. >> florida state finishes up its conference schedule this saturday, taking on their arch rival, florida in gainesville. >>> coming up, she's a personal shopper to the stars and she's sharing her tips for finding the perfect gift. at 86, she has lots of experience. >>> pope francis is making news again, announcing plans to fulfill a lifelong dream. they're not really looking. not at the rings. i can feel them looking at my thick, flaky red skin. do i tell them it's psoriasis? do i speak up and say it's not contagious? or do i just say... have a nice day!" when your psoriasis has gone from uncomfortable to unacceptable, visit psoriasis.com to connect with a psoriasis patient advocate from abbvie for free one-to one education and support. sign up at psoriasis.com, and talk to your dermatologist. >>> welcome back. it happens every year. as soon as the meal has settled the stress kicks in. just 26 days left to get your holiday shopping done. but instead of facing the throngs at the mall yourself, why not get a little help this year from an 86-year-old personal shopper to the stars? our richa

he has not left florida. he apparently lives in florida. that's probably not going to keep him in prison, in jail. the bigger issue is the second question. is he a danger to the community? because here the accusation is he pointed a gun at his girlfriend. we all know he killed trayvon martin. he was acquitted of a crime in connection with that, but he did kill him. that's not in dispute. so given his record, given the fact also in september, he was involved in a domestic violence investigation that led to no charges, three other times he has been involved in traffic stops since his acquittal in the trayvon martin case. so the danger to community issue might be one the prosecutors h r a higher bail than would be otherwise called for in a case like this. it's not clear, as you say, what money he has or who might put money up for him to get him out of jail tonight. >> what's also interesting is that this he said, she said aspect of these 911 calls. alina muchado at the top of the hour played some of those calls. the girlfriend, now the ex-girl

he has to stay in the state of florida, according to the judge. and he has to avoid contact, no contact with samantha scheibe, the alleged victim in this case. the judge also said that he could not go to two addresses here in florida. one is a home in alta mont springs inge the other one is the home where this alleged incident happened. in court, he said he had several personal items at that home and he wanted permission to go back to that home and pick those up. the judge said that was not going to happen. and that's why last night we saw law enforcement officers at the home retrieving some of george zimmerman's fums and handing them over to a third party just as the guj had ordered. >> and in his court proceeding, we hear more about another domestic violence allegation that had not been reported to police. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: that new allegation surfaces during yesterday's court hearing. and basically prosecutors said he had attacked scheibe about a week and a half earlier in a different dispute. they say that he choked

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zimmerman also has to stay in florida. he cannot have any weapons or ammunition or be in a house where there's weapons or ammunitions. he also has to be subjected to electronic monitoring. prosecutors talked in open court about an incident in which zimmerman allegedly choked his girlfriend about a week ago. this incident was never reported to police. zimmerman's attorneys say they hadn't heard about it until today. prosecutors also talked about how zimmerman was suicidal. that claim, however, was disputed by zimmerman's attorneys. take a listen to what they had to say about that. >> i think any time someone is arrested for charges, it brings a certain level of anxiety and stress. my impression, again, of speaking to mr. zimmerman, he didn't appear to be a danger to himself or a danger to anybody else. it's just a stressful event for him. as it would be for anybody here. i didn't see anything, and i don't believe mr. dowdy saw anything that causes immediate concerns for safety. >> reporter: now, zimmerman's attorneys say he

in college football tomorrow afternoon, the number two florida rank the seminoles against the florida gators. as zaun za rel lal reports, the spotlight on the seminoles is once again bringing up questions about their name and traditions. >> the tune is unmistakable. as is the tomahawk chop from the sellout crowd, many wearing war paint and native american headdresses. a student portraying os seeiol lal rides out and thrust aflaming spear into the ground. for decades this has been tradition at florida state university seminole home football games. the stereotyping of teams with mascots like indians ands is in the spotlight once again. the people portrayed don't just tolerate the university's use of their name seminoles, they support it and defend it. >> anybody come into florida trying to tell us to change the name better go some place else because we're not changing the name. >> it almost happened once in 2005, the ncaa tried banning the use of the mascot notice postseason play until seminole tribe of florida leaders stepped in, signing a proclamation reiterating their support. the nc

they'll take him to new hampshire and south carolina, they'll take him to florida. and nevada and new mexico. those among the key presidential battlegrounds, chris christie by way of his duties at the republican governors association, about to get a premiere chance to test his national appeal. we'll watch that one as 2013 turns into 2014 and we begin to think of 2016. now let's take a closer look at virginia. a much closer race here, a tug of war. literally a tug of war between the republicans and the democrats. and what has become a very competitive swing state. why did terry mcauliffe, the democrat, win? simply right here. the northern virginia suburbs, just outside of washington, d.c. the margin of victory came there. look at all of this red. ken cuccinelli winning where republicans need to win, especially in the rural areas, but the suburbs, delivering the victory for terry mcauliffe. let's take a closer look at how he did it. a tug of war on the big issues as well. if we move to virginia here, look at this, virginia once known as a reliably conservative state,

