on and see how they can make sure to keep dangerous criminals from sneaking their way back on to the streets. a new cnn poll out this morning showing americans are not too optimistic about the economy. only 29% feel the economy is in good shape. that's the lowest since december. and so all eyes are on the new monthly jobs report set to be released later this morning. will the outlook get better or worse? and you'll recall the men recorded themselves knocking over that ancient boulder at a utah state park. apparently they've been given the boot from the boy scouts. they violated a leave no trace policy in natural areas. also, controversy growing. the guy right there who shoved over the rock, well, he had filed a disability lawsuit before this whole incident. how could that be? >> but first, breaking overnight, could a mystery child discovered in greece be american? police suspect the girl was abducted by a gypsy couple. now it's whose child is this in the parents of a missouri girl,

do you remember baby lisa, missing since 2011 in they say this could be her and the fbi is getting involved. let's bring cnn's george howell, in kansas city with the latest. good morning, george. >> reporter: chris, good morning. here in front of the family's home, no lights are on. the family is still asleep. we did confirm with their attorney that the fbi is now in contact with greek officials about the possible connection between their missing daughter and this girl in greece named maria. this morning, new questions and perhaps new possibilities. could this young girl found in greece, actually be from kansas city? >> i feel like she's okay. >> reporter: the parents of lisa irwin, the missing kansas city toddler who vanished from her bed after an apparent home invasion in 2011, they reached out to the fbi, who contacted greek authorities because they believe this striking blond

haired blue eyed girl found in this gypsy camp could be lisa. >> there is no such thing as a tip too small. >> reporter: the second anniversary of lisa's disappearance was two weeks ago and a new photo was released of what she might look like today. strikingly similar to the girl found in grease, called maria. >> i dream about her all the time. this is what i see in my dreams. >> reporter: some things don't add up. lisa would be 3 years old. according to a spokesman from smile of the child, maria is to be around 5 or 6 but all possibilities must be ruled out. >> they claim we never abducted this child. >> reporter: the couple claiming to be maria's parents were arrested on suspicion of abducting a minor. dna results confirm they are not her biological mom and dad. but greek authorities are getting calls from around the world, offering leads on the

possibility identity of the mystery girl. so far, they're taking about ten of those leads seriously, including some races from the u.s. one of them baby lisa. >> certainly a ray of hope for this family and many others looking at this case in greece. however, very important to point out, kate, that according to the group smiles of a child, maria is 5 or 6 years according to dental records. baby lisa would be 3 next month. >> as you point out, george, a ray of hope for this family. clearly they'll figure this out soon. we'll follow up on this. thank you. let's turn now to the deadly shooting at a nevada middle school. a hero teacher who lost his life trying to protect students from a classmate armed with a semiautomatic handgun. the teacher was shot and killed and two students were wounded before the young gunman took his own life. cnn's stephanie elam is following all of the developments this morning, she's

live in sparks, nevada. good morning, stephanie. >> reporter: good morning, kate. another school shooting and another part of the country where people say things like this just don't happen. >> trying to make sense of a senseless killing. the small desert community of sparks, nevada came together in prayer last night, this after a -- >> this he have one victim in the cafeteria, one in the hall. >> reporter: students were waiting for the morning bell to ring and then shots fired. >> people started running and screaming. i started running and then we heard another gunshot. >> a kid started getting mad and he pulls out a gun and shoots my friend. >> reporter: the shooter, a 13-year-old student allegedly using his parents gun wounded two fellow students, one in the shoulder, the other in the abdomen. a teacher rushed to their aid. >> he walked up to a teacher and says back up.

the teacher started backing up, he pulled the trigger. >> the teacher was trying to make him put it down but he took a shot. >> reporter: a shot that killed 45-year-old michael landsbury. he was a former marine who served several tours in afghanistan. he's now being called a hero. >> he was a very well-liked teacher by the students and other teachers. it's unfortunate that someone like that that protected our country over there and came back alive, that his life had to be taken. >> he loved coaching and teaching. he was aa good-all-around individual. >> reporter: i had the chills when i heard that mr. landsberry died. having him for math was the best. it's too hard to even believe. no teacher will take his place, nothing is going to be the same anymore. you are a hero and you will always be missed at sparks middle school. as for the student suspect, police say he took his own life with that gun. >> i knew the person with the

gun. he was really a nice kid. he would make you smile when you're having a bad day. i saw him getting bullied a couple times. i think he took out his bullying on it. >> reporter: it's still unclear what drove this child to resort to violence and whether or not he was targeting the students or beloved math teacher who survived war only to die in what should have been the safe haven of an american middle school. and police are saying that everything happened within three minutes and that they were here on campus in that amount of time and everything was done. we can also tell you that school is canceled for the rest of the week and counseling is available for these children who saw this happen on the playground of their middle school just before class was supposed to start. chris? >> stephanie, thank you for the reporting this morning. we move on now to the president and his efforts to reassure the public that the obama care website will be fixed. he did acknowledge there are serious technical issues

affecting online enrollment but the question now is were there red flags that something was wrong before the website even launched? cnn's jim acosta is live in washington with the latest. what do we know about this? >> reporter: chris, what we know is administration officials are being hush hush about who's being brought in to fix the health care website and how long it will take. there is one thing the white house will acknowledge and that is they've got a big problem. the way administration officials describe it, the so-called tech surge to fix the obama care website sounds like a top secret mission with an all-star team of i.t. specialists parachuting in from across the country. >> nobody's madder than me about the fact that the website isn't working as well as it should which means it's going to get fixed. >> reporter: one question is whether warning signs were missed. "the washington post" reports the site crashed just days before it was launched during a simulation test involving hundreds of users. despite a pugh research poll,

only a few americans saying the obama exchanges are working well. >> we're way still early in the process. you're talking about a february 15th and a march 31st deadline. it is october 21st today. so let's be clear about that. >> welcome to the health insurance marketplace. >> reporter: until the site is fix, frustrated consumers are being urged to call a toll free number to shop for insurance. that's an option administration officials don't like because it could be a big turnoff to younger, healthier buyers who do everything online and are critical to obama care's success. last week, "consumer reports" warned that the glitches are too much to absorb, stay away from healthcare.gov for at least another month. the site has since posted an update saying the website's problems do not negate the law's benefits. >> to free families from -- >> reporter: even the president's speech aimed at re-assuring americans about

obama care, when an aid nearly faint. >> this happens when i talk too long. >> reporter: a diabetic nearly her entire life, allison told cnn's piers morgan she's a big obama care backer. >> i've been lucky enough to be covered because i was covered before i was diagnosed but have never been able to switch coverage and lived with the fear -- >> reporter: the next fireworks over obama care are likely to happen on thursday when executives from some of the contractors that worked on health care website are scheduled to testify up on capitol hill. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius won't be at that hearing. officials are indicating she will testify next week. kate and chris? >> all the news coming out this and the problems they're facing day by day. making news early this morning, u.s. secretary of state

john kerry meeting with his french counterpart over alleged nsa surveillance in the country. president obama and french president francois hollande spoke monday night about the matter. they agree that they will cooperate on investigating this report. alleged al qaeda terrorist due back in court today. abu anas al libi was captured in a daring u.s. commando raid in libya earlier this month. he's accused of playing a major role in the 1998 u.s. embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania. he's being tried in a federal court. he's pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges. special prosecutor is looking into a teen rape case dropped a year ago in missouri. daisy coleman was 14 when she says a popular football player sexually assaulted her. the local prosecutor dropped the case saying daisy and her family

stopped cooperating. the family denies that. later today, anonymous has planned a rally in support of daisy. an investigation under way into a plane that was detained at charlotte's airport monday. crew members found a suspicious note on the u.s. airways flight right after takeoff from buffalo, new york. airplane was checked and cleared. authorities say there was no threat to public safety. a woman walks right off a subway platform in boston and on to the tracks. officials say the 31-year-old woman was down there for a minute or so before bystanders managed to pull her up to safety. the woman told police she had fallen asleep on a bench and may have been sleepwalking when she fell on to the tracks. miraculously she only suffered an injury to an arm. how frightening. >> the poor thing. that's not the way you want to wake up. >> thank goodness there were other people. >> silver lining, too often we

do stories about how nobody steps up. people jumping in, checking up the tracks. as long as you can do it safely. >> team work. a check of the weather indra petersons, dressed in colorful fashion though not fall colors. >> i can still stay cheery. what's fall? browns, yellows. >> ciena. >> this is purple by the way. >> visiting the crayon box. >> we both have purple. >> team work, guys. >> green, purple, all there. >> want to take you to chicago this morning. it looks pretty nice right now. keep in mind they are under a freeze warning. current temperature 32 degrees and rain and even some snow is xpeted to move in later today. you can take a look at the map. we have an alberta clipper making its way through the region.

yes, they'll be feeling the chill. the front makes its way into the country and ohio valley and mid-atlantic and northeast. the big temperature change will be the to ary. we have a pattern here where the cold air is spreading into the northeast. the jet stream diving down and bringing that cold air east today. where it is so easy to see. look at the current temperature difference. philly right now, 53. new york, comfortable. right now 57 degrees. look just on the other side of this cold front. they're talking about temperatures a good 20 degrees cooler. that is what is headed our way. notice the highs today. chicago, yes, right now you're freezing. you're only expecting a high of 41 degrees. that is 20 degrees below normal even for you. cincinnati, 55 as your high today. green bay, the high 48 degrees. yes, we'll see the shift to the east today. today is the big day. we start to see the drop tomorrow. new york city 66. by tomorrow, you drop down to 51

in boston. everyone will feel the change. we're going to add rain in there for you as well. but not much, just about an inch. overall, i think it will feel like fall by tomorrow. right now we've been lucky. >> i keep wearing my coat and say i don't need this thing. >> i have yet to bring it out. that's impressive for me. >> that's very impressive. thank you, indra. coming up next on "new day," two convicted killers who forged their way out of prison are back behind bars in florida this morning. but the case exposed something much larger and potentially more dangerous. ceelo green facing the music in court on a dug charge. we'll tell you his response. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪

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so two escaped florida killers are back behind bars this morning. what made this a story in part is that they escaped using forged release documents and walked right out of prison. now the investigation is taking a surprising turn uncovering a shadowing underground network, most of us never knew existed. cnn's nick valencia is live in tallahassee, florida with that. good morning, nick. >> reporter: good morning, chris. charles walker and joseph jenkins are not cooperating with authorities but even still in the days since their arrest, florida law enforcement officials say they discovered this kind of fraud is not isolated to the two escaped murders. days after two convicted murders

were mistakenly released from prison. new revelations about how they obtained forged documents to set them free. >> we have a confidential source that advised us there was a cottage industry, if you will, where an individual was able to construct these documents for $8,0 $8,000. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview, it's been said that seven inmates have tried this since 2009. are you looking at this perhaps being an inside job? >> that is a consideration that it was -- that they had help inside either the prison or inside the clerk of the courts office. >> reporter: state officials had been investigating the issue for about a year. and had warned prosecutors about the schemes over the summer. the inmates presented documents with the fake signatures of a judge and assistant state attorney hoping to secure their release.

