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john, we're off to the sunshine state to check out a 1939 joh . >> we are off to the sunshine state to check out a john deere b and that's an old one. this collector brought it from a friend in upstate new york. for $2,500 we bought it. my dad made the long trip up about 25 hours driving. brought it back homew. got to painted up and he decided we needed something to pull behind it. every year they go to north carolina and looking for christmas trees, every year after thank giving they take a two week trip. they noticed this manure spreader, not as pretty, it was a farm -- used piece of machinery. noticed it in the guy's front yard with a for sale sign so he turned around like he saw a god back there or something. he turned away. he brought it home. sand blasted it, cleaned it up. put a john deere sticker and started -- that big thing. >> this one here is different. have you to spin the fly wheel. play with the throttle and choke. it's a lot more labor intensive. you have to release that to go forward. a lot more involved and -- no luxuries. it's not one of those that take itself over.

president obama is headed to the sunshine state today to talk about trade with latin america. he will stop in tampa on his way to colombia for the summit of the americas. secretary of state clinton will also be in attendance. >> in the day ahead, a former u.s. army soldier accused of trying to provide support for terror organization in somalia's scheduled to be in court today. the maryland resident is expected to enter a plea in federal court in greenbelt. is accused of leaving the u.s. for some of the with the intention of joining the terrorist group al-shabab. he was arrested in kenya before reaching somalia. a final vote tally for and at large d.c. council seat. vincent orange led his challenger by four of543 votes. election officials will count absentee and provisional ballots and the polls will be announced after 5:00 this afternoon. >> the nationals will face the breads again tonight. >> the d.c. 9 started their first-round series of the season with a victory in front of a packed house. gio gonzalez struck out seven. a wild pitch to clinch it. in the bottom of the 10th i

still in the sunshine state today. the best golfers in the world starting to gather in augusta for the first major of the season. you cannot win on these greens with a three putt. woods is the odds on favorite. if you missed this at the lpga nabisco, i cannot get over it. on the 18th, she misses the one footer for the win. she misses the tap out for the win. kim ends up losing the nabisco in a playoff. the couple of other quick notes. elected to the basketball hall of fame today, congratulations to the big fella. leaving the georgetown women's basketball position to take over in auburn. my dad was a union electrician. sometimes i'd tag along to a work site carrying his lunch or tools. it was good, honest work. i went to college with the help of a union scholarship, then started a maryland business, creating jobs by providing financing to small companies wall street ignored. today, congress is ignoring our need for jobs. my dad the electrician taught me, if something's broken, get in there and try to fix it. i'm john de

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as we learn that george zimmerman is nowhere near the sunshine state. >>> a huge jetliner forced to land. we'll have the latest. >>> the close encounter going viral. a man focused on his phone comes face-to-face with a bear. >>> and a dance floor surprise. an emotional night. when a fan favorite is sent home. >>> and good wednesday morning, everyone. we begin with presidential politics and the real start of the november campaign. >> here we go. barring a major bombshell, mitt romney is going to be the republican nominee. his way to the top, though, of course has been clear now that rick santorum has finally dropped out. >> but the bruising primary campaign has left its mark. abc's scott goldberg is joining us with more this morning. hi, scott. >> hi, paula and rob. the task for mitt romney is to get republicans excited about his candidacy. but romney is breathing a little easier now that his main rival is stepping aside. mitt romney might have spent most of the primary season as the gop front-runner. but he hasn't really been able to stop looking over his shoulder until now. >> this has

among her top priorities is strengthening penalties to stop pill mills in the sunshine state, which from our last hearing, madam chair on this issue was a prevalent problem in our state. and with her dedication and leadership against prescription drug abuse, florida went from having 98 of the top 100 dispensing physicians for oxycontin pills to having 13 dispensing physicians residing in florida. so frankly, her success in this effort results in recognition for the national association of drug diversion investigators, the florida police chiefs association, and from the florida board of medicine. so i want to welcome her, and i thank you, madam chair, for the opportunity to do so. >> thank you. and i just want to point out that there is a hearing going on in the health subcommittee with a cabinet secretary. so a lot of members are bouncing in and out. if they're able to attend, i want to thank the members who are here. >> madam chairman, that's where i was until i figured out i was in wrong place. >> i'm glad you figured out. but we do have three panels before us today. each of our witnes

