh in against george zimmerman or for george zimmerman. this is a situation where, i mean, on friday you've got demonstrators on behalf of trayvon martin who the north miami-dade, the north miami beach students actually charged into a walgreens. this is the kind of situation, and extremists that the mcleans have to be worried a

controversial director spike lee visited snipes.id the two men work on. >> bill: cards up please. answer is roll the tape. >> why are we out here tonight? >> i cheated. >> you dropped a bomb. >> bill: okay. that was jungle fever. you were both wrong. after that, spike lee tweeted the address of the jail. that is wesley snipes. >> one of my favorite singers, he was the members of doors, jim morrison and one of the best front men in rock history. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bill: i do a great imitation of morrison but not with the allergies. some day i will do that the factor when i resign my position. [ laughter ] he had a substance abuse problem. where was morrison when he died. >>> he died in bathtub in paris. >> that is what you said. >> bill: i don't know what that means. >> is there a reason you went there? >> because i was big fan of the doors. you were a big fan you were two years old. >> he was gone already. that is why i went to the cemetery. >> bill: doocy and i were there. i actually saw morrison. had these leather pants on. >> that is what

controversial director spike lee visited snipes.ich movie did the two men work on. >> bill: cards up please. answer is roll the tape. >> why are we out here tonight? >> i cheated. >> you dropped a bomb. >> bill: okay. that was jungle fever. you were both wrong. after that, spike lee tweeted the address of the jail. that is wesley snipes. >> one of my favorite singers, he was the members of doors, jim morrison and one of the best front men in rock history. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bill: i do a great imitation of morrison but not with the allergies. some day i will do that the factor when i resign my position. [ laughter ] he had a substance abuse problem. where was morrison when he died. >>> he died in bathtub in paris. >> that is what you said. >> bill: i don't know what that means. >> is there a reason you went there? >> because i was big fan of the doors. you were a big fan you were two years old. >> he was gone already. that is why i went to the cemetery. >> bill: doocy and i were there. i actually saw morrison. had these leather pants on. >> th

we've been making phone calls to spike lee, so far no response from him. mean, you mentioned, you know, look from someone as high profile and influential as spike lee, he should absolutely apologize. would that be good enough? >> well, that's the request e. you have to act very quickly in a crisis like this. make it right, get it behind you. don't let it foester. fwu if you're opposed to what george zimmerman did, why are you posting somebody's address online? isn't that further vigilanteism or at least encouraging further vigilanteism? the whole premise behind what he did is flawed. i think he can post his opinions about what's going on. but why is he posting someone's home address to begin with? what is he trying to accomplish? >> right. what is he trying to incite? >> we're talking dennis rodman, former basketball star. he faces possible jail time for failing to pay child and spousal support. his attorney says rodman is broke and also says he's an alcoholic and can't afford to pay the more than $50,000 a month. first i saw that number and saw $50,000 a

spike lee made that happen. sat down with spike lee in soho. a simple discussion. spike says, "come up with an anthem." i went overseas, came back with an anthem. but spike lee made it happen by shooting two videos, a big one in bed-stuy, having the movie, and then putting it in the movie eight to ten times. i was like, "whoa." he made that happen. yes, i put the words together, but it's a team that makes things happen. and if it wasn't for spike lee making that happen... i think that was a very important, key part to public enemy's career. and i look back, and i say, "well, you know, that's something that i wrote." but it was taken, and the ball was run into the end zone by other powers that wanted to help out. and early on, when you heard that people were saying none of your music should be on the radio, what was your reaction to that? well, first of all, they never really considered rap music "music." and then they said, "well, it's a kid's music." i remember when george harrison once called rap music "computerized rot." and then i said publicly, i said, "well,

