track the guns. that is, not until people started dying. the only way you re going to find those guns in mexico is where? at crime scenes. at the death, at the site of somebody who s dead. at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. that makes no sense to me. between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no, there is no reasonable explanation to let these guns walk. two of those guns made their way back north to the scene where border agent brian terry was shot dead a year and a half ago. he just finished buying christmas presents for his family. two months later, atf agent sopada was shot by a batch of ten firearms sold in a part of fast and furious. but the big headlines today were in washington, d.c. after initially cooperating with the house oversight committee, which is investigating fast and
they have lines you can call in before you take your kids on a trip. get me up to speed on the elderly. didn t they change? they did. we re talking limited screening, too. people over 75 at a couple of airports, four, can keep their shoes on, a light jacket, they can go through the metal detector or screening device to try to avoid that pat-down. this is part of eliminating the pools of risk as the tsa calls it. a kinder, gentler trip for the rest of us. thanks so much, lizzie. it s the top of the hour. i m ashley banfield. time to get you up to speed. several big developments in the investigation into the florida teenager trayvon martin. that case is going to a grand jury in seminole county, florida. and the department of justice and the fbi have opened up their own investigation into this case. last hour the martin family attorney said the teenager was on the phone with his girlfriend just before he was shot. the dots have all been connected. arrest george zimmerman
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around, if i can t get it turned around in three years, he said, then i m looking at a one-term propositi proposition. well, he has failed. it s been three years, and he is out. joining me from tampa is garrett hague. i know that mitt romney essential escalating his language about jobs yet. is that how you re reading it too? good morning, alex. s yeah, a little bit. governor romney is getting ready for this big roll-out on tuesday of his jobs plan, and they re setting this up. really the last couple of weeks since they announced that he would be rolling it out. he continues to step up the criticism of the president. obviously, those jobs numbers yesterday gave him a little bit of new ammunition. although he has been using that today show story for a while about coming back to collect the white house. yet, they re really trying to set the table for tuesday when they can take this chance to roll out their new big jobs plan, that they hope will set the political agenda for the next fe
it s a long way for them to push their military force all the way to tripoli. this is what we saw driving to misrata yesterday, rolling countryside, heavy green fields, heavy with agriculture, heavy with farms, and a population that may well stand up against the rebels. that s not clear at this stage. so the rebels, if they are going to do what they want to do, are going to need a lot more pep than they re getting at the moment. much more of a long-term propositi proposition, but it does seem to be emerging behind this military move a greater effort to put pressure on gadhafi to leave the political playing field, not to let his country be destroyed and let others take over the leadership through negotiation. randi? nic, i want to ask you about this woman eman al obeidy, who desperately tried to tell her story to journalists. she was taken away. her family hasn t seen her since. the government there says she s safe.