plea deal. once again, another question of whether defense evidence is supposed to be excluded. we ve seen the scenario many times and defense doesn t comply with orders. prosecution claims surprise. judge tries to sort the whole thing out in a way that doesn t punish the defendant and doesn t create issues for appeal. nor punish the jury. they could be a little hacked off. thank you very much. thank you. watching about two hours from right now. yeah. riveting for everybody. so we ll keep you posted. take a close look at this video. group of surfers enjoying the ocean. what s that? what is that? flew out of the water over the shoulder of one of the surfers. it was a shark. land shark. in the ocean. michelle bachmann inching up to the top of the presidential pack in iowa. is she stealing the former frontrunner s thunder? our panel with what might happen to governors romney and pawlenty if bachmann s hot streak continues.