now new procedures are in place to prevent this from happening again. prison officials will now be required to check with the judge to ensure the release order is legitimate. >> obviously they recognize holes in our system. that wasn't the department of law enforcement but holes have been recognized and they're doing a very good job of patching those holes through a series of confirming as before an action like this is taken. >> reporter: a man that led cops to the capture of walker and jenkins from this hotel. >> the suspects are pin pointed. we do not have the arrest warrants for them as we speak. >> reporter: a press conference from the florida department of law enforcement is scheduled for later this afternoon where officials are expected to announce that this case is moving quickly. kate? >> it sure is. especially because it's such an embarrassment for state officials at this point. nick, thank you. music star and "the voice"

judge ceelo degree -- green pleading not guilty to a drug charge. entertainment correspondent nischelle turner is here following the developments. >> most people know him as a coach or mentor. he's also a five-time grammy winning artist, part of the hip hop group goody mob. he walked into court with a cold exterior and holding hands with a woman, then he faced the judge. a few hours before "the voice" hit airwaves monday night, unof its celebrity coaches appeared before a real-life judge in a los angeles courtroom on a felony charge. >> your preliminary hearing would be within 30 calendar days of november 20th. >> reporter: he pleaded not guilty to one felony count ever furnishing a controlled substance to a 33-year-old female last year. the woman claims the 38-year-old grammy winning r & b singer

slipped her ecstasy as they dined in a downtown l.a. restaurant and then took advantage of her in her hotel room. prosecutors declined to charge him with rape of an intoxicated person, citing insufficient evidence. a move that seemed encouraging to the entertainer as he walked into the courthouse monday. >> are you still scared though? >> i don't know. >> reporter: his attorney, blair burke issued a statement saying mr. green encouraged a full and complete investigation of those claims and he was confident that he would be cleared of having any wrongful intent and it would be established that any relations were consensual. as "the voice" enters the battle round for its contestants, ceelo still faces a battle for his freedom. he faces up to four years in prison if convicted on the drug charge. for now he's free on $30,000 bail. >> and again, ceelo entered a

not guilty plea yesterday. he will be back in court on november 20th. there's been no immediate word from nbc about his future on "the voice." >> it seems like right now he has something more important to worry about than the show. >> indeed he does. >> thank you. coming up next on "new day," even the president is admitting the obama care website has been a mess and critics are circling the wagon. details in our political gut check, ahead. >> a new poll out this morning that will give you a good picture of how the country feels about the economy. you'll want to hear it. for aches and pains

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welcome back to "new day," tuesday, october 22nd. midterm elections are more than a year away if you're looking at the calendar. new cnn polls showed just this morning both parties have a long way to go to regain popularity with voters. john king is here to take a look at these poll numbers. the new poll numbers are out. incumbents across the board are not very popular. it does appear the shutdown hurt republican incumbents more. >> republicans are hurt more, usually by 10, 15, sometimes as many as 20 points. the republicans get punished severely. what do you see there? an opening for democrats to defy history. i would say that with a huge caveat. a lot of the people saying replace all the republicans are democrats who live in manhattan or san francisco and are represented by democrats in congress. if you look at the 308i ipollin,

the democrats need to be near perfect. they need to hope the issues portfolio stays in their favor. midterm election, the president's party on average loses 19 seats. >> okay. >> the odds still favor the republicans believe it or not despite the last few weeks. >> right. >> the democrats have a chance. >> when you lock at one of these poll numbers we have, the question was, most members of congress deserve re-election. when you say only 25% said yes, 71% said no. that to me is astonishing. there's a breakdown between democrats and republicans. that's astonishing. >> if you had watched what has happened in washington, the whole last year, never mind the last few weeks of the shutdown, the whole last year, whether you're a democrat or republican or independent, what have they done that suits what you wanted them to do? whether it's deal with the economy, people are not in a great mood about the economy.

whether it's jobs, whether maybe you want immigration reform or you don't. they haven't done anything. it's been a wasted year in washington. that's not a surprising number. people are disgusted with the congress and washington in general. the question is how does it play out a year from now. >> right. >> they're the kind of numbers that give you an opening for a wave election. the democrats want a wave to take back the house. history says it should be a republican year because it's the sixth year of a democratic presidency. it's fascinating right now. we can't answer that question. >> exactly. the calendar is the thing that matters at this moment. how is the president faring in all of this? we had poll numbers showing he was at 44% approval rating which is pretty static. what are the major problems? obama care and how that's been handle handled. >> the shutdown is now in the rearview mirror. people don't like it, they're mad about it. you can see that in the polls.

the election is a year away. the president is at 44% in part because people, again, think the economy is too sluggish in part because of the glitches or hiccups, call them what you want be the problems with implementing obama care. that's in the front, in the windshield. we'll see that over the next year. the rains think as the health care plan is implemented, if the economy doesn't kick into a third gear, come next october, first week of november people willing more voting on the referendum on the president which is usually the case in midterm elections. who knows. the democrats have an opening here. it will make it fascinating to watch it play out. >> republicans are beginning the strategy to keep obama care in the forefront. they know they've missed an opportunity when october 1st when the exchanges went live. the website went live. you have hearings that will be this week, hearings next week. they'll want to get answered and play this out. >> they'll play this out in washington with their hearings. the mostp ior exchanges, people getting health care, are they having an easier time? and a more important question, a year from now are they paying more money and do they think

they're getting the same or better quality of care? health care is so personal. if people are personally mad come next october about health care, the republicans will have a perfectly good year. >> how the administration handles picking up the pieces will be a big factor in how big this plays in the midterm. >> especially in an environment where people have such little faith in government. if they can fix their mistakes and own up to them, they'll probably get some credit. >> good to see you. >> i like having him in new york. >> let's keep him. >> more king, concentrated king when he's here. >> it's highly concentrated, like orange juice. >> your jets beat my patriots. you should be gloating. >> why did you bring that up? >> jets green respected by the way. thank you. you know why? boston strong. my heart is with this city right now. >> i'll be there tomorrow. >> enjoy it. >> the only reason he's in new york. >> october baseball, it's a great thing. >> thanks, john.

let's get to michaela for the stories making news at this hour. our headlines, could two mysteries be coming together. an attorney for the missing girl known as baby lisa says the fbi is talking with investigators in greece to see if maria is actually lisa. there are similarities between maria and a new age progression image of lisa. lisa irwin vanished from her kansas home some two years ago. authorities in nevada still trying to determine the motive for a deadly shooting at a middle school in sparks, nevada. a 45-year-old teacher and military veteran was killed. witnesses say landsberry was shot trying to shield other students. the shooter took the semiautomatic handgun from his parents. the two wounded students are in stable condition this morning. 21 members of the arizona air national guard including a colonel have been indicted in alleged pay scheme.

officials say the guardsmen defrauded the federal government out of more than $1 million over a three-year period. they allegedly falsified their home addresses making them eligible for extra pay. two of the three women held captive for a decade in cleveland are writing a book about their ordeal. amanda berry and gina dejesus have partnered with mary jordan and her husband, kevin sullivan. castro was sentenced to life but hanged himself in the prison in september. a teen from oklahoma went digging for buried treasure and came up with a treasure. she discovered an almost 4 carat yellow diamond. she found that, people. that gem is tear drop, it's shaped in a tear drop and says it is the size of a jelly bean.

>> i've been missing a jelly bean size for months now. >> is that what you said you were going to give to us. >> split in half. i was going to give it to you for nose rings. >> we're here. >> contemporary. >> let's let her have it. live and let live, i say. >> maybe i'll make a condition of the good stuff. brand new polls this morning showing americans think the economy -- wait for it -- is in rough shape. are you surprised in maybe not. but do they have hope for the future? you'll want to hear it. president obama is promising to fix the problems that have plagued the health care website. but how? we'll talk to a tech expert about it, next. people don't have to think about

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money time. you saw it. just 29% say the country's economic conditions are good. and that's bad. let's bring in chief business correspondent christine romans to help us understand why, why the pessimism? >> shutdown fatigue. when your leaders aren't leading, i think people start to feel unnefshd at a time when the recovery is quite fragile. you can see consumer confidence is flagging here and it's concerning. look at this, 29% say that

economic conditions today are good. that is the worst we've seen since late last year. all this year we've been able to hold above 30% but now we're pulling below there. when you have your government, when you have congress taking you to the brink and then stopping at the last minute, again and again and again, it hurts confidence. when confidence gets hurt, that's bad news for job creat n creation, bad news for spending. something that's interesting to me, you have the nasdaq up 30% this year. a record high in the s&p 500 yet you have confidence falling, falling, falling. because of i think the message that we're seeing from washington. >> what is the disconnect then there? >> the disconnect is half of americans are vested in the stock market, half aren't. for everybody else it's about a job. they want to hear the government is working to make the kinds of -- the kind of environment we're going to create job. we're not creating jobs. people are feeling better going forward. one of these polls showed a year from now 40% say things will be

doing better, things will be good. that's great to know, except that's down from earlier this summer when half the people thought things would be better. you want to see people being hopeful going into next year. are we going to have that if we have more manufactured crises down the road? it's a leadership story, a job story. we'll know in less than two hours what the job situation was before september. that will be a number before the shutdown. jobs still the key. that hasn't been the message from washington. it's been about fighting about debt and deficits. jobs are the key right here. >> often, though, fixing the economy is different than fixing confidence. what do you think the numbers mean to our men and women in washington? >> think it puts them on notice, unless they start to have a real sane budget process you'll have the american people saying we're not feeling good about things. we're going to pull back. this shows you that washington is hurting the economy, hurting the way people feel.

>> thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> we'll be talking to you in a little while. let's get over to indra right now to get another check of the forecast. talking about cold, cold, cold, indra. >> i would say we're under a freeze warning, yes. you would be cold. chicago, 31 degrees under a freeze warning. the current temperatures right now, look at the difference on both sides of the cold front. charleston, 53 degrees, right on the flip side of it, indianapolis right now 33. good 20 degree drop all long this front. a pretty strong cold front that's expected to spread to the mid-atlantic and northeast today. how cold is it, even for the midwest? well, chicago today your high is only 41 grows. that is 19 degrees below average. you're in st. louis, a little bit more moderate, 61 degrees, 6 below in cincinnati. 10 below at 55. either way, we're looking for this big pattern change to occur as the cold front makes its way across. you can see the light rain,

showing you where that frontal boundary is. light rain will be expected with it as well. the big story will be temperatures not just in the northeast and mid-atlantic, even into the southeast. atlantic today, 71. check out boston, high today 69 degrees. by tomorrow, welcome at that drop. boston goes down 20 degrees to 51 degrees, even in atlanta. we go down to about 62 degrees. so the chill is spreading anywhere that you are on the east coast. but i mean, still 62 in atlanta, i think they're fine. boston 51. 20 degrees in one day, a lot. >> that is a lot in one day. let's go around the world, starting in russia where investigators say a female saw cried bomber set off a blast on a bus that killed six people. >> reporter: the explosion was captured on a dashboard video camera, debris blasted across the road. moments later, passengers are scene running from the bus. one of those survivors told them the bomb detonated moments after

a woman boarded that bus. she believe she was the suicide bomber. a 30-year-old from the russian republic of dagestan. it's close to suchi. in china, a second day of dangerous smog is leading to closure of schools, roads and the airport. david mckenzie has that. >> reporter: the pollution in beijing is bad today but in northeast china it's off the charts. bringing a city of some 10 million people to a standstill. flights have been canceled, the highway intotown closed and schools have been shut down. they say it's because the heating system, coal powered has been turned on in the city, here in china, they want a long-term solution to the problem of terrible pollution but there seems like there's no end in sight. kate, back to you.

>> thank you so much, david. that goes under the category of terrible pollution. my goodness. >> when you put industry first and there's no regulation, they'll have problems. they're going through their own evolution there about how they catch up to where we are today. we're going to take a break on "new day." are you tired about hearing about how the obama health care site is broken? we'll tell you why it's broken and what they can do to fix it. check out this tribute to michael jackson. it's our must-see moment. you don't want to look yet, kate. [ woman ] if you have the audacity to believe

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welcome back to "new day." even the president admits the healthcare.gov website has serious problems. with persistent delays and errors plaguing users and insurance companies, it needs fixing and fast. the administration says they're bringing in technology experts to help what should be done. brett larson is the host of techbytes. they're bringing in experts. should they not have done that beforehand one would ask? did they have a good team of people to launch this in the first place? >> you would hope, because they're the most online savvy administration that we've ever seen. they know how to use the web and the internet and twitter and all of these things. for them to fail on building a website is kind a big gaffe. they should have brought experts in. i think they needed more time. i think they needed more infrastructure and more testing. >> there was not a lot of beta

testing. >> there was not a lot of beta testing. from the reports we read, during the beta testing the site completely failed. this is a complicated thing. it's not when you go on kayak to buy a plane ticket, i'm going from new york to jfk or new york to san francisco on this date and i want a ticket. okay, there are seven tickets available. we need to know how old are you, your zip code, your -- and are you healthy? >> for the nontech savvy, reading that they did tests and due to volume it crashed just days before and now there's some need to rewrite millions of -- what's it called, lines of new code. what does that mean? how could they have gotten that from so wrong. >> from everything i've seen it seems pretty easy why they got it wrong. they had too many people trying

to make too many things communicate. >> too many cooks in the kitchen. >> this guy is going to design the front end. you are going to have this data base talk to this data base. >> this is not what we experienced with homeland security. they'll be an evolution. they knew that, they just got what the curve was going to be wrong. point of order, mr. larson, isn't it different based on what state you're in? >> right. >> tell us why. >> also the reason why the healthcare.gov site was so burdened is because the states that aren't participating where you are required to go to the federal site puts extra burden. the states that are participating like new york, like california, they've spent time and money to build out the infrastructure so it actually works. the new york site works great. the first couple days it was difficult to get through it because of demand. after the first week now you can get on it. >> how much of an easy fix is this going to be going forward in they have to make it right. >> time is of the essence.

>> they need to do it quickly. i would say it's probably a month at best to get it done and it's going to be a lot of work. a lot of sweat equity will have to go back into it. >> they have to keep doing it while they fix it which adds to the burdens. >> nights and weekends they could pull it offline. you want to make it available any time of the day. that's the bought of the internet. the phone center i have heard reports is working better although when the president gave out the number there was a busy signal. can't imagine why. it's like a radio contest. >> brett larson -- >> who thought the dmv would be a better option than another government program. time for must-see moment. check this out, the king of pop in the form of a marching ban. that's ohio state's marching band. fanning out on the film, forming

the silhouette, doing the moon walk, everything. several recognizable dance moves. it's really fan of theic. >> is that real? >> naturally this has gone viral. over 2 million views. they are known for doing incredible formation. >> their marching banned is spectacular. >> kate's a michigan fan. >> she's pro band. >> i'm not a fan of buckeyes. >> kate is afraid of marching bands. >> look at this moon walk. >> they sped it up. >> they did. >> that's impressive. >> they're running, well -- >> have to point out the obvious. >> coming up next on "new day," could the mystery of a girl found in greece be connected to the disappearance of a little girl in kansas city? we have breaking developments in this case, coming up for you. how did this happen again?

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update for you for water cooler time. it took nearly half a season but the giants became jet-like, aka winning, beating the vikings. >> did you write that yourself? i think you did. >> andy scholes with this morning's bleacher report. hello, handsome, tell us about the game. you knew the giants were going to get a win eventually. records wise, the game was the worst matchup ever in the history of "monday night football." you had 1-4 vikings taking on the winless giants and the game was pretty ugly. the lone bright spot for the viking was wildman gerald

allen's awesome sack of eli manning. he has to reach around the offensive lineman, grabs him. eli took the sack there, he did not throw an interception for the first time this season. the giants would end their worst start in nearly 40 years with the 23-7 win. "forbes" releasing its annual list of the most disliked athletes in the nfl. topping the list is michael vick. fans clearly haven't forgot about the dogfighting scandal and they haven't forgot about the fake girlfriend of manti te'o. ndamukong suh and ben roethlisberger round out the top five. and keelan recently became the youngest person ever to run a half marathon. she not only completed the race, she did it in good time, crossing the finish line in 2 hours and 46 minutes. keelan wasn't only running for

the record, she was doing it to raise money for charity. >> wow. >> she's got the half marathon at 6 years old. she said she wants to run a full marathon by the time she's 10. >> that is putting it all in perspective when we say we don't feel like working out. >> you need to set your goals higher. that is the story of the morning. >> wow, that's impressive. >> it sure is. >> only way you get one of 3450i k -- my kids to do that is suspend an ipad one foot in front of their face. we are at the top of the hour which means it's time for the top news. mothers intuition, the only word i know to explain it is that i feel like she's okay. >> mystery deepens. an american couple thinks this little girl found living in greece is their daughter. are they right?

mourning a hero, a marine turned popular teacher gunned down trying to save his students in a tragic school shooting. this morning, a community searching for answers why this happened. grave side grievance. after getting permission to erect it, a family is told to remove their daughter's tombstone shaped like their favorite cartoon character. the fight and the controversy, straight ahead. your "new day" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. good morning. welcome back to "new day." it's tuesday, october 22nd. 7:00 in the east. new this morning, president obama owning up to the obvious, the embarrassing issues with the obama care website and trying to re-assure americans about the important thing, that it will get fixed. the question, how did the most internet savvy administration in history get this so wrong. plus, the bhok buster trial

starting today for a doctor accused of drugging and drowning his own wife. shocking new evidence is expected. did the doctor tell fellow inmates he was glad that his wife was dead? we'll hash out the new details with hln's nancy grave, coming up. a troubling new report about a recent near collision midair, it might make you nervous to fly. two jumbo jets with nearly a thousand passengers on board came dangerously close to one another. we're learning how it happened and it is pretty scary. breaking overnight, could a little girl found in greece actually be this child known as baby lisa? she went missing from her kansas city home two years ago and her parents think it could be her, the little girl found in guess could be their daughter. as the mystery girl known as maria, she was discovered in a gypsy camp just last week. it's not clear how she got there. so many questions surrounding this mystery. cnn's george howell is following the story live in kansas city this morning. good morning, george. >> kate, good morning. we're here in fact in front of

the family's home. aside from the only light there on that missing child poster, the lights are not on in this home, the family is still asleep. we've confirmed through their attorney that the fbi is in contact with officials in greece to compare similarities between their missing daughter and the girl named maria. this morning, new questions and perhaps new possibilities. could this young girl found in greece, actually be from kansas city? >> i feel like she's okay. >> reporter: the parents of lisa irwin, the missing kansas city toddler who vanished from her bed after an apparent home invasion in 2011, they reached out to the fbi, who contacted greek authorities because they believe this striking blond haired, blue eyed girl found in this gypsy camp could be lisa. >> there is no such thing as a tip too small. >> reporter: the second anniversary of lisa's disappearance was two weeks ago

and a new photo was released of what she might look like today. strikingly similar to the girl found in grease, called maria. >> i dream about her all the time. this is what i see in my dreams. >> reporter: some things don't add up. lisa would be 3 years old. medical tests indicate maria is 5 or 6 but all possibilities must be ruled out. >> the clients claim is that we never abducted this child. >> reporter: the couple claiming to be maria's parents were arrested on suspicion of abducting a minor. dna results confirm they are not her biological mom and dad. but greek authorities are getting calls from around the world, offering leads on the possibility identity of the mystery girl. so far, they're taking about ten of those leads seriously, including some cases from the u.s. one of them, baby lisa.

we know that this case in greece, there are nearly a dozen families that are looking at this case for the possibility that it could be their child. but keep in mind, when it comes to this case, according to the group smiles of a child maria is 5 or 6 years old. that's according to dental records. baby lisa, we understand, would be 3 years old next month. >> all right, george. one thing is for sure, if the authorities are right, this child does belong to someone. the question is who. we will continue to follow the search. we also want to tell you this morning about a school shooting in nevada that sounds like a replay of our national nightmare. a student opens fire in a middle school, killing a beloved math teacher and wounding two classmates. classma classmates, the teacher is credited with keeping the situation contained, a hero, a marine who served several tours in afghanistan. he lost his life trying to talk the young shooter down. stephanie elam is in sparks, nevada, covering the story for

us. good morning, stephanie. >> reporter: good morning. it happened in three minutes, in that time a teacher was lost, a student took his own life and two other students were wounded. trying to make sense of a senseless killing. the small desert community of sparks, nevada came together in prayer last night. >> we have one victim in the cafeteria, one in the hall. >> reporter: students were waiting for the morning bell to ring and then shots fired. >> people started running and screaming. i started running and then we heard another gunshot. >> a kid started getting mad and he pulls out a gun and shoots my friend. >> reporter: the shooter, a 13-year-old student allegedly using his parents gun, wounded two fellow students, one in the shoulder, the other in the abdomen. a teacher rushed to their aid. >> he walked up to a teacher and says, back up.

the teacher started backing up, he pulled the trigger. >> the teacher was trying to make him put it down but he took the shot right then and there. >> reporter: a shot that killed 45-year-old michael landsberry. a popular eighth grade teacher. he was a former marine who served several tours in afghanistan. he's now being called a hero. >> he was a very well-liked teacher by the students and other teachers. it's unfortunate that someone like that that protected our country over there and came back alive, his life had to be taken. >> he loved teaching at sparks middle school. he loved the kids. he loved coaching them and teaching them. he was a good all-around individual. >> reporter: students are pouring out their grief on social media. i had the chills when i heard that mr. landsberry died. having him for math was the best. it's too hard to even believe. no teacher will take his place, nothing is going to be the same anymore. you are a hero and you will always be missed at sparks middle school. as for the student suspect, police say he took his own life with that gun.

