over the game that grambling canceled. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." "newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. two days, two math teachers killed. allegedly by students. what these murders say about security in our nation's schools. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. the white house fires a national security staffer for tweets insulting president obama's cabinets and advisers. but he didn't stop there. a family opens a father's casket only to find the wrong body. >> i turned around and just said to myself three times, it's not him, it's not him, it's not him. >> plus, mcdonald's overhauling its menu. and somehow, the dollar menu is getting pricier. and hundreds of dogs and

cats killed after a mysterious outbreak involving treats. we're on the case. top of the hour, i'm brooke baldwin. first nevada, and now massachusetts. another school in crime scene tape instead of in class today after a second case in two days of a student allegedly killing a teacher. just a little more than an hour ago, prosecutors outside boston charged a 14-year-old student with murder. >> this is the man, chism. in danvers. it's alleged on 10-23-13, mr. philip chism did assault and beat colleen ritzer with intent to murder such person, and by such assault and beating, did

kill and murder such person in violation of general law chapter 265 section 1. >> the teacher killed was colleen ritzer, 24 years young. she taught at danvers high school. and these are pictures we're getting from her social media pages. investigators say they found her body in the woods near the school. the suspect attends danvers. and lest we forget, it was just monday when a 12-year-old boy police say shot and killed middle school math teacher mike landsberry in sparks, nevada. danvers is just about a half hour drive north of boston and we can tell you all seven of its schools were shut down because of this investigation. the prosecutor says both the teacher and this young teen went missing tuesday, and that led them to her body and ultimately his arrest. >> at approximately 11:20 p.m. last evening, the danvers police

received a report that a danvers high school teacher had not returned home from work and was not answering her cell phone. as a result of that report, danvers police initiated a search for the teacher and discovered blood in the second-floor bathroom at denvers high school. >> alexander fields is live there in danvers. we saw the first few pictures of the 14-year-old inside this courtroom. what happened today there? >> well, brooke, it was just about an hour ago, he was arraigned on the murder charge. he was ordered held without bail. he's since been taken to essex county correctional facility. that's an adult facility and the suspect at the middle of the murder accusations is a 14-year-old, but we're told the district attorney will now present this case to a grand jury. if the grand jury indicts him as an adult, he will be tried as an adult. again, a 14-year-old. students here at danvers high school are telling us he was a student here, a freshman student who had been at the high school

for just about two months. they say he transferred from a school in tennessee. they tell us that he played on the junior varsity soccer team. thaw say that nothing seemed out of the ordinary about him. of course, he wouldn't be a well known student at this point, having only been at the school for the last two months, but they tell us indeed he was a freshman. it isn't clear if he was a student of colleen ritzer. she was a math teacher teacher geometry and algebra. we are told she taught students who were freshman about the age of 14. again, that connection has not been made definitively by investigators. we do not know if she was in fact philip chism's teacher. that's a question that a lot of people have. students are asking questions about philip chism and they're here to mourn their teacher, colleen ritzer, a much loved teacher. >> i go back to the fact she's 24 years of age. i know you're there at the school. as you mentioned, a beloved teacher. what more are you hearing about her from folks you're talking to? >> she had only been here for two years. the students tell us that her favorite color was pink.

they've already starting putting pink ribbons on the trees around campus. they plan to dress in pink and come out for a candlelight vigil later tonight. these students are stunned. the loss of a teacher is always stunning. the circumstances that seem to surround it are simply shocking. difficult things for students to comprehend. we're talking about 14, 15, 16-year-olds. tough for them, tough for their parents as well. and bear in mind that these students were kept home from school today, all seven schools in the danvers district were ordered shut down. these students never went to class, but they have been gathering outside of the high school, some of them leaving flowers in a spot not terribly far from where the body of their math teacher was found. >> let's take a listen to some of the comments they have been making to you today. >> just thinking back on it, it's just surreal how quickly someone can go and how much we take for granted every day. she was, like, the nicest teacher you could ever have.

and it's just -- i can't believe it. >> alexandra field for us in danvers, massachusetts, thank you. now, really, these unbelievable realities of what has happened over the course of two days this week, both in massachusetts and in nevada, renewing a heated debate when it comes to campus safety and arming teachers. not just for students, but for faculty, for members of staff as well. has the time come to give teachers guns? joining me on the phone is l.z. granderson and ben ferguson. so l.z., i want to begin with you because i know that you have written that you are not anti-gun. you know, you have a gun in your own home. so tell me why teachers shouldn't be armed. >> i can certainly appreciate the conversation in terms of wanting to do all that we can to protect our students. as a father of a young man in the city in chicago, i definitely want us to do all we

can to protect kids. but with that being said, i don't believe we have done all that we can to protect kids yet. i see teachers as the second to last resort in terms of keeping kids safe in school. i would like to see more police officers around campus. i would like to see perhaps security within the schools, before teachers, because teachers have enough going on. we're looking at a situation now which a man has been shot at 15 times by police officers who are trained to handle crisis situations. a man who was without a weapon and in his own driveway, shot at 15 times. so you're telling me now, a teacher who is actually trained in something else is going to be able to differentiate friend from foe in a crisis situation with a gun? i don't think that's fair for the teachers and really respectful to the police officers and security guards. >> ben, as i was thinking about this, i was wondering what teachers were thinking. this was about a week after

