there will be a special prosecutor in the trayvon martin case appointed within the last hour by the florida governor. she is based in jacksonville previously supervised home side prosecution in the state. her office also decided to prosecute a jacksonville teenager who had killed his 2-year-old brother as an adult. the boy was 12 years old. >> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? >> i have come to the decision that i must temporarily remove myself from the position as police chief for the city of sanford. >> the police chief in the middle of the trayvon martin killing scandal takes a leave of absence. the outrage does not. the mother of trayvon martin. >> my son was not committing any crimes. our son is your son. congressman john louis. >> there should be a sense of righteous indignation in america the same as we used to have. you. >> nothing's ever finished if the legislature, everything can always be readdressed. >> except the other florida case where a man chased an alleged burglar, stabbed him to death and was just acquitted of self defense. >> a florida state sena

the anger and number of protesters now really growing in florida, across the nation, and online, in florida they scheduled a 7:00 p.m. demonstration led by al sharpton originally scheduled inside a church but now they moved that to a public park because they are expecting thousands and many of the people are bused in from out-of-state. also, across miami, today, more than 1,000 high school students walked out of their classroom to protest. people are looking for ways to show they are angry demanding action on a couple of fronts. first a real sense of outrage the admitted shooter in the case, george zimmerman, age 28 has not been arrested or charged. and there is also a real push on to fire the police chief this was a no-confidence vote on him by the county commissioners last night a non-bounding vote but there is a lot of dissatisfaction over the way this case has been handled so much so that al sharpton said he should step down voluntarily. >> he should not be selfer enough to try to hold on to what is clearly a lack of confidence by the city commission. >> >>reporter: the person making th

congressman hastings has called for the repeal of florida's stand your ground law. self-defense is being twisted into a license to kill. it's worse when race iches is added to the mix. opponents of florida's stand your ground law predicted it would lead to racially motivated killings. today, congressman john lewis said this. >> it reminded me of that awful day, august 28th, 1955, when emmitt teal was lynched in mississippi. there should be a sense of righteous indignation in america, the same way we had during the days of lynching and when people had been beaten in the streets during the height of the civil rights movement. >> the lynching of emmitt till was in a different era before the civil rights act. the killing of trayvon martin is another turning point in the nation's long history of coming to terms with race relations and simple justice. his death has caused a national outrage at an exponential level. social media has galvanized, shocked and sadness in a way we haven't seen before. americans are in sensed by this killing. we are also taking a good hard look a

it's about the beating of a homeless man in florida. the interesting thing about this case is this crime scene was supervised by the very same officer who supervised the scene of the noninvestigation of the killing of treyvon martin. let's look at this video of what happens to this homeless man. >> whoa! >> 21-year-old justin collison is the son of a police officer and was never charged. the man he struck first who was homeless had to be hospitalized. >> now, jasmine rand, that video has been making the rounds now in florida because the interesting thing is that that crime scene was supervised by the same officer who supervised the scene of the killing of treyvon martin. and he did not move for any charges against the person who we saw do that in that video. >> right. i actually got a call from my office while we were on break and there is something in the story that we need to correct. my office has been analyzing the tapes even as i've been on air. and i know that the version that we heard tonight, it appears that the words f-ing coon

the country. in southwest florida, donations down almost 30%. lafayette, louisiana, down 27%. ft. worth, texas, race registration down 40%. >> we do recognize that people are upset with komen right now. even on a local level. >> the biggest affiliate, new york city, just canceled its annual gala. the cause, a spokesman says, we're not certain about our ability to fundraise in the near future. eve ellis, a former new york board member whose family has raised or donated about $250,000, says she's closed her check book. >> i stopped giving to komen because it no longer represents who i thought komen was. and that to me is extremely sad. >> komen's hierarchy is in turmoil. today, the chairman of the board stepped down and was replaced by a previous chairman who is close to the founder and ceo nancy brinker. three top executives have resigned. all said it was a personal decision but opposed komen's recent effort to withdraw funding of planned parenthood. >> recently, nancy brinker apologized to volunteers. >> we let you down. for that, i'm profoundly sorry. >> there are growing demands