. >> the president has to the sunshine state to talk taxes. >> no cheers plenty of confusion as lawmakers wrapped up the general assembly. >> will the rain clouds be rolling in? [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. i'm mindy basara. >> and i'm stan stovall. thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> there is no rain to contend with. it will be another breezy day. it will not be as breezy as yesterday. 47 at the airport with a few high, thin clouds. the wind will pick up later this afternoon between 10 and 20 miles per hour. we'll start with sunshine and a few clouds will develop. we have a 20% chance for a rain shower. most of the will not see that. we'll come back and check the forecast going into the weekend. >> good morning. everyone back to work and to school today. we expect more volume and normal delays to fall into place. half an accident at robinson park in severna park -- we have an accident. there is some debris in

cbs newest mates when all the votes are in and counted, the sunshine state will have plenty of sunshine for al gore. error is human. that's what's happened with florida. everybody that we know of had put florida into the gore column some time aim go. now, we're pulling it back into the undecided column because some bald data came from certain precincts in florida. quite honestly, we now don't know what to make of florida. bush wins. florida goes bush. the presidential is bush. that's it. cbs newest mates when all the votes are in and counted, that george bush will have won the presidency of the united states. >> revenge is his and revenge is sweet, as in austin they begin celebrating. one of the closest elections in american history, bush has won it. cbs news has now, for the second time tonight, pulled back florida. we are now putting florida in the undecided category. reason we're doing that is that in actual votes counted, our cbs news -- bush leads by about 2,000 votes. and it being that low, charges of irregularitieirregularities, going to be called for by the push people, apparent

but it comes to drug offenders the sunshine state has taken a hardline approach on the issue for decades in the ninety's and the state was experiencing a crack cocaine epidemic the state passed an eighty five percent rule and that state of the bills in florida those sentenced to prison in florida who committed their crimes after october first of one thousand nine hundred five will serve a minimum of eighty five percent of their sentences this applies to all inmates regardless of the type of crime they committed and the rule applies to all offenders but state lawmakers have been working hard for years to come up with a new approach and state senator ellen barkin off introduce a bill that would send certain nonviolent drug offenders to treatment facility that's run by the corrections system and that's once they finish serving half of their sentence so this bill got over whelming support in fact it passed one hundred twelve or in the house passed unanimously in the state senate for once again overwhelming support and then it reached governor rick scott's desk and that's where it was vetoed

that imagery was a powerful deterrent to tourism in the sunshine state and the other gulf states, asy, when the administration set upç the $20 billion fund administered by ken feinberg, who has done an extraordinary job. he is no longer in charge of that fund. it's been turned over to the federal judge in new orleans, but mr. feinberg diagnose an extraordinary job in being very fair to the state of florida. we received in fact, the most compensation as a result of the fund that was established. but it's very important to have that accountability. >> and actually, ken feinberg will be joining us on monday. i want to hope this up to the panel a little bit. i was at the white house with -- with the indutiable lynn sweet when the spill began. i remember when we were talking about putting the segment together, that camera on the gusher forever, and literally the national sort of shame and horror that this was going on. .what is shocking to me two years late ser there is now hue and cry from republicans about the permitting process for offshore drilling not being fast enough. there is no

now criminal defense attorney joey jackson and from miami alex ferrera, a former judge in the sunshine state and host of the syndicated program judge alex. first of all, second degree murder in the state of florida, define that for us, judge. >> second degree murder just doesn't require an intent to kill, bill. it's basically florida defines it as performing an act imminently dangerous of another and depraved mind. which means it has to have been an act that resulted from ill will spite, evil intent. broke my windshield. i'm angry. overpass i throw a boggle -- bowling ball. no intent to kill him but dying. out of left field example. >> bill: what's the difference between that and manslaughter. >> typically manslaughter is basically any other killing. usually out of culpable negligence. for example, negligence itself just leads to a civil action. you know, you run a red light, you crash into somebody and they could die, you are not criminally charged you were just negligent. if you were cull culpablably negligent. you set up a target in backyard and bullet goes through a window and kills them