we're learning george zimmerman has been arrested in florida. arrested after deputies responded to a disturbance call. again, this information is just coming in to us. he will be booked, we're told, at the seminole county sheriff's correctional facility. we'll continue to monitor the story. but george zimmerman, who was acquitted in the killing of trayvon martin this summer, has been arrested again in florida. details to come as we get them on cnn. >> in the meantime, a simple traffic stop turns into a frightening shooting and a high-speed chase of a minivan filled with kids. >> open the door! >> the mom behind the wheel was pulled over by new mexico state police for alleged speeding. but the situation quickly turned violent and the dashcam video shows that the officers opening fire on the van as it sped away with five children inside. cnn's miguel marquez shows us how this wild pursuit ended. >> how in the world does a routine traffic stop turn into this? in that minivan, a woman and her five kids, one as young as 6 years old from memphis, tenn

he's set to begin rehab in florida. he has described himself as -- yes, and i'm quoting, a hip-hop conservative. this is according to his twitter page. in a statement, he said he struggled with alcoholism, which led to what he called to an irresponsible choice. today, he told the judge he has hit bottom. he said he needs help. athena jones is joining me to talk a little bit about this. it's interesting, you say all the details that came out today in court. let's begin specifically with the bust. what do you know? >> brooke, this is really interesting. we learned a little bit before the court appearance began. we learned he was not the target here. it was dealer, not users and buyers who were the target of this broad dea and fbi investigation. this, we learned, from my colleague, a correspondent, evan perez. in court today, we learned how the sting went down. this dealer was caught. the dealer said, hey, look, one of my customers is a congressman. law enforcement authorities thought they couldn't ignore that, so they set

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with us now is senate democrat bill nelson of florida. senator nelson, i'm wondering what your reaction is to the obama announcement today? >> well, the affordable care act is supposed to be about getting health insurance to people, not about taking it away. so i think what the president did today was the right thing. he had previously said, if you liked your existing policy, even though it might be a subpar policy, which a lot of them are very subpar policies, i call them dog policies, as the former insurance commissioner of florida. but he said, if you like it and you want to keep it, you can keep it. and that's what hie affirmed today. >> he said a lot of things that caught people's attention. one was he said, who knew it was going to be so hard to buy insurance? on the other part of that broken promise to people, saying if you like your insurance. you'll get to keep it, he said he assumed the physicians they had in place would skofrb those people and he didn't know there would be those problems. isn't it his job to know these things.

he's expected to go before a florida judge this afternoon. this is his fourth run-in with the law since being acquitted of the death of trayvon martin. >> this time he's accused of pointing a gun at his girlfriend and breaking a table while the two argued. he's charged with felony assault. >> reporter: george zimmerman spent the night in jail in a cell by himself. authorities are keeping him away of other inmates because of his high profile. meanwhile, the police spent their night searching the home as they try to figure out exactly what happened. >> what's going on. >> he's in my house breaking all my [ bleep ] because i asked him to leave. >> that's the 911 call that the authorities say that george zimmerman's girlfriend made. >> i'm doing this again? you broke my glass table. you broke my sunglasses and you put your gun in my freaking face and told me to get the [ bleep ] out. this is not your house. >> reporter: she told the 911 operator that he was pushed out of the house by george zimmerman. she said the fight started after she she aske

he didn't do anything illegal in that sense because it's lawful to do that in florida. what does seem to be problematic, is the fact that he did make all of these sort of statements that could be considered defamatory in saying they cyberstalked, almost being the judge and the jury in this particular case, and remember, brooke, the government, the prosecution, never filed charges. they were arrested. they had these mugshots, but the government never filed charges. i spoke to jose baez about this today. he said after reviewing 24,000 pages of facebook entries, not any sort of bullying, stalking entry, was found to exist. now you have the sheriff saying a lot of things that appear not to have been true. that opens him up to some exposure. >> joey, the charges didn't stick. now you have these young, young teenagers whose faces have been plastered all over. what legal recourse could they have? >> yeah, i mean, it's a major problem. and the problem is the public officer's law would indeed allow for the publication to the extent they were children engaged in arguably an adult

alina ma cha dough is live in cape coral, florida, where he made this announcement last night. good morning. >> good morning, christine. the 37-year-old lawmaker flew in late last night, came to his office where he answered questions from reporters about his future. >> i have no excuse for what i've done. >> reporter: contrite and apologetic, republican congressman trey radel announced late wednesday night that he's taking a leave of absence from congress after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine. >> i have let down our country. i've let down our constituents. i've let down my family. >> reporter: the freshman lawmaker says he's accepting responsibility for his actions. >> i have been getting the help that i need, and i will continue to get the help that i need. >> reporter: federal agents arrested radel back in october during a drug sting. court documents say he bought 3.5 grams of cocaine, worth $260, from an undercover officer. radel calls his actions "extremely irresponsible" and says he's been struggling with addiction for years. >> i knew that this day would come. i'