spike lee is apologizing to a florida couple in their 70s.re forceded to move out of their home out of fear after lee retweeted their address as being that of george zimmerman. spike wrote on twitter i deeply apologize to the mcclain family. it was a mistake. justice in court. elaine and david mcclain are with me this morning along with their attorney, matt morgan. mrs. mcclain, how did you figure out that your address had been given out on twitter. i'll go with assumption that you're not tweeting regularly. >> i've never tweeted. i don't even text. but the only reason it started to stir our mind about it is we had some reporter and cameraman at our door on sunday asking for george. my husband said we don't have a george that lives here and don't know anyone and then the next day we got hate mail. and then the next day we had many, many cameras coming. >> so you knew something had happened. tell me a little bit about the hate mail, mr. mcclain. what details about hate mail can you tell me? >> it was an envelope addressed with a black magic ma

spike lee retweeted an incorrect address for george zimmerman's house in florida.action forced a couple who live there, a couple with no connection to the case, to leave their home in fear. spike lee today reached a settlement with that family. the details are not being disclosed. and as noted, he also issued an apology. >>> five members of a fairfax county street gang are accused of running an underage prostitution business. police say donyell dove and other gang members approached high school girls at bus stops, at metro stops, on school grounds, and on facebook and they're accused of pa raigd the girls around alexandria apartments to solicit sex. police say the girls were threatened and abused if they wanted out. >> women including juveniles were allegedly targeted, recruited, exploited, physically abused and threatened, and put at risk for financial gain by others. >> police say as many as ten girls were recruited by the gang members over the last five years. >>> in prince george's county a high school track has been turned into a place of mourning. students th

one of them involves movie director spike lee.logized to an elderly co couple from sanford, florida, for retreating their address thinking it was george zimmerman's address. lee later tweeted this. he said i deeply apologize to the mcclain family for re-tweeting their address. it was a mistake. please leave the mcclains in peace. the mcclain had to flee to a hotel to escape threats and the media. they join us live from orlando. their other son, chip, is also with us. he joins us live. welcome to all of you. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us, carol. >> thank you for being here. now that spike lee has apologized, is it enough for you, david? >> to some extent it is. we would like a little more directly to us. we would like him to apologize directly to us. >> instead of some tweet that you had to find out about probably through your sons or the media, right? publicized your address for all to see. >> well, we didn't really even know it until a news camera came to the house and asked for george. my husband told them we don't know

spike lee is apologizing to afford a couple who says they were forced to leave their home because spike lee helped to spread their address on twitter. capoot may have a son named william george zimmerman, no relation to the shooter. spike lee later treated he needed to apologize for giving their address. >>mark: we will be right back as the kron4 news continues. here is a look at philadelphia international. a man detained by the tsa. he had a homemade device inside of his suitcase. what >>justine: we have two new stores to talk about, the economy through 3% in the final quarter of 2011 but growth will likely be slow this quarter. weekly unemployment numbers have come out, they're down three to 59,000. another sign that the job market is strengthening. >>mark: rick santorum is fund-raising in the bay area today at the jelly belly family and fairfield. he will hold a rally have for this afternoon and plans on discussing health care reform. the rally will be open to the public get followed by a fundraising thing the event. tickets are at $1,000. before headed to california he was in illino

the address spike lee sent out belongs to an elderly couple with no link to this case. ater tweeted, i deeply apologize to the mcclain family for retweeting their address. it was a mistake. please leave the mcclain's in peace. justice in court. the mcclain's attorney said lee called them personally apologized and agreed to compensate them. the family said he was very apologetic and very nice to them. on the phone. sound like they have forgiven him. we'll see where that goes. joined by a criminal defense attorney in florida. eric, welcome. >> thank you, martha, good morning. martha: there have been so many emotions surrounding this case but to have these two adults, hollywood celebrities, passing along the addresses that they believed would have basically sent mobs to these addresses, to, you know at very least protest and very worst hurt the people who live there. what are the ramifications of those actions? >> i suppose better to ask for forgiveness than it is for permission. the ramifications of these actions could be anywhere from disorderly conduct to breach of the p

