i'm kate bolduan. >> i'm zoraida sambolin.t" this morning with a new legal twist in the trayvon martin case, his accused killer wants a new judge. we'll tell you why. >>> plus the secret service prostitution scandal is going up the ladder. we have more details for you. >>> and there's this -- >> it's pathetic, i got to tell you that. >> moments ago a -- >> oh, yeah, that's what it looked like yesterday as lawmakers tore into the tsa's head honchos for drinking and partying in las vegas. >>> and this a live look at kennedy space center, the space shuttle discovery taking off moments ago,

i'm zoraida sambolin. >> i'm christine romans in for ashleigh banfield this morning. she's on assignment. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. good morning. coming up this hour -- >> the president looking for an election boost, a huge jobs report comes out in a few hours from now. we'll talk about what you can expect. >>> and the coach at the center of the nfl bounty scandal caught calls for heads in a tough pep talk to his team. the tape that could be the nail in the coffin for his career. ♪ >> that's not going go of very well. the agency in charge of cutting government costs makes a joke out of it in a new web video, this after it blew almost $1 million on a las vegas conference. >>> a japanese ghost ship that was drifting off the coast of alaska now sleeps with the fishes. new video of the coast guard unloading the cannons on it. up first, it's the missing piece of the recovery, the critical jobs report for march is due out in about three and a half hours. a report with the potential to shake up the 2012 election. christine romans will tell us what we can expect today. chri

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. >>> the trayvon martin shooting officially ruled a murder. this is the first look we've had at george zimmerman since the incident. he is in custody today. >> confusion, panic, precious time wasted. 911 tapes released from the night whitney houston died. >> can you get me into the room? >> no, because he kept hanging up on us. >> more from the moment she was found unconscious in the bathtub. >> ann romney responding to a democratic strategist who said this about her. >> his wife has actually never worked a day in her life. >> the mother of five is fuming over that comment. >> hearing a cry from the morgue? they are calling her the miracle baby. a newborn baby found alive at the morgue 12 hours after being declared stillborn. >> that is a crazy story. stay tuned for that. actually nailed into a coffin. that's incredible. >> just incredible. >> one minute past 5:00 on the east coast. >>> george zimmerman waking up behind bars this morning. the man who shot 17-year-old trayvon martin is

i'm kate bolduan. >> i'm zoraida sambolin.nt" this morning with a new legal twist in the trayvon martin case, his accused killer wants a new judge. we'll tell you why. >>> plus the

i'm zoraida sambolin. >> and i'm ashleigh banfield. let's get started. >>> george zimmerman's attorneys have quit, and we hear there could be new evidence presented in the shooting of trayvon martin in just a matter of hours. did they quit? because were they ever officially hired? we've got news of a press conference hastily organized by those former lawyers just yesterday. >>> and now it's mitt romney and the rest after rick santorum says it is over. >> this presidential race is over for us, for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today. >> now the main event, mitt romney about to charge full force at president obama. >>> it was one of the most horrifying crashes ever witnessed. this, a plane dive bombing into a crowd at last year's reno air show. now there's talk of changes that might just ensure this never happens again. >>> north korea defying the world and fueling a long range rocket. the critics say the north isn't fooling anyone with its space program. >>> first at one minute past the hou

. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. let's get started. >> the man who left george zimmerman walk free is still effectively on the job this morning. >>> it was a sucker punch, the northeast is cleaning up after a powerful late april snowstorm socked the region with over a foot of snow in some areas covering the roads, runways, and the flowers that had already blossomed. >>> and first there was bountygate, now there's spygate. the general manager of the new orleans saints is being accused of bugging the superdome to listen in on visiting coaches. there's talk of criminal charges, but mickey loomis is saying the report is 1,0000 plu false. >> a police dog sent in to end a high speed chase. apparently he worked it out. >> that's some nice maneuvers. >>> up first this morning a dramatic turnaround in the trayvon martin case. the sanford, florida city commission voted to reject the police commissioner's resignation. last month he was blasted for not arresting trayvon martin immediately after the shooting, but now they questio