. >>> in a few hours, florida state university takes on idaho. if all eyes weren't already on fsu's star quarterback jameis winston, today he is under scrutiny for something far more serious, facing allegations of raping a student. nick valencia is in tallahassee outside the stadium. the accuser released a new statement today. what did it say? >> reporter: according to state attorney, part of what's complicating the facts in this case is almost the daily back and forth between the two sides. the attorney for the alleged victim, patricia carroll saying this was not consensual, this was rape. a statement a few days ago by the attorney for winston, despite dna of his client found on the alleged victim's clothing, doesn't change their defense. from day one they claim that this was a consensual encounter between the two, fred. >> how might this impact the team as well as this player, this star quarterback? >> reporter: well, this has certainly been a distraction locally, but you wouldn't be able to tell by how jameis winston has responded to this. the

he served as governor of florida from 2007 to 2011. those days, he was a republican. but crist switched parties and with the 2014 election coming up, he now is running as a democrat. he could face the current governor, republican rick scott. crist is already taking aim. >> overnight, he went from taking on tallahassee to becoming the example of what's wrong with the place. the seat that you occupy, the people occupy at the table was replaced by a resolving door of special interests. each an taying up hundreds of thousands of dollars for the governor's re-election fund to insure their voice was heard and not yours. >> governor crist ran for senate as an independent in 2010. he lost that race to marco rubio, who is now the united states senator from florida. rubio got 49%, crist only got 30%. crist running at a third-party independent. >>> the words boston strong symbolize the city's comeback, but one year after superstorm sandy, new york proved its strength as well. stay with us for one runner's american journey. you have time to shop for car insurance today? yeah. i h

. >>> a florida man says the police won't leave him alone. they've arrested him at work dozens of times. why the police say there's a reason it keeps happening. >>> and the dow just wrapped a record month in november, so why are some experts worried that markets have been doing too well? female announcer: through sunday, through sunday, thanksgiving weekend, save hundreds on beautyrest and posturepedic. choose $300 in free gifts with tempur-pedic. even choose 48 months interest-free financing on the new tempur-choice. the triple choice sale ends sunday, thanksgiving weekend. >>> it was another record week on wall street. there you see the dow jones finishing up just a few points lower on friday, but it still posted an overall gain for the week, and it also caps off a huge month for the markets. the dow passed the 16,000 milestone for the first time ever. it also racked up eight consecutive weekly gains, not bad. even the nasdaq is over the 4,000 mark for the first time in years. but wall street is one of the few places where good news equals

nick valencia, cnn, tallahassee, florida. >> here is the follow up story i alluded to earlier. there's new information on four bodies found buried in a california desert earlier this month. investigators identified the two children as joseph and jia that mcstay. the adults were confirmed through dental records as their parents. the family went missing and the coroners declared all four deaths to be homicides. >>> it's not all gloom and doom. how about this? if you find a stranger's wallet, take it from this man, turn it in. this man is homeless. he was hungry and looking for food in a dumpster when he came across a tourists wallet. he walked to four different hotels before discovering the owner was staying at the omni hotel at cnn here. for his good deed, he put him up at the hotel through thanksgiving and the holiday. he will treat him to room service and $500. a good deed. >>> it's been a great year for pope francis. he gets rock star treatment just about everywhere he goes. what made him so popular and how it extends beyond the catholic church. ♪ [ female announcer ] to ba

obviously, under florida law, to release these young women's photographs. now that we know that prosecutors refuse to charge these girls, did you make a mistake? >> no, brooke, i didn't make a mistake. in fact, if the same set of circumstances presented themselves today, and our detectives did a great investigation like they completed, we would do the same exact thing. understand, these girls didn't get away scott free. what occurred and what we said from the very beginning is these girls need an intervention. they need counseling. they need help. because this very fragile child was bullied and bullied, and ultimately, she jumped to her death. so we made an arrest based upon probable cause, which was agreed to by the state attorney's office and by the judge the next day after the arrest at the first appearance hearing. what we did in concert with the state attorney's office is agree, and i'm in total agreement with what occurred, when you do a diversion, you refer kids to counseling, it's an action to keep from going to court. therefore, the charges are dro

this weekend, playing bad florida team. they will win there, too. this hasn't been that much of a distraction because of that. the weak teams and also the prosecutor. prosecutor says he is not going to decide whether or not to do anything in this case until after the thanks giving day weekend. so that gives him a break too. >> some says this is trying to interfere with the playing of this team. >> it hasn't worked so far. >> and it is a pretty easy schedule. >> yes. >> if i was going to leak this information, i would have done it three or four weeks ago with a huge game on the line. but that's just me talking. these allegations, extremely serious. the question is what took authorities so so long. it happened in february but it is only now being investigated. >> when you have a city with a football factory, you have politicians, law enforcement agencies, officials, who have a tendency to become part after team. they start look the other way. the alleged rape victim here, people around her saying things along the lines of, they were warned by the tall