they say spike lee did call to apologize and spike lee agreed to compensate the mcclains.t out a new message on twitter that read i deeply apologize to the mclain family. it was a miss take. please leave the mcclains in a peace, justice in court. >> shepard: a judge says virginia tech did not break the law after all during the deadly school shooting massacre. he is throwing out a $55,000 fine against virginia tech. as you recall, back in 2007 a gunman killed 32 people and then killed himself. feds fined the school claiming it waited too long to tell the students about the threat. the judge says the warning went out in a reasonable amount of time. just two weeks ago the parents of two victims won a multimillion dollars lawsuit against the university. >>> mitt romney wins one of the most influencial republicans on capitol hill. there l. it seal the nomination. in. >>> the supreme court likely voted today on the healthcare law. of course, they didn't call us up with the info. we will get the results in june. the experts tell us what is going on behind the scenes. >>> a hiker

roseann barr and spike lee caught up in a dangerous tweeting situation.in today. john bolton accuses the white house of leaking israeli intelligence. he's going to be here to explain that. and why you may not want to buy a lottery ticket on your way home today. what? yeah. we'll see you at the top of the hour >> gretchen: ice agent was gunned down more than a year ago. the guns used traced back to the fast and furious scandal. now his parents are speaking out and want long awaited answers. william lajeunesse sat down with them. >> we want to find out the truth. who in the first place thought of this program? how come they let those weapons go when they knew who had bought them, who had them? how come they let them go through the border without even trying to stop them? that's what we want to know. >> i don't know anything now that i didn't know the first day. >> steve: so why does the family not know anything more now than they did more than a year ago? joining us now is the host of "justice" with judge jeanine pirro. it's a travis see. >> it is, and a tr

spike, tell me you've made this right. >> speak lee's tweet has since been removed. >> jon: oh, good.know once something is removed from twitter it is gone forever. (laughter) like it never happened. damage fixed. come on, spike. >> spike wrote on twitter last night i deeply apologise to the mclean family for retweeting their address it was a mistake. please leave the mclean's in peace. justice in court. >> jon: all right, that's a night hers felt apology, although call me crazy, something tells me a tweet isn't the ideal medium for apologizing to 71-year-olds. >> i never tweetedment i don't even text. >> jon: of course you don't. you're too busy baking cookies for the neighborhood kids and sowing your granddaughter a quilt. you're adoreable. seriously, spike a poll gizing to people in a way they can comprehend. tape a note to their grandkids. hold up a sign at a knicks game or call them. that is what they really want. that is all any florida retiree really wants. pick up the phone and call them. and then, help them move. we'll be right >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight, the host

. >>> film director spike lee apologizing to a couple wrongly linked to the zimmerman case. lee retweeted a message on twitter claiming to give out george zimmerman's address. turns out it was an elderly couple's. they have since moved out to a hotel to stay safe. spike lee posted a message on twitter saying he deeply apologizes to the family. it was a mistake. please leave them in peace. >>> a guilty plea following one of the worst mine disasters in decade laura evans is everywhere at 11:00. >> mine superintendent gary may pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy. 29 coal miners were killed at the coal mine in 2010 in west virginia. he admits he violated federal mine blues including falsifying record books. gary -- laws including falsifying record books. >>> a pennsylvania man in police custody trying to board a plane with explosives. joseph piccelo tried to board a plane carrying a plastic bottle filled with explosives. he told investigators he forgot the items were in his backpack. >>> gay marriage advocates in maryland revealing the strategy of their opponents to overturn the

spike lee has since taken down the tweet. >>> and justin bieber may be in tweeter trouble. he posted a fake number online telling his 19 million followers to call him and now an condition-year-old great grandmother's phone in texas is ringing off of the hook. take a listen. >> justin, i know you're there. call me. >> and they have hired an attorney to stop the phone calls. the friends tell her to just change the number. she said she has had the same phone since 1996, and she's not changing it now. >> and back to you. >>> the forecast is next. first, if you ask fans for the favorite memory of whitney houston, a lot of them will say the body guard. it's marking the 20th anniversary tonight, meaning can you see it in theatres tonight at 3 local theatres. fairfax county -- fairfax town center, the bowie 14 and -- [ indiscernible ] ernible ]  chili's $20 dinner for two has a bold new favorite -- steak. first, share an appetizer, then choose two entrees, like our 100% usda choice sirloin, available for a limited time on chili's $20 dinner for two. ? >> the battle for the re

