blossomed. and first there was bountygate, now there's spygate. the general manager of the new orleans saints is being accused of bugging the superdome to listen in on visiting coaches. there's talk of criminal charges, but mickey loomis is saying the report is 1,0000 plu false. >> a police dog sent in to end a high speed chase. apparently he worked it out. >> that's some nice maneuvers. up first this morning a dramatic turnaround in the trayvon martin case. the sanford, florida city commission voted to reject the police commissioner's resignation. last month he was blasted for not arresting trayvon martin immediately after the shooting, but now they question the fairness of removing him. >> chief lee is paying for the sins of past police officers. the police chiefs. he's been here -- he has been in office ten months. how do you steer a boat that big, mr. mayor? how do you steer a boat in ten months to a complete turnaround? you don't. >> heated discussion, in the meantime these pictures are the last we've seen of george zimmerman. he's charged with second degree murder and is out on bail. we have no idea where he is his attorney, mark o'mara, says his client is relieved. >> he's doing well. glad to be out. trying to get settled in. worried about his safety, but talking to his family. >> martin savidge is live in sanford, florida following this story. a lot of developments, seemingly political, but what we saw with the council and the police chief does it have any effect on the upcoming litigation in the case? >> well, it doesn't have a direct impact, but you can't ignore the fact that it will have an impact on the periphery. let me give you a point of context for what was going on last night. the passions were flowing. chief bill lee had been on the job only about ten months when the trayvon martin case erupted in sanford it was about a month ago that the city commissioners voted no confidence in him and he stepped down temporarily because of the way it was thought he handled the trayvon martin investigation. and yesterday he decided, well, maybe i should make that temporary resignation a more permanent thing. and that's when the city commissioners, the same ones that had voted no confidence, came back and said we're not going to accept your resignation. it was a heated and spirited thing. so what does it mean? it means chief lee stays on as the chief of police, but he's not really the chief of police because he has stepped down. he is still getting paid, so the city will find a temporary chief of police, paying two chiefs of police, only one of them is going to be on the job. in the meantime, though, you have trayvon martin's family and attorneys speaking out saying the city missed an opportunity to move on. listen. >> i feel that if chief lee recognized the need to turn in his resignation so this city can heal, the city commissioners should have accepted it and moved forward so the city could move forward and unite. >> reporter: and there you have it. there are going to be some saying, look, the city needs to move forward and heal. it cannot do that as long as chief lee is around. others say there is still an investigation underway as to how the city's police force investigated the case. you cannot let him go until it's solved. >> thank you. the nfl team that put bounties on opponents is now accused of eavesdropping on them as well. the saints are denying a report that mickey loomis intercepted radio communications between opposing coaches for nearly three seasons. loomis is saying it just didn't happen. joining us live from new orleans this morning is larry holder, he carries the saints for cbssports.com and co-hosts a talk radio show in new orleans called "the sports hang joefove" it was anonymous sources that talked to espn, the fbi, the u.s. attorney's office aware and are looking into it. you covered the saints for six years. what do you think? >> it's hard not to believe some of these things considering what you're seeing with the bounty progr program, because they lied to the nfl. the nfl believes they lied about that. it's almost hard to believe the saints when they say they're 1000% innocent because they have been proven liars before. they have come out more on the offensive with this than the bounty scandal. when you saw the bounty scandal, it was more apologies. this, they're coming backfiring. it may be a different case. i know it has people in new orleans again up in arms. it's something that was not expected at all. >> absolutely. you actually say a source at the saints told you specifically that it wasn't true for a particular reason. that is that the nfl would have actually known about the eavesdropping. could you explain that? >> right. the nfl on game day, they have a frequency coordinator that checks every frequency that goes on in the superdome. this occurs in every nfl stadium. a team source told me said if this would have happened, they would have been caught by the nfl originally. that's one of the reasons why they're vehemently against this. i think we're in the infancy of this story. there's probably more that will be coming out. maybe today. who knows. i know more people and more ears will be all over this story as well. >> we know this is the third scandal with the saints and mickey loomis in as many years. they're talking about criminal charges. what do you think will happen here? >> that's a curious question because, look, you didn't see -- you heard maybe possible criminal charges with the bounties. i don't think that will occur. for once we have a gate attached to something that actually has to do with some sort of spying and espionage. so that's another aspect of this that will have to play out. i know that investigators -- i know the u.s. attorney's office here in new orlean also have to look into the allegations. >> i think you said it right when you said there will be much more on this. larry holder, thanks for joining us this morning. it's seven minutes past 5:00 on the east coast. the warm winter giving way to a bizarre spring. i know you saw these pictures. nearly two feet of snow falling in some places. around the country heavy, wet snow causing power outages and the snow and the wind wreaking a bit of havoc on those travel plan fors bit of havoc on those travel plan for for everyone. jacqui jeras