newtown. schools must be safe sanctuaries not armed fortresses. anyone who suggested otherwise does not understand that our public schools must be first and foremost places where teachers and educate our students. what do you think? >> we have tried the gun-free zone policy, and every one of these schools where we see the shootings and massacres are gun-free zones. we tried the let's all just play by the rules. but as soon as someone walks onto this campus and decides to break that rule, everyone's life is at risk in these schools. even at the hands of a 14-year-old that we have seen now in the last 24 hours. and i don't want every school teacher to be armed. i want to make that very clear because some people imply that if you're in favor of arming teach teachers, you want to mandate it. i do not want to mandate it. i think there are certain people in every school that actually are willing to go through extensive training. many people who teach in schools come from backgrounds in law

enforcement and also in military. those are the first people that i would be interested in. my sister, she teaches in an inner city school. they have had multiple lockdowns in her career. the problem is soon as one person doesn't play by these rules, all their lives are at risk. we see teacher s every time, heroes come out of the situations where we hear of teachers using their bodies as human shields. >> the teacher earlier this week approaching the 12-year-old. >> if he's willing to use his own body as a human shield, i trust film if he wants to go through extensive training to carry a gun, i trust him to figure out in a crisis situation friend from foe because he did it then. we saw the same thing in littleton. we saw the same thing in newtown. we see it every time where these teachers, they anyhow who the shooter is and take bullets to save kids' lives. i think it's time for us to look at the reality that these gun-free zone s its oronly as

good as the paper it's on. >> our nation is so split on this, but i hear both of your sides and it's saddening to have to report on these. two in two days this week. l.z. and ben, thank you both very much. coming up next hour, do not miss this conversation. this woman, a teacher who actually confronted a student holding a loaded gun. that's at the top of next hour. do not miss her compelling story. coming up, the white house fires a national security staffer for insulting tweets about president obama's advisers. how the heck did he get away with that for two years? that's what i want to know. >> plus, a family grieving at their own father's funeral opens the casket to find the body isn't dad. more on that case. and this incredible story behind the most inspiring moment of the day. watch. ♪ got the eye of the tiger ♪ a fighter dancing through the fire ♪

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players were convicted in march of raping a west virginia girl during an alcohol fueled party last year. >> and a family funeral for a 72-year-old seattle man went from sad to just down right horrifying because his grown children go to lift the top of the casket to say their final good-byes. and who they saw inside was a stranger's corpse dressed in their father's clothes. it gets worse because the family -- can you blame them? outraged over what happened to their father's remains. richard thompson with our seattle affiliate has this story. >> jerry moon's loved ones tell me at the end of an emotional memorial service, his cask lt was opened so they could say one final good-bye, and nobody could believe what they saw next. >> when they first opened the casket, the body had a plastic bag over his head. >> brian moon was sickened, thinking brown mortuary had left the bag on his father jerry moon's head, but then his brother realized it wasn't even

their dad's body in the casked. >> i turned around and said to myself three times. it's not him, it's not him, it's not him. >> the family found out a 97-year-old died in hospice care at the same time as his father and somehow the bodies got mixed up and the wrong man got in the casket wearing jerry moon's clothes with a photo of jerry and his wife jan tuck eed under the photo of the coffin. >> this makes me feel like he was treated as a number and not a person. >> and another shock when they were told what really happened to thaz father's remains. >> it has been confirmed that my father has been cremated on accident, and my father was terrified of being cremated. >> on that level of mistakes, there is no excuse. i just can't believe that could happen. i can't believe it. >> the family has hired an attorney to find out what went wrong and to confirm the cremated remains really are those of jerry moon. right now, the only thing they can believe in is their faith. >> the only other thing i can say is that we know where he

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to fix the troubles obama care website will be made public in a daily briefing. the white house made that announcement just a short time ago. in this cnn exclusive, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius, smack dab in the center of the obama care fi firestorm is opening up about the tough launch. this as republican calls are growing louder for sebelius to resign. today, house speaker john boehner did get specifically -- did not specifically say whether or not he believes sebelius should go. >> well, i think the biggest part of congress's job is to provide proper oversight of the executive branch of government. and whether it's obama care or

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product. the product really works. we have created a market where there wasn't a market. people have competitive private plans at affordable prices. they have the advantage if they don't have employer paying a share of their coverage, they're going to have tax help paying a share of their coverage. >> the president did say he was angry about this. do knroi when he first know there was a problem? >> i think it became clear fairly early on, the first couple days. >> not before that, though? not before october 1st? no concern at that at the white house or hhs? >> i think we talked about having testing going forward and if we had an ideal situation and could have built a product in, you know, a five-year period of time, we probably would have taken five years. >> how many people have signed up? >> we'll be doing what we've done with every other program, medicare part d, we have done it

with c.h.i.p. we'll give monthly enrollment figures, but what we can tell you is we have 500,000 plus accounts with people who have established or are in the process of shopping for affordable coverage. >> it seems like an important thing to know, i imagine, especially given all the problems with the site. i mean, how well is it working? can you say right now how well healt healthcare.gov is working. we know there's problemed, but what can we say about it? >> what we can tell you is thousands of people have signed up. we know people are getting through every day. it is not where we need it to be. it isn't as smooth as we want it to be for the volume of people who want the product. >> there's a lot of frustration in the country and no one probably knows it better than you and the president. did you ever talk about resigning to the president? >> what i talked about is doing the job i came here to do. this is the most important work i have ever done in my life. delivering on an historic act, making sure we have health

