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as you mentioned, this is the field near mirro mar where he grew up, spent his time since he was 5 years old playing ball here and then when he finished playing ball when he went into high school he ran the concession stands literally up till the time of that tragic night. i'm joined by coach carter. coach, you've been here ten years you were telling me. so you knew trayvon pretty well. >> yeah, trayvon was a young handsome hard working kid. since his dad brung him to us, he trusted us to coach him and build him up and build his self-esteem up and just keep him, you know, doing the right things in school and he's always been a hard working player, ever since he left north dade and came to miramar. he gave you his all. that's all he knew, was to play his all. we had a super bowl. and we was the underdogs. north side was predicted to beat us to death. and this kid came to me and coach jerome and told us that, coach, you guys will leave super bowl champions today. i'm not going to give up till the end. and we were super bowl champions. and i owe him my gratitude -- gratitude toward him is just heart warming because this kid did all he could to win me a super bowl. >> reporter: how long ago was that? >> that was in 2005. >> reporter: that's a while ago now. you got a group of people here, probably 150 so far. this is a special night though. we've been saying this. because many of the people here, in fact, probably most of them, knew trayvon. not like a lot of other marches where there were a lot of people not closely connected. >> yeah, most of these people out here basically raised trayvon, you know, trayvon when he came out, he was knew to the park and basically he became like your son. that's like my son. that's my second son. i have one son, carter jr., who's 13, who trayvon really taught him, you know, we would always put the big kids up against the little kids. my son would be like, dad, he's killing me. but i said, it's going to help you out in the long run. trayvon was just that type of kid. he loved everybody. he loved you. he would come to you. there's probably some things he told me he wouldn't even tell his dad, you know, being that the respect, that he knew i would give him the best advice i could. >> reporter: coach, thanks so very much for taking the time. again, don, just getting started here. still awaiting trayvon's parents who are on their way and should be here momentarily. don. >> john zarrella thank you very much. tempers are flaring across the country over the martin shooting but one of the most heated conversation, about us took place right here on our air. cnn's piers morgan going head to head with culture commentator turray. take a listen. >> another black person unarmed and innocent and not doing anything wrong has been killed. this is incredibly painful and goes back before you were born and before your father was born and before my grandfather was born. so these are things that hurt as an american very deeply and you are too new to this situation to fully understand what's really going on here and what's really at stake for america. >> what a load of factous nonsense you speak, you think you have the only right to speak about what's serious in america. you think i don't have the right as somebody from britain who spent the last six years here to address a story -- >> six whole years? you have the right -- >> -- the responsibility -- >> you have the right -- >> yeah -- >> that discussion blew up into an outride war between those two. we're going to show you more of that, much more of that. and i'm going to talk with two guests about the way racial tensions are simmering around this case and the country. what's going on here? we're going to do that at the half hour. make sure you stay tuned. mega millions lottery frenzy over for most but we know there were three winners last night. they'll divide the massive $656 million jackpot. that means each of them will get about $218 million. lottery officials say the winners are from maryland, illinois, kansas. nobody has come forward yet. in the kansas and maryland, we may never know who the real winners are. >> maryland is one of the few states that does not require publicity of its lottery winners. so we had two powerball jackpot winners last year and neither one of them decided to do any publicity so we'll have to see what happens. >> at least 42 people matched five of the six numbers. that means a payout of about $125,000 each. time to talk some presidential politics. it is wisconsin's turn at the center of the republican universe. the top candidates are attending a gop dinner at the same place where a different event was held earlier today. our political reporter shannon travis is there. two different events in the same day at the same site. why all the attention on wisconsin now? >> reporter: obviously, 42 delegates at stake, don, here in wisconsin, for the candidates, but also something else that's pretty important. let's talk about the story line. this is seen as the last opportunities to change the arc of the story line. in terms of mitt romney's path towards getting candidates. there's a lot of mitt romney supporters that he probably is going to win this. even some of the other candidates have conceded they probably won't get to those 1,144 delegates. depending on the outcome here, it may be time for others to actually get out of this race. mitt romney earlier today was at the same place at a different event but at a campaign stop after he left here, he'll be back here for dinner together. he talked about what might happen should he win wisconsin. let's take a listen. >> i've got a ways to go before i get 1,144 delegates, so i'm not counting the delegates before they hatch, but i'm going to work very hard and hope i get a good strong sendoff from wisconsin. i've got a good boost from the folks in illinois. and if i can get that boost also from wisconsin, i think we'll be on a path that will get me the nomination well before the convention, sure hope so, thank you, thanks. >> reporter: on a potential path to the nomination. he's going to have -- he's looking pretty good here in wisconsin. the latest nbc news poll shows him seven points ahead of rick santor santorum. >> mitt romney leading in the poll. traveling with wisconsin