in the first, florida down by one, transition, kenny boynton, with the alley-oop to casey pray, floridap by one. in the second half, florida pulled away with 35 seconds left. bradley beale with the break-away. leading scorer with 21 points. gators, 68-58. number two seed, ohio state versus six seed cincinnati. buckeyes up by a dozen at the break. the bearcats battle back. cincinnati opens the half on a 21-6 run. but ohio state would go on their own 15-1 run. jeremy sulinger. ohio state rolls 81-66. >>> so here's the elite eight picture so far in the east. ohio state and syracuse will play tomorrow. at 7:00, that's a good game. in the west, florida and louisville. watch out for louisville, this he face off at 4:30. a look at today's remaining sweet 16 games in the south. at 7:15, we kick off with xavier playing baylor. and 13 seed ohio bobcats playing the north carolina. and north carolina state takes on the kansas jayhawks. >>> and last night red sox-yankees tied 4-4 in spring training. coming up at the top of the morning in "morning joe," rick santorum said republicans might be better

huddle around the water cooler to watch two florida politicians do battle rhyming on the floor of the legislature while debating hb 701 an amendment to the florida evidence code. alan williams, speaker dean cannon of winter park. >> jay-z said it best. i'm going to quote for you. i know my rights, so you're going to need a warrant for that. even went further to say aren't you sharp as a tack, you're a lawyer or something? you know, so members when looking at this, support this. if you support jay-z, support this amendment. >> i must respectfully disagree with the correction in the song it was the officer who said, aren't you sharp as a tack. you should try for lawyer or something. i got you on that. it's an unspoken rule that if you're going to invoke jay-z you must get the lyrics correct. i'm not sure jay-z would support this amendment. >> wow. did you see that? speaker dean cannon shutting it down. unfortunately turns out both of them were a little off. here are the correct lyrics to "99 problems" for the record. ♪ do you mind if i look around the car a little bit ♪ ♪ well my glove

the elite eight, florida leads louisville 65-64 in the second half. ida is doing really well in the tournament. >> and kentucky and the tar heels are in the elite eight two, i am happy. >> movie fans are gobbling up tickets atfor the "hunger games," setting a record for an original film. the correct record holder is "alice in wonderland -- the current record holder is "alice- in-wonderland." >> we have not had a lot of rain like this for about three weeks. everything is clearing up in terms of the pawlenty,ollen. as the rain continues it will just wither away at the cherry blossoms. scattered showers through the night, and sunday. cooler and drier on monday and tuesday. a quick warm-up wednesday, then we cool down next weekend. wjla.com is your online home for the weather. if you have any travel plans this evening check out live doppler radar and prepare for showers or storms that may be on the way. >> sounds good. regretting not going to the cherry blossoms yesterday. thank you so much for being with us here tonight. we will see you back here at

they have been made illegal in florida. in the last election, here is how new voters, first time voters broke down between barack obama and john mccain in florida. barack obama won that group by 19 points and now this year in florida, thanks in part to the republican voter suppression law, there will be 81,000 fewer of these voters and that's by the end of march. might those numbers might a difference as to who is elected president this time around. >> i george walker bush swear. >> in 2000 it was 537 votes and thanks to ou close it was, the smaller number of votes that really counted and that was five votes. the five to four bush v gore supreme court decision. it was a stunning decision, right? all the liberals voted for the gore side. all the conserve atives voted for the bush side. george w. bush became president. the court was so self-conscious about the spur riness that the ruling said it could not be cited in future cases. it was not precedent. in other words, we're not making law here, we just want george w. bush to be pres

