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landing today at the big apple. if youre flying into jfk today, you could get an interesting look. i just gave it away. >> you can watch those pictures over and over again. a piggybacking 747 and a shuttle? sweet stuff. lets get started off the top of the hour here. up first, a six-figure shocker in the trayvon martin case. legal experts say its something that could land trayvon martins killer george zimmerman back in jail. zimmermans attorney mark omara told anderson cooper that he ...

Detective voting think its a good idea. what? wait a minute. wait a minute. you just saw the video of guys being doubled over there. >> dont tase me, brother. dont tase me brother. >> you want to put tasers in the hands of thousands of transit workers? >> let me explain what i feel. first, you have people that are intelligent enough to use, its not deadly physical force, first of all. they must be trained. you can train them on what the law is, on the use of physical force. you have to train the...

Blocks. so he did get in there a very long way. a lot farther then he should have. a lot of people question how this could happen. well certainly do an investigation working with with the police department to find out exactly what did. bill: stupid driver, i think that is your answer, right? transit workers pushed car off the tracks, letting service resume two ours later that is hard to do, huh? martha: that would be hard to repeat. indiana is about to pass right to work legislation. that measur...

stone but they got it wrong. the new memorial to dr. martin luther king jr. needs to be fixed but how? im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." dramatic new pictures of the dangerous search and rescue effort off the italian coast where a cruise ship the size of a skyscraper lies on its side half submerged. the costa concordia struck rocks on friday night with 4200 people on board. six are known dead. 16 remain unaccounted for including two americans. look at these extraor...

Transit union, bruce hamilton is the president of the greater new york area locals. >> union members are here in support of the demands that wall street start paying its fair share. we are in support of the folks here. everybody here is a transit rider. we are bus drivers and people who operate transit systems all across the country. >> and transit workers were upset when the protesters were placed on the buses, and felt that crossed a line and the city said it felt a right to do. >> what they d...

Today is a slow day and activists and volunteers have told us it is a planning day for tomorrow. they are hoping for thousands of people who joined them in a march and one of the reasons they are expecting so many people is they have the support of big labor unions including transit workers and the united federation of teachers and there were several workers to march and stand with them today. yesterday city bus drivers sued the nypd for making them pick up detained protesters over the weekend. ...

Members. they are getting a lot of support from several unions including the united federation of teachers and the transit workers union. in fact, yesterday city bus workers announced they were suing the nypd for making them use city buses to move, detain protesters over the weekend. they were arrested trying to cross the brooklyn bridge and the police used city buses to move them around and the transit workers are saying they support the protesters and do not want to be used in that way. now th...

It stay outside the system? >> there was a report today about a bunch of new york city unions going to join the protest on wednesday, which was a major step. transit workers, militant union, they had a strike in new york a few years ago. i do think people understand that even if they felt some misgivings at the beginning or these -- i dont know what the demand are. i understand those. i mean, i have those same feelings in the beginning. there is some genuine energy here. i was having this conver...

Unions going to join the protest on wednesday, which was a major step. transit workers, militant union, they had a strike in new york a few years ago. i do think people understand that even if they felt some misgivings at the beginning or these -- i dont know what the demand are. i understand those. i mean, i have those same feelings in the beginning. there is some genuine energy here. i was having this conversation with somebody else, what else is working? honestly, look around you, what else i...

About a bunch of new york city unions going to join the protest on wednesday, which was a major step. transit workers, militant union, they had a strike in new york a few years ago. i do think people understand that even if they felt some misgivings at the beginning or these -- i dont know what the demand are. i understand those. i mean, i have those same feelings in the beginning. there is some genuine energy here. i was having this conversation with somebody else, what else is working? honestl...