the sunshine state not living up to its billing today. we are going to see that rain.ing from montreal clear down to east of cincinnati, northeast of nashville, all driving off to the east as we speak. you've got plenty of cloud cover. venture out to your west. you're going to see this band of shower activity. farther north, the forecast is certainly in in in north for you. big weather make their we have is going to affect people along the eastern third of the country. in fact, as we put it into motion, you'll notice as we go into sunday, early monday, that's going to excaccelerate rt up the seaboard. we're south of philadelphia, north of our nation's capital. you could see anywhere from 4 to 5 inches of rainfall but it's going to be south florida where you're going to see it. in the everglades. great day to check out the blue bonnets. low clouds in places like the bay area and portions of the san fernando valley but by afternoon, picture perfect. your temperatures are nice too. well above normal highs. san francisco, 79. easy for me to say. 78 in salt lake city. 17 fr

lots of thunderstorms across the ensi entire sunshine state. not sunny today.through miami, tampa, the keys hammered with heavy rain persisting throughout the day and bring about quite a bit of threatening weather in terms of flooding. one to three inches expected. advisories from flooding extend to sunday morning including most of counties of south florida. we have a live pick color to show you of miami now. we're looking at overcast skies certainly. a dreary weekend down in miami unfortunately better as we approach next week. we're not only looking at heavy downpours of rain. also a threat of damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. we could see a water spout, a tornado over the water happening on the gulf or atlantic side. across the entire peninsula looking for a threat of severe weather. as the low push ace cross florida working through the weekend, it's going to impact the northeast. we've been talking about tropical weather. how about snow? that's right. we are anticipating snow for wev western new york and western pennsylvania. quite a bit of it you can s

the other mark here can tell you florida may be the most open sunshine state in terms of the laws of any place i have ever seen. i think what the thinking is that he wants to try this in the courtroom and not in the press. one of the observations i made today after hearing the probable cause, interestingly enough, the media has had most of this stuff out there in pretty good detail and has had a pretty good accurate recitation of what their evidence is. so there wasn't a whole lot of new things that i saw in there or heard in there and not a whole lot of surprises. so i don't think this thing is going to be as slam dunk for the prosecution as a lot of people. >> we have to leave it there. appreciate it. let us know what you think, follow me on twitter @anderson cooper. or on facebook. >>> ahead, we have more on the failed north korea rocket launch. >>> and trayvon martin's family, his mother and family lawyer benjamin crump are here. we'll be right back. >>> well, welcome back. the breaking news tonight, we now have the prosecution's early road map to the case against george zimmerma

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now criminal defense attorney joey jackson and from miami alex ferrera, a former judge in the sunshine state and host of the syndicated program judge alex. first of all, second degree murder in the state of florida, define that for us, judge. >> second degree murder just doesn't require an intent to kill, bill. it's basically florida defines it as performing an act imminently dangerous of another and depraved mind. which means it has to have been an act that resulted from ill will spite, evil intent. broke my windshield. i'm angry. overpass i throw a boggle -- bowling ball. no intent to kill him but dying. out of left field example. >> bill: what's the difference between that and manslaughter. >> typically manslaughter is basically any other killing. usually out of culpable negligence. for example, negligence itself just leads to a civil action. you know, you run a red light, you crash into somebody and they could die, you are not criminally charged you were just negligent. if you were cull culpablably negligent. you set up a target in backyard and bullet goes through a window and kills them

