selfishness. we'll have a live update from cnn's jim bitterman in rome in just a moment. but, first, a developing story happening in texas. authorities there are hunting for leads in the murder of a county prosecutor and his wife. mike and cynthia mcclelland were shot inside their home. it happened in kaufman, texas, the same place that mark hasse was gunned down in december. i spoke just a few moments ago with the mayor of kaufman and he thinks the murders are linked. >> it has to be targeted. that's the logical conclusion. i don't have any information to lead me to believe that is the case. they targeted two people from our prosecutors. >> and our ed lavandera is in kaufman this morning.

what are people telling you about these latest murders and the killing of the d.a. in january? >> authorities aren't saying much but clear from the response that we saw last night to this murder scene at the home of mike mcclelland where he and his wife were gunned down in their own home. so, clearly, that response that you saw descend in that neighborhood where the mcclellands live gives you an indication of how serious this situation is here in kaufman county. these murders coming almost two months that assistant prosecutor mark hasse was walking to work, in what many people describe as a brazen attack. a great deal of speculation as to what exactly is going on with these elected officials or these

officials here in kaufman county and whether or not they're being specifically targeted. it does appear to be that way at this point. after the assistant prosecutor was killed in january. mike mclelland had very strong words on how they would go after these killers. listen to what he said two months ago. >> i hope that the people that did this are watching because we're very confident that we're going to find you. we're going to pull you out of whatever hole you're in and bring you back and let the people of ka a ufman county prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. anything that you people can do to accelerate getting our hands on this scum will be appreciated.

>> so, you heard there the d.a. using the word scum to describe the killer of his co-worker, the assistant prosecutor two months ago. strong words in this latest development has a great number of people here in kaufman county, alison, on edge. we are expecting to hear from investigators and authorities here in several hours at some point this morning on this easter sunday morning. this is, obviously, clearly a situation that has taken a great deal of attention from law enforcement at the federal, state and local levels here in kaufman county. alison? >> is it true that texas authorities warned that they could plot to hurt law enforcement officials and police thought there could be a link between hasse and ebil who is connected to killing the prison director in colorado? are they telling you anything about that? >> this is one of those things where there is a great deal of uncertainty surrounding these cases. but having said that, there has been, initially after the

assistant prosecutor was gunned down at the end of january, authorities say that they were suspecting that a white supremacist group was behind that aattack. then we saw or have heard that authorities here in texas have been comparing notes with investigators in colorado to see if evan ebil the man they suspect gunned down the colorado prison chief, those cases were related and now you add this case to all of that. no direct links have been tied yet, but it has been clear that perhaps there have been investigators sharing notes, comparing notes between all of these cases and that will continue. so, that's kind of a cloud that h hoovers over the situation this morning. >> one last question for you, ed. i know this sounds kind of grim, there is a who's next mentality? it sounds grim, but you have to wonder. >> i'm sorry, repeat the question. >> if there's a feeling of the folks that you're talking to in

texas about whether or not there's a who's going to be next mentality because there is this apparent link between these murders. >> yeah, you know, these links just so uncertain at this point, but it's one of these things where, you know, it's clear that we've learned that investigators are comparing notes. that there is some sort of interest that they need to share information. whether it goes beyond that is unclear. but at this point, there's just so much uncertainty and kind of like this cloud hoovering over these different cases. there's a great deal of uncertainty and that causes a lot of people to be, to feel like they're on edge, especially for people who are in positions of high-profile, public positions like these prosecutors. >> ed lavandera, thank you. now, we take you back to the vatican where hast hour pope francis gave his first easter blessing as pope. cnn international correspondent jim bitterman is in rome.

jim, how does his message today set him apart from pope benedict? >> well, i think one of the things he's done in this message, in this easter mass today was shorten things quite a bit. probably the shortest easter mass i can remember. less than an hour and a half long. the pope has made it clear in the first public outings since he was elected. he likes to keep things short. that sits very well with the crowd. one of the things that he did in his blessing today was modernize his extension of blessings and wishes for peace around the world to include some of the modern conflicts, including not only the middle east conflict in syria, those are things that benedict xvi pointed to last easter. conflicts haven't been solved but add aing nigeria, the korean peninsula and saying that these are places in the world that finding a peaceful solution is absolutely necessary. he said they wish peace to a

world that was torn apart by greed and by trafficking and by human trafficking. so, it was a very human message that he had today. as he went through the crowd today. one of the things that were interesting and he, once again, in his open pope mobile. he stopped to kiss babies and at one point to pick up a handicapped child and bless the handicapped child. >> jim bitterman, thank you very much. the pope also said he hopes there could be reconcilization in the cprince. now the north has seemed to have turned down the rhetoric. jim clancy is in seoul, south korea, this morning. could north korea be toning down its threats? >> well, it would seem that way, at least for one day. let's be cautious here because a day does not any policy make. we know so little of what goes on inside north korea.