>> i knew the person with the gun. he was really a nice kid. he would make you smile when you're having a bad day. i saw him getting bullied a couple times. i think he took out his bullying on it. >> reporter: it's still unclear if that drove this child to resort the violence and whether or not he was targeting the students or beloved math teacher who survived war only to die in what should have been the safe haven of an american middle school. and school has been canceled for the rest of the week and counseling is available to anyone who wants it, as these kids and the community try to process how something like this happened where they say nothing like this ever happens. kate? >> all right, stephanie, thank you so much. when you think about it, it's their first day back from fall break. 12, 13 years old and what they had to see happen, right on their play ground, cafeteria, hallway, it's horrific. >> oddly, you know what they're

going to take comfort in, that it keeps happening, other schools lived through this, the themes are becoming so common, that's part of the tragedy. the immediate instinct is to look at the family of this teacher and say our thoughts and prayers are with you. the legacy of this teacher that he did what he had to do to stop the violence. we hear bullying, a kid disengaged, isolated. how many times do you have to hear it before you make the changes necessary? that's why we cover bullying as aggressive as we do. >> we'll keep covering it and talking to the police involved in this case a little later in the show. we'll try to get more answers for everybody. let's move back now to washington this morning where there is no question that the obama care website has been riddled with technical failures but what do people think of the actual law today? well, check out this new "washington post"/abc news poll. we're seeing an uptick of more people in support of the law compared to just a month ago.

senior white house correspondent jim acosta is here with the latest. good morning, jim. >> reporter: good morning, kate. right now the white house is not saying who is being brought in to fix the obama care website glitches or how long it will take. one thing the administration is being up front is that they have a big problem on their hands. the way administration officials describe it, the so-called tech surge to fix the obama care website sounds like a top secret mission with an all-star team of i.t. specialists parachuting in from across the country. >> nobody's madder than me about the fact that the website isn't working as well as it should which means it's going to get fixed. >> reporter: one question is whether warning signs were missed. "the washington post" reports the site crashed just days before it was launched during a simulation test involving hundreds of users. despite a pugh research poll, finding a own -- only a small

amount of americans saying the obama care exchanges are working well. >> we're way still early in the process. you're talking about a february 15th and a march 31st deadline. it is october 21st today. so let's be clear about that. >> welcome to the health insurance marketplace. >> reporter: until the site is fix, frustrated consumers are being urged to call a toll free number to shop for insurance. that's an option administration officials don't like because it could be a big turnoff to younger, healthier buyers who do everything online and are critical to obama care's success. last week, "consumer reports" warned that the glitches are too much to absorb, stay away from healthcare.gov for at least another month. the site has since posted an update saying the website's problems do not negate the law's benefits. >> to free families from -- >> reporter: even the president's speech aimed at re-assuring americans about obama care had a hiccup when a supporter standing behind him, nearly fainted. >> i got you. no, no, you're okay. this happens when i talk too long.

>> reporter: a diabetic nearly her entire life, allison told cnn's piers morgan she's a big obama care backer. because it will always cover her pre-existing conditions. >> i'm extremely embarrassed that i fainted but honored still to have been there and happy that he caught me. >> reporter: the next fireworks over obama care are likely to happen on thursday when some of the contractors that worked on the health care website are scheduled to testify up on capitol hill. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius won't be at that hearing. officials are indicating she will testify next week. a former innovation fellow has a blog we spotted this morning. it says this innovation fellow, that the contractors who made this website were, quote, at best sloppy and at worst unqualified. that may be where much of the attention is focused this week on this issue with the website. chris? >> all right, jim. it is obvious that the website isn't working and in fact the

problem is becoming a metaphor for how we see obama care overall. is that fair? well, joining us now is the governor of kentucky. his answer is no. thank you for joining us this morning. you're trying to get out in front of this issue and say don't get caught up in the glitches. you need the law. you can make it work and it's working in your state. tell us about it. >> well, it's working very well here, chris. we hit the ground running on october 1. i think everybody in the country now feels like the kentucky health care exchange that connect, as we call it, is the gold standard, because it's working. we're signing up people at roughly 1,000 a day. it's a great rate and a great success so far. you know, it was an easy decision for me, both from a moral standpoint because we have 640,000 uninsured kentuckiens and i want to make sure that

every single kentuckien has affordable health care. i had outside experts saying it would create jobs and infuse $15 billion into our economy. it's a win/win for us. let me give a piece of unsolicited advice to the critics and the news media. take a deep breath. you know, this system is going to work. the only thing that really isn't working right now on the federal level is the website. i'll guarantee you that whether it's a week from now, a month from now, two months from now, they'll get it up and working. people will be signing up. you know, the last time we did a major transformational change in health care in america was back in 1965, i think it was, when they passed medicare. well, history shows us that it took two or three years to work through all of the bumps in the road and all of the kinks to get it up and running and making

sure that everybody joined up. so this is going to work and everybody just needs to chill out a little bit. >> when you say everybody, you're kind of talking to yourself in one way, right, governor, because although you're a democrat, two of the biggest critics of obama care are the senators from your state, right? you have mitch mcconnell and rand paul. they say this is the death of small business. it's going to increase everybody's premiums who doesn't deserve it. what do you think of their points? >> well, they're just not paying attention to the facts, quite honestly, chris. that's what most critics are doing right now. they've weaved this web the misinformation that's been out there for months. guess what, now that the exchanges are open, the people in kentucky are getting on there and finding out for themselves. that's what i've told them. you don't have to like the president. you don't have to like me. this is not about the president. it's not about me. it's about you, your family, your children. so just go on there and check it out and you're going to like what you find. that's what's happening.

they are finding that they can get affordable health coverage for the first time in their lives and i'll guarantee you, about a year from now they'll look back at these critics including a lot of the senators and representatives and say you misled us because, hey, this works. i have affordable health care. >> when you look at the poll numbers, you know, about 46% of americans support obama care up from 42%. let's put the poll aside. i want to use it as a function of perception becomes reality. you're coming up against a problem many states will experience. i'd like you to speak to it today. you have until march 31st to sign people up. as people are being dissuaded, saying the site doesn't work, you're going to run out of time for people to sign up. are you worried about being stuck? >> i'm not worried about kentucky because our system is working. man, people are swarming over our website right now. we've had about 300,000 visitors

to our website, about 65,000 callers on our toll free hot line. so it's working in kentucky. and we're going to get people signed up. i'll tell you and guarantee you that one way or another, deadlines tend to move, you know, when things don't work well, we'll move deadlines. i don't know exactly what decisions will be made because we're not there yet but my guess is, and i feel confident that we will have time to get people in this system because in the long term, this is going to transform history in kentucky because of health care. it's going to transform the united states. >> governor steve beshear, thank you for the perspective. we'll keep up with you on "new day" and let us know how it's going. thank you. >> thank you, chris. >> a little bit of a heads up, one of the things that will be on the table when the parties come back people, extending the deadline. here are your headlines. u.s. secretary of state kerry

and france's foreign minister met over a report that the nsa carried out extensive surveillance on french soil, including scooping up to 70 million digital communications in a single month. just the latest diplomatic squirmish ignited by nsa leaker edward snowden. federal prosecutors say the california security guard accused of plotting to becoming an al qaeda operative had been enlisted to train fighters. he was arrested trying to leave the country. agents say he was carrying a forged passport and a large amount of foreign currency. the state's police chief in florida saying they led to the escape of convicted murders charles walker and joseph jenki jenkins. florida prison officials now have to check with judges to make sure those release orders are legitimate.

walkers and jenkins were recaptured saturday night. this morning, fires continue to burn out of control in australia. firefighters fear the worst is yet to come. wildfires nearly a thousand miles long have moved through the most populous state in australia. they're saying the fire is the size of los angeles. with high temperatures, low humidity and strong winds, fire officials are urging residents to evacuate from the path of those fires. this is a dream come true and an incredible story. zack, a star basketball player from georgia was born missing the lower half of his left arm. he's going to be a florida gator. he's made a verbal commitment to play for university of florida. he says billy donovan said he'll be treated like every other player and will have the same chance to play if he works hard. gator nation is getting a solid kid in zack. we wish him the best. >> you see right there when you

look at the tape. >> he has skills. he has got skills. he plans on hustling, too. he'll work hard. >> stories don't get any better than that in sports. that's what sports are about, overcoming. let's get straight over to indra for another look at the forecast this morning. still cold. any better. >> we're talking about snow now. this is andover, south dakota. the reason it matters, we'll see the system spread through chicago. it's the cold air from alberta, canada. there's a system out there today, you can see the line of showers from new york down through tennessee. a couple things going on. i think the bigger story will be the temperature drop with each one of these systems making its way through. look at the difference in front of the cold front and behind the cold front. charleston right now, 46 degrees, indianapolis, right at the freezing mark at 32. in chicago they have a freeze warning currently below freezing

at 30 degrees. so as we see that cold front shift to the east, all this cold air that you're currently seeing in the midwest will eventually make its way into the mid-atlantic and northeast as well. speaking of highs, these look like lows but no, chicago today your high 41 degrees. that is a chill. cleveland today also about 51 degrees. so definitely below normal for them. you can see the jet stream has dipped down. take a look at the entire country. you can see the cold pool of air. these are today's highs. i want to take you into tomorrow. atlanta 71. look at the drop by tomorrow. boston drops 20 degrees down it their highs about 51 degrees. whatever you want to do outside, today is the day. enjoy it. tomorrow, my uggs are coming down, guys. >> whatever you want to do. >> it will be in the 50s. >> that's my point. >> uggs, 65. >> we'll have to love her through this. >> she'll be in an eco bubble.