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for the very first time in the boston bombing investigation, prosecutors publicly confirm now one suspect allegedly participated in a triple murder. court documents show the dead suspect, the older brother here, tamerlan tsarnaev, was fingered for alleged involvement in a case in 2011 involving three bodies with slit throats, covered in marijuana, found near boston. his accuser, this man here. this is tsarnaev's friend and fellow chickec chechen who was d

after attacking an fbi officer in an interview after accusing his friend. a federal source told a source in may that his friend had linked him to the triple homicide. so this whole thing went public this week when prosecutors in the case against tsarnaev's brother dzhokhar, referred to the triple murder in those court documents. we're getting that now. while we're on the topic of boston, nerves are on edge but for a different reason. boston, as many of you know, preparing to host a major, major sporting event, six months, just about to the day, after that marathon bombing. tonight, boston plays host in game one of the world series. security is tight and i will be in boston tomorrow with a full report. join me, special show live from fenway park. we have been working on this for a little while here so you will see some familiar faces, survivors of the bombings. some celebrities, players themselves. joining me tomorrow, and i can tell you that we have been

making some phone calls and have a couple secrets. our sources with the hometown team are allowing us to share ahead of this extra special game two. we'll see you tomorrow, 2:00 live, from fenway park. first nevada, now massachusetts. yet another school in crime scene tape instead of in class after a second case in two days of a student allegedly killing a teacher. just a short time ago, prosecutors outside of boston charged this 14-year-old student with murder. >> philip chism, by way of arrest. of this year in danvers. it's alleged on 10-23-13, mr. philip chism did assault and beat colleen ritzer with intent to murder such person and by such assault and beating, did kill and murder such person. in violation of general law

chapter 265 section 1. >> i want to bring in hln's jane velez-mitchell from new york. just to talk about this case, and let me just begin, jane, here he is, 14 years of age. faces a murder charge. how rare is that that he is 14 and facing that kind of charge? >> well, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be that rare anymore. just a couple days ago, as you mentioned, we had a 12-year-old with a semiautomatic who police say gunned down his math teacher and wounded a couple other kids. what is going on in this country? i think it's time to officially declare it a crisis. a crisis of youth violence. and i think there's a growing intolerance for it. in fact, the judge was asked, do we want to screen this young man here, his face? and he said no, show it. this young man is 14, but he's 6 feet tall. he towers over the adult who is standing next to him. and he's only 10 years younger

than the teacher that he's accused of beating to death. we've got a real problem in this culture because we've got young people who are able to function in society as adults. and so if you are murdered, if, you're going to hurt just as much if you're murdered by a 14-year-old as if you were murdered by a 50-year-old. i think there is a growing sort of populous sentiment, enough, what can we do about this? how can we prevent this next tragedy? we have such a reactive system of justice. we wait for the horror to occur and then we throw everything, everything at it. and say money's no object. what about putting the money before so we can stop the next situation like this? >> the teacher, as you point out, was 24 years of age. body found in the woods not too far from the school, but back to your point about how he is taller. just sheer physical appearance in the courtroom today, how do

you think his appearance as a 14-year-old, but perhaps looks a little older, how may that play when it comes to the grand jury? >> well, we don't know what the grand jury is going to do. they're going to hear the evidence, they could decide to charge him as an adult. we'll have to see how that plays out. but this situation, you look at it and say, what happened here? now, very beloved teacher, 24 years old. my heart goes out to her family. let's point out the obvious. she's very good looking. she's beautiful. she's young. she's only ten years older than the young man charged with killing her. is that part of the dynamic? there was blood found on the second floor of the school. what happened? did she walk in on him? and again, we don't want to convict him, let the whole system play out. in terms of what we know, did she stay late because we know she likes to stay late and help kids after school and walk in on him doing something? did he perhaps have -- could he have had some kind of fixation on her?

we don't know exactly what happened, but i'll tell you one thing, brooke, when it comes to these cases, it's usually only a handful of possibilities. human beings are very predictable when it comes to crime. and it generally has to do with a handful of things. it can be either a money or a romantic issue, a fixation, it can be about some aspect of criminality happening after school. we don't know. we don't have the answers, but human beings, only usual a couple things that will motivate them to do something like this if in fact he did it. >> he was new to the school, a couple months. played jv soccer, a pretty good kid according to the kids. thank you very much. as we're talking about the victim, the 24-year-old teacher, we can tell you the family of this young woman released a statement. let me read it to you right now. they're saying at this testimony, we are mourning the tragic death of our amazing, beautiful daughter and sister.

everyone that knew and loved colleen knew of her passion for teaching and how she mentored each and every one of her students. we would like to ask everyone to respect our privacy at this most difficult time. thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. coming up next, the white house fires a national security staffer for insulting tweets about president obama's advisers. what does that say about culture in d.c. and how he got away with it for so long, two years. my panel debates next.

here we go, let me read you a couple tweets. one, i'm a fan of obama but his continuing reliance and dependence on a vaccious siver like valerie jarrett concerns me. how about this one? darrell issa is an ass but he's

on to something with the hillary clinton whitewash for accountability in benghazi. these are not the only tweets out there critical of the president and his administration, but these tweets didn't just come from anyone. no, no, they were written by someone inside the obama administration. for two years as the scathing tweets kept coming, white house and department officials have n been on the hunt for this tweeter. now, they got him. they got their man. a director for the national security counsel. no surprise here when i tell you he has been fired, but as i mentioned, for two years, this guy has been insulting the foreign policy community and revealing internal policy. tweeting this, anonymity is essential to snarky twitter accounts. back with me, ben ferguson, and

mark lamont hill, host of huff post live. guys, good to see you. mark, you get first crack at this because, you know, you, my friend, take people on all the time on twitter. what is it you think that brings out such aggressive behavior among people online? >> the internet allows people to be who they are in their heads. we think mean things all the time whether it's in an elevator, someone next to us in our office space. we're just too polite of a sty to say it out loud. what twitter allows you to do is hide under a shroud of an nitty. i have never had a mean person say something to me on the street, but every single day, i get 50 to 100 -- >> never? >> not one person has walked up to me and said i was a jerk, but i get it about 100 times a day, not just for ben, but other people, too. >> i do want to read, people can be nice and not so nice. i can attest to that.