he served as florida governor from 2007 to 2011 as a republican. he told supporters today party labels aren't what's important. >> to take a journey, a journey to take back our state's destiny. to chart a new path, one that is built on the foundation of an economy that is fair for the middle class. where hard working floridians have every opportunity to get ahead. >> crist ran for the senate as an independent in 2010. he lost to republican marco rubio. he officially joined the democrats last december. >> tomorrow is election day. we're keeping an eye on these three key races here. first, you have new york city's bill de blasio, poised to put an end to the democratic party's two decade drought in elections for mayor. de blasio, according to polls, has a huge lead in his race. >>> meantime, president obama campaigned for terry mcauliffe, the democratic candidate for governor in vergeverge. he's led in polls since the summer over ken cuccinelli. in new jersey, chris christie cruising toward re-election over his democratic challenger. a big win tomorro

we go to vax vil, florida. carlos diaz is there. good morning. >> reporter: i found outu out one stunning fact when i was here yesterday, georgia fans and florida fans actually get along. they get along of before the big game. it's the word's largest outdoor cocktail party about this rivalry that's been taking place since 1943 in jacksonville, florida. it's not a situation where you have two teams battling to see who is going to be number one in the s.e.c. or even in the country. but you have two teams fighting for respect. they're fighting each other on saturday. but purchase the game, it's all about the tailgating. and the tailgating here in jacksonville is truly legendary. with 82,000 fans having one heck of a time. >> many thanks to you. >>> also in the world of sports, the miami herld is reporting that dolphin's lineman jonathan martin has left the team and seeking treatment for emotional issues. he was apparently the target of a team prank on monday and he reportedly bottomed out of the lunchroom and not returned since. the pl

she shined a light on florida's controversial stand your ground laws. she says she fired a warning shot and she was later convicted of attempts murder. >>> a u.s. drone strike in pakistan has killed three suspected militants and initialled several others. officials not confirming the identities of those killed. >>> hope for the thanksgiving comet lives on. part of the comet may have survived its trip past the sun. nasa says it's throwing off bits of gas and dust. but it will take a few more days to figure out what's left. i would keep my eyes on the sky. >>> still to come in the "newsroom", the works of reclusive writer j.d. salinger have mysterious and online. what experts are saying about how they got there. next. the environment, seniors, kids, and animals. that's why we created the share the love event. by the end of this year, the total donated by subaru could reach 35 million dollars. you get a great deal on a new subaru. we'll donate 250 dollars to a choice of charities that benefit your community. it feels good to be a helping hand. how old is t

the south florida sun sentinel reports that dolphins coaches asked richie incognito to toughen up martin after he missed a voluntary workout last spring. nfl coaches expect players to show up for those voluntary practices. cnn reached out to the dolphins about that report. the team says it could not comment because of an ongoing nfl investigation into the case. we're also hearing from incog know incognito for the first time since he was suspended for detrimental conduct. john zarrella has the story from miami. >> reporter: good morning, carol. we have still not heart anything from jonathan martin the miami dolphin who allegedly was bullied and richie incognito, the dolphin player who allegedly did the bullying, isn't saying much. leaving the doctor's office, richie incognito had little to say about the firestorm over allegations he bullied a miami dolphins teammate. >> i'm just trying to weather the storm right now and this will pass. >> reporter: in his first comment about the controversy he was calm, even tempered. >> [ bleep ]! >> reporter: a far cry from the shirtless richie incognit

a tennessee mother and daughter on vacation in daytona beach, florida, were walking on the beach when they found a purse with $13,000 in cash and thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry inside. so what did they do? they turned it over to authorities who then tracked down the rightful owner in maryland. >>> here is a reminder to never lose hope. a nebraska man is getting back a motorcycle stolen from him in omaha 46 years ago. donald devo reporting the 1953 triumph tiger stolen in 1957. customs and border agents say it was headed to japan when he was recovered last week at the port of long angles. >>> some good news for nors gods everywhere. variety reports people are packing theaters for "thor, the dark world." the second installment of the superhero franchise is expected to make $84 million in its opening weekend. that would be about $20 million more than the first movie. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> top of the hour now. i'm fredricka whitfield. here are the top stories this hour. a super typhoon leaves a trail of death and destruction in the philippines. we have astonish

and espn is reporting that martin recently checked himself into a south florida hospital and was treated briefly for emotional distress. the dolphins tell cnn the organization will not comment on every report that comes out, while the nfl is reviewing this matter. but the team suspended incognito on sunday. in the meantime, dolphins players are talking about the relationship between martin and incognito. cnn's john zarrella is in miami with more on that. good morning, john. >> reporter: you know, carol, every day a new wrinkle, at least one new wrinkle. now, ted wells has been appointed by the commissioner's office to begin the investigation of what was going on down here. and meanwhile, with everything we have heard about the situation a situation, you would think that incognito and martin were the worst of enemies. but players are saying quite the contrary. they were tight. dolphins' head coach joe philbin surrounded by more media than any 4-4 team usually gets defended his team. >> i have full faith and confidence that we will stick together as a team. >> reporter: but philbin refused

iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, florida and nevada, the states that kick off the presidential calendar all hold elections for governor next year. taking those trips is not a bad idea for him. while his victory speech tuesday was directed towards a new jersey audience, he had a national message. maybe the folks in washington, d.c. should tune in their tv's right now. he won big, grabbing a third of democrats. those numbers should boost the case that he is the most election al governor. >> solid conservative record. >> we need moderates like christie in the party. >> with his visibility sky rocketing, expert for criticism for democrats. >> he told abc news this morning he is staying focused as his job as the governor for right now. but he also said he didn'tp know if he would tstay for his full term. i think that the parties got focused on winning again. i think some sames that they focus about winning the argument than winning the election. so, you know i think we need to get ourself refocused on that and sometimes we forget that candidates matter. it is not just about a checklist of is

problem he has is winning in an iowa caucus or winning in south carolina, winning in nevada, winning in florida where there are a lot of other potential republican candidates. >> remember rudy guiliani decided to skip the early caucuses and just compete in florida. it didn't work well for him. but a 16 point difference on independent voters is not to be sneezed at. >> there's speculation jeb bush could throw his hat in the ring too as a quote request moderate republican. we shall see. you're absolutely right. way, way early. we like to talk about it any how. look at this other number, these numbers from this quinnipiac university poll. president barack obama, is he honest and trustworthy? 44% say yes, 52% say no. what's significant is that number 44% has done down in october. it was 54% thought the president was honest and trustworthy. now it's gone down to 44%. that's a significant setback for the president. >> it's a terrible setback. remember in the last campaign, wolf, what the president had going for him were two things. one is likability and two is do you trust him to do the right thing a

sheriff's deputies confiscated more than 700 pounds of pot in a big drug bust on friday on the florida coast. the drugs were nabbed after drug smugglers capized in their boat off the coast north of palm beach. two of the suspects are in custody. one's believed to be on the run. the other is presumed to have drowned. >>> so, are these people nuts? some dedicated ch ed shoppers a camping outside the stores to get ready for the black friday deals. that is next. >>> and just ahead, an incredible story like something out of the prime time soap opera or movie. a man charged with horrific sex crimes says he didn't do it. his twin did. that's coming up. ♪ [ female announcer ] feed a man a cookie and he eats a cookie. ♪ feed him a fresh baked cookie and he eats a much, much better cookie. bake the world a better place with nestle toll house. combinations of your favorite seafood from lobster to crab, shrimp and mussels in a savory broth. try one today, and sea food differently. get a coupon at redlobster.com for 10 dollars off any two seafood bakes, crab or lobster entrees. [ chicken caws ]

airport security and we know we need professional law enforcement, and we have politicians one from florida in particular still screaming to reprivatize it and give it back to the airlines and the private security companies. what we have to do is face up to the fact that aviation is the target of choice for crazies, for terrorists. there have been over 1,000 attacks on aviation since the 1930s. and we have to have this professional police force including with armed guards. the two-minute rule usually works. they wanted to get them away from the checkpoints to get the tempers, you know, from overheating. and, remember, this year the tsa took more guns off of passengers than at any time in history. so the checkpoint has a lot of guns. mostly those guns are guns that people forgot. >> i want to -- i want to ask you this because you mentioned armed guards. and i want you to talk more about it. do you think tsa officers should be armed? do you think there should be some other guards there? police officers, maybe members of the military? >> and it's already different airport by airport. some airp

at this best buy in fort myers florida this are camping out for sales. >> a couple of us are looking for tv's for presents for family. the national retail federation says millennials are driving the trend. black friday drives the numbers. so, had enough yet? of course not. cyber monday is around the corner and it isn't just for monday anymore. last year cyber monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday were all over $1 billion online. >> and while we are all used to seeing those deep deep discounts advertised around monday the retailers say you can get the deals after christmas. you are going to have to be patient for those deals. so, if you are going to be one of the 140 million or so people expected to shop this holiday weekend what are the hands down best bargains? we are joined by brett larson the host of tech baitites good see you. television sets. you say there are a lot of deals out there. you don't have to camp out to get it? >> yeah, no. you don't need to be in line waiting in a tent for the next week and miss thanksgiving dinner for your family. target is cutting prices as are wal

. >>> also another sinkhole threatening to swallow another florida home. >>> plus, black friday. >> we call it the super bowl of retail. >> black friday deals and steals. should you wait? >> we bought over 65% more tvs this year, five times as many sheet sets. >> big demand, walmart saying that their customers bought 5,000 items every second last year. and bombastic and brash. toronto mayor rob ford. is he coming to a theater near you? you're live in the "cnn newsroom." and good morning to you. i'm carol costello, with less than 24 hours to go before the busiest travel day of the year, massive storm system moving east could make getting out of town for thanksgiving one big headache for 40 million of us. this is what it looks like in columbus, ohio. see that in a second. look at that. the snow is already falling. it will keep on falling until tomorrow. here is what it looks like in pittsburgh right now. yeah, it looks like soup. 31 degrees. about an inch of snow has fallen and another three to five inches of snow are forecast. as you can see, it's cloudy and fogging. so, please, oh, ple

