dozens of shots fired as people scrambled for cover. >> they started shooting at us and the bullet went between me and my friend tony. we could hear the bullets bouncing off the concrete behind us. >> it started when the suspect described as a 51-year-old maple valley man stopped his car in traffic and started confronting people with an assault rifle. eventually opening fire. >> when we were about alongside the elementary school, we got shot at nine times. >> police swarmed the city crowded with shoppers and people enjoying the warm day. he fired randomly for about half a mile. at one point, a sheriff's department sniper took to the air to take him out with reports of him shooting an at police. he was moving toward the high school where a little league football game was going on. >> he said do not come to the game now. there's a shooting. >> outside the high school. >> police told us they have the suspect pinned down. >> parents texted their kids hiding, hoping to escape the gunman. >> i'm worried. i want to make sure he's okay. police evacuated the stands filled with young players and their families. >> they're huddled under the bleachers scared out of their minds. >> everybody's terrified out there. >> my wife, i've never seen anything like this. >> before the gunman made it that far, a cop on the ground shot him dead before he harmed a single person. >> our priority was to stop him from moving and get him to stop shooting and we were able to do both of those. >> to have something like this happen on a beautiful saturday, it's shocking. >> you're able to see in eric's story from our affiliate king police apparently prevented what almost certainly would have been a massacre by the gunman. stay tuned for details on this story. we want to go to florida where the high profile murder trial of bob ward has ended in a conviction. >> we the jury find the defendant guilty of second degree murder as charged in the information. >> the trial lasted about a week. ward's defense argued that diane ward died in 2009 of accidental gunshot and accidental gunshot to the face but the jury wasn't convinced. ward's daughters sobbed at the verdict. prosecutors had hammered away at inconsistencies in ward's story and then there was this bizarre jailhouse video just days after his wife died, ward apparently performing a striptease for his daughter and sister-in-law. all three acted like him being arrested was a big joke. our legal expert holly hughes says ward presented his defense team with an uphill battle in trying to get an acquittal. >> when you very calmly say five times, i shot my wife and you don't at the time, you're not hysterical. >> there's no urgency, nothing in his voice. >> right and he's not hysterical, not saying get here and help her. so the best they could do is say, well, yes he already admitted firing the gun but what we can do is now say it accidentally went off. he didn't intend to fire the gun. she was trying to kill herself. so unfortunately, sometimes by the time a lawyer gets a case, client's already put them in a bad position. >> the defense is expected to file an appeal. president obama took his jobs message to the congressional black caucus tonight, an audience that's sympathetic to his cause but worried his policies aren't getting through to constituents. african-americans hit hard by unemployment. the president used his remarks to make a strong push for his plan and went after republicans who have opposed his efforts. >> these republicans in congress like to talk about job creators. how about doing something real for job creators? pass this jobs bill and every small business owner in america, including 100,000 black-owned businesses will get a tax cut. you say you're the party of tax cuts? pass this jobs bill. and every worker in america including nearly 20 million african-american workers will get a tax cut. pass this jobs bill and prove you'll fight just as hard for a tax cut for ordinary folks as you do for all your contributors. >> we've been hearing that a lot from the president lately. earlier we previewed the president's speech with congresswoman sheila jackson lee of texas. she agreed to join us again. congresswoman, thank you very much for joining us again. what did you think? >> don, thank you for having me. >> what did you think? >> well, the president remember in the earlier interview i said determined, persistent. but the president reached in his heart, heard the american people. really heard the congressional black caucus and tonight, don, he took his gloves off. he took those gloves off and he simply said i'm going to lead. i'm the captain of the ship. i'm not going to let the american ship, the american boat where our people are sinking sink under my leadership and going to demand of the republicans to stand for the american people and not for selfish interests. i hope they heard him. we heard him. we're prepared to in essence, be ready for this fight and recognize the devastation in the african-american community. i'm very glad he highlighted the plight of african-americans along with americans and let everybody know we're in the same leaking boat together. >> let me get in on this. i want to know if you think -- you said he took the gloves off. this something you would like to see more of from him? >> well, don, i said earlier that the president has a way of interacting. he respects the institution of the presidency and the congress. he wanted to work in a collaborative cooperative way. knew there would be conflict but still wanted to be able to resolve a problem. one of the points he made tonight is that we came out of this -- or came into this recession not on what we as democrats did but it's been coming on for a long time through the last administration, trying to come out of it, he has faced fierce opposition. republicans have not agreed to anything. so i think to answer the question, yes, i want to see him represent the american people. if one group doesn't want to represent them, then i want the president to do so. i think that's what he announced tonight. >> if you're