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Pulled herself to safety. police say one person was killed in that flood and two others were reported mission and then found safe. -- reported missing and then found safe. bill: garrett, good morning. >> reporter: here is the scenario for this exercise. three days ago terrorists is mowed a nuclear bomb the size of a large crash can. now 50,000 people are dead and hundreds of thousands are wound and rescuers are rushing into help. as fires burn bodies of life-like dummies lie in the rubble and vi...

Of thousands of people are wounded. and now response teams are coming into the scene to help. as fires burn, bodies of life-like dummies lie beneath the rubble and victims walk about in a daze looking for help. >> please, help me! >> reporter: this scenario is a chance for more than 5,000 military and civilian workers to gain real life experience responding to a nuclear terrorist attack on one of americas cities. >> the nuclear threat -- [inaudible] >> reporter: and this training exercise includ...

Was, in fact, trayvon martin who they were claiming was on the bottom being pummelled by george zimmerman. you never saw that hypothetical situation displayed when they had the actual dummies there. they surrendered it. the only time they showed what was going on is when, in fact, they had the george zimmerman being pummelled by the prosecutor representing trayvon martin. they surrendered it at that moment. that shows why they should have never -- because they knew from the start, they knew well...

Sunny, though, mcplease. you know, the fact of the matter is that this was a -- >> i think all of you are so jealous and -- >> let him talk. >> please, please. what it did was simply talk to emotion. it didnt speak to evidence. it didnt speak to facts. my most important moment was really a surrender by the prosecution right along the lines youre talking about. when, in fact, the prosecutor mounted the dummy, not that particular act, but the subtleties of what it represented. it was a surrender f...

>> reporter: cnn legal analyst sunny hostin has been in court every day. >> the inference is yeah, these are shocking, ugly hateful words and that wasnt lost upon the jury. i looked at them very, very closely, and some of them did seem shocked and offended almost by the words. >> i want to follow up -- >> reporter: at other times the jury seemed to be captivated by the defense, especially when defense attorneys pulled out a dummy in court to help illustrate the confrontation. >> i was very impre...

And that wasnt lost upon the jury. i looked at them very, very closely, and some of them did seem shocked and offended almost by the words. >> i want to follow up -- >> reporter: at other times the jury seemed to be captivated by the defense, especially when defense attorneys pulled out a dummy in court to help illustrate the confrontation. >> i was very impressed when they stood up to get a birds eye view of when the actors, the lawyers were atop those dummies and trying to replicate or reprodu...

How? when they brought out those dummies. what did they do? they gave hypotheticals with what? trayvon martin atop of george zimmerman in a re-enactment. never once did they show the jury the reverse. their opening statement said trayvon martin was on the top. they said it with their first witnesses but yet they concede it at the end. that was wrong and they should be held accountable for that. >> impassioned. sunny, i like your impassive look while hes being impassioned defusing his passion. we...

Tape, whether or not that will be allowed to remain as evidence, thats what they are arcing about right now. we will continue to watch whats happening in the courtroom. stand by for that. also, there was a dramatic demonstration in the courtroom earlier in the day, dueling lawyers with dummies. what did both sides accomplish? and later, the former sanford, florida, police chief speaking out to cnn for the first time. he says he was a scapegoat in the shooting and the racial tensions that fol...

>> i am calling on myself now. if i had to use one word to describe this foreign policy of this administration, it would be assanine. we believe in sitting down and negotiating with terrorists, cliff notes 101, foreign policy for dummies, first sentence, chapter one, do not negotiate with terrorists, were going to do that, we told them what were going to do, what were going to pull out, whats going to happen. why are we agreeing to sit down with them? >> why not. >> they keep murdering americans...

>> i am calling on myself now. if i had to use one word to describe this foreign policy of this administration, it would be assanine. we believe in sitting down and negotiating with terrorists, cliff notes 101, foreign policy for dummies, first sentence, chapter one, do not negotiate with terrorists, were going to do that, we told them what were going to do, what were going to pull out, whats going to happen. why are we agreeing to sit down with them? >> why not. >> they keep murdering americans...