investigators in florida told the johnsons and authorities kendrick climbed into a gym mat reaching for this shoe and that his death was an accident. >> they know their child did not climb into a wrestling mat, get stuck and die. where's that video? >> reporter: the sheriff's office says that moment was not recorded. the johnsons also questioned moments in the surveillance video like this one. kendrick is seen running in the gym and then another image appears showing other students. it jumps from one moment to another. the johnsons' attorney tell from the surveillance video what happened to kendrick and when the other students entered. >> we don't have any time code with which to synchronize the events that are shown in the video. >> either the camera did this on their own or a human being interacted to make this camera do these things. >> reporter: an attorney for the school tells cnn what we produced to the sheriff is a raw feed with no edits. the attorney for the county sheriff's office says my client confirmed that the video was not altered or edited by anyone within the county sher

his girlfriend may sue florida police. criminal defense attorney janet johnson joins me here in studio. and i mean, we don't know, but police may have saved her life. >> right. >> if she sues, would she have a case? >> you know, i think she has a case, but what it tells you is she's the victim. she was held at knifepoint. i don't know that she's a willing participant in the criminal defense trial. that's what's interesting. she's not against the guy who was holding her hostage. she's against the police. >> that's what makes it bizarre. >> exactly. yeah, i think she might have a case, but quite frankly, what were the police going to do? she was getting a knife dug into her. >> what about just the video here itself? how would this play out if used in court? >> what's interesting is i'm a florida criminal defense attorney so this is right in my neck of the woods. a lot of times victims in these situations whether it's because they're battered spouses and they don't know any better and they don't know what to do, they recant a

it kicks off with a big criminal case in south florida. the miami man accused of murdering his wife and posting a picture of her body on facebook goes on tril monday. derek medena poeszed a statement on facebook saying, "i'm going to prison for killing my wife." >>> tuesday is election day. and there are several key races to watch. new york city will e elect a successor to mayor michael bloomberg who has been in office the last 12 years. and dep troit holds its first mayoral election. tuesday will be a big day for tourists in the nation's capi l capital. public tours resuming. they were stopped about seven months ago because of budget cuts known as the sequester. >>> on wednesday, a major case goes before the u.s. supreme court. the justices will hear arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of holding public prayers before town meetings. and on friday, we'll finally get a look at the october jobs report. the numbers were sdelayed one week paubecause of the partial government shutdown. >>> for a lot of people, the highlight of

petersburg, florida. it is expected that charlie crisp, remember him, he'll announce a campaign to claim his old job. he will run as a democrat. he was a republican when he held the office of governor of florida the last time around. >>> still to come in the "newsroom," the toronto mayor makes an apology, sort of. hear what he has to say about allegations of drug and alcohol abuse. [ female announcer ] ladies and gentlemen i'm here to say a few words about the power of baking stuff with nestle toll house morsels. you can heal a broken heart with a bundt cake. make a monday mornin' feel like a friday afternoon with some nestle toll house morsels. let's close our laptops and open our ovens. these things don't bake themselves. we have to bake them for one another. we can bake the world a better place one toll house cookie at a time. nestle. good food, good life. nestle. but with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive,y first. i saw my doctor. a blood test showed it was low testosterone, not age. we talk

florida has mandatory minimum sentencing. if you get convicted of an aggravated assault with a firearm, which makes it aggravated, there's no discretion by the judge. you must get 20 years in prison. so that's one issue to discuss in the public. here we're bringing up stand your ground because of the publicity with zimmerman. the zimmerman/trayvon martin case was not a stand your ground case and this isn't. if she goes with the stand your ground defense, she will be convicted again. she must go with a cassell doctrine defense. there was a restraining order against this man. she got the restraining order lifted and married him. then she moved out of the marital premises where he was living, went back there and slept with him, then when she had a fight with him she went into the garage and grabbed a handgun and came back into the house. there was no fear of imminent, grave bodily harm or death. that's what you need for stand your ground. >> wait a minute. >> it doesn't fly here. >> two of the three judges on appeal said it shou

. >> 1,000 miles at one point, so giving perspective all the way from canada to florida for us. so here's another satellite perspective. but this supertyphoon is super no more, thank goodness. supertyphoon means maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour -- one-five-oh. they are down dramatically now. at one point, when it raked over the fill peeps, it had maximum sustained winds of 190, gusts to 235. so right now, it is right here in the south china sea, heading towards vietnam. it will just cruise the coast of vietnam. look at the stats and how dramatically weakened it has been. it's all relative. but maximum sustained winds down from 190 to 115, gusts to 145. so here's the timeline on it, dda nang, and moving towards hanoi, the capital. moving as a cat 3, cruise the coast. now it looks as though the winds not the biggest factor, fred. maybe the rainfall will be, as you can see by monday, 40-mile-an-hour winds. so from 40, from 190. so dramatically different, dramatically weakened, thank goodness, but still quite a player. >> wow, incredible. fragments from a european satel

