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Friday. i can't believe it's already friday. thank goodness. coming up the trayvon martin shooting according to george zimmerman. newly released documents by zimmerm zimmerman's attorney who shot and killed the unarmed teenager what happened that night. mitch daniels has been named the next president of purdue university. daniels had been widely mentioned as a possible running mate for mitt romney. he'll start his new job in january when his term as governor is over. daniels has said he'll recuse himself from any partisan politic, political activities or commentary. retiring democratic congres...

on this student loan interest rate. obviously it's an important issue in that some of the new numbers show people owe more on student loans than credit card debt. is that still a hot topic >> it's still a big topic, tamron, because as you say the volume of student loans is so huge. and a lot of this new volume is not -- not students as we think of them. they are not 20-year-old students going to college. a lot of people who are older, who are in their 30s or 40s who have gone back to school and who have incurred a lot of student debt. these people vote more often than younger student...

>> well, obviously, all ears and eyes were on mitt romney today in florida, the important state. mr. romney started out his remarks by saying there are some pele who say that identify not answer this question. let me play what he presented as the non-answer to the question, let's play what mr. romney said. >> hispanics have been hit disproportionately hard while the national unemployment is still above 8% and has been for 40 straight months. hispanic unemployment is at 11%. as president i would reallocate green cards to those seeking to keep their families under one roof. [ applause ...

To do. >> for more on dimon's testimony we go to steve sedgwick live this morning for us in london. steve, a lot of people watching that wonder it's a good show, but will it change anything about the way business is done on wall street? >> that's very interesting because, of course, long before we had this incident over the $2 billion that had been lost at the cio's office in london, there were questions from jamie dimon whether regulators were going too far and those questions are still there, although his position looks a lot weaker now the company has been accused of gambling with the asset...

>> why did senate majority leader harry reid refer to a reporter's inquiry as, quote, a clown question bro. we'll explain that one later in shows. first to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. we start in egypt, where the country's ailing former leader of three decades is reported to be near death this morning adding another layer to a complicated political situation. ousted president hosni mubarak reportedly on life support after receiving -- after suffering i should say multiple strokes while in prison. the 84-year-old serving a life sentence was transferred...