he has tweeted out this apology. let me read this. it has been a privilege to serve in this administration and i deeply regret violating the trust and confidence placed in me. what started out as an intent parody account of d.c. culture developed over time 92 a series of inappropriate and mean-spirited comments. i bear complete responsibility for this affair and i sincerely apologize to everyone i insulted. how did he get away with this for two years? none of us knows the answer to that. but you know, i think to mark's point, ben, as we move into this digital space where these people are hiding behind these twitter avatars and spewing hate, and we have free speech, but at what point should there be ramifications, repercussions for all these people who are doing this? >> there has to be some sort of line you can't cross. this guy worked for the administration. obviously, he should be fired. he's lucky so far they haven't charged him with any crimes yet.

if he actually did put out there secrets that may have been classified, we don't know that yet for sure. and that's preeobably why his apology was, i'm so sorry, please don't charge me with anything. it's weird in society how they don't meet you and they'll say things after i do tv here, i hope you die. i wish you would put a gun to your head. i wish your family nothing but x, y, and z. and you're sitting there and you kind of have to laugh at it because your saying, would you say that to my nace? no, but people feel emboldened when they're online, and especially behind those accounts. >> isn't it cowardly? >> sure, it is. especially when you're doing a fake account. we see these kids that are bullying. look at this young girl who committed suicide recently. >> 12 years old. >> she was bullied by people hiding behind a computer screen and hiding behind fake text messages from fake numbers saying you'll never find me. i think that's some warped

narcissism. this guy thought he was never going to get caught. he worked at the white house, thought he was a professional. >> go ahead, mark. >> this is what is stunning to me. what ben just said, he didn't think he was going to get caught. this is somebody who is director of projects on nonproliferation. he was dealing directly with iran. he knows our capacity to locate chemical weapons in syria. he knows we can strike someone with a drone, and he didn't think we could find an ip number? >> i don't know, but mark, what about -- >> that's arrogance. >> naricism, i think, was ben's word. what about the bigger picture? i guess his point was parodies the d.c. culture. what do you think of that, mark? >> it's a weak, weak, weak excuse. first, he wasn't parodying culture. he was echoing it, amplifying, the things he said about sarah palin, about valerie jarrett, but he was being the washington mean insider he now says he was

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himself into police. he pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and driving under the influence, and today, he was sentenced. he will be spending 6 1/2 years in prison, have to pay a fine of $175,000, and he will never be able to drive again. legal analyst joey vjackson joining me now. does the sentence fit the crime? >> i think it's appropriate, brooke. when the justice system mets out these crimes, what they look at is punishment, right, but they also look at deterants and rehabilitation and factor all that in mind. he accepted all the responsibility, turned himself in, made this video, seems contrite, completely sorry about what he did, but there's still a measure of punishment that has to be meted out and has to

balance the victim's family and what they felt. there was a split between the ex-wife who said, look, he's sorry and my former husband wouldn't have wanted him to ruin yet another life, but at the end of the day, the judge did what was necessary and appropriate. >> what makes the story so unique is this video confession he uploaded to youtube. i'm curious if this helped or hurt the sentence from a judge's perspective? >> it's a split. on the one hand, i judge doesn't want to send a message like you can do something like take someone's life, apologize, go on youtube, and all will be resolved and forgiven. at the same time, they want to say it's important you accept responsibility. the maximum would have been 8 1/2, and the judge gave him 6 1/2, he did take that into consideration, and there would always be people who say it's not enough or it's too much. and that was what was balanced in this case. >> thank you very much. coming up, two math teachers

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the news is now. two days, two math teachers killed in america. allegedly by students. what the murders say about security in our nation's schools. and for the first time ever, the majority of americans are in favor of legalizing pot. but is this the case of be careful what you wish for? plus, the dramatic sentencing for the man who confessed to driving drunk on youtube. >> i'm begging you, please don't drink and drive. don't make the same excuses that i did. and the white house fires a national security staffer for tweets insulting president obama's cabinet and advisers. but, he didn't stop there. i'm brooke baldwin. you are watching cnn. first nevada and now

massachusetts. another school in crime scene tape instead of in class. this is a second case in two days of a student allegedly killing a teacher. this afternoon, prosecutors outside of boston charged 14-year-old philip chism with murder. >> this is the matter of philip chism by way of arrest docket 3472 of this year in danvers. it's alleged on 10-23-13, mr. philip chism did assault and beat colleen ritzer with intent to murder such person, and by such assault and beating, did kill and murder such person. in violation of general law chapter 265 section 1. >> the teacher here, colleen ritzer, 24 years of age. she was a teacher at danvers high school. danvers. and these are pictures from her facebook, her twitter pages. investigators say they found her

body in the woods not too far from danvers high school and her blood was found on the second floor bathroom. the 14-year-old, we can tell you, the suspect here, he attends danvers and it was just on monday when a 12-year-old boy, police say, shot and killed a middle school math teacher in sparks. nevada. now, danvers, just about a half-hour drive north of boston and all seven of its schools were shut down today because of this investigation. so i want to take you straight to massachusetts, to danvers, now, alexandra field is live for us, also live in studio, vinnie politan. we're going to get to vinnie in a second, but first, alexandra, to you. when will we know if this 14-year-old will be charged as an adult? >> reporter: we're told it could be a day, two days, even a week. the district attorney said it's about to a grand jury to decide whether or not to indict him as an adult. this is the 14-year-old danvers

high school student who has been charged in connection to the murder of his math teacher, colleen ritzer. he's held without bail in essex county correctional facility, but in danvers, the focus is on the high school teacher. a pink ribbon tied on the tree in ritzer's memory, students have been trickling out here all day long, just on the other side of the school, in that wooded area. that's where police say they found the math teacher's body, just 24 years old. she was reported missing yesterday. students woke up this morning to the news that a beloved, well liked teacher is gone. they say it has left them stunned and shattered. >> she was so nice, like i didn't have her as a teacher but i would hang out with her, talk to her. i knew her because i know the other math teacher and i would talk to her after school, and she's a great girl. i'm so amazed. i don't know how it happened. as soon as i heard the name, i was amazed. i don't know what to do.