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investigators say this near collision in the sky was due to pilot error. what they do not know this morning is why these pilots got it so wrong. midair over scotland, two 747 jumbo jets carrying up to 1,000 passengers are on a path to collide. british investigators say it's because the pilots didn't follow the instructions from air traffic control. >> this is very hard to explain because it appears that two airplanes with two pilots in each airplane, everybody got it wrong initially. >> reporter: the problems started when one plane, jet two, asked the control tower for clearance to climb in altitude. it was cleared. but that put it at the same altitude as another plane, jet one. the two planes were now on a converging path and moving closer by the second. the controller realizing that stepped in to prevent a collision. >> he gave instructions to the pilot on the right to go to the right and on the left to go to

the left. the conclusion of the british investigators was that each pilot did what the other pilot was instructed to do and the planes turned toward each other. >> reporter: at their closest point, the two planes were about 3 miles apart horizontally and 100 feet vertically. >> we got down to the last layers of protection. one pilot saw the other. >> reporter: the plane's automatic alarms alerted the pilots and they corrected their paths. former faa accident investigator steven wallace says it's rare four pilots get the instructions so wrong. but the safety nets kicked in and that, he says, should give comfort to airline passengers. he adds there hasn't been a collision between u.s. airliners since 1978. well, investigators remain the aa loss for answers as to why four pilots, two in each plane,

misheard or misinterpreted the control tower's strucks despite at least one of the crews repeating the instructions correctly. investigators ruled out the possibility of call sign confusion, because the call signs for the two planes were so different. another possibility investigators are looking into, whether the pilots were distracted. chris? >> all right, rene, i'll take it. thank you. let's talk more about this with the former inspector general for the u.s. department of transportation. she's also an aviation attorney. mary, it's great to see you. thank you so much for taking the time. >> thank you, my pleasure. >> as rene just reported at their closest point, the planes were just 100 feet apart, feet apart vertically. a few miles apart horizontally. how close is that when you're talking about two 747 jumbo jets. >> they are very close. when you read the actual report which i read overnight, at one point they were 1.6 miles. just before the actual final

collision avoidance went off on the planes. that's basically a collision without casualty. that's closer than any rules allow, no matter how congested the air space. fortunately the planes themselves averted the disaster at the last moment. >> so you have two sets of pilots, two different planes, all appear to have misinterpreted or misheard the strucks from air traffic control. what do you think happened here with your experience? >> i think in some parts in reading the actual report, some of the transmissions were on top of each other, they were garbled. there is some criticism, i think, due for the air traffic controller. the air traffic controller saw the conflict looming but did not act immediately to separate the planes further. there was one controller on a break, a supervisor was coming on duty. there was a switch of duty times going on in the air traffic control towers. so i think also the controllers could have acted more quickly to intervene. >> and rene talked about it in

her piece. let's talk about the safety equipment on board that should help, it seems did help, to avoid a collision. how does that come into play? when is that supposed to kick in? >> you get alerts from your collision avoidance system, your tcas. when they were at the closest point, the tcas system on the planes did exactly what it's supposed to do, told plane one to descend immediately and plane two to climb and the pilots are supposed to not override that. they did not. had they overridden that and waited for further instructions there would have been a disaster. the planes themselves descended, rose, the pilots did exactly what they were supposed to do at that point. >> this happened back in june. the report coming out now. probably passengers on board, it was combined about 1,000 people that were on these flights, they

probably didn't know any different of course as it was happening because they were able to avoid it. do you think after the fact, after we see this report that there should be repercussions even though it was a near miss and they did avoid the potential of a catastrophe? >> yes, what should happen, remember, for this report, there was a series of near collisions that were in this report from the uk, from april until june. there are about two dozen of them in this one report. what should happen is remedial training for the pilots and requirements that they actually read back the full instruction. one pilot read back the turning instructions, the other pilot just read back his call sign. they didn't get a complete readback on both. the air traffic controllers need retraining, too. they should have stepped in sooner and been more aggressive with their collision avoidance. >> people can at least take comfort in the fact as experts point out, there has not been a collision of u.s. airliners since the late '70s but to say the least, you don't want to get this close.

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welcome back to "new day." tuesday, october 22nd. here are your headlines. new questions arising this morning about weather a missing kansas city girl could be the mystery girl found living in a camp in greece. lisa irwin disappeared two years ago. an attorney for her family confirms to cnn the fbi is talking to greek authorities. the family recently released an age progression composite of what lisa would look like today. it's not believed the girls are the same age. this morning, a popular eighth grade teacher is being hailed a hero after a devastating school shooting in nevada. michael landsberry, a marine who served several tours in afghanistan was shot and killed after witnesses say he asked the student gunman to put his weapon down. the 13-year-old gunman also took his own life. two other wounded students are in stable condition. a guilty verdict in the trial of connecticut police officers accused of harassing and abusing latinos in the town of east haven.

kerry and spalding face up to 20 years in prison. two other officers pleaded guilty to reduced charges and are currently awaiting sentences. the four east haven cops were arrested last year following a federal investigation into racial profiling. in case you hadn't heard, kim kardashian and can yay weka are engaged. he popped the question in front of loved ones at at&t park. he rented out the stadium for the occasion which also happened to be kim's 33rd birthday. quite a gesture. congratulations to the couple. >> congratulations. yes? >> nothing. i've got nothing. >> he's got nothing. >> i wish them well. >> we do. >> moving on. >> moving on. let's go out to utah where the case that we've been following so closely potentially damning testimony is expected in the murder trial of a prominent utah doctor accused of drugging

and killing his own wife. they say his alleged affair was the motivation for the crime. soon we will find out if his own daughter will be testifying against him. we get hln's nancy gray's take on all of this in just a moment. first, cnn's miguel marquez is in provo, utah with the latest. >> reporter: before this is all over, we may hear from more than one of mr. macneill's children, testifying against him. today this week we expect to hear from first responders who will talk about the inconsistencies in what he said that day and the odd behavior the day his wife died. neighbors say martin macneill might have pretended to perform cpr the day his wife michele was found collapsed in the bathtub. >> i did not see him put his mouth on her mouth. >> reporter: macneill bragged he could kill without anyone being able to trace it, even expressing pleasure his wife was dead and appearing happy at the funeral.

the defense counters macneill called 911 himself desperately trying to save her life. >> is she conscious? >> i'm a physician. >> sir, sir, i can't understand you. can you calm down a little bit? >> i need help. >> the prosecution pantz a different picture of the doctor, the motive, a mistress, the woman macneill said was a nanny. >> first it was vague, then we learned she was the nanny and eventually everybody could tell the relationship was more than that. >> reporter: the claim macneill hatched a devious plot, forcing his wife to have a face lift then killing her with prescription drugs. >> she wanted to have the surgery postponed. the defendant announced that the surgery was already paid for and that she was going to do it as scheduled. >> reporter: in her system, valium, percocet and ambian. he said he only made the

prescriptions because macneill was a doctor and knew how to handle the drugs in combination. >> was it your intention michele take the drugs together. >> no. >> reporter: the defense arguing macneill wasn't perfect but he wasn't 9 cause of his wife's death. >> michele's heart disease was the cause or the contributing cause to her death. >> reporter: but his own children are expected to testify against macneill. >> she looked at me and said alexis, if anything happens to me, make sure it wasn't your father. >> reporter: the defense says her story has changed and cannot be trusted. now, prosecutors have brought a bathtub in to the courtroom, one that looks like the one that mrs. macneill died in. they tried to re-create partially the bathroom scene there. a lot of the testimony will center on that back tub, how she was found, what exactly happened in that bathtub and bathroom as they were trying to save her life or mr. macneill perhaps was trying to let her expire.

chris? >> that's exactly right, miguel. thank you for the reporting. this is about the story of the case. a very important week. let's bring in hln's nancy grace, she's out there in provo, utah covering it. thank you for joining us today. you heard what we were saying in the setup piece. what are you looking for this week that will matter the most? >> well, there was another drug, yet another drug in her system, it was phinegran. there were four to five drugs in her system. michele macneill kept telling everyone she wanted off the drugs, didn't want to be on all those drugs. she was afraid of what her husband was giving her. at first her eyes were bandaged and she was trying to feel the medication to see what he was putting in her mouth. the tub came into the courtroom and it's at center stage and it's a very deep tub, the kind you have to crawl over. this is what is significant about the tub. number one, when the little

girl, the 6-year-old daughter ada came in, her father sent her in to find her mother, she comes out and says, and to this day says her mommy was fully dressed on her back, looking up, eyes up. macneill runs in, sends the daughter next door. when the neighbors come over, she's only half dressed and i've got a theory working here that he sees his wife in the tub and goes, nobody's going to believe she was taking a bath fully clothed. when the girl goes next door he tries to take some of her clothes off. hence finding her partially clothed. because remember he told law enforcement that he found her naked bent over the tub. the girl finds her fully dressed, the neighbors find her in the tub partially dressed. >> right. >> so all of that has got to be explained. you can't not explain it. you know why you can't explain

it? because it's not true. >> well, but then it gets complicated, right? you get a lot of people in this room. it's unusual how many people wind up in this bathroom where this poor woman is found. they start telling different stories, see different types of clothing. there will be inconsistent testimony. a good lawyer can do a lot with that. this is really about facts and then the family dynamic. talk to us about his own words, though, nancy. >> chris. >> bring in his own words, what he is alleged to have said and what that may mean. >> okay. i will. i will. one thing on the clothing discrepancy. >> please. >> who cares if she had on a t-shirt or wife beater, don't care. what i do care about is macneill lying. when the neighbors came in, emt was getting there, they couldn't see what was going on for sure, some of them could but not all of them, this is what's so crazy about macneill's behavior. we know he forced his wife to have the face lift. i don't think motive was just the mistress.

i think he was going through a whole crazy mid-life thing when men rush out and get convertibles and start working out andtry to get a suntan. that thing. i think he was going through that, this mistress came in and blew up. that's his motive. he made his wife get the face lift. when the emts and the neighbors were there, oscar-winning performance. he was so dramatic saying why did she have to have a face lift? why did she insist on a face lift in the jury will be, what? he's the one that made her have the face lift. he went on to say, why was she taking so many medications? i tried to stop her. when we all know he was putting the meds down her throat. he became so belligerent and angry, they had to make him leave. the emts are testifying that's the only time in their whole career they thought they were going to be attacked. they thought macneill was going to attack them, that's crazy behavior. he was -- he overdid it. the performance went over the

top. >> well, look, you're very heavy on motive in analysis right there. still, the prosecutors will have to show means. you know the formula, means, motive and opportunity. lots of motive but they'll have to show that he did something to really further the act that wound up killing this woman or contributed to it, not so easy to show he actually forced pills on her, that that's what he did, that he contributed to her death. that's what we'll have to see how they lay out this week. >> she has a laceration to the head. that didn't happen naturally. she ends up in the tub submerged in the water under the influence of four or five medications that were not to be taken together. i don't think it would be that hard, he had been doping her up ever since she got out of the hospital. one or two more pills, who's going to know the difference. gets her in there to take a bath, boom, it's all over. >> you only know what you show,

though, that's why this week is so important. i know you are in atlanta, not in provo. my mistake. i should have known just by your choice of coat today. i should have known. thank you, nancy grace. >> that's fake fur. believe me, that coat is fake fur. >> no, no, i agree. >> i would never. >> you're an animal lover and law lover. thanks for joining us on "new day," appreciate it. "nancy grace" airs weeknights at 8:00 on hln. a fallen soldier's grave site has been the source of an unusual controversy. why her family is fighting for this spongebob squarepants head stone. i couldn't wait to see her again. but i didn't want her to see my psoriasis. no matter how many ways i try to cover up,

