and reminding us what's important in life. so thank you all very much for joining me. >> thank you so much. >> amazing people. that's all for us tonight. there is problems with the website, really? i haven't argued that the problems go much further than that. >> we did not, until the problems manifested themselves after the launch, that would be as significant as they have turned out to be. >> the blame game over obama care's rocky rollout heats up. today, the contractors who built the problem-plagued website facing tough questions on capitol hill and why they say it's not their fault. >> she is one of the nicest teachers. always went out of the way to talk to you and say hi to everybody. it's just a real tragedy. >> what a tragedy indeed.

a popular high school teacher found murdered. her body dumped in the woods. now a 14-year-old student stands charged of this crime. brrrr! a massive cold front being a big taste of went this morning! temperatures up to 20 degrees below normal. how far the mercury is expected to start. >> that was impressive! you were feeling that from your toes. >> all of my peeps in the midwest have already had it and sending me their pictures of their snow covered -- >> you've been warned? >> i've been warned. >> welcome to a cold "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it's 4:00 a.m. in the east. >> which is early. we are hours away from the first congressional hearings of the rollout of the troubled obama care website. they will be on capitol hill and be very much in the hot seat. as for the problems that it stifled online health care

enrollment these people are expected to say "it's not our fau fault." . we have more from cnn's jim' costa. >> reporter: with the obama care finger pointing shifting in high gear the contractors who built the healthcare.gov website are saying don't blame us but still offering conflicting stories of what went wrong. they hear testimony today. while one scuff executive is say the site passed eight technical reviews prior to going online october 1st, another contractor says a late decision requiring consumers to register for an account before they could brous for insurance products is behind some of the problems. not only do house republicans want answers. >> it's our job to hold them accountable when it comes to obama care, clearly there is an awful lot that needs to be held accountable. >> reporter: of president obama's fellow democrats want heads to roll. >> it's inexcusable.

somebody ought to get fired. >> kathleen sebelius? >> no. they should wait and get the thing up and running and then determine and let somebody be accountable! >> reporter: a health insurance insurance insider tells cnn contractors and official at the department of health and human services knew about the site's problems but gave a far rosier picture to the white house that insiders say nobody wanted to granddad white house and say your signature achievement may not go so well but the president was not intentionally kept in the dark. >> we did not know until the problems manifested themselves after the launch that they would be as significant as they have turned out to be. >> reporter: kathleen sebelius told cnn the president did not know about the problems until after the site was fully launched. >> i think it became clear early on the first couple of days. >> not before that? >> no, sir. >> reporter: all of the reason the republican say for the president to hold somebody

accountable. >> mooerns the president himself seems embarrassed by it and if he is not going to resign over this mess, he should decide who should. >> president obama is expected to shift focus from the health care rollout for immigration reform. the white house says he'll call on congress to act and rging lawmakers to finish the work by the end of the year. work on measures to strengthen u.s. borders and provide a pathway to citizenship for many in the country illegal. john boehner expressed optimism on wednesday. >> it is unclear what measures the house will take but if speaker boehner wants to get something done, something could, in fact, get done by the year. have to wait and see. a report that claims the nsa tapped german chancellor angela merkel's cell phone. the president assures

americaship the nsa is not monitor her communications and will not monitor her communications. was the u.s. was monitoring her communications? that may be a different question. it is reported that merkel called the president to discuss these allegations which are based on disclosure from nsa leaker edward snowden. our frederik pleitgen has the story. >> reporter: very few details have emerged so far. the german government only came out and said it has information that merkel's phone was possibly tapped into by the nsa and they would not say anything else. now, there was that phone call between merkel and barack obama earlier when merkel according to the german government finds this unacceptable and stop immediately and wants a treaty makes clear the relations between the two countries intelligent communities for something like this not to ever

happen again. the germans have been on the edge for a long time. the government in berlin said that it's asked the u.s. government to clarify what sort of intelligence gathering, what sort of spying and espionage it has been conducting in germany about six or seven months ago and so far it has not gotten satisfactory answers from the united states. one of the things that berlin said today, it expects those answers to be forthcoming as fast as possible. merkel is a policy lesion on her cell phone all the time. a well-known fact in germany she texts during parliamently debates and on the phone all the time. they say it was impossible to tap into that phone and clearly that is not the case and it is something that is very, very damaging to u.s. and german relations. the germans in this whole saga surrounding edward snowden felt the americans were insincere to them and germany thought it was a closer ally to the united

states than to have america collect as much data from german internet users from german phone user answer now german politicians that is coming to light. frederik pleitgen, cnn, atlanta. top secret cia documents revealing this morning despite denouncing u.s. drone strikes, paeck pakistan's government endorsed the program. he met at the white house calling for an end to those strikes. sharp differences this morning between the u.s. and israel over iran's nuclear program. israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu net wednesday with secretary of state john kerry and called for dismantling iran's nuclear bomb making capability. the u.s. is suggesting putting safeguards in place and assure that iran's intention is peaceful and not military in nation.

six global power will resume talks next week in geneva looking for possible alternatives for a diplomatic deal. stanks feastarvation fears syria. aid workers say no supply or food has come into the region. residents worry conditions will soon become like that in the western suburbs where hunger is so severe, doctors are reporting deaths now from malnutrition. >> a warning that egypt is spiraling dangerously close to civil war. reports that the coup is urging the international community to pay close substantially attention. since this all began more than 1,000 people have been killed and more than 2,000 have been arrested. lawyers for boston bombing suspect tsarnaev may try to save him by blaming everything on his

dead brother from the death penalty. they wanted -- prosecutors for the first time monday said a friend of his told him he took part in the killings. the younger tsarnaev attorneys may argue he fell under his brother's murderess influence. >> they say this is the most likely chance that he was under the older brother pulling the strings. see if it works. a 14-year-old is behind bars charged with murdering a popular high school math teacher. colleen ritzer, authorities say, her body was found behind the school. here is don lemon with more. >> reporter: this is the face of an accused killer. >> the defendant before the court is 14. >> reporter: investigators in massachusetts allege 14-year-old philip chisa.m. killed popular 24-year-old math teacher colleen

ritzer where she taught and he was a student. >> he quiet and kept to himself. he's a good kid. nothing out of the ordinary, just a quiet, normal kid. >> reporter: students and family members say ritzer loved being a teacher. at times, sending out homework assignments over twitter and facebook and her blog. >> wonderful lady. couldn't say enough about her. always the teacher to go the extra mile for students. >> reporter: why would anyone want to kill her? allegedly dumping her body in the woods behind her own school? >> i think their sense of security starts to become shattered and they saul said this is danvers. it doesn't happen here. >> reporter: the surprise of ritzer's body was a surprise as a hunt for chism, a high school soccer player who had gone missing. meanwhile ritzer's family had called police that night to say they was missing too. >> result of that report and a

search for the teacher and discovered blood in the sec floor bathroom at the danvers high school. >> reporter: the teen was found in a nearby town on tuesday. according to court documents, investigators learned from an interview with, which chism that he had assaulted and then murdered ritzer. in an adult criminal court the teen's attorney argued he should be treated as a 1y50u67juvenile >> that decision was not made today. >> reporter: he will be held without bail at a county jail facing a murder charge, as a community struggles to answer the question why. don lemon, cnn, danvers, massachusetts. >> a sad story. it looks like old man winter just started to wake from a season's long slumber. large sections of the country getting their first real taste of chilly weather as a cold front moves across the country.

real snowflakes falling in columbus, ohio. temperatures dropping 20 degrees in parts of the midwest. >> why does old winter