listening to the clips that we played, he said, you know, pass this bill. we've heard him say that. there were other parts of the speech if you're just the casual observer, i don't know, it sounded like a campaign speech. it sounded like a campaign speech and that there was nothing new from this except what he had been saying before. you were there. is that true? tell us what you thought. >> well, i really do think there is a recommitment and an energized commitment to finding a way to empowering parts of this legislation. we've heard words like dead on arrival, we heard that it won't pass. i think the president in his heart knows the federal government has to do something. he asked the question, the republican party is the party of tax cuts. why won't they do it now? they're the party of building roads. why won't they join in building roads? if i saw a difference tonight, i really saw the president rolling up his sleeves using a lot of elbow grease and really getting in their face and asking the question, why. >> we're going to have to leave it there just for time us. we appreciate you joining us again. thank you, congresswoman. >> thank you so very much. it's got to be all of us, don. bye-bye. >> have a good night. we want to turn to the candidates who want to defeat barack obama in next year's election. a huge political upset saturday in florida where herman cain won a straw poll of republican activists. florida governor rick scott made the big announcement. >> tonight's winner with 986 votes, 37.1 percent, herman cain! 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>> no, the bake sale will go on. with the pricing structure. >> so tim wise, do the berkeley college republicans have a point? >> well, i'm not sure. i mean, you know, it seems like there are a lot of ways to make a point about your disagreement with affirmative action, for instance, without doing a sarcastic rather smarmy slap at people of color. i get the joke, their joke is they believe that affirmative action holds people of color to a lower standard and they are going to also hold them to a different pricing structure for their brownies. it's been done for 15 years. it's not an original joke. the point that needs to be made and which they often ignore and conservative students generally ignore, by the time anyone steps on a college campus whether it's berkeley or any other school in the system or any college in this country, there has already been 12 to 13 years of institutionalized affirmative action for white folks. that is to say racially embedded inequality which benefited those of us who are white and it's only at the point of college admission these folks seem to get concerned with thinking about race. there's been 13 years. right now in the state of california and all across the country, schools that serve students of color mostly are ten times more likely to be places of concentrated poverty than the schools that white students went to. but i don't see the berkeley republicans rising up in arms about that inequality. >> and so do you understand what tim wise -- you may not agree with it, but do you understand what he's saying about historically about the history of racism in this country, college admissions? do you get what he's saying? >> certainly. the two points he makes are both valid points. but the first one been why make a sarcastic event? why make something that seems to be making a joke a very serious issue. my response to that, first of all, as you mentioned before, berkeley is a very liberal campus. our student government is sponsoring this phone bank which is taking a position on policy. and it's telling governor brown that berkeley students support this bill. so the reason for the tone of our event, for possible sarcasm of the event is certainly to draw an attention. it's not an original idea. the forum is slightly original. previously over the past 10, 15 years, bake sales have been had on a random day of the week or just to get some controversy started. ours is at the same time and location of this phone bank. it's to make a point we don't have one political view here at berkeley. >> he said what about working towards -- you're not holding a bake sale for socioeconomic issues. you're holding a bake sale about admissions. >> exactly. >> so you want to address that part, as well? >> the reason that we're having a bake sale strictly on race and gender is because that's what the bill does. that's the bill that governor brown is deciding on. it's not affirmative action because it doesn't have a quota system because that's unconstitutional right now. but what governor brown is deciding is whether to let universities consider race in the admissions process. that's why our bake sale is focusing on that issue. >> go ahead, tim. >> it's not really accurate. what the bill would allow would be for governor brown and this is what affirmative action in the post quota era which quotas have been illegal essentially for 25 years or more, would allow him to consider race in the same way that what i'm discussing, if race has played a role in the dispensation of educational access and opportunity. if race has mattered in other words in terms of opportunity, it would allow him to consider that and allow the admissions officers, let's say in the uc system, to consider that when they're examining applications. >> my thanks to tim and sean. the bake sale is scheduled for tuesday and we'll check back on the story for you. make sure you keep it tuned to cnn. the satellite breaks up. a satellite breaks up as it enters the atmosphere scattering debris across the world. that and other top stories straight ahead here. we were so blessed when we had triplets. if by blessed you mean freaked out about money. well, we suddenly noticed that everything was getting more expensive, so we switched to the bargain detergent, but i found myself using three times more than you're supposed to and the clothes still weren't as clean as with tide. so we're back to tide. they're cuter in clean clothes. 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