the other mark here can tell you florida may be the most open sunshine state in terms of the laws of any place i have ever seen. i think what the thinking is that he wants to try this in the courtroom and not in the press. to -- one of the observations i made today after hearing about the probable cause, the media has had most of this stuff out there in pretty good detail and has had a pretty good accurate recitation of what their evidence is. there wasn't a whole lot of new things that i saw in there or heard in there. and not a whole lot of surprises in that. i don't think this thing is going to be as slam dunk for the prosecution as a lot of people. >> we have to leave it there. let us know what you think, follow me on twitter @anderson cooper. >>> ahead, we have more on the failed north korea rocket launch. >>> and trayvon martin's family, his mother and family lawyer benjamin crump are here. americans believe they should be in charge of their own future. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millio

with beautiful weather year round and wide freeways, the sunshine state is a playground for renegadea daily basis you see people out on i-95 that are driving just crazy. very fast speeds, 120, 130, 140, 150 miles an hour. >> deputy mike musto is part of p palm beach county sheriff's aggressive driving unit. >> they just get out there and they're blind. they have no sense of how fast they're going. >> at 62 years old, the veteran deputy thought he'd seen it all until the afternoon of march 29th, 2011. >> the day started routinely for me. running my laser speed measuring device along i-95 detecting speeders that i normally get 20 miles an hour over the speed limit before i even look at you. >> musto is parked under an overpass when suddenly a motorcycle blows by. >> the speed limit on i-95 is 65 miles an hour, and he went by me at 112, in and out of traffic, following too closely, improper lane changes. >> musto shadows him for about five miles up an off-ramp to a red light. >> he never knew he was being followed until i pulled up alongside of him. i got out of my vehicle as quickly as

president in florida tuesday allen west took the opportunity to address his constituents in the sunshine statecon that sits on top of sarah palin and herman cain's list to be mitt romney's running mate offered the following hearsay. as many as 81 democratic members of congress are card carby communists. that's right,y voccing the ghost of mccarthy he thinks 2012 is time for a good old-fashioned red scare. don't believe me? take a listen. >> i believe there is about 78 to 81 members of the party that are members of the communist party. >> that's 81 according to representative west who refused to name names. good man. and as if this red scare were not enough, west, a decorated military veteran, with a propensity for controversial comments also said he would love to engage the president in a man to man conversation but alas the president was, quote, scared, but something had to give at lisa correspondeding to as spokeswoman that offered a rather step i had explanation that he was referring to the members of the congressional progressive caucus that she insists they claimed as an ally. whether poo

now criminal defense attorney joey jackson and from miami alex ferrera, a former judge in the sunshine state and host of the syndicated program judge alex. first of all, second degree murder in the state of florida, define that for us, judge. >> second degree murder just doesn't require an intent to kill, bill. it's basically florida defines it as performing an act imminently dangerous of another and depraved mind. which means it has to have been an act that resulted from ill will spite, evil intent. broke my windshield. i'm angry. overpass i throw a boggle -- bowling ball. no intent to kill him but dying. out of left field example. >> bill: what's the difference between that and manslaughter. >> typically manslaughter is basically any other killing. usually out of culpable negligence. for example, negligence itself just leads to a civil action. you know, you run a red light, you crash into somebody and they could die, you are not criminally charged you were just negligent. if you were cull culpablably negligent. you set up a target in backyard and bullet goes through a window and kills them

the other mark here can tell you that florida may be the most open sunshine state in terms of their laws of any place i have ever seen. i think what the thinking is that he wants to try this in the courtroom and not in the press. to -- one of the observations i made today after hearing the probable cause is that interestingly enough, the media has had most of this stuff out there in pretty good detail and has had a pretty good accurate saying of what their evidence was. there wasn't a whole lot new i heard in there and not a lot of surprises in it. so i don't think this thing is going to be as slam dunk for the prosecution as a lot of people think. >> we'll leave it there. mark geragos, marcia clark, mark nejame, let me know what you think on twitter and google plus. ahead, we have more on the failed north korea rocket launch. >>> and trayvon martin, his mother and family lawyer, benjamin crump are here. [ male announcer ] lately, there's been a seismic shift in what passes for common sense. used to be we socked money away and expected it to grow. then the world changed... and the common