heartbroken. i don't know what to say. i knew the kid, played soccer. it amazes me. >> the students here in danvers say they will hold a vigil tonight in their teacher's memory. her family released a statement about an hour ago calling her an amazing and beautiful sister and daughter. and of course, a teacher, brooke. >> alexandra for us in danvers. thank you. vinnie politan, my question for you, we're waiting to see whether or not this 14-year-old is indicted as an adult. it's up to the grand jury to make the decision. how do they do that? >> they decide if it fulfills the requirement. under massachusetts law, a juvenile as young as fran can be charged as an adult in court. that changes the game immensely. >> what do you think -- it struck me, the speed of all this. the teacher was found in the woods, the young man was found around 12:30 this morning, and now we see the pictures of him in the courtroom. is that fast? >> it's fast, but here's part of

it. the investigation has led them to the point where they could arrest him and charge him initially. now they're waiting for the grand jury indictment. once you're in custody, you have a right to first appearance. he's got to be apprised of husband rights to an attorney and to make application for bail, which was denied in this case. things are moving along at a rapid speed because the investigation has moved along quickly. >> thank you very much. and teachers, they are trained to help students grow up. not counsel school shooters to put a gun down. what must it be like to face a student with a finger on the trigger? my next guest knows that answer. back in 2000, linda robb convinced a student to give up his gun. he was just 12 years old. apparently unpopular, came from a troubled family. and one day in march, he brought a fully loaded gun to class in lisbon, ohio, and told his teacher and classmates to get on the floor. >> kind of shocked. i stood there for a minute, and

he yells again, everyone get down on the floor. slowly, i got down. all the other students in the classroom at the time got down on the floor. i guess many of them didn't know how to take it. >> all i knew is i wanted to get him out of the room, away from the students. so when he came through the door, i took the gun from him. i said, let me have that. i laid it on a table out there in the hall and i took him around the corner to get him away from the gun. and he took a clip, another clip out of his pocket. he had another clip, another round. >> that was linda robb in 2000. here is linda robb right now. a pleasure meeting you. >> thank you. >> hearing about your story, i thought, my goodness, we have to talk to her because i imagine it feels just like yesterday, those moments back at the school. can you take me back and tell me what happens? >> well, it was the morning of one of our state tests. and the children had gone to the restroom. and one of the children in my classroom came in and said, why

is mr. comets' class on the floor. i knew that was unusual. and i was his mentor teacher. he was a first-year teacher. >> oh, wow. >> i said, let me go check. i walked over, and the entire class was on the floor. and he was sitting in a desk with a gun. and i ask him, is it real? he took the clip out. he didn't say a word, and he shoved it right back up into the gun. the sound of it, i knew it was real. so at that point. >> how frightened were you at that point? >> not yet. i really didn't feel frightened much at all until it was over. >> until it hit you? >> yeah, until it hit me what could have happened. so knowing him the way i did because i tried to kind of be a mentor to him, and i could tell he was one of those kids that had problems. and even though i wasn't his regular teacher, i had him on and off for studies and different things. and so i had kind of a rapport,

and i would ask him to help me with projects. and certain things, and he had volunteered to bring something in, and he knew i liked him a lot. and so he gave me his picture, and i put his picture with some other students up on my bulletin board. >> when you hear that clip click -- >> i hear the clip, and it was like, okay, i can't leave. this has to work. so start telling him how much you care for him. and remind him of the times we had talked. >> what exactly did you say? do you remember? >> yes, i said, sam, i'll call him sam. sam, you know i care a lot about you. we've talked in the hall. i've complimented you when you got a new shirt, when you had a haircut. you were always helpful to me. i care so much about you. and you can trust me. totally. and he knew he could. >> so what -- was he responding to you? >> he never had a word, stared

right at me, held the gun up. >> how did it all end? >> i said to him, before you decide what you're going to do with that gun, why don't you come out in the hall and talk to me like we always have talked? and i didn't know what he would do, and i kept watching him. he slowly got out of the chair and he started walking across the classroom. i thought, well, this is it. he's either going to shoot me or i don't know what's going to happen. but when he got to me, he kind of just -- like went into my arms. >> wow. >> and i hugged him, took the gun. he let me have it. and he had an extra clip, fully ready to go. he had one in the chamber, ready to shoot. >> prepared. >> prepared with a second clip. >> you saved lives. you saved lives that day as a teacher. and i know that what's so unique about your story is that, you know, he served some time. >> yes, he did. >> and you have kept in touch with him ever since, maintained a relationship. one question we were talking about at the top of last hour,

with teachers and these school shootings, there have been at least nine since newtown. as a teacher, do you think teachers should be armed now? >> absolutely not. >> why? >> i could never even imagine pointing a gun at a student. and shooting. >> anyone, intruder, anyone? >> no, no one. i couldn't imagine. and i would be so afraid that a student could overpower me. i'm not that big. or get into the desk where it is. i think it would be a total disaster to arm teachers. i really do. i don't think that's the solution. the solution is counseling for troubled students. that's where we need to put our money. counseling for families. and i mean, mandatory counseling. if a teacher or principal says there's a problem, they need counseling, they need to get counseling. >> from a teacher who has been through it, stared down the barrel of a gun. linda robb, thank you so much. i so appreciate it. >> you're very welcome. thank you. coming up next, take a look at this. this is a blast door.

