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>> shepard: casey stegall tonight from our texas newsroom. a lawyer for the central florida neighborhood watchman who shot and killed unarmed teenager says he will no longer pursue the so-called stand your ground defense. thats the law in florida which allows people to use deadly force when threatened, rather than run away. george zimmermans attorney says it does not apply in this case because his client had no chance to get away. george zimmerman says trayvon martin broke his nose and reportedl...

it is scary in the end. stay tuned. well tell you exactly whats going op. good morning. welcome to "early start." im john berman. >> im zoraida sambolin. 5:00 a.m. in the east. coming one a man who says he has been cured of hiv. dr. sanjay gupta talked to him. youll hear about that later this hour. really remarkable. plus, brett favre couldnt stay retired after all. hes back in football taking a job you might not expect. well tell you all about it. stay tuned. you need to watch befor...

this case are no longer able to speak publicly about any of this. the information weve been getting is going to slow to more of a trickle as the hearings go on. people here got a bit of a surprise when christian bale, the actor who plays batman showed up here. it was a surprise to just about everybody. he visited patients in the hospital at the bedside. after that he came to this make shift memorial here and joined a prayer circle and prayed with people. it was all unannounced, they ha...

The other thing is that it strains credibility for you to think you hit something and you dont stop. you dont question. you dont call 911. you take no affirmative steps to address what you have done. in that instance the judge was right in rejecting the defense request for a downward departure that would have provided her with probation. megyn: 57 months in prison. for a man dying. if you want to send a message as a judge why not throw the book at her. to this moment you have failed to take resp...

plus, why rapists in the military are getting away with it. a bay area congresswoman taking the air force on front and center. jackie spear calling for new hearings on what she calls abuse of power. this morning, shes in the newsroom. and hot, hot, hot. the summer sizzler in full effect this morning. dangerously high heat and humidity making it feel as hot as 110 degrees from virginia all the way to southern maine. so sit back, get out the fan, stay cool. newsroom starts right now. >...

Time plans to fight off charges that is he a child sex predator. today judge granted a defense request for the former penn state it assistant football coach allowing sanduskys legal time that he has histrionic personality disorder. thats a rare mental condition in which people typically seek attention often with sexually see duckive behavior. although this wasnt sexually seductive according to the allegations. this was predatory rape. the judges ruling also opens the door for the prosecutors to ...

Beginning to end. and it was. >> even though polls showed three out of four people in wichita already believe the brothers to be guilty, the court denied a defense request for a change of venue as well as a request to have the brothers tried separately. >> jonathan carr was defended by a group of topeka lawyers who specialize in death penalty cases. from the outset, the defense wanted the jury to look past the mountain of evidence presented by the prosecution. >> my role today in this brief open...

mohammed is watching from neighboring lebanon, and he joins us live. good to see you. what can you tell us about the latest violence? >> well, syrian opposition activists told us today that they are begging the international community for their help, for their intervention, after this barbaric massacre, thats what theyre calling it, that happened yesterday in the town in homs province. now, they described intense shelling, mortars raining down on the town, and then as you mentioned, th...

gomez say? >> he believed that ivens is distraught and that hes possibly suicidal. what is interesting about that though is that they would not comment on exactly why they believe that to be the case but obviously they have reason to believe that is indeed the case. they did search his home. they looked for his handgun. couldnt find it. at this point they are assuming he took his handgun with him. >> do they believe hes still in the los angeles area? >> not sure. we can tell you this i...

stopped. theres also a third account by a family friend, reported in "the patriot-news" by cnn contributor sara ganim, suggesting mcqueary didnt even directly see the molestation. so, today, at this preliminary hearing for two of his bosses, mcqueary finally gave his account, in open court, on the record, under oath, and it was a powerful one. he said he saw sexual activity between jerry sandusky and the boy and he told superiors what he saw. "theres no question in my opinion mind that...