it's hard to judge here. we know the regime is very unpredictable and we have to keep that in mind. a couple thoughts here. the first one is that perhaps kim jung-un is listening to those voices outside his country. voices like china asking him to dial it back to tone it down. second, there were some north korean experts that were getting to the point that they said kim jung-un was painting himself into a corner with all of these threats, especially with his domestic audience. in other words, the north koreans themselves have been whipped into such a frenzy, how would you turn it off? what would happen to him? would he lose his position? his respect in north korea? what kind of a crisis could that provoke, if he felt he had to take action in order to keep his standing among his own people. so, a lot of reason for people to look on today as it's been quiet and say, let's hope it stays this way.

alison? >> how much did the economic consequences of his actions play a part in sort of calming the situation down? >> well, you know, one of the latest threats and it's very important to note this, the threat was carried on the north korean news agency website. north koreans don't see that. it wasn't broadcast on north korean television, which they would see and they would talk about. what we're talking about here is the industrial complex, just north of the demilitarized zone here between north and south korea. it's inside north korea and employs some 50,000 north koreans. they earn a salary of around $160 a month. the government gets some of that money. it is a source of hard currency, not just north korean money, but hard currency it's seeing increasing trade between the two koreas and despite all the phone lines being cut the industrial complex has remained open.

when south korean news sources find out that he he does that, he would shut it down if there was any more ipumpugning of the north korea government. that trade is still going on. and that, perhaps, is a good sign. it really represents a bellwether for what's happening here on the korean peninsula. alison? >> jim clancy in seoul, south korea, thanks. 50 years ago to the day, this is how president kennedy and his family spent their sunday. we'll show you more photos and video just released from the kennedy archive. for those nights when it's more than a bad dream, be ready. for the times you need to double-check the temperature on the thermometer, be ready. for high fever, nothing works faster

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i'm joined now on the phone by a presidential historian at harvard university and she has a new book out called the end of leadership. barbara, good morning. >> good morning, alison. >> what is it? we just can't get enough of camelot. >> these are a small series of very charming photos. we have john kennedy, we have jacqueline kennedy and we have the two children when they were still very young. and it's from a time gone by. the mad men era, the camelot era. it's a wonderful kind of easter sunday of moment of time that seems now forever frozen with the president assassinated so very young and it has immense personal and even still, political appeal. >> you look at each of these photos. there's definitely such a sweetness in each of these, isn't there? >> well, there's a sweetness and there's also a kind of mad men

formality. the president, which we wouldn't see today even at camp david is dressed in a coat and a tie and jacqueline kennedy is looking impeccably elegant, as always. even little, as he was called then, john john, who sits so poignantly in the cockpit of a helicopter when we know how he died. so, again, it's particularly poignant, as well as charming. but even he, this little tyke is dressed what we used to say, dressed to the nines. so, we have, you know, this sort of all possible world but it's fixed in our mind's eye that also makes it seem slightly unreal in the second decade of the 21st century. >> knowing what happened with john john, what do you make of the decision to release them, especially that picture of him sitting in the cockpit? >> it's a really good question. you know, i'm not sure, first of

all, i have no inside information. i don't think we should make much of it. these pictures are exactly half a century old and may have been released for that purpose. i'm not sure there was anything particularly mysterious. they could have chosen to withhold them and, obviously, we are getting some of these kennedy materials in dribs and drabs, but i suspect it was just a half a century of remembrance and perhaps no more, really a, than that. >> the 50th anniversary of the president's assassination is coming up in november. do you think maybe we could expect more new photos and documents to come out? >> well, i think we can expect nonstop attention to that event, unless for some other reason it's pushed off the stage and one never knows in domestic and world politics. but, yes, clearly, the library is withholding materials and they are choosing to release them at certain moments of time. decisions that they and the family are no doubt making and,

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easter for mest are most of the country. let's go to alexandria steel. what is going on today? >> a lot. especially in the northeast. easter egg hunts or easter services. here in dallas severe thunderstorm watch until noon central time. two-inch hail and maybe 70-mile-per-hour wind gusts. here's the big picture. that's where the rain is. the high for your area and forecast radar. here's the big picture where we have the rain. temperatures in the 50s. this is this morning the rain moving into washington by 11:00 this morning. and then it gets tonight by 10:00 in towards boston. here's a southeast, kind of a dry period in atlanta and then the rain comes back this afternoon. 69 degrees, 81 in jacksonville. really south of daytona, fine conditions today. we're fine in the rockies and dry skies, beautifuldi