. >>> the shooting death of a florida teen ignites national outrage and scrutiny on matters of race and the law. >>> today -- >> it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this. >> the trayvon martin case with florida governor rick scott. >>> then health care, republicans, and 2012. the senior white house adviser david plouffe. senator lindsay graham on this stubborn 2012 republican primary season and the meaning of the santorum victory in louisiana. susan page and mike duffy from "time" magazine. i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." >>> first our news of the day. former vice president dick cheney is recover from heart transplant surgery. joining me now for the latest from the hospital is cnn's athena jones. athen athena, do they have any idea how long he might be there? >> reporter: well, we understand that most heart patients who go through a surgery like this end up staying in the hospital for about a month. i should mention that vice president cheney at 71 is on the upper end of the age range of people who get heart transplants, at least according

in the face of a fierce and national public debate about florida's bill, the bill passed the florida senate. then it passed the florida house. it was signed into law by the governor of florida at the time, jeb bush. jeb bush called the so-called stand your ground law, quote, a good common sense anti-crime issue. now former florida governor jeb bush is in the news today because after months of withholding his endorsement, today he finally came out and officially endorsed mitt romney for president. jeb bush is also in the news today for another reason. he is back in the news for that controversial bill that he signed into law in 2005. what you're looking at right now are pictures from a march tonight in new york city just a few blocks south of here. a march calling for justice for florida teenager trayvon martin. three weeks ago, february 26th, the 17-year-old was walking through his father's florida neighborhood when a local neighborhood watch captain saw him, called police and told them he suspected trayvon martin was up to no good. he followed trayvon martin. he chased him despite t

in the florida state senate, the vote in the florida house was overwhelmingly bipartisan and althoughied to stop it, and how many of you would feel threatened if my nephew and his you were in the law that we were about to pass you would have the right to shoot any of them and done it in the name of the law. there's some question whether this law applies in this case of george zimmerman. the co-sponsor was dennis baxley and he says no. a person to pursue and confront other people, i think any individual is on very thin ice when they get outside the realm of that protection. >> nevertheless, this case has brought new scrutiny to stand your ground law. general governor jeb bush signed it into law, she was right by his side. here's how the government defended the law at the time. >> when you're in a pog where you're being threatened and there's a life threatening position to have to retreat and put yourself in a very precarious position, you know, it defies commonsense. >> by the way, that bill signing came a month after inducting into the florida hall of fame and then approached the amer

>>> the controversy in florida continues to grow on one side where people say that trayvon martin's killer is still free. >> the other side, stay on your side law, preventing them from making an arrest, now igniting the heart wrenching national debate about guns and debates. florida's governor hired a prosecutor to oversee the death of the 17-year-old. george zimmerman continues to stand on his fire that he opened fire in self-defense after firing him inside a gate -- after following him inside a gated community. after receiving a vote of no confidence from the san francisco commissioners for failing to arrest zimmerman, the police chief bill lee says he will step aside temporarily because he has become a distraction. it was a gesture that martin's parents said fell short. >> this is a temporary step down. there is nothing that we want is an arrest, a conviction, and we want him charged for the murder of my son. >> reporter: today, martin's parents met with the fbi and attorneys to talk about the investigations. florida prosecutors will convene a grand jury next month to decide whether zim

the gentleman from florida. mr. mica: mr. speaker, i yield myself 30 second and then two minutes i'd like to yield to the chair of the highway subcommittee. mr. speaker, my colleagues, let's just deal with the facts, and i'd ask unanimous consent that this chart or the information therein be included in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. mica: the fact is that the democrats had six amendments, one month, 2.5 months, nine months, two months, when they controlled the house of representatives, the senate, by huge majority and the white house. they couldn't even get it to committee. they could not get it to committee. these are the facts. i yield now to -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for two minutes. mr. duncan: i thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. let me just say this, chairman mica has performed great leadership of the transportation and infrastructure committee and tried in every way possible to work with everybody he possibly cou

especially now in the swing state of florida. the new laws down there are so burdensome that even mainstream groups like league of women voters and rock the vote are giving up votes down there. looks like even centrist side is giving up in the wake of this really big push by the right to limit voting in one of our most swing states, florida. this is "hardball." i stepped on the machine, and it showed me the pressure points on my feet and exactly where i needed more support. then, i got my number. my tired, achy feet affected my whole life. until i found my number. i tried the free dr. scholl's foot mapping center. in two minutes, i got my foot map and custom number. i'm a 440. that matched up to the dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic inserts with the right support and cushioning i need. i am a believer. i'm a believer! i'm a believer. find your closest foot mapping center at drscholls.com. >>> rick santorum lost his lead in his home state of pennsylvania. let's check the "hardball" score board. according to a new poll, santorum's le