lieutenant james dimel of plantation, florida. so the remnant was loaded with loving care and returned to the air once more, bound for the united states. sadly, lieutenant dimel died in 2010. but that only makes the discovery all the more important to his family. as i found out, the phone call. >> we're just so excited that it will happen on veteran's day which just makes the whole event more of an honor. >> in other words, this will be one very special delivery. >> dhl assures us that the package will be delivered tomorrow morning. pilot's family will be there to receive it. along with mary ann hubert and the radio operator as well. >>> at 107 years old, world war ii veteran richard overton has seen it all, but apparently didn't see a call from the white house coming. that's a first. overton is believed to be the oldest u.s. veteran. he has been invited by president obama it take part in the u.s. festivities tomorrow. including breakfast with the president and vice president. >> the president wants me to come. i'm surprised he ca

emanuel lee williams and his wife cara were arrested friday at their tampa, florida home. cnn affiliate wpmi reports that the couple was wanted for robbing more than a dozen banks across florida and alabama over nearly a year. investigators say the bank surveillance video showing a scar on emanuel williams' hand actually helped authorities link the robberies to the couple. >>> president obama invited a very special guest to today's wreath laying ceremony in honor of veterans day. that is 107-year-old richard overton. he was honored for his service in the second world war. the white house also asked him to join the president and vice president for breakfast before the ceremony. overton is thought to be both the nation's oldest living vet and the nation's oldest surviving world war ii serviceman but he played very coy when asked about his trip to washington. >> the president wanted me to come. i'm surprised he called. i guess he wanted to talk to me. i don't know. >> you know what he wants to say? >> i don't know. he may want to run me away. i don't know. may want to send me

i want to bring in now d top two florida attorneys. they join me now from orlando. thank you, guys, so much, for joining us. how are you doing? >> very well. good to see you. >> hi, don, always good to see you. >> good to see you. >> we have some breaking news, i may have to get to it. i want to reiterate, he was found not guilty in the shooting death of mr. omanson. do you think the jury came to the right verdict? certainly you wonder if he had an opportunity to do something else other than shoot. it eegts a way to make that your decision of last resort, not first resort. it seems like the jury listened to the statute thavs in place and came to the right vergt. we have to trust them. bud i always thought that stand your ground can be polished a bit. >> they're saying no law is perfect and no chance that any of this legislation to try to overturn stand your ground is going to happen. but you think that stand your ground can be tweaked and i guess more importantly, do you think that it's discriminatory against people of color? >> i think it can be tweaked in this way

a store owner in florida sets up a surveillance video to catch the so-called good guys. up next, we'll show you where police are being accused of repeatedly issuing citations to black people, and one man arrested and jails 56 times because he was at work. what is going on with this? we're on the case. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. >>> hey, everybody. i'm glad you're with us today on this holiday friday. if i were earl sampson, i think if you were earl sampson, we could all agree we would be really ticked because earlicismson in florida has been stopped by police a total of 258 times. 258, and all of that in four years. the searches, 100 times. arrests and jailings, 56 times. almost every single one of these citations was issued at the same place, the convenience store where earl sampson works. our correspondent john zarrella is tracking the story in miami. first of all, can we be clear. is earl sampson an incredible criminal, or is there something sti

they paid $125,000 in cash for stolen property delivered in a satchel in fort lauderdale, florida. more out of a scene from boardwalk empire than our national pastime. those investigative tactics and the fact bud selig doesn't have the guts, after announcing someone is guilty on national television, before the trial begins, he doesn't have the guts to show up in person to be cross-examined, my role is to point out the absence of fairness and the loss of perspective by commissioner selig on the legacy he owes to the national pastime. >> aren't there going to be some who say that a-rod doesn't have the guts to go ahead and testify. instead deciding to walk out and, you know, state his case on radio as opposed to -- saying it on the record? >> well, that sounds like someone in lewis carroll's alice in wonderland, when the queen of hearts announced the verdict is guilty. now let's hear the evidence. the person on trial will stand up and say, wait a minute. this is a kangaroo court. i'm out of here. everybody watches knows that bud selig should have faced the music and confronted the pe

. >>> an alarming wake-up call along the florida coast as a 35-foot sinkhole opens up underneath two homes. earlier on cnn, one of the homeowners said he knew sinkholes were a possible problem, and he was working with an insurance company to try to get it quicked. they were working on the house to get that sink hole fixed, we're back and forth with the insurance company, they just wanted to do a droughting fix. after the incident, we decided well we're scared to sleep here, let's get it fixed the way the insurance company wanted it and they started two days ago and, well, that's the result. >> the sinkhole keeps growing, no injuries reported, luckily, not yet. >>> we're in trouble, we're going down, imagine those words echoing over your plane's loud speaker, coming from the pilot in the cockpit. it's exactly what passengers say they heard this week, just as their southwest airlines flight into raleigh-durham went into a nosedive. heather walga from wtvd has the story. >> -- that i was going to die, and that's what everybody on that plane thought, that we were all going to die. just b