representative paul ryan. i just want to know, can we read anything into his recent endorsement here? >> yeah, i mean, he got a trio of big endorsements just this past week. marco rubio, the rising florida republican senator. as you just mentioned, paul ryan, the house budget chairman. and president george h.w. bush. all three of them endorsing them. pretty much saying this primary process is pretty much over. the other candidates again having acknowledged that getting to 1,144 will be hard, if not impossible. so the republican establishment saying it's time to come together and acknowledge this race is over and get behind romney. you hear a lot of conservatives on the ground, activists, everyday voters saying, we're not going to let the establishment tell us what to do, so we'll see what happens. >> we'll see, shannon, thank you, sir, appreciate it. in the last month, we've heard many versions of what happened the night trayvon martin was killed. why conversations between dispatchers and police may need to be released. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. 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>> you can tell the communication that happened between the police officer and the dispatcher. on there, there will be notations when they wanted an ambulance, when they were they scene, what they were seeing at the scene, requesting crime scene, requesting someone to come take photographs. all that is documented, exactly what the police did while they were there. or at least the assistance they asked for. >> they have not been released, the c.a.d. reports have not been released to the media. why not? >> very few. the only ones that have been released talk about the conversations between zimmerman and the dispatcher. they show the actual dispatching of the initial units but that's it. >> okay, so listen, many people are critical of the sanford police department, demanding that george zimmerman be arrested. last week we saw the surveillance video of zimmerman walking into the police station. he was in handcuffs. then we saw the video there. was that, in fact, an arrest? >> that would be what i would have thought is an arrest. when you are unable to leave, you are not free to leave, you are arrested. he was handcuffed. he was policed in the back of a police car. that's as good of an arrest as it gets. whether when he got there he was charged is a different story. but he was arrested. they walk him into the building, put him in an interview room and shut that door. that's an arrest. >> okay. zimmerman's brother spoke to cnn's piers morgan last week. >> we're confident the medical records are going to ex-palestinian all of george's medical history. both how he was treated at the scene and how he was not. to me, his nose looks swollen in that video. i'm his brother. >> the initial report only mentions zimmerman injuries in one line. zimmerman was placed in the rear of the police vehicle and given first aid. this seems very contradictory. is that contradictory or not? i don't know, i'm not sure. >> it does seem contradictory. the police arrived on the scene at 7:17. the video stamp at the bottom was 7:52. there wasn't a lot of time for them to get there, search the scene, find him, search him for officer's safety, handcuff him, put him in the police car, let him get medical treatment and get him to the police station. i want to know what happened in those few minutes. that's what would matter to me. and it does seem suspicious because it doesn't say "took photographs of the injuries." law enforcement officer, even your first responding officer, the best thing you do is document every single step that you made. one of the officers in the report said, i did nothing further. he wanted it to be known he stood there, had a contamination crime scene list, people coming on to the scene, he did nothing further. so he can look, say, this is all that i did. the the two initial responding officers reportses should have been more. mind you, it's a partial report. >> what do you mean should have been more? this is the first time -- i've heard from law enforcement people saying that they thought the investigation was handled poorly. what do you mean it should have been more? >> there probably is. on the police report we have, it says it's a partial report. there's very little these initial officers said in their report. maybe two, three -- well, two sentences really, a paragraph. two or three sentences. and that's it. there should have been a much longer report. they got there. a lot more happened than them just looking around the scene, placing zimmerman under arrest. who they saw, what time they got there, what other assistance they needed. hindsight's 20/20. and also say, like i did last time, maybe i've played basketball longer than lebron james but it doesn't mean i'm better than him. i was an officer long enough to know this is not enough in a report. i'm hoping and trusting that they have more of a detailed report. >> and are those reports a long longer, more detailed report, usually released to the media? there are also summary reports as well. do you think there's a longer report? if this is it, that's trouble. >> if this is it, this is trouble. this is definite trouble. there should be. a lot of times, they'll say it's still under investigation. and that's fine. because they don't want to distort it. obviously, jury pools, things like that. so there could be more. even some of the other police report s from the other 911 call said public police report, public copy. because there's some things in there, if they're minor children, stuff like that, you don't necessarily want released. i'm hoping there is more than this. and aside from the horrible tragedy that happened to trayvon, if this is all they've done, and i'm really hoping they're not, because they seem to be a very good police department, that is the tragedy. the focus needs to be on the job they either did or did not did. he was under arrest. he appeared to be under arrest. why they let him go or unarrested him i have no idea. >> alex manning, thank you. good stuff. on to other stories now. if you use credit or debit cards, you may want to check your accounts to make sure it is correct. we'll tell you why right after this break. 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