. >> i'm gried zoraida sambolin. after weeks in hiding, george zimmerman made his first court appearance for the shooting of 17-year-old trayvon martin. prosecutors saying the neighborhood watch volunteer followed the unarmed teenage other after aa police dispatcher told him to back off. >>> pyongyang we have a problem. depositing a long-range rocket right into the smack of the ocean, the damage is done. united nations security council will talk about this, the north korean threat, later today. >>> newark, new jersey, mayor cory booker, already a rising star. now he's a superhero after i ran into a burning home to help save a woman. he was hospitalized. we have an update on his condition. >>> using your money to reward what some call a jackass. the gift that keeps on giving. we'll explain. >>> up first, the state versus george zimmerman. it's official. florida prosecutors laying out their case against the man now accused of murdering 17-year-old trayvon martin. after weeks in hiding, we got our first full look at the

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. we're bringing you the news from "a" to "z." we start with our top story. >>> texas tornadoes tossing trucks like toys. look at that. it crushed cars like soda cans. incredible live video showing the power of a twister. >> it was scary. it was so scary. it remind you of the wizard of oz when the tornado hit and everything going round and round. >> the clean-up now beginning in the dallas/ft. worth area, and one of the busiest travel hubs in the country is now checking if the planes are fit to fly. >>> new details this morning in the trayvon martin investigation and new questions about whether or not george zimmerman uttered a racial slur before pulling the trigger. >>> we won them all. >> yes, indeed. it was a trifecta. mitt romney sweeps three more contests, moving closer to clinching the nomination, as president obama mentions him by name now. >>> and from russia with love, a whole lot of love. claims in a new documentary that the russian spy anna chapman got cozy with a cabinet mem

i'm zoraida sambolin. >> i'm kate bolduan, giving ashleigh a day off. great to be here. >>> we're starting today with scary news, killer storms up and down tornado alley, hundreds of twisters touching down this weekend. our rob marciano is right in the trick of it. you've got to see the pictures of it. live on the ground in oklahoma just ahead. >>> afghan leaders have said they've repelled the deadly attacks in kabul and three other provinces. the explosions and gun fire have stopped at least for now. >>> the latest on the prostitution scandal. nearly a dozen secret service agents pulled off the job. and the president, not surprisingly, not pleased. >> i expect that investigation to be thorough and rigorous. >> ahead, how a complaint from one prostitute in colombia set the scandal in motion. >>> and, yes, that is secretary of state hillary clinton. she was caught on camera, take a look, folks, you don't normally see her had like this. she's knocking down a beer and dancing up a storm at a cuban nightclub in colombia. >>> up first, the alarm after the st

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. we're bringing you the news from a to z. >>> what set him off? we are learning more about the man accused of shooting seven innocent people at a christian college in california yesterday and a possible motive. he is a he a former student and witnesses talking about what they saw during the terrifying rampage. >> you hear the firing, it's boom, boom. something like that. three, four times i hear that. if i didn't lock the door, i think i might be dead today. >> and we have a closer look. enhanced video of george zimmerman. you're taking a look at it there. minutes after he shot and killed trayvon martin. showing a possible head wount. something that may support his side of the story. >>> a small plane sputtering and spiraling into a grocery store in florida injuring people and sending frightened shoppers. >>> did you hear, kentucky beat kansas for their eighth national title capping off one of the most dominant runs in ncaa history. >> it's one minute past w5:00 on the east coast and u

i'm zoraida sambolin. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. george zimmerman speaking out from his hiding spot. the man who shot 17-year-old trayvon martin has just launched a website to plead his innocence and ask for donations for his defense. ♪ >> well, i walk around to make sure everybody else is working so i don't have to do anything. >> that's another embarrassing moment for the agency in charge of saving the government money. the white house is in full damage control after this one and republicans are in full investigation mode. >> wildfires raging from maine to miami. flames threatening homes. thick smoke stopping traffic after one of the warmest and driest marches -- march ever. >> you don't just come to miami and say the things this guy said. ozzie guillen, manager of the marlin, boy, is he getting off on the wrong foot with the fans. he said something about fidel castro that not too many people like. >>> george zimmerman speaks. well, sort of. the man who alleshot trayvon ma launched a website that solici

i'm zoraida sambolin.that madeline mcscan still alive. this is what she might look like as well. we're talking to a family spokesperson about this case. >>> horrific testimony, too painful for jennifer hudson. the actress walking out of the trial of the man accuse fd killing her mother, brother and her nephew. >>> do you ever wonder what they wear under that robe? wonder no more. a judge under fire for snapping a shirtless photo of himself and firing it off in an e-mail to a married bailiff. now he's talking and he may have one of those judge shows in the future as well. the hilarious response is coming up ahead. >>> ashley? >> thanks zoraida. it's 30 minutes past the hour. there's new hope in the case of a little missing girl named madeline mccann. she has been gone now for five years. disappeared in portugal. scotland yard says she may be actually alive. british police release a composite photo of what madeleine might look like today. she would be turning nine next week. they're asking the portuguese aut