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center of controversy. two towering grave stones in the shape of spongebob squarepants, the cartoon character vb have been taken down. the historic cincinnati cemetery calls it inappropriate. the grieving family disagrees. cnn's pamela brown is joining us with much more on that. a lot going on, grieving family, standards at the cemetery. >> the family spent $26,000 to have these spongebob squarepants monuments built. the family acknowledges it's an unusual memorial but what their loved one would have wanted. ♪ 28-year-old army sergeant kimberly walker survived two tours of duty in iraq only to be allegedly murdered by her boyfriend. her grieving family took solace knowing she would be buried with her favorite cartoon character, spongebob squarepants. >> mr. crabs, you're here! >> bought the pillow of

spongebob and asked them to put it in their casket. >> reporter: her twin sister had a bigger idea, build a spongebob squarepants memorial at her gravesite. >> every year my sister had a spongebob birthday party. >> reporter: the walkers had two built, one in an alternate uniform in memory of kimberly, the other in a navy uniform, to honor a navy i.t. specialist. >> we can do spongebob. she gave us a statement. we signed a contract. >> reporter: the monuments each way 7,000 pounds and stand 6 feet high and 4 feet wide. they were finally put into place on october 10th. >> i thought it was the greatest thing in the cemetery. i even told the people there, i think this is the best monument i've ever seen. >> reporter: but less than 24 hours later, the cemetery called the family to say it was removing the monuments. the cemetery's president made an error in judgment.

the monument does not fit within spring grove goid lines. and it cannot remain here. >> it's heartbreaking. we were just trying to honor her wishes. >> they told cnn we are working with the walker family and trying to design a solution at our expense that will properly memorizal kimberly. we certainly hope they reach a resolution here. >> there should be a way that both parties can be okay with this in the end because in the end they should just be memorializing her. thank you, pamela. >> thank you. singer cee lo green heads to court to answer charges that he drugged a woman's drink. we'll tell you about it.

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welcome back to "new day." the man known for his flamboyant style and hit song "forget you," is facing legal troubles. is he accused of slipping ecstasy into a woman's drink. entertainment correspondent nischelle turner is here with the very latest. good morning. >> ceelo has talked about this case. he has maintained that everything that happened was consensual. the woman, though, tells a completely different story and ceelo is now having hining to an

court. >> within 20 calendar days of november 20th. >> ceelo green pled not guilty to one count of a controlled substance to a 33-year-old female last year. the woman claims the 38-year-old grammy-winning r & b singer slipped her ecstasy as they dined in an l.a. downtown restaurant, then took advantage of her in her hotel room. citing insufficient evidence, a move that seemed encouraging to the entertainer as he walked into the courthouse monday. >> are you still a little scared, though? >> blair burke issued a statement saying mr. greenished a full and complete investigation of those claims and he was confident, once conducted, he would be cleared of having any wrongful intent and it would be established that any relations were consensual. but as "the voice" enters the

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all the time, this is what i see in my dreams. >> holding out hope. couples of missing children around the world, hoping this little girl in greece is their daughter. will the search for one american couple finally be over? classroom nightmare, a hero marine and beloved teacher killed and two children injured when a 13-year-old classmate opens fire at their school. today, the search for a motive while we remember the man who paid the ultimate price, trying to save his students. there is no excuse, president obama owning up to problems plaguing the health care website. if they don't get fixed soon, could the entire program be in jeopardy? your "new day" continues

right now. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> welcome back to "new day." it's tuesday, october 22nd, 8:00 in the east. a september jobs report will be released, coming out more than two weeks nate, you'll notice. because that's due to the government shutdown. new cnn poll shows only 29% of americans right now think the economy is in good shape. so, could today's report turn that around or make it worse? we will see. plus, we have an interview with a father that is turning his heartbreak into a powerful message for other parents. brad lewis says bullying took his son from him. he even thinks an awareness video may have contributed to his son's alcohols, so brad posted a video to try to spare another parent his pain. he says there are things we do not see and we should. you'll hear his message from

him. almost fainting and being caught by the president. it happened to that woman at yesterday's news conference at the white house. she joins us on "new day" this hour. world's apart. family of the missing girl known as baby lisa is holding out hope this morning. the attorney is saying the fbi is talking with investigators in greece to find out if maria is actually lisa. following developments from kansas city, missouri, this morning. good morning, george. >> kate, good morning. we're, in fact, here in front of the family's home. and the only light on you see there is the light under the missing poster, missing person's child, poster in their window. fbi officials are talking to greek officials about similarities between their missing daughter and the girl known as maria. this morning, there are new questions and perhaps new

possibilities. could this young girl, found in greece, actually be from kansas city? >> i feel like she's okay. >> the parents of lisa irwin, the missing kansas city toddler who vanished from her bed after an apparent home invasion in 2011. they reached out to the fbi, who contacted greek authorities, because they believe this striking blond haired, blued eyed girl found in this gypsy camp could be lisa. >> there is no such thing as a tip too small. >> a new photo was released of what she might look like today, similar to the girl found in greece, called maria. >> i dream about her all the time. and this is -- this is what i see in my dreams. >> some things don't add up. lisa would be 3 years old and medical tests indicate maria is 5 or 6. but all possibilities must be ruled out.

>> claiming that we never abduct this child. >> the couple claiming to be maria's parents were arrested on suspicion of abducting a minor. dna results confirm they are not her biological mom and dad. but greek authorities are getting calls from around the world, offering leads on the possible identity of the mystery girl. so far, they're taking about ten of those leads seriously, including some cases from the u.s. one of them, baby lisa. so the mystery, the question about who maria could actually be, it means a lot for nearly a dozen families that are hoping that this case will be the answer to their missing child case. but keep this in mind. when it comes to this particular case here in kansas city, we understand through the group smiles of a child, that maria would be 5 or 6 years old, according to dental records. baby lisa would be 3 years old next month, chris.

>> george, thank you for following this. we'll keep an eye on this story. we have to find out whose child this is. this morning, another chapter in this nation's sad history of school shootings. a community is in pain after a student comes to school with a gun. this time, two classmates are lucky to escape with their lives and a popular math teacher loses his, trying to talk the shooter down. that teacher, a marine, who served several tours in afghanistan, a man who deserves the title hero. cnn's stephanie elam is in sparks, nevada, with more. stephanie? >> reporter: chris, people here in the high desert community of sparks, nevada, say things like this just don't happen here. and they're trying to make sense out of something that just went so terribly wrong yesterday. trying to make sense of a senseless killing. the small desert community of sparks, nevada, came together in prayer last night. this, after chaos and tragedy at a local middle school. >> active shooter sparks middle

school, two down on the playground. one in the cafeteria, one in the hall. >> reporter: students were waiting for the morning bell to ring and then shots fired. >> people started running and screaming. so i started running and we heard another gun shot. >> the kid started getting mad and pulls out a gun and shoots my friend. >> the shooter, a 13-year-old student allegedly using his parents' gun wounded two fellow students, one in the shoulder, the other in the abdomen. a teacher rushed to their aid. >> he walked to a teacher and said back up. the teacher started backing up. he pulled the trigger. >> teacher was trying to make him put it down. he took the shot right then and there. >> a shot that killed 45-year-old michael landsberry, a popular eighth grade teacher, former marine, who served several tours in afghanistan. is he now being called a hero. >> very well-liked teacher by the students and other teachers. it's very unfortunate that someone like that, that protected our country over there

and came back alive had to -- his life had to be taken. >> he loved teaching at sparks middle school. he loved the kids. he loved coaching them. he loved teaching them. he was just a good, all-around individual. >> reporter: students are pouring out their grief on social media. >> i had the chills when i learned mr. landsberry died. having him for math was the best. it's too hard to believe. no teacher will take his place. nothing is going to be the same anymore. you are a hero and you will always be missed at sparks middle school. >> reporter: as for the student suspect, police say he took his own life with that gun. >> he was really a nice kid. he would make you smile when you're having a bad day. i saw him getting bullied a couple of times and i think he took out his bullying on it. >> reporter: but it's still unclear what drove this child to resort to violence and whether or not he was targeting the students or the beloved math teacher, who survived war only

to die what should have been the safe haven of an american middle school. >> stephanie, thank you so much. let's bring in the sparks police department deputy chief tom miller for the very latest on this. this is so tough for the entire community, deputy chief. thank you so much for taking the time this morning to talk to us. >> it's my pleasure. thank you. >> of course. do you have an update on the two young boys who were shot and are in the hospital? do you have any update on how they're doing this morning? >> i do not have a current update update. as of last evening both were in stable condition with nonlife threatening news. >> at least some good news in this, as hopefully they'll be okay. what more are you learning about the young shooter? we know that, according to police, he killed himself. what are you investigating as to why this little boy did this? >> well, the investigation is in its early stages yet. there's a lot of interviews to

be conducted and a lot of background investigation going on. we're just getting to the beginnings of that and trying to piece all that together at this point. >> is there any indication when he came on school property that he was targeting anyone in particular? >> it's not clear as of right now if he was targeting anybody in particular. again, those details will come out as the investigation unfolds. >> so as you may have heard in stephanie elam's piece, there is a little girl who says she was a friend of his and who says she had seen this young boy bullied in the past and that she believes this is what was behind why -- what drove him to do this. are you looking into that? are you hearing that more? >> i'm sure that our investigators are looking into all aspects and all possibilities behind this. at this juncture, we just don't know. but, again, we're looking into

all avenues and all explanations for this. >> so the teacher, michael landsberry, he was also killed. he is a marine. everyone we've spoken to says he is a hero, because he stood up to try to talk this little boy down and to protect other students. what do you know about those final moments? >> well, it appears that mr. landsberry, based upon interviews that have been conducted thus far, appeared to try to approach the young boy. it almost appears like he tried to talk him down. that's about basically the extent of it, that i can tell. >> do you know how the little boy got the gun? >> we're not exactly sure of that either.

at this point, we believe he got it from home but still unclear on that as well. >> i'm sure it will be impossible to understand what drove a little boy to do something like this. thank you so much for taking the time this morning. >> thank you very much. >> of course. chris, back to you. president obama says no one was madder than he was that the obama care website was such a fiasco and also says it will be fixed and insists that the underlying product, the health care insurance, is good. if you can't sign up for it before the deadline, what will it mean? >> administration officials at this point, chris, aren't revealing just who will be deployed to fix the glitches in the obama care website and they're not disclosing just yet when exactly all of this will be fixed. one thing the white house is being upfront about this morning is that they have a big problem on their hands. the way administration officials

describe it, the so-called text surge to fix the website sounds like a top secret mission, with incht t. specialists parachuting in from across the country. >> nobody is madder than me about the fact that the website isn't working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed. >> reporter: one question is whether warning signs were missed. the site crashed just days before it was launched, during a simulation test involving hundreds of users. despite a pew research poll saying the obama care exchanges are working well, white house officials don't want to delay the mandate requiring americans to have insurance. >> we're still way early in the process. you're talking about a february 15g9 and march 31st deadline. it is october 21st today. let's be clear about that. >> welcome to the health insurance marketplace. >> reporter: until the site is fixed, frustrated insurers are being asked to call a toll free number.

that's an option administration officials don't like. it could be a big turn off to younger, healthier buyers, who do everything online and are critical to obama care's success. last week, consumer reports warned stay away from healthcare.gov for at least another month. the site has since posted an update saying the website's problems do not negate the law's benefits. even the president ensuring had a hiccup when a supporter behind her nearly fainted. >> i've got you. no, no, you're okay. this happens when i talk too long. >> a diabetic nearly her entire life, she told cnn's piers morgan she's a big obama care backer because it will always cover her preconditions. >> i'm extremely embarrassed that i fainted but happy to have been there and happy that he caught me.