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and spike lee did a fundraiser for president obama in january.dent is silent like in the case of bill maher. does he need this opportunity to lecture conservatives? >> i think that the less he says the better. there has been a lot of stuff, a lot of ideologues and not enough facts. we do not know what happened. we hear one thing one day on zimmerman's side and the other thing the next day and another network interviewed mike tyson. >>sean: mike tyson? what was the hook? >>guest: this tragedy down here, what will he add to that? we have a load of people adding nothing to the situation, it is a tragedy. >>sean: it is dangerous. when you talk about a bounty on someone's head, my question is, where is the administration and eric holder? >> we don't know the facts. all but know is an unarmed teenager was killed and probably we do know what went on on 911 and who shot him. we do not know all the facts. this reminds me of a shooting tragedy not unlike the congresswoman gabrielle giffords case a little over a year ago which is a tragedy that gets thrown

a couple is forgiving spike lee.. for wrongfully identifying their home address..clains address, even though zimmerman lives more than four miles away from them. >> we definitely accept the apology. we just don't want this to happen to anybody else. they put anything on there and they just don't care. they do not care how it affect other people's lives. >> the mcclains say the mistake probably happened because their youngest son's last name is zimmerman, and his middle name is george. the couple is now holed up in a hotel because they're receiving harassing them. high gas prices for drivers. low tax bills for big oil companies. president obama says that doesn't add up and he's asking congress to cut tax breaks to big oil companies. the white house says the tax breaks add up to about 4 billion dollars. but critics say that cutting the tax breaks would only raise production costs for the oil companies, and that they would just pass the price increase along to the customers anyway. mister obama said he's not worried about the big oil companies, he's worried about the

spike lee reached a settlement with the family. details have not been disclosed. lee also tweeted out an apology and personally called for the couple to have peace. >>> the son of a prominent virginia attorney who represented the d.c. sniper is behind bars this morning on drug charges. jacob greenspun, son of peter greenspun, was arrested in an undercover sting operation wednesday. he is charged with three count of distribution of marijuana and a counsel of possession with intent to distribute. the arrest comes after a two-month police investigation. >>> students at suratville high school in clinton are mourning the clos of one of their classmates. yesterday, students honored the victim by walking the track and carrying balloons in her memory. she died suddenly thursday while jogging in gym class. her father said he's not aware of any pre-existing conditions. >>> it's a big day for medical marijuana supporters in the district. the d.c. health department is expected to announce who will receive permits to grow medical marijuana in washington. also today a store call

and spike lee is apologizing to a florida family after he published their home address on his twitter account saying he believed it to be the home of george zimmerman. it was not. the address turned out to be the home two of public school employees, both in their 70s who said they feared for their safety. spike lee has apologized for publishing their address erroneously. >>> the faa says the jetblue pilot whose erratic behavior forced an emergency landing on tuesday had passed a routine medical examination less than four months ago. today clayton osbon is being held at a texas hospital and facing federal charges of interfering with a crew. as nbc's tom costello reports, osbon was late arriving at the airport the day of that flight and things only got worse from there. >> reporter: from the criminal complaint, we're now learning much more about the actions of 49-year-old captain clayton osbon and what seems to have been a serious breakdown. >> i'm so distraught. oh, we got israel, we got iraq. we got israel. we got iraq. >> screaming about bombs and al qaeda, passengers had to use thei