in college football florida state dominated the miami hurricanes in the second half of the defense. did you see that special hand shake? it is quarterback james winston and the head coach's son. it is cool and precious really great moment and we are glad that the cameras are able to bring that to us. >> thank you so much. time now for good stuff. how about this pan da cub. researchers say that the program is intended to protect the program in the wild. and police found a lost man in the wild. he would have died if not res e rescued. he was on a canoo trip when his camp was attacked by a bear and his equipment destroyed. still to come in the news room. they caught a lot of grief over not having no black women on their cast. saturday night live deals with the race controversy by poking fun at themselves. >> i think you can too. >> well john's great effort is his height. but the height gives him the opportunity to get angles that normal players don't get. where are you in tennis in the u.s.? well i think in the 70s. 80s and 90s. american tennis fans were spoiled. i got a look at the er

myers, florida, they are already camping out for thursday's sales. same thing in akron, ohio. >> couple of us are looking for tvs for presents for family. >> national retail federation says me lineals are driving thanksgiving day shopping trend. but it isn't for everyone. >> it is absolutely crazy. i know they do it every year and every year i say the same thing. it is crazy. >> black friday draws biggest numbers. 46% of consumers hit those sales and 40% of shoppers will be back in stores thanksgiving weekend. so had enough yet, of course not. cyber monday is around the corner and it isn't just for monday, any more. >> last year, the days, cyber monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, were all over a billion dollars on line. >> reporter: alexandra fields, cnn, new york. >>> next sunday is expected to be the busiest airline travel day with 2.5 million people flying that day. wintery weather in texas forced 3 00 flight cancellations today. that has a domino effect across the country. atlanta's airport is the busiest in the world. we want to show you how

we have a tornado watch in florida with the system as this is cold air wraps in here. and making tornadoes on the ground at least i know of one so far today. heavy rain across the southeast and mid-atlantic. and snow north of there. so that's how it happens today. this low is still developing. the low is somewhere right about there. and so what's going to happen for the next couple days, we'll bring under the warm moist air here. it's going to be a rain fint for i-95, all rain. so if you're in new york, you go, hey, this storm's a bust, it didn't snow. we don't expect it to snow. the snow is north into parts of ohio. i can move one more map farther up there. that's where it's snowing. talking about i-80, the pennsylvania turnpike, the new york through way, all having snow on it right now. the problem will be when it starts to get to sunset. nothing's going to be -- going to be melting anymore. it's going to be sliding. we'll get snow sticking to the ground and hopefully there will already be a burvelg of salt there when you get there. there are the plains. there's 5,00

even the florida panhandle in the 30s this morning. and the northeast, of course, no different. new york city right now at 31 degrees. we are at 33 in providence. boston at 34. d.c. at 34 as well. winds are starting to relax just a little bit. 9-mile-per-hour winds in new york with gusts up to 26. in philly, 17-mile-per-hour winds with gusts at 28 and, finally coming down in boston, we saw 40-mile-per-hour gusts early this morning. now that is starting to taper off as well. but when you factor in the windchill, it is cold, cold in the northeast. feeling like the low 20s. it feels like 23 degrees in new york and feeling like 13 in pittsburgh. 25 in d.c. and it's going to stay pretty chilly all across the nation, throughout the rest of the day into tonight. if you are heading out shopping, maybe you're already shopping or heading out first thing in the morning. look at that up north. international falls, 18 degrees by tomorrow morning. 28 in chicago. and here is what it looks like for saturday. the nation is going to start to get a little closer to normal as we get through the wee

in those laces, texas, georgia, florida, much more minimal progress. i suspect as we go into 2014 and especially 2016 we'll see a house divided on health care where essentially the blue states will have a reasonably positive story to tell but in the red states there may be very little evidence of progress. >> the reporting has also been all over the place, whether it's "the washington post" or the "wall street journal." are people basically going into their camps and they are not budging on this issue, is there really room to move on this? >> i think that's right. you're seeing a lot of pole polarization on this as there's been from the beginning. every senate democrat voted for it, every senate republican voted against it. almost unpress debited on a major bill in our history. the reality is with the president in the white house through 2017, it will be difficult for opponents possibly impossible to significantly retrench this bill. the core question is, during this time whether he can right the ship, stabilize it and put enough people into the progra

and saturday night should be no different in florida. alabama is fighting for their third championship a row. and lsu is going to do everything they can to stop that. tomorrow night's game in tuscaloosa is going to be amazing. but the tigers aren't skartd, they took the win the last time they plate on alabama's turf. that happened two years ago. now on to last night's action. if alabama makes it to the bcs championship game, they probably will not be taking on the oregon ducks. they got beat last night by stanford. think crushed the ducks. it was a very bad game for oregon. they were down by 20 early on and could never recover. and to show alabama how amazingly nice we are in alabama, they printed up these t-shirt. instead of went bama, it's we want to be bama. it's a very rou di rivalry express this week. back to you. >> we'll let you get back to tailgating. >>> still to come in the "newsroom," they are insidious as they are invisible. underground tunnels that smuggle drugs into the united states. ♪ [ chicken caws ] [ male announcer ]