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collapse and bring down power lines. it's already started to happen. >> that wasn't old video from january. that's actually today in pennsylvania after the warmest march ever recorded. as much as 16 inches of heavy, wet snow expected to fall on parts of the northeast, but we don't expect it to last long. it appears likely to rise through the 40s and 50s this week. the man who killed trayvon martin is out of jail back in hiding. george zimmerman walked out of the correctional facility in sanford, florida, around midnight. he's released on a $150,000 bond. zimmerman's going to have to wear a gps monitor and check in with authorities every three days until the murder trial. in new york detectivese looking for clues whon what happened to etan patz have ended their search. patz disappeared 33 years ago. his picture first to be posted on the side of a milk carton. walmart caught in a huge foreign bribery scandal, came to light in "the new york times" article. company is accused of buying its way into mexico, blowing past its competition with years of payoffs. now, it says this statement released here saying many of the alleged activities in "the new york times" article are more than six years old. if these allegations are true, it is not a reflection of who we are and what we stand for. the trial of john edwards is getting under way today in greensboro, north carolina. edwards is accused of using illegal campaign contributions to cover up his affair. he had a child with his mistress. his defense team says the money was not personal but political purposes. now, edwards has apologized for his personal failings, but he says at no point did he think he was breaking the law. take a look at this. winter weather in april. after the warmest march ever recorded, heavy snow falling in parts of the northeast. brian todd is out in the snow. >> reporter: suzanne, as the heavy snow continues to fall here in north central pennsylvania, this is what officials here are primarily worried about. the snow kind of building up on the foliage, the full foliage in a lot of the trees that has popped out, of course, since it's late april. when the know really starts to build up in this and other areas, it's going to make the trees very, very heavy. some of the trees are expected to collapse and fall onto power lines. that has already happened. we're told that more than 20,000 customers in this area of north central pennsylvania are without power. they have about 200 crews from the power and electric company fanning out all over this area. as for the roads here, the main roads in this general area still are passable obviously. a lot of truck traffic and car traffic coming through here. this is a corridor, a road leading to interstate 80 which is a major east/west corridor for truck routes. but officials are concerned that those routes may be disrupted, may be slowed down a little bit by this snow. interestingly enough, a lot of the trucks that are out here to plow and salt roads had to have their plows and spreaders reattached to them because they had taken all that equipment off. of course, not anticipating this weather to hit. local businesses also affected. we just visited a landscape and a nursery owner in this area who says that she is losing about half her year's business because of this storm and a freeze that they had a few weeks ago. so this is really unanticipated at this time of the year, and it's hurting the local economy as well. also a lot of power outages in this area of north central pennsylvania, suzanne. >> thank you, brian. want to bring in our joe johns who is following the john edwards trial. he's just getting out of the courtroom. do you have any news to share with us? what's the latest? >> reporter: well, quite a bit, suzanne. i think the first thing is that a jury has been seated now in that trial. they've actually had opening arguments. it's nine men, seven women, and they did hear opening statements here in court today. the attorneys for the prosecution really sort of summing up this case that has involved both tawdry elements, suzanne, as well as those elements about campaign finance laws, and, of course, john edwards is accused of breaking several campaign finance laws in this case going all the way back to 2008 when he was running for president of the united states, got involved in an extramarital affair with a woman named rielle hunter. we're also told, i think the other important thing to tell you right now, suzanne, is andrew young, this is a north carolina advance man for john edwards back in the day, also a guy who really had a ringside seat on all these activities, wrote a book about it. he's a star witness for the prosecution. he's expected to take the stand right after lunch around 2:30 or so eastern time. we do expect when they finally get to cross-examination of andrew young, he's really just going to face a barrage. it was disclosed in court just today that young apparently reached out to try to contact three different people who had been named as potential witnesses in this case, including one woman he allegedly had had some type of one-night stand with. so more tawdry elements developing here, suzanne, as this trial gets under way in greensboro, north carolina. back to you. >> joe, can you tell us a little bit about john edwards himself? did he say anything? what was his demeanor like when he entered? >> reporter: well, frankly, i ran into him at the door right when he walked in today. calm enough. i said how are you doing? he said actually pretty well. he sat incompetent side the courtroom at the defense table with his attorney, abby lowell. his daughter, kate, sitting directly behind him. she had a little legal pad and she was helping out on the selection of people for the jury. so she's been involved in this. his parents also sitting just to the right of kate edwards. i spoke to them as well inside the courtroom. edwards at times seemed a bit nervous as the developments went on in the court, but he also seemed very composed, certainly composed enough to talk to his attorney about the jury selection, suzanne. >> did we see riley at all? is she still around? >> we haven't seen miss hunter. the last i heard she is in charlotte, north carolina. of course, the center of attention and having given birth to that baby girl, she's also one of the people everybody of course would like to see here. elizabeth edwards, as you know, the late wife of john edwards, died not too long ago. so an odd situation, of course, for people who cover politics here in washington, d.c., realizing that edwards essentially had gone around the country campaigning about the two americas and was a guy who was very much living two lives. of course, here the issue is whether he violated campaign finance laws by taking large contributions and using them to try to cover up the affair. his attorney says he was basically trying to avoid public humiliation. that was the point. of course, the prosecution saying the reason why he took all that money and spent it was to try to, you know, promote his presidential campaign in 2008, suzanne. >> all right. joe johns, thank you. i want to go straight to a live event. this is involving -- this is mitt romney with florida senator marco rubio. let's listen in. >> -- of putting together a list or of evaluating various candidates. that's a process where we're looking at various legal resources to help in that process, accounting staff and so forth to take a look at tax returns and things of that nature. she's putting the process together and it's just at the very early stages. please. [ inaudible question ] >> he and i have spoken about his thinking on his version of a different act than the dream act that's been proposed in the senate. the one that's been proposed in the senate creates a new category of citizenship for certain individuals. the senator's proposal does not create that new category but instead provides visas for those that come into the country that came in as young people with their families. i'm taking a look at his proposal. it has many features to commend it, but it's something we're studying. [ inaudible question ] >> yeah. i think young voters in this country have to vote for me if they're really thinking about what's in the best interests of the country and what's in their personal best interest because the president's policies have led to extraordinary statistics, and when you look at 50% of the kids coming out of college today can't find a job or can't find a job which is consistent with their skills? how in the world can you be supporting a president that's led to that kind of an economy? and then the debt that's been amassed that they're going to have to pay off all their lives? we're fighting to make sure we can reduce the deficits and eliminate this debt overhang and yet the president continues to amass these huge deficits. i think young people will understand ours is the party of opportunity and jobs, and if they want to have a president that can create good jobs and can allow them to find a bright and prosperous future for themselves and for their families, then i hope they're going to vote for me. i think we will take that message to young people across the country. i think this is a time when young people are questioning the support they gave to president obama 3 1/2 years ago. he promised to bring the country together. that sure hasn't happened. he promised a future with good jobs and good opportunity. that hasn't happened. and his -- the pathway he pursued is one which has not worked. young people recognize that, and i think that's why they're going to increasingly look for a different approach. carl? >> you have talked at some length about how the president is a nice guy but you said he's over his head. in so far as the man standing to your right is just a third of the way through his first term in the senate. is a first term senator experienced enough to be your number two, a heartbeat away. mr. rubio, could you comment? >> i don't think i have yes comments on qualifications on individuals to serve in various positions in government at this stage. that's something we'll consider down the road as we consider various potential vice presidential nominees. mr. rubio? >> i'm not talking about that process anymore. >> governor? 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>> reporter: a source close to the investigation tells me that that 12th secret service member actually brought this woman back to the hilton. again, that was the president's hotel, five days before president obama arrived in colombia. it is unclear whether or not money exchanged hands. frankly, whether this was a prostitute or just a woman that this secret service member brought back, a foreign national. but this was apparently a completely separate incident from the one that we have first found out about where the 11 secret service members were partying in another hotel, and then, of course, sent home once people found out about it. the other thing that we learned according to the source is that according to this investigating they've done so far, suzanne, these women who were brought back didn't know who they were with. they didn't realize these men were part of the u.s. secret service. that could speak to -- maybe alleviate some of the concerns, especially here on capitol hill about a security breach. another question is whether or not more of these secret service members are going to be forced out. according to peter king, who is the homeland security chairman, i spoke to him by phone just a short while ago, suzanne. he said he does believe that will happen in the next day or so. of course, six have already been forced out, five are on administrative leave, suzanne. >> dana, the fact this 12th person was staying at the same hotel where the president arrived later, are there any questions now about whether or not that is a more serious concern about the president's security since they might have been able to get some information from the room or from the hotel that would have indicated where the president was staying? >> reporter: i think that still is under investigation, but from what i'm told and by several sources, it does seem at least for now that they don't feel that there was a security breach. that was in terms of the first 11 that they didn't have the information of the classified briefing and things they needed to have a real security breach. whether or not that is true for this other secret service member, it's unclear. as you know, you travel with the white house, the fact that it was five days before the president came, it makes it less likely it was a security issue, but they're still investigating. >> and finally here, dana, we know the defense secretary, leon panetta is going to be in colombia this week. do you know why? is it related to this investigation? >> reporter: it's not. our chris lawrence, our pentagon reporter, wrote up a story on cnn.com about this, and that this is just a case of interesting or maybe bad timing for the defense secretary. he's actually on his way to colombia right now. he's going to bogota and brazil and chile. it's kind of a broad trip to south america to try to have better cooperation, chris lawrence is told, between the military in all the countries but specifically with colombia to deal more with farc, the rebel terrorist organization, guerilla organization i should say the u.s. has been trying to help them with for some years. >> dana bash, thank you. singer robin gibb from the bee gees surprises doctors, wakes up from a coma. more on that coming up. ♪ you are my sunshine, my only sunshine ♪ ♪ you make me happy [ female announcer ] choose the same brand your mom trusted for you. children's tylenol, the #1 brand of pain and fever relief recommended by pediatricians and used by moms decade after decade. of pain and fever relief recommended by pediatricians i'm one of six children that my mother raised by herself, and so college was a dream when i was a kid. i didn't know how i was gonna to do it, but i knew i was gonna get that opportunity one day, and that's what happened with university of phoenix. nothing can stop me now. i feel like the sky's the limit with what i can do and what i can accomplish. my name is naphtali bryant and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you. enroll now. guys. come here, come here. 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