i'm zoraida sambolin. >> and i'm kate bolduan in for ashleigh banfield. >>> a threat to president obama or simply a loud mouth? the national journal and others say the secret service plans to contact rocker and proud nra member ted nugent regarding comments he made about the president. >>> the white house standing by the men who took a pledge to take a bullet for the president. this morning new details in the secret service prostitution scandal, agents being offered a lie detector test now. >>> she got a ride home from the bar and hasn't been heard from since. the family of a ft. bragg soldier saying she may be in danger this morning. >> she's loved by all of her friends and family, and we all just really want her to come home. >> cnn spoke to her mother and her sister. we'll have the latest coming up. >>> and it is here. take a look. some drivers already paying $6 a gallon for gas. president obama feeling the pressure and promising a new crackdown on the oil markets to reel them in. >> we can't afford a situation where some speculators can reap millions

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin.e news from "a" to "z." it's 6:00 a.m., let's get started. >>> trayvon martin lighting candles in a new march, demanding justice for their son. and george zimmerman's father speaking out on the same day, saying trayvon was not an innocent victim in this. the pictures of the night getting even more foggy. all the new details coming up in just moments here. >>> what killed whitney houston? the l.a. coroner's office is releasing a final autopsy report. she may have been using cocaine minutes before she died according to dr. drew pinsky. new details about her death and the more on her death and the singer's sad final hours. >>> college students pepper sprayed at a school board meeting. some of them were hospitalized. they say they didn't get a warning that the pepper spray was coming. were they an angry mob or did the cops overreact big time? an investigation is now under way. >>> augusta national golf club still just for menace the masters tournament gets under way -- at least officially

. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. >> did it throw you off for a minute. >> i love 5:00 a.m. in the east. good to have you with us. game on. mitt romney, he declared the race is on with president obama. >> a better america begins tonight. >> okay. so now we know it's on but what do we know about newt gingrich and rick santorum and when they may officially get behind him or will they? we have details meetings, planned ahead. >> and birds cause another scare in the sky. this is the second one this week. a flight with 54 people on board turns around after geese smack into the windshield. ew! >> and president obama slow jamming on student loans with jimmy fallon. >> now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people. >> oh, yeah. >> the president going late night to grab some young voters. we'll have the highlights for you. >> he looks too serious in the background. >> mitt romney so close to the republican nomination now he can taste it. the former massachusetts goer sweeping to victory in

i'm zoraida sambolin.in the eas. the terror in tulsa seems to be over. two suspects are heading to court this morning. >>> plus a facebook post that may point to revenge as a possible motive. >>> we could know in days whether george zimmerman will be charged in the shooting killing of trayvon martin. after 43 day it's possible the grand jury will take up the case. >>> in north korea a rocket in position for launch right now. >> a gay named bubba wins the coveted green jacket, bubba watson pulling off an emotional and sudden grinding death win at the masters and one of golf's favorites finally has a major title. >>> they're not calling it a hate crime but police in tulsa, oklahoma, are investigating whether race and revenge played a role in last week's deadly shooting spree. two suspects were arrested, 19-year-old jake england and 33-year-old jason watts. england my have been motivated for revenge for his father's killing two years ago. we asked tulsa's mayor about the investigation in our first hour. >> th

i'm zoraida sambolin. >> i'm ashleigh banfield. nice to have you with us.billing for headline this is morning. trayvon martin's family is asking for a new federal review of their son's death. it concerns possible interference they allege by florida prosecutors who declined to pursue charges against george zimmerman despite a police report that recommended his arrest. >>> a russian passenger plane crashes during takeoff, killing 31 people on board including all four of the crew members. the aircraft was traveling from an oil rich area of siberia. it burst into flames after takeoff. there were 12 who survived but this morning they remain in intensive care. >>> an ugly post game celebration. kentucky fans burning couches and flipping cars, this after their team won. there are reports of more than two dozen arrest this is morning as the wildcats get ready to play in the title game tonight. >>> dallas love field airport was shut down yesterday by a student's science project. that's right, a science project. five gates were evacuated when the tsa found a robotic