only thing we know, i know for sure, other than trayvon martin is dead is that roseanne barr and spike leeboth in their own way, contributed to the creation of a would-be lynch mob with irresponsible tweets. >> jon: yeah, what spike lee did, for those who don't know, he sent out to his hundreds of thousands of twitter followers, sent out an address he believed belonged to george zimmerman the shooter. it turned out to be the wrong address. now, in that way, isn't he inciting the same kind of violence that killed emmitt till decades ago. >> i clearly don't think that this kind of behavior is helpful in this case, where people are so inflamed and feelings are so sensitive and hot about this. look, i think because of the media we know a lot more about this, jim, than we knew last week, we know, for example, because of reporting that the chief prosecutor recommended that zimmerman be arrested and we did not know at that the last time we talked about that, and we also nthis case, we also know that mr. zimmerman apparently did not have a broken nose and was bloody when he was taken to the police

homes after spike lee helped spread their address on twitter. this whole is in their seventies and they have assigned name william, george zimmerman but he is no relation to the shooter. spike the accidentally gave their address. he later tweet did that he deeply apologize to the mclean family for sending their address. it was a mistake, please leave them in peace. >>justine: we are now hearing from the mclean family who said they were terrified when reporters and hate mail started showing up on their doorstep. >> we had a reporter and cameraman at our door on sunday asking for george. we said we do not have a george that the siri and the next day, we start receiving e-mail scanned the next day, we had many cameras coming. >>justine: to avoid all of the media outside of their house, they have moved into a hotel room. they also said this morning that the to accept his apology. >>mark: here is a live look outside of a gloomy start to the date, and walnut creek we are bumper-to-bumper. it is starting to slow just we are bumper-to-bumper. it is start

ahead on "early start," spike lee issuing an apology. he tweeted the wrong address for george zimmerman. a couple was forced to leave their home in fear. >>> take a close look, this show increased activity on this launch pad in north korea. and some controversies with regard to a missile launch that is planned for mid-april. we'll break down what that circle tells you and what that circle tells you, too, in just a moment. >>> did you hear about the mega millions madness? >> oh, yeah. >> what would you do with $500 million? >> i'd be right back here working with you. >> i would, too. >> i love my job. >> i would, too. i don't know. what would you do with it? >> we'd change our hours. >>> you're watching "early start." nent color matching creme right where you need it. then rinse. in ten minutes zap those grays and get on with your day. nice 'n easy root touch-up. and it hasn't been going exactly as planned. [ director ] cut. cut! [ monica ] i thought we'd be on location for 3 days -- it's been 3 weeks. so i had to pick up some more things

spike lee -- spike lee, tweeting out this, retweeting out this address. i mean, that is -- that is the wrong thing to do he has apologized. >> absolutely. two wrongs don't make a right, and we have to have good exemplary behavior to talk about social justice. it goes across the board. >> this is, there is a good part to this. don't forget. the good part, this happened over a month ago. that we play get justice. justice may be served, because of all of this noise. we need to be responsible about what we're saying. >> people are using this to highlight broader issues. the reverend, former naacp president, on "outfront" this week, with erin burnett. >> the most dangerous person in the life of a young black man is another young black man, and the type of ideas that are spawned when we gather together over a white on black murder. in fact, there's not an epidemic of white men killing black boys. there's an epidemic of black boys, black men, killing black men. >> all right. a different issue. is it fair to use this case to draw attention to what he says is the

they did get in touch with spike lee, got an attorney. they received an apology from the star and they reached a monetary agreement there. so out of this little bit, out of this entire tragedy there's probably two people tonight who are happy with where they're sitting right now. >> david, some people have described whether you are as literally, it's become a tinder box. is that true? is that too strong of a word? people can feel passionately but that's differently than being angry or violent. >> well, the city has been very concerned about that for weeks now. with so much national attention here, with emotions raised so high, in fact, tomorrow, we're going to see another march by the naacp which is coming here to this location, to the police station here behind me. the city has been concerned about that we have seen people on both sides of this issue appealing for calm. appealing for patience. but continuing to press the case. you're going to hear a lot of people on this location tomorrow that are dedicated, that are emotional and they'r