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light. and how is this for timing? the disclosure follows the firing of major general michael kerry, the number two man in charge of air force nuclear weapons. for undisclosed weapons believed to involve his personal life. so these are some of the folks in charge of our nuclear weapons. and the bad news is there's more. general james marks, u.s. army retired, cnn military analyst and former commanding general of the u.s. army intelligence center. general marks, what is the worst that could have happened here when these nuclear -- they're called missileers started napping with the blast door open? >> well, the worst that could happen, if you walk down the path of a very legitimate scenario, is the launch codes could be compromised. that's really the bottom line. there wouldn't necessarily have been an inadvertent launch. the foundation of our nuclear weapons arsenal, its training

and its readiness and its potential employment is a two-person control system. i mean, the navy has that in place. the air force has that in place. so you have to have two folks intimate with what is going on and everybody has to be able to share simultaneously in order to get into the system. so one person can be asleep if you follow the rules. the door has to be closed and locked and they left that door open, which means you're fundamentally breaking the rules. this is a very difficult, difficult world to be a part of. they're not looking for a lot of creativity. they're looking for a lot of smarts. they're looking for an incredible amount of discipline and focus. and you see how you could tend to lose that spending your life in the bottom of a silo. so it's a leadership challenge for the air force. they're about getting it right. what is surprising, brooke, is we know about it? >> we know about it. now we know about it, and we know about a couple other items, too, because let me tick through

this really a worrisome list, including involvement with our nuclear weapons. back in 2007, you had this air force b-52 that flew from a base in north dakota to a base in louisiana without the crew knowing that the plane was armed with live nuclear missiles. 2008, three officers nodded off while supposedly managing launch codes. last maench, a nuclear launch group got a d from an inspection, 17 officers got suspended. their commander said the crew was riddled with rot, and as i mention these personal issues that led to the firing of the air force's number two men man in charge of nuclear weapons. that was just about a week ago. how worried does it make you? is it accurate to call this a crisis? >> oh, i think it is a crisis, absolutely. i'm also here to tell you that the air force leadership is going to fix this problem. the problem with this field is that the best and the brightest that want to join the air force, want to become fighter pilots and become pilots of some sort,

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yet another school is the sight of a deadly crime in the second case in two days of a student allegedly killing a teacher. this afternoon, prosecutors just outside of boston charged this young man, 14-year-old philip chism with murder after they say he fatally beat a math teacher at his school, danvers high

school. chism had just moved to the school from tennessee and the victim here, 24-year-old colleen ritzer. these are photos of her from her facebook, twitter pages. investigators say they found her body in the woods near the school. and they found her blood in the second-floor bathroom of danvers high. it was just monday when a 12-year-old boy, police say, shot can killed a middle school math teacher in sparks, nevada. that child, who police have yet to name, wounded two other 12-year-old boys and then ultimately killed himself. sparks police released the 911 calls and they showed the chaos after the gunfire. you can hear it in this clip. you can barely make out someone yelling, quote, get out. get out of the room. >> get out!

>> what's going on? >> that was nevada. got some news just in to us here at cnn out of massachusetts. we have learned the boston red sox will be honoring 24-year-old colleen ritzer tonight ahead of game one of the world series at fenway park. i will be there for special coverage of the game tomorrow night, game two and the city will be marking six months since the bombings. we'll talk to several of the surviv survivors, slents, and ball players. >> all these cases, though, make the work of one class more essential. the students have figured out a way to keep a shooter out of the classroom and still allows the students to get out in case of a fire. zain asher joins me with this story. and so zain, what have they come up with? >> hi, brooke. i'm having trouble hearing you, but the device is relatively simple to use. it's made of two components. you can pick it up from any hardware store. as we have seen, high school

shootings have become so prevalent that kids, teenagers are now taking matter s into their own hands. it costs just $5 to make. weighs less than a pound. but students at benjamin banneker academic high school in washington, d.c. hope that this simple invention could protect more students during school shootings that metal detectors and bag checks. >> with active shooters being unfortunately so prev lntd, we need to come up with other ways to secure buildings. >> students and teachers here have been so shaken by recent school shootings -- >> for me, the key shooting was in columbine high school in colorado where it was actually a mathematics teacher who was killed, and i teach mathematics here. >> that they invented a locking device for doors. >> it could happen in connecticut, it could happen here in d.c. >> made of a pvc pipe and a steel pin, it could be closed if

there's ever an intruder in the hallway. keeping the classroom firmly locked and preventing a gunman from gaining entry. >> in lieu of getting the school doors with dead bolt locks on them, this is a practical way to do it. >> classrooms here cannot be locked from the inside for fire safety reasons. >> i don't even have a handle on the inside of my door or any way to secure the inside. >> at sandy hook, one teach hr to lock her students in a bathroom to protect them from 20-year-old gunman adam lanza. >> the recent shooting where the shooter broke into the building and shot a lot of kids inspired us because it proved that the building, the doors aren't that secure. >> students were recently awarded a $6,600 grant to develop a final version of their device. >> we're not ready for an ipo yet. but we anticipate having a really good prototype by this spring.