our report from our justice correspondent, pete williams. >> reporter: the florida law at the center of a civil rights tempest was born in the aftermath of a hurricane, after ivan in 2004, a pensacola man who shot a looter at his house, waited months before learning he would not be prosecuted. that prompted florida the first state to allow homeowners to use deadly force. it was extended anywhere a person has the rights to be. one of the sponsors said it was never intended to apply to someone who chases or confronts someone else. >> i don't want us to make a mistake of rumoving protections that are there for law abiding citizens and letting them know we will stand by them as they protect themselves and their families from harm. >> florida's stand your ground law said people can use deadly force if they reasonably fear for their safety. it does away with the usual rule that people who are threatened have a duty to retreat if they can, and florida's law goes one step further, allowing deadly force to stop someone from committing a serious crime, including robbery or burglary of someone'

during the evening it started drifting slowly northeast towards the east coast of florida. orning the following day the winds forming around the weather system had increased to 40 miles-an-hour. katrina continued to head for florida, making landfall between hallandale beach and north miami early on the evening of august 25th. seven people died as 80 mile-an-hour winds and heavy rain swept the coast, flooding the streets and knocking out the electricity supply to more than one million people. however, this was just the beginning. katrina then moved inland over the everglades, emerging over the gulf of mexico on august 26th. as they tracked its progress observers at the us national hurricane center in miami were pretty sure the storm would end up striking the heavily populated louisiana and mississippi coastal region. on the morning of august 27th the nhc issued an urgent warning covering southeastern louisiana and the new orleans area. this was extended during the afternoon to include the mississippi and alabama coastline. by now everyone was getting extremely worried about w

and i hope the state of florida would lead the way by repealing this law. would hope that other states that have passed these laws which really have come about since probably about 2005 for the most part, would repeal these laws. these laws changed the law of self defense in a material way by saying that a person who felt attacked -- felt threatened, no longer has the duty to retreat. and it's so important that law enforcement told the legislature in florida that this law would have bad consequences, and we see the consequences here. but i think governor bush, former governor bush, of course, saying the law doesn't apply certainly suggests that even for those that support the law, who may support the law, but in this case, it wasn't applicable. the evidence is going to be clear that a murder took place in this instance, and we want the justice system to do its job. >> marc, thank you. we have to run, unfortunately. i appreciate you joining us. >>> another reminder, at 7:00 eastern, we'll bring you a special report for the entire hour called the trayvon mart

thank you so much. >> the win gave romney some much-needed momentum. today former florida governor jeb bush the brother of former president george w. bush endorsed romney and encouraged other republicans to rally around his candidacy. romney is in maryland this hour and is hosting a town hall. maryland, d.c., and wisconsin will hold primaries on april 3rd. the next primary is the saturday and that's in louisiana. >>> meantime, a new poll is suggesting that virginia voters favor president obama over any of the republican contendors. the quinnipiac university poll shows romney trailing the president by eight percentage points among virginia voters. mr. obama leads rick santorum by nine points. the president's lead over newt gingrich 19%. according to the poll mr. obama leads ron paul by ten points. >>> now to the south of france and the siege involving the suspect in the recent murders of four people at a jewish school. 300 police are surrounding a building where 24-year-old mohammed merah is holed up. the standoff is entering its 19th hour. police have been in contact with

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former president bush on the other end of the generational spectrum, senator marko rubio of florida in the past 24 hours or so. and today in the state where you are in wisconsin, a moon who's quite popular among conserves, paul ryan. let's listen to chairman ryan. >> what we need is a leader who sees this moment for what it is. what we need is a leader who has the courage of conservative principles and conviction, who has the integrity and the tenacity to do what it takes to get america back on track. and in my humble personal opinion, as a guy from janesville, what we need is mitt romney to be the next president of the united states of america. >> senator, chairman ryan right there just said mitt romney is everything you say he isn't. a man of conservative principles and conviction. >> well, he has his own personal opinion, and he has a right to that personal position. i think the facts bear out a very different story on governor romney. we've laid that out and laid it out clearly and we've laid out the importance of having someone that can present a strong contrast and will not be a