>> reporter: being called to testify up on capitol hill, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius was also called to testify but won't be on the hill until next week. contractor that designed the website, said in a blog post just put out in the last 24 hours, quote, the contractors who made this website were, at best, sloppy. at worst, unqualified. that's another indication that the contractors will come under heavy scrutiny here. we should point out that consumers still have several months to sign up for health insurance on those websites if they don't currently have insurance. they have until mid february to avoid that penalty from the irs. chris? >> jim, hopefully they don't get too d.c. over this. the rest of the world, you fix the problem, not just talk about it the entire time. yell at the contractors, but let them fix the problem. >> help people figure out what's going to happen if they aren't

able to sign up in time. we'll definitely be talking about that. and caramel alison is really taking it all in stride, the woman who became faint standing behind the president. we'll talk to her later on in the show. let's check in with michaela, who has the headlines. let's do it. new rules have been issued to prevent forged documents from being used to help inmates escape. clerks in two counties must now get release orders confirmed in writing directly from the judge's office. officials say selling bogus papers have become ckind of a cottage industry. the man charged with killing baby hope due back in a manhattan court today. a break in the 22-year-old cold case came earlier this month, leading police to conrado juarez, cousin of that baby girl. he allegedly told police he

sexually assaulted the girl and then smothered her. he has pled not guilty. new york jets fan caught on camera punching a new england patriots fan after sunday's game apparently has a criminal record, serving three years in state prison for fatally stabbing another man during a fight behind a pizza parlor in the '90s. his mom, with him at the game sunday, says the woman was the aggressor and the man was merely acting in self-defense. >> columbia university researchers have found a way to regrow hair. so far it's only been tested on human skin transplanted on myself but they say clinical trials are years away. i see you raising your hairline. >> this is definitely a good use of science. >> nature. >> science fighting nature.

>> i still see myself with a comb over. >> scalp exercises, trying to hold on to -- >> are you going to do it right now? >> no. that's all right. check of the weather. good timing. indra petersons, what do you have for us? >> definitely tmi right there. there is a change. temperatures dropping this morning. freeze warning and currently only about 31 degrees. we're looking at two systems, one that will bring chicago some snow tonight and the other one, a little bit of rain that's moving into the midatlantic and northeast. neither one bringing a lot of rain or snow. really that temperature change that we'll continue to see push off to the midatlantic and northeast. current temperatures you can see right across the cold front, 15 to 20-degree temperature drop is expected. as far as the temperatures themselves even this time of year, temperatures a good 20 degrees below normal in the midwest. chicago already mentioned snow possible tonight. highs expected to be about 41

degrees. that's a chill. we're still seeing in the midwest and ohio valley. the entire eastern seaboard. not just boston dropping 20 degrees. in the southeast you'll see a good ten-degree temperature drop. i need to redeem myself. we talk about 30-degree temperature drop in one week. it's baby steps, guys. i need baby steps. >> that is a big temperature drop. >> thank you. >> that's how you get sick, rapid changes in temperature. >> thank you. >> dr. cuomo, reporting for duty. one of the hottest movies out of the sundance festival, "blackfish" killer whales after the death of a sea world employee. a look at the new riveting film just ahead.

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here is a provocative question for you. should killer whales be held in captivity? that is the question behind a fascinating new film "blackfish," tells the story of the trainer killed by a 2,000-pound orca in 2010 and takes a look at the controversial history of orcas held in captivity. >> reporter: sea world orlando, 2010, in front of horrified visitors, dawn brancheau is killed by the killer whale. it's more than a tragedy. it's a turning point. health and safety administration orders sea world to keep trainers out of the water with its star performers. high-flying days like these are over. sea world turned down our

repeated request for interviews but in an op-ed noted its staff has been interacting with captive killer whales for years. the tragedy of dawn's death cannot and has not been ignored. but neither should the literally millions of safe interactions we have had with killer whales over that span of time. video clips of captive killer whales gone wild are easily found on the web. >> the whale bites down on her leg and won't let go. >> pulled under, helpless, as the whale drags him below. >> killer whales also called orcas are not actually whales but dolphins. animal activists claim they're too intelligent, too socially dependent on their families and just too big for captivity. neuroscientist says they are self aware. they're stir crazy. >> this is not an individual,

not a being that is going to be appropriately stimulated by throwing a hoop in the water or doing stupid pet tricks. >> sea world says it continually provides its killer whale ace stimulating and challenging environment. as for understanding them, sea world says much of what we know today came from studying captive orcas. marine veterinarian studies bottle-nosed dolphins. by comparing the health of those in captivity to those in the wild, we can learn of problems in the ocean? emerging diseases we're seeing, new viruses we're seeing, things like antibiotic-resistant bacteria in these dolphins, which is a direct spinoff from pollution, from man. >> reporter: captivity has taught us a lot about killer whales but believes now we've learned enough and should let them go. why do you think they're still in captivity? >> there's dollars to be made.

and they're a very big draw for these facilities that have them. >> it's a business? >> it's a business, yeah. >> reporter: the issue of captivity is certainly debatable, what isn't is the pob popularity of places like these. zoos and aquariums set attendance records almost every year. sea world parks pull in 11 million visitors and $1.5 billion a year. supporters say there's a lot more to it than just entertainment. performances educate and inspire. >> people are having less and less daily encounter with animals and so these kinds of exhibits are teaching people about the wild. if people don't know animals, they won't care about them. >> reporter: unfortunately, opponents say, audiences are not the only ones held captive by the show. one of the ironies in all of this is the fact that prior to parks like sea world, these

creatures were considered by many people to be monsters. we knew so little about them. thanks to sea world and marine parks, people actually fell in love and then began to think they're too big and too loveable to keep. kate? >> this film definitely has folks talking. people will want to see it. martin, thank you so much for that. >> you're welcome. >> you can watch the television premiere of "blackfish" only on cnn thursday at 9:00 pm eastern. we'll take a break here on "new day." coming back, better late than never, the september jobs report is due in five minutes. it was delayed because of the government shutdown, like many other things. we'll bring you the numbers as soon as we get them.

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james earl jones is right but he did not tell you it's tuesday, october 22nd. i just did. brand new this morning, the story that's two weeks old. the september jobs report was delayed by the shutdown. numbers are finally coming out. they'll be out in a few minutes and we'll go through them with you. a father's grief. hours after his son committed suicide he takes to social media to speak out against bullying. this morning he is sharing his story with us. heartbreaking. we'll have that coming up. time now for the five things you need to know for your "new day." at number one, whether a mystery girl discovered in greece is actually a little american girl baby lisa who went missing in 2011. police are looking for a motive in a nevada school sho

shooting. al liby has plet not guilty to charges of the bombings of the embassies in kenya and tanzania. in support of daisy coleman, the missouri teen who says she was sexually assaulted at 14 by a 17-year-old football player. the charges have been dropped. now a special prosecutor has been assigned to the case. and at number five, we are expecting apple to announce updates to its line of ipads today, including an ipad mini and slimmed down fifth generation ipad. now you can rush to the store and get your latest one. right? go to new day@cnn.com. let's get straight to chief

correspondent christine romans who has the numbers. >> hiring slowed a little bit in september, 148,000 jobs decreeated during the month. we expected more like 180,000 jobs but the unemployment rate slip aid tiny bit to 7.2%, making it the lowest unemployment rate since 2008. couple of takeaways for this report. i told you earlier how consumer confidence, americans confidence in the economy had taken a nose dive. now just 28% think that things are good in the economy. what this tells you is that before the shutdown you had a very slow healing in the labor market and then a government shutdown. this will be the last report before the effects of the shutdown. the next report will be more difficult to parse to see what the impact was by the lack of leadership in washington on hiring in this country and also the effect of the furloughs on hiring in this country.

i'm bringing it to you on a tuesday, much delayed. >> one number you always say we need to pay attention to is the labor force participation rate. >> that number has been plummeting to the lowest levels in some 30 years, 1978 lows. really want to watch that one closely. ben bernanke and the fed watches that very closely. why? they'll be talking about pulling back on that stimulus into the economy, that stimulus over and over again each month, $85 billion. when will they feel the labor market is healthy enough to do that. those numbers will be important for the federal reserve. it's interesting that we had that shutdown. interesting is the most optimistic word i've ever used. interesting because the fed is parsing these numbers to decide how healthy the american economy is so it can take the training wheels off. without these numbers, it's really been an unusual, unusual case for economists who have been trying to help the jobs market. >> feds not looking at that ue number. the underemployed as well. >> right.

>> why don't we use that number? talk about that number. we won't have it accurately calculated. how much higher is the number of people that had to take jobs that give them less pay, less time than, you know they used to have? >> it's been running almost double. when you look at the underemployment rate, you're talking about double digit underemployment rate because people are taking part-time jobs when they want to work full-time. people are not working up to their education level or skills or not able to get a job. that's what's so maddening about the shutdown and the lack of real budget priorities in washington because we need to be creating better jobs and have that be a singular focus. instead, playing defense. >> they've stopped talking about jobs all together. >> yeah. >> one thing you hear over and over again. the focus on in-fighting, not on actually creating jobs. >> that's right. >> christine, thank you so much. coming up next on "new day" bullying led his teenage son to commit suicide. now this father is turning his

grief into action. he is saying that bullying has to stop. you will hear his message. he will be joining us live this morning. plus see the woman standing behind the president? see her there? he's talking about obama care. she says i'm going to faint. case of nerves or the need for obama care in the first place?