>> with this crude safety mechanism, they say they now have an extra barrier in place if they ever hear gunshots from the hallway. >> god forbid something happens, but my hope is everyone is trained in how to use it and everyone has it where it is available to use. >> and i spoke to that teacher, john mahoney, this morning. she shared good news with me. he was just contacted by a denver law firm out of the blue, offering to patent his device free of charge. they hope to have a patent by next year. brooke. >> best of luck to the students. zain asher, thank you very much wroorb. coming up, a new milestoe for marijuana. a poll just revealed. just released revealed something new about the country's opinion on pot. we'll tell you about america's shifting opinion and let you hear both sides of this debate. but first, academy award winner susan sarandon was recently honored for her commitment to ending world hunger and mikhaila perera has her story in today's

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culture can change our minds. for the first time ever, a gallup poll shows a majority of americans favor legalizing marijuana. by you can see the numbers, a pretty big gap. in the poll just conducted, 58% answered yes, legalize pot.

39% said no. now, look at how opinion has suddenly turned around. this is pretty interesting because you see the bottom line, kind of the lime green line. that's the percentage favoring legalized pot. over the course of time, the x acts as the years. the end being 2013. sg 58% favor legalization, including this recent convert. >> i think we have been terribly and systematically misled in this country for some time. i did part of that misleading. >> i know a lot of folks believe we have hit the point of no return, it's just a matter of time until marijuana is legalized nationwide, but a lot of people are saying hang on, what are we doing here? let's think this through. carla lowe is one of those people, the founder of a group called citizens against legalizing marijuana. and then lee. welcome to both of you.

and mason, i'm going to give you the first question here. the poll, i looked at this poll and thought, my goodness, 58% pro pot. what was your reaction? >> i think it's clear most americans are fed up with marijuana prohibition. it's been just as ineffective and wasteful as alcohol prohibition and there's a much better way to go about it. we have a great example with how we treat alcohol. we could do the same thing by regulating marijuana, by taxing it, and by really treating it similarly in allowing it for responsible adult use. >> carla, i want you reaction, and also, why do you think there has been this sudden uptick for pot legalization? >> thank you for inviting me to have this opportunity to share with you. this is really kind of old news for us in california. a poll several years ago was done in california before prop 19 was on the ballot. and at that time, voters said,

sure, why not legalize pot? that was before we had the opportunity to tell them what this drug really is. and to ask them to consider more potheads driving school buses, more potheads on the road, more pot shops in their neighborhoods. the cost, 10 to 1, social cost when we legal -- when the social costs of using marijuana. when people were informed, they wisely, soundly defeated prop 19. and i think americans will do the same, especially when they have your show and give us the opportunity to tell what this drug really is and in particular, what it's doing to our young people. >> as you point out, that was california and a couple years ago. the news really today, the peg is that this is nationwide, gallup poll nationwide. let's imagine this, again, here are the numbers. carla, paint me a picture if america were to legalize pot, what would it look like? >> we'd have more kids using, the kids who use has risen

dramatically since we have had, quote, medical marijuana. we know that for a fact. we know a third of our kids are dropping out of high school. those kids are not getting jobs. no employer is hiring a pothead. we see more people having trouble hiring healthy people who can think and write and read. we know our kids' iq is dropping from their use. we know our kids' brains are not developed until they're 25. we know what marijuana is today, highly potent. 20 to 30 times stronger than it was 30 years ago. we know it's fat soluble, that means it stays in the body a long time, primarily in the brain and sex organs. it does not bode well for the future of america. >> you paint this one picture. mason, i want you to paint your version of the picture. also, i have been counting the usage of the word pothead. i'm up to four or five from carla. i'm curious, does your side take offense to that? >> i take more offense to the absurd information that is being spread here by the other guest.

it's a fact, marijuana is objectively less harmful than alcohol. it's less toxic. it's less addictive. it poses far fewer health problems and unlike alcohol, marijuana doesn't contribute to violent and reckless behavior. if the other guest is really concerned about people's health and well being, i don't understand why she would prefer they use alcohol when they might otherwise use marijuana. i mean, you know, about half of all americans have used marijuana and the vast majority of them are productive, healthy people who rather than having a drink after work enjoy having a little marijuana. they do it responsibly, and that shouldn't be a crime. so it's really just upsetting to see there are still some people with their heads buried in the sand who think marijuana is going to go away when in fact we could be actually controlling it and instead of leaving it in an underground market, we could be regulating it and taxing it and knowing exactly who is selling it, where they're selling it, when they're selling it, and to

whom they're selling it. >> do you feel like you're fighting a losing battle? >> absolutely not. when the people understand what this drug is when what it's doing, we're not debating alcohol. when prohibition was lifted, use of alcohol rose three times. we're going to have three times at least that more potheads, and yes, the majority of americans do not smoke pot. this whole effort is be driven by multi big billions of dollars from the drug cartels. people who would see the country brought to its knees by losing the opportunity for children to learn and become productive citizens. >> thanks, you two, very much. two different sides and opinions on the legalization of marijuana. coming up, a story that got a lot of people talking today. one of president obama's staffers, a national security guy, caught sending insulting tweets. some of the targets of the tweets, government officials. you'll hear from the reporter who broke that story.

