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Hi, I am Anderson Cooper. Welcome to thepodcast. Powerful testimony in the George Zimmerman trial. A video ofterrifying moments after the plane crash in San Francisco. Let's get started.

We began though with a late and possiblekey development in the George Zimmerman trial. The judge this afternoonallowing attorneys for George Zimmerman to introduce evidence suggesting thatTrayvon Martin had smoked pot before he died. Prosecutors fought hard againstit calling it backdoor way of tarnishing trial on Martin character in the eyesof jury. Zimmerman’s drug use has also come up firing EMS report showing who ison anxiety and sleep medications dined the shooting. There's yet to be a rulingthough on the admissibility of that evidence. And there was much more todaythan just the pot rulings, a powerful step as Martin Savidge reports. He joinsus now live. Martin?

Yeah, Anderson, it was a day of just significantsurprises again and one of the questions that had been asked really to the defenseteam whether they gonna call Tracy Martin, Trayvon's father. Because if youremember, it had been reported that Tracy Martin when he had hurt the 911 callthose terrible screams. He had told authorities that he didn't hear his son andin fact they brought two testimonials that were brought on by the investigatorswho said Yeah 'that's in fact what he told us that we played it and he said hedidn't hear his son. Then Tracy Martin comes to the stand call by the defense.Now, let's just listen to how the day went.

It was an remarkable moment. The father ofTrayvon Martin taking this stand questioned by attorney defending the killer ofhis son. Earlier two police investigators testified just days after theshooting day played Tracy Martin the 911 call containing screams and the gunshots at that night. Both said Tracy Martin unequivocally told them it was notTrayvon he heard screaming. On the stand, Martin testified he never said thatand said he told police he wasn't certain whose voice he hurt.

What was going through your mind when youwere listening to that?

Basically, what I was listening to, I waslistening to my son's last cry for help. I was listening to his life beingtaken. And I was coming, trying to come to grips that Trayvon was here no more.

The defense had spent much of the morninghammering home a version of who was screaming for help. One after another fivefriends of George Zimmerman took the stand and, asked the same question, gavethe same answer.

Definitely, it's Georgie.

I thought it was George.

When I heard the tape, my immediatereaction was that's George screaming for help.

Whose voice is it?

George Zimmerman's voice.

The most powerful affirmation came fromJohn Donnelly of a friend of Zimmer's. One liked any previous witness said hehad heard voices under similar stress as a medic in the Vietnam War.

When some is in dire straits whether it becombat or anything else, your voice obviously changes. I heard a 250-pound mansound like a little girl screaming and but before you get there, you know whohe is.

Instead of scream the prosecution focus onZimmer's language in his call to police suggesting his use of profanity impliedhatred, a key point when trying to prove second-degree murder.

It seemed to me when Mr. de la Riondo wastrying to highlight it, make it sound heightened and I don't feel that it wasthat way all. I think it was more of a statement.

Also called to testify was the owner of thegym where Zimmerman trained in grappling and boxing for less than a year aspart of a weight loss routine. Asking him how he would rate his fightingskills?

What number would you assign to hisabilities?

Point-five.

Less than a one?

Yes.

Adam Pollock, a martial arts expert,demonstrated the so-called ground and pound technique of fighting that awitness last week said he saw Trayvon Martin use while atop Zimmerman on thenight of the shooting. Pollock, who is also a trainer, said he's seen his shareof fight aftermaths and said that just days after the confrontation withTrayvon Martin, Zimmerman appeared black-eyed and emotionally traumatized.

Martin Savidge, cnn, Sanford, Florida.