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right back. and north korea at this moment getting ready to fire a long-range rocket. why that launch could set up a powder keg in one of the most dangerous corners of the world. im wolf blitzer. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> lets begin with the breaking news in a case that has gripped the entire nation. a senior law enforcement source says george zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who shot dead an unarmed teenager tra...

Its stupid. >> reporter: there were 7 witnesses who say the girls dropped their backbacks and put their hair in buns and said go, and began fighting. she says she and her friend tried to stop the fight but the boys held them back because they wanted the fight to continue. the fight lasted one minute. neither girl fell to the ground. joanna went back to her class and she had a bloody nose. >> her head was hurting. she said to the supervisor, the principal, she told him that my head was hurting an...

It was ready to go. >> already the doctors have been able to use the most sophisticated medical models. here in surgery the boys are strapped to yet another device, a rotating operating table created specifically for this procedure, allowing doctors unprecedented access. >> what it allowed us to do was to say, okay, lets rotate. without physically lifting the children, without being concerned that one child was going to rotate more than the other. >> in addition, the custom-made table will split...

Has cancer, when that patient wakes up, i have one of two choices. i can either make them feel good and say you know what? perfectly clean, you just get up off this operating table and go and live your life, youre going to be fine. or i can say you have a cancer, and if this cancer goes unchecked and continues to grow the way it is, you will die. the fact of the matter is, and you know it, you know the medicare numbers dont add up and the medicaid numbers dont add up. you know that tough decisio...

You know, you have to own it. theres an investigation, find out the information or like you said, andrea, you dont just-- >> and dont say this, i know that my fellow libs out are there, leslie, what are you doing, sitting for the four people for a few minutes, are you on the merits, the merits of this thing stink and the other thing is that they have done, is because most of the media has given them a pass on it, they think that its a partisan thing, its not. and these i dont know what the polit...

Megyn: he said they were on their way. >> its not enough. there has to be some element of giving that man reassurance. help is on the way. we are going to take care of you. im on it. megyn: we played those tapes on this show. they are wonderful at keeping calm and providing a level of reassurance to a person in the middle of crisis on this call it was like the father was doing the work of keeping himself composed and he had a 9/11 operator that sounds like he couldnt be bothered. well, nine, wha...

End of the day, though, the one ultimate weapon we do have is the american soldier. >> and thats where your book is so valuable. you went and saw these things first hand. came to your own conclusions and youre not relying on sources and look forward to that book. makes me feel good that general petraeus and head of the c.i.a. seems look a perfect match. congratulations on lines of fire. appreciate you joining us this morning. >> thanks. >> surgeons want your organs and want them now. they want t...

Country kind of rallied around reagan and made him politically stronger and i think his friends will tell you as they did in our documentary, it really did make him a better president. >> what was the one thing that you took away from the documentary that you really learned that perhaps you didnt realize before? >> theres a couple of things i think will surprise people. we talked to the doctors who had him on the operating table, how close ronald reagan came to dieing in those minutes and how tw...

Jacks back with the cafferty file. jack? >> the question this hour is should the government cut social security, medicare and medicaid in order to attack the deficit? david in virginia writes, sure, as long as you cut defense, cut farm subsidies and raise taxes on the rich. everybody has to bail out the boat or were all sunk. you cant have 2% of the passengers drinking margaritas and watching everything else doing the work. otherwise the other 98% will throw them overboard. jim writes they shoul...

>> in my private life im not such a tough cookie. maybe when i work and maybe when im in somewhat dangerous situations or doing a dangerous interview, i kept feeling that i didnt have to have it. i kept trying to postpone it, and finally in may, my doctor said because i had something called an angiogram, said you should do this. i said, well, what if i dont because i was giving an award here and giving an award there. he said, well, theres a slight chance that youll drop dead. that was not an al...