i'm zoraida sambolin. >> i'm kate bolduan in for ashleigh banfield it's friday and 5:00 a.m. in the evaluate. let's get started. >>> will george zimmerman go free today? the man charged with murdering trayvon martin is back in court for a bond hearing and comes face-to-face with the parents of the slain teen. >>> a cold case heating up. police in new york using jackhammers to dig up a basement in lower manhattan. they're hoping to find etan patz, america's first milk carton kid, a 6-year-old who disappeared over 30 years ago while walking to the bus stop for the first time alone. >>> more fallout from the secret service prostitution xand wills, the identifies of two supervisors who lost their jobs have been made public. in washington, growing calls for more firings. >> it's a stunning thing. it's actually disgusting. >>> ahead, why the secret service scandal has sarah palin speaking up. >>> flight fright. a flock of birds forces an emergency landing. >> we lost our right engine due to the ingestion of birds. >> a passenger captures that moment of impact that could have turned

i'm kate bolduan. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. launched the careers of countless stars and millions of kis on new year's eve. we'll talk about his life and legacy with gloria gaynor and d editor of billboard magazine. >>> forced out over a prosecution scandal in columbia, one of the escorts is now talking. she said it was a fight that erupted over her price. we'll talk to a former secret service agent whose brother was working in columbia. >>> he says, yes, he was nude but, no, he was not lewd. the man who stripped town to absolutely nothing will join us. fully clothed, i'm hoping, to tell us this morning why he has no regrets about his protest. it's thursday, april 19th and "starting point" starts right now. this is off my playlist this morning, chuck berry, johnny b. goode. he made his national debut on "bandstand" with dick clark. will cain joins us. columnist for the blaze.com. you still have the beard. ok

i'm kate bolduan. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. launched the careers of countless stars and millions of kis on new year's eve. we'll talk about his life and legacy with gloria gaynor and d editor of billboard magazine. >>> forced out over a prosecution scandal in columbia, one of the escorts is now talking. she said it was a fight that erupted over her price. we'll talk to a former secret service agent whose brother was working in columbia. >>> he says, yes, he was nude but, no, he was not

i'm christine romans in for zoraida sambolin.de center is about to become new york's tallest building wind permitting. workers are scheduled to intall a beam this afternoon that will stretch the to you tore 1,271 feet. 21 feet taller than the empire state building. >>> there's a diplomatic crisis growing between the u.s. and china, all over chen guangcheng who is believed to be in the protection of the u.s. emmacy this morning. >>> and cheri young, the wife of former aide of john edwards, will be back on the stand this morning. she said her husband was so consumed with protecting the disgraced former senator that it almost destroyed their marriage. >>> newt gingrich made the republican nomination race interesting, you could say, with the clever attacks, the novel ideas. if you remember specifically, snl's treatment of the moon base, but after only winning two primaries, south carolina and georgia, newt gingrich is calling it quits. a source close to the former house speaker says gingrich will officially end his presidential bid o

time to go to zoraida sambolin for the other big stories. >> good morning to you.service are out, resigned in the wake of the colombia prostitution scandal. a total of nine agents are now out of work. president obama last night discussing what they did on "the jimmy fallon show." >> a couple knuckleheads shouldn't detract from what they do but what these guys were thinking, i don't know. that's why they're not there anymore. >> the president said he was pretty mad when he found out what the agents were doing before his visit. >>> a former close aide to john edwards will be back on the witness stand for a third day of testimony this morning but this time he'll be cross examined by the defense. the prosecution's star witness, andrew young, telling the court yesterday about detailed plans edwards made with him in order to hide an affair with his pregnant mistress, rielle hunter. young testifying about a day when he says hunter made so many frantic calls to him he told her "somebody better either be pregnant or dying." young says her reply was "nobody's dying." there w

. >>> zoraida sambolin has a look at the headlines. >> breaking news, five more victims who died in thereck annual of the "costa concordia" cruise ship have been identified. the bodies were found last month. they include two germans, an italian and the two americans who have been identified as barbara and gerald heil of minnesota. 30 people died in the disaster and two others remain missing. >>> the prostitution scandal shaking up the secret service is wid widening. 11 members of the agency have had their security clearance yanked for allegedly bringing prostitutes back to their hotel rooms in colombia two days before the president arrived for a summit there. the chairman of the house committee telling cnn's wolf blitzer this is the worst possible transgression. >> no matter what the ultimate penalty is, this is a serious, serious violation of everything the secret service stands for. what these 11 agents did put the potentially puts any president at risk or themselves at risk, leaves themselves open to blackmail and to threats. obviously finding out who those 11 women are and exactly w