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welcome back to "new day." let's head straight over to indra petersons for the chilly temperatures we've been talking about this morning in the midwest and northeast. >> we actually have snow, alberta clipper, very fast-moving system that brings cool temperatures with it. quad cities making its way over toward chicago. notice another system out there, also from new york all the way through kentucky, even tennessee right now that's bringing a little bit of light rain and

also another round of cool temperatures. let's talk about these temperatures. that front we just showed you, showing you the rain. look at that difference, charleston 46 degrees behind it. freezing air and even currently freeze warnings for chicago, indianapolis, detroit right now only 33 degrees. that same cold front with all of this cool air will spread east today into the midatlantic and the northeast. so by tomorrow, you will feel that chill in the air. chicago in the 30s right now. only looking for 41 degrees, your high today. good 20 degrees below normal for this time of year. the jet stream has dug really far down, very easy to see where that cold pool of air is. these are today's highs. boston, 69. new york about 66 degrees. by tomorrow, temperatures will drop, boston almost 20 degrees cooler. 51 will be your high. we'll see that chill spread down even into the southeast with a good ten-degree temperature drop.

chris? >> indra, thank you very much. brad lewis learned this past thursday that his 15-year-old son, jordan, had killed himself. in the note jordan left behind, he blamed bullying. the grieving father took action, posted on facebook, pleading for justice for his son and other victims of bullying. take a listen. >> the suicide note he left stated that he was tired of life, i guess, basically and that he's doing this because he was being bullied at school. bullying has to stop. people have to stop treating other people the way they do. >> brad lewis joins us now. how is the family doing? how are you doing? >> the family is really taking it hard. i understand his mom is really taking it hard. she's not really up to wanting to do anything like this. but i just felt that it had to be talked about. it had to be -- i couldn't see

no other kids going through, you know, this stuff. because i know as a grown-up when i was a kid, i was bullied, living in chicago, to the point being chased home, beat up, everything. but i never thought my son would have to go through this with the laws that were supposed to be in place and the way schools are supposed to be handling things. i thought that things were better. but when my son came to me a month and a half ago and explained something, he wasn't even wanting to come out and tell me. i asked him and he says -- i said what's wrong? he said kids are picking on me at school and bullying me. i told him you need to go to the principal. you need to go to the teachers or somebody and tell them about it. but i didn't know the extent of what was being done. >> what have you learned? >> through kids on the facebook that's been befriending me and telling me about kids shoving him in to the locker room on the football team, kids, you know,

just coming up behind him. one kid told me that last year a kid came up behind him and just punched him in the head out of nowhere on the football team. and -- >> so he quit playing football, right? >> yes. this year. he was all ready for it, during the summer, working out and everything. first day of football, he quit. and i had no idea why. >> did you ever talk to parents? did you ever talk to the school about what was going on with him? >> never had any inclination that there was anything going on except for what he told me about a month and a half ago. and when i asked him, i said, take this to the principal. take it to the higher ups, because they should be able to do something about it. from that point on, he never even talked to me about things again. and i even told him -- i cried about it when i told him. i do understand. i do understand, because i have been through it. and i said if you have to, just

tell me more. he never mentioned it. he reached out to a little girl that he really liked and that he was really close friends with. and she -- when she was told by him what he was going to do, her grandma did everything she could to contact the police and everything. >> and they came out and talked to your son, right? >> yeah. they did a wellness check and talked to him and talked to his mother. but i was told at the funeral by somebody who works with crisis saying that the police should have called crisis intervention and -- that deals with children. >> how did you find out what your son had done? >> i was at work thursday morning, on my post. i worked for the illinois department of corrections. and i got a call through outside line and it was his mother and she hysterically cried out,

jordan's dead. and i just kind of just didn't know how to take it. and i said what? and she said jordan's dead. and i said how? how did this happen? and she said, he shot himself. and i'm just like -- and i just couldn't handle it. i called immediately the supervisors to come down to relieve me. i had to explain to them. and i came down as soon as possible down to the marion area and i called the police, tried to talk to the detective in charge, asked him what was going on. he said he left a suicide note and in the suicide note he mentioned that he was being terribly bullied. >> now when something like this happens, the family has to deal with it. the investigators want to find out where he got the gun and why he did this. they're doing all of that, right? >> yes. >> what did you learn? what did you figure out about how he did this and why. >> the gun was in the house.

it was his mother's boyfriend's shotgun. and like i said, i don't know. i'm not pointing fingers. >> it's not about that. it's not about that. and i understand what your family is going through. and i think that everybody is going to feel the pain. that's something that is important to you. you want to use this as an opportunity to let all the parents out there, all the kids who may be victims, all the kids who may be saying things that are wrong and doing things that are wrong and maybe they don't even know it. you want them to learn from this. what do you now know that you think people overlook and forget? >> i think what parents don't realize is that they need to get -- look at the little things. take everything that a kid is doing as an observation of what might be going on in their lives. but as well as i think that the schools need to quit turning a blind eye and trying to sit there and shove things

underneath the rug. i've had a lot of kids and a lot of parents on my facebook say this has happened and they've had no results of it getting taken care of. >> it's everybody that has to be involved ? >> it's everybody. >> i feel for your family, what's going on. please pass our regards to jordan's mother as well, and see what we can do to help get the message forward. >> i will. >> thank you. kate? >> thank you so much. coming up next on "new day," obama care is in the spotlight but now so is caramel alison, nearly fainting into the president's arms yesterday. she's doing well and will be joining us next to talk about it. customer erin swenson ordered shoes from us online but they didn't fit. customer's not happy, i'm not happy.

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you may have caught this moment yesterday, a woman nearly fainting at the white house right behind president obama as he was giving his speech, defending obama care. the president caught her and others right beside her caught her very quickly. and her name is caramel alison. she is joining us now from washington. karmel, i'm guessing probably not the reason you're guessing you would be in the spotlight ever, huh? >> indeed. it was sort of an unexpected turn of events yesterday. i was, obviously, thrilled and honored to be on stage with the president, but was not looking forward to being the one who faints behind the president. >> no kidding. how are you feeling this morning? >> much better. >> as we giggle about this? >> thank you.

much better. >> what was going through your mind? we've all gotten faint at one point or another in our lives. what's going through your mind when you know you're standing right there and you see kind of -- this is coming? >> i was so honored to be there. i was there because i had written this blog post a few weeks ago about how i felt as a type i diabetic and the affordable care act finally becoming available and being able to see that i have other options, i'm not tied to the single health care plan i had before. so standing up there and beginning to get faint i had that moment of, oh, no, don't let it be me. >> with nowhere to go. >> right. and next thing i know, the president is catching me and i've realized, oh, no, i was that person. >> we were talking about it this morning. you're taking it all in such stri stride, of course. you know, it's good to hear that you're fine. we were thinking about it this morning. you are not alone in this.

we're looking back and this is not the first time this has happened. we wanted to make sure that you felt better, that you're not alone in having become faint at an event. take a look at this. >> it looks like we have somebody who may have fainted. give them a little bit of room. >> 911. somebody's down. >> okay. we'll be all right. they'll be okay. give them a little space. folks do this all the time in my meetings. you always got to eat before you stand for a long time. i think somebody may have fainted. you've got to get something to eat. get some juice. >> so as he said at the event with you, karmel, this is what happens when the president talks too long. this, we can blame on the president. just kidding. >> well, it wasn't that long. just not having had that much to drink that morning, i think. >> absolutely. and congratulations is in order. we want to make sure we say. >> thank you very much. >> you are 20 months -- 20 weeks

pregnant. >> 20 week. >> not 20 months pregnant. that would be a whole different story if we were talking about. definitely a story to tell the little one soon, huh? >> right. you met the president. >> even before you knew you were meeting him. that's wonderful. fwlad you're feeling much better and glad you were able to get your message out and why it was so important for you to be standing at that event. great to meet you. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> of course. we want to show you "impact your world" academy award winner susan sarandon recently honored for her effort to end world hunger. take a look. it is a day of celebration at a village in cambodia. oscar-winning actress susan sarandon and her daughter have come to watch one of the core programs in action. >> hei fechlt r international figured out a very efficient way to spend your money by having you sponsor an animal for a family that they then help for a year to make sure they

understand how to nurture that animal. when that animal has offspring, they pass that on. the feeling of pride and satisfaction at being able to pass on something as valuable as that gift to another person is as important as filling their bellies. >> heifer believes empowering women is the key to ending world hunger and poverty. >> the families that i was fortunate enough to visit in cambodia is certainly a testament to the power of women. they are the glue that bonds the community together. it showed me just how much we can accomplish when, as women, we recognize our ability, our voice and the fact that we can pull together to create some kind of change.

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great story. time for the good stuff. florida mother down on her luck, three hungry kids, no money. made a bad choice of the went into a grocery store, loaded up a cart and tried to walk out without paying. nothing good about that. police officer called in had to make a choice as well. take a listen. >> i asked her, why would you do that? what would make you do that? >> she came out and asked, do you even have food at the house? and i looked at her, you know, her face and told her, no, i don't. >> i made the decision to buy her some groceries, because arresting her wasn't going to solve the problem with her children being hungry. >> all i want to tell her is thank you, from the bottom of my heart. >> thank you so very much for doing this for us.

we're very thankful. >> the only thing i asked of her is that when she gets on her feet is that she helps someone else out and she said she would. >> it's a reminder that there are families going hungry all over this country. we should mention the mom doesn't get off scot-free. she got charged with a misdemeanor. the officer involve sd really the story here, make it is the good stuff. vickie thomas, 20-year veteran, made the decision not to arrest her only after seeing she had this clean record as well as the need. but what is the message in that about what you do with a job versus responsibility? >> cutting people a little slack and kind of walking in their shoes and understanding what they're going through. >> and showing tremendous compassion to the kids, too, to treat the parent with respect but also making her face the consequences. >> she didn't just let her go. >> no, no. >> she bought them groceries. >> yeah. >> paying it forward. that's good. good stuff. that's it for us, which means it's time for carol

costello. good morning, carol. >> good morning. thanks so much. have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> and good morning, i'm carol costello. thank you so much for being with me. we do begin with breaking news. a new measure of the economy and more proof that we are still bogged down in a sluggish economy. minutes ago, feds released a september jobs report. unemployment dipped slightly to 7.2%, about 148,000 jobs were created. that's fewer jobs than expected and just another wrinkle in a disappointing snapshot. chief business correspondent christine romans is in new york to tell us all what it means. good morning. >> good morning, carol. when you