in for rob marciano. tell me this is over. >> i hope so. i don't see anything in the long-range models that would indicate anything less. we will a book ended winter. our snowtober and our april snow. there's the two-footer park, laurel summit, pennsylvania. ten inches in newfield, and covington, about six inches of snow. for the most part the snow is winding down. still a bit of action coming in off the great lakes. there's a bit of wet weather moving up into parts of maine. our big low is there in ontario. it's pulling away. the winds will be a bit stronger. this could be impacting your travel if you're going to the airports. one other consequence of the wind. check out these pictures. they pushed the waves up. incredible rocking waves off of lake erie. there you can see it. this is in cleveland, ohio. those waves will continue to be strong for today as the winds are kicking still around 25 to 30 miles per hour. the rest of the country still quiet. a big flip-flop in temperatures. way below average in the east, and way above in the west. >> wow is all i can say about that video. >> isn't it amazing? 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>> well, it had a dramatic effect on the courtroom, specifically the jury here. any prosecutor wants the victim family members to be there during a trial. when that victim family member is jennifer hudson t compounds it. she was the first witness out of the gate. she broke down several times. she broke down talking about her mother, how close she was to her mother saying that the day her mother was murdered, she was worried because she didn't get a text when she first woke up and that was odd because every single day she got early texts and phone calls from her mother. she said she slept with her until she was 16 years old that had an effect. the real effect was how she felt about william balfour, the defendant. she told the court and jury that her family did not want her sister julia to marry balfour. she said we told her not to marry him. when the prosecutor said why, she paused and said because of the way she treated her. she started to cry again. very dramatic. very beneficial for the prosecution. >> i was living in chicago at the time, the search for julian king's body, that little boy, from the very beginning everybody was pointing a finger at this man, william balfour. what is the defense strategy in this case? >> they're saying that because everybody was pointing the finger from the very beginning like you were saying, that they missed out on the fact that balfour didn't do it and there's no physical evidence to back this up. this is the crux of their case. a lot of times at a triple murder you would expect a lot of physical evidence. not in this case. william balfour is not tied with dna, fingerprints or anything else scientifically to the murder weapon, to the vehicle he supposedly took julian king in. this is an uphill battle for the prosecution having jennifer hudson in the courtroom helps them with that battle. >> i'm sure you will continue to follow this for us. ted rowlands, thank you very much. it's now 5:18. it's a good chance to get an early read on some of your local news that is making national headlines. papers from all over the country. they're heavy when we drop them. let's start with the dallas morning news. hello, dallas. miss you. here is a story about deion sanders, big hero in that town. yesterday the nfl hall of famer was involved in a domestic dispute. he tweeted about the incident as it was happening. here are the tweets he was sending out. pray for me and my kids now. they just witnessed their mother and a friend jump me in my room. she's going to jail and i'm pressing charges. minutes later, another tweet coming out. filling out police reports now. thank god for this platform to issue the truth. and then out came the photo. here it is. a tweet including a picture of sanders and his two sons. >> wow. >> filling out forms. sanders' wife pilar has been arrested and charged with assault in the case. there is no accounting for the value of actually chronicling this with your children. i just can't speak to that personally. not sure how those children are going process that stuff later. >> unbelievable. >> a nice, innocuous description. 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[ yawning sound ] 24 minutes past the hour. minding your business this morning, the stock market taking a nosedive yesterday because of concerns about europe's financial stability. >> look at those arrows. >> markets are poised for a bounce this morning. facebook prepping for its initial offering. growth actually slowing in the social network. what's the story? >> growth is slowing, but any company would kill for the facebook growth, 45% revenue growth, but that's down from last year. why do we care? we're all waiting for this huge social network to go public sometime later this spring or early summer. we are all scrutinizing every regulatory filing they have. another piece of information we have now about facebook, it tops 900 million users. 900 million users. how many people log in every day? 526 million people log in daily. that's why facebook is such an important technology movement. number two is twitter. twitter has about 500 million, about only 140 million of those are active users. you can see how big -- >> it's faster, too they got those users much quicker than facebook did. >> facebook has been doing interesting things. they've been buying up patents. i say sprucing up around the office, getting ready for this ipo. buying up patents. you know about instagram. some reporting about that deal, mark zuckerberg has been running the show. he is in charge there. he did that deal with instagram on his own. he informed the board about it later. that was a billion dollar hole to fill some mobile weaknesses for facebook. so we made a map for you to show you how many people is that. if you thought about how many people facebook has, 900 million users, that's equivalent to the population of the u.s., japan, indonesia and brazil. >> a fifth of the wordld's population and growing. >> and growing. the fact that growth is slowing may cool the hysteria about the coming ipo in the next month or two. we will see if that slower growth cools that down. >> i read some of that cool hysteria a