"cnn newsroom" with zoraida sambolin begins right now. see you back here tomorrow morning. hey, z. >> hi, soledad. good morning. carol is on assignment. happening right now in the "newsroom," breaking news. new pictures of u.s. troops in afghanistan posing with bodies of suicide bombers. this morning the military in damage control. >>> suspicions and concern. ft. bragg, north carolina, today looking for one of its own after a mysterious disappearance. where is 23-year-old army private kelli bordeaux. >>> we're learning the agents will take lie detector tests in the secret service investigation. we're live in colombia with that story. >>> ted nugent not backing down after his controversial comments about president obama. new reaction from the rocker himself now calling obama's appointments communist czars. >>> the most influential. "time" magazine's big left of moguls, pioneers and leaders. brand you this morning. we're talking to the editor. >>> and the new york knicks sensation possibly heading south to the college of women and mary not for basketball but for a date at the

zoraida sambolin has those for us. >> good morning, soledad. and police are digging up the floor and tearing down the drywall of a new york city apartment in a new search for etan patz missing since 1979. the 6-year-old boy was the first missing child pictured on a milk carton. a source says patz met a carpenter in a basement the day before he vanished. cadaver dogs reportedly picked up the scent of human remains in that building. new york police commissioner ray kelly joined us here on "starting point" earlier. he says this same apartment had been searched before. >> it had been searched. obviously it was looked at a long time ago, 30 years ago. there's new technologies involved, new chemicals, new techniques that can be used. i think law enforcement certainly fbi and nypd are hopeful to give some comfort to the parents. >> two supervisors who have been forced out of the secret service in the wake of a prostitution scandal have now been identified. this is a photo from the facebook page of 48-year-old former supervisor david randall chaney. he

. >>> other stories to get there, zoraida sambolin has other headlines. good morning, z. >> good morning to you. he's accused of a bombing rampage in norway last summer. anders breivik admitted to the rampage but not pleading not guilty. he says it was self-defense to "save norway from being taken over by multicultural forces." authorities describe him as a right-wing christian extremist. in a court appearance he gave what appeared to be a fascist salute. >>> police in baltimore say a suspect in a st. patrick's day beating was turned in. the video went viral. social media posts over the past week linked the suspect, 20-year-old aaron parsons to that brutal attack. police are still searching for three other suspects from that video, which shows a crowd of onlookers laughing as a victim is punched in the face, robbed and stripped naked. this afternoon, lawmakers will try to get to the bottom of the spending scandal at the government services administration. the house overnight committee begins a hearing to find out how the agency can justify spending more t

. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. it's time to check the stories making news this morning.onger behind bars and in hiding. the man who shot trayvon martin to death in florida makes bail and is out of jail this morning. >>> the family of etan patz is awaiting results of an fbi investigation 33 years after their 6-year-old son disappeared. a possible new clue removed from the basement of a new york city building over the weekend. a stain that could be blood. >>> iran says it has cracked the code of a captured u.s. spy drone. the surveillance plane was packed with top secret technology. we will ask on expert whether this development poses a threat to american military personnel overseas. >>> and call it a sign of the times. a job hunter thinks big when we mean really big in terms of getting his name in front of potential employers. see how far some people plan to go. i love this. to get their career back on track during tough economic times. >> sometime you have to make an investment. >> heck yeah. >>> a dangerous storm is targeting the northeast right now. it is triggering wi

. >> time to go to zoraida sambolin for the other big stories of the morning. >> that was ultimate inort suggesting that strippers and prostitutes were part of the culture in the secret service. a government subcontractor who worked with the secret service advance team prior to president obama's trip in march of 2011. about a dozen agents and military personnel got wasted at a strip club and paid extra for the vip area. but homeland security secretary janet napolitano who oversees the secret service says this is not typical behavior. >> to your knowledge is this the first time something like this has happened? >> there was nothing in the record to suggest that this behavior would happen. >> the secret service tells cnn it has no comment but one source says the reaction by our leadership speaks for itself. >>> for the first time the parents of missing arizona 6-year-old are speaking out begging for their daughter's safe return. >> we are here today to plead for a safety return of our baby girl isabel. >> we're looking for you. we love you. we miss you so much. we will never give up. we