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for his tweets. so how bad were they? let me read you a couple. i'm quoting, i'm a fan of obama, but his continuing reliance and dependence on a vaccious cipher like valerie jarrett concerns me. how about this one? darrell issa is an ass but he's onto to something with the hillary clinton whitewash of accountability for benghazi. joining me now, jake tapper, host of "the lead." that's not very nice language in those tweets. how did this all come undone for this guy? >> i'm not 100% other than this was someone being followed on twitter by members of the administration and congressional staffers. his team -- he knew -- somebody who followed him, i should say, his tweets were often vicious, often cruel and mean, but on occasion, he had moments of insight, and he obviously knew a lot about what was going on

inside the foreign policy world. right now the white house is not talking about what exactly happened. i think the white house council's office, the lawyer in house, is involved in telling everybody to shut up and not talk to the press about this. josh rogan from "newsweek," the daily beast, broke the story last night, and here's what he had to say. >> he had managed to alienate and insult so many people of so many stripes that eventually there became sort of this underground of community of people putting together evidence from his tweets and the things he said and the evidence he did put forth searching for him, and eventually someone in the administration cracked the code and fired him upon the spot. >> reporter: what's interesting about this is that this is obviously just reading his tweets and talking to people who had dealt with him. this is obviously somebody who was smart, who had insights, who had very strong opinions, but ultimately, brooke, the hatred

that was so evident in his tweets, which he claimed started out as a parody account but i've been reading his tweets -- >> trail. >> reporter: 2,200 of them, and what you really see is jealousy, anger, accusations against colleagues, accusations against his bosses, his supervisors. he had a choice word to say about president obama that i cannot repeat on air. and these were the people that he supported. he was a democrat, a former biden staffer, a former staffer for senator casey. and now i can't imagine he's going to be able to find work anytime soon. and he apparently shockingly for somebody who worked for the national security council thought that he was going to be undetected. and you would think in this day and age people would know, especially those who are privy to all the abilities of the u.s. government to figure out what's going on behind cloaked anonymity online, how easy it

is. you can get caught very easily. >> we will be looking for the interview with josh from daily beast and also hear that apology that we're now getting from this guy as well. jake tapper, see you in nine minutes. thank you so much, sure. >> thank you. a warning now, do you own a dog, cat? jerky treats could be hazardous to your pets' health. the fda says more than 3,000 dogs have been sickened by the treats since 2007. and more than 580 pets have died. most of the brands implicated originate in china, but despite extensive testing the fda still dount know what's causing it. homes destroyed, lives forever changed, people living in colorado were ravaged by the flooding last month. but you know what? they're not giving up. we're live with an update on the cleanup and the resiliency the people are showing.

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we talked about the colorado flooding. parts remain in disarray, but some coloradans refuse to give up on their neighborhoods. our cnn correspondent aina cabrera reports people in one town are holding tough, trying to rebuild. >> reporter: when you drive through the town of lions, the devastation is undeniable. not a home in this neighborhood untouched. six weeks after the floods, parts of homes remain hanging and streets are still littered with crunched cars and mounds of muddy debris. the sound of hard work cults through this otherwise quiet community, rebuilding has begun. >> initially we said we're not coming back. we said we're done. you know, it's time to move on. then we come back and were, like, this is home opinion. >> reporter: this has been janet

orbach's home for 43 years, now just a shell. volunteers from missouri helped them gut the place. it's now up to janet and her husband to finish the job. where do you begin in terms of trying to get back to normal? >> well, right now this is normal. >> reporter: another new normal -- doctors commuting by helicopter. it's just 25 miles to the town of estes park, but right now driving isn't much of an option. floodwaters washed away 85% of the highway through the big t thompson canyon. construction crews are working feverishly to make fixes. >> in some areas we lost complete sections of the roadway for several thousand feet. >> reporter: just dropped off. >> yeah. just completely crumbled. >> reporter: 485 miles of state roads and bridges need repairs. the estimated price tag, half a billion dollars. there has been a lot of progress, but clearly there's more work that needs to be done. and take a look. snow already on the ground, a

constant remind they're these crews are in a race against mother nature. the governor says the goal is to have all roads accessible by december 1st. >> this is an awful thing. nothing good about a natural disaster like this. and it's going to take a while, but we can't slow down, we can't back off. we have to go fast. >> reporter: nobody in colorado is giving up. >> a lot of bumps along the way and the good lord blesses us and says, okay, let's move forward now and away we go. >> anna cabrera, talk to me, though, about the issue of help, because these folks in colorado, they need help from the government. are they getting it? >> reporter: and the flooding was just so widespread, brooke. by all accounts, so far so good in that government response. governor john hickenlooper has said all along that colorado will rebuild stronger and better and that no community will be left behind. and so far that's exactly what's

happening. you know, the governor dipped into the state's emergency relief fund to keep the national guard working even during the government shutdown. fema has been on the gound the last six weeks since the flooding began. we know that already more than $45 million has been approved to help those individual families and businesses with their recovery expenses. and the people we've been talking to have been so appreciative of the government's response to this flood disaster, saying fema is doing a good job. brooke? >> anna cabrera for us in colorado. stay on it. thank you. and matthew cord l confessed to killing a man with drinking and driving said he would take full responsibility. today he learned what his actions this cost him. >> my name is matthew cordle, and on june 22nd, 2013, i hit and killed vincent canzanni. >> weeks after so many watched

that youtube confession, he turned himself in to police, pleaded guilty toing a valted vehiculv vehicular homicide and driving under the influence. just this morning he was sentenced by an ohio judge. he will spend 6 1/2 years in prison and have to pay a fine and he will never be able to drive again. i'm brooke baldwin. see you back here this time tomorrow live in boston. now to my friend jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. for the second time in a week, a teacher is dead and a student is the suspected murderer. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the national lead. she was only 24, a young teacher, found dead in the woods behind her school north of boston. the suspect is just 14 years old. what could possibly have happened between them? also, she's about to go on tour. will it be a farewell tour? republicans want her head, but health secretary kathleen sebelius will soon be out spreading the word about obama care. you know, that program she claims already has so much weterest it's crashing the