. >> to beg to wonder if thomas sanders had his way if the haul had been thicker and the credits had been larger what to the titanic have stayed afloat long enough to serve as a lifeboat is intended and if that had been the case would this have been the greatest rescue in history instead of the greatest tragedy. >> we have time for two more questions. >> thank you. with the lifeboats did they reduce the number and think that, you know, people would be able to get the boat in time to save people or a was just a fatalistic view if something happened there was nothing anyone could do to save the people on board? >> titanic was suppose to act as her own life but. they're again a collision at sea was other white star liner. the republic was wind by the florida who stayed afloat for almost 46 hours serving her purpose, the compartmentalization was intended to allow its own lifeboat and the republic did sink. estimate of the republic was the first steam ship with a full-time wireless station on board and that meant when i got in trouble they could call for help and titanic had the same syst

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thomas? >> nbc's kerry sanders in sanford, florida for us. kerry, thank you. and when george zimmerman does appear in that court today, as we've been talking about, he will be side by side with a new attorney. an attorney who before yesterday had only been a spectator to this case. and i spoke with that new attorney, mark o'mara, earlier this morning about where he and his client go from here. >> mark, a lot of people have wondered where george zimmerman has been. he was taken into police custody pretty quickly after angela corey made this announcement. do you know where george zimmerman was staying during the last 45 days? >> he was in touch with law enforcement so that they knew where he was and they were able to set up a process where he surrendered himself voluntarily. >> you said yesterday you hoped to be able to avoid a trial completely, just saying now you that think that george probably wishes that he was never charged in any regard to this. stand your ground has been discussed as a possible defense. what do you believe your chances of getting the arre

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thomas? >> nbc's kerry sanders for us in san dord. thank you. >>> president obama made national headlines when he spoke about the trayvon martin case weeks ago saying if he had a son, he would look like trayvon. how has america's first black president impacted this discussion of race and race relations in america? "newsweek" delves into the martin case and america's largest racial divide in an article titled "is obama making it worse"? joining me this morning is the author of the book "what would michelle do," ali solison samue. before the comment the president was criticized for not talking about martin's death and then after speaking, newt gingrich accused the president of making this all about race. i want to show everybody because news week poll found 78% of blacks said the comments were appropriate opposed to 28% of whites. why this difference in perception about the president's remarks? >> really he's in a no win situation. people accused him of injecting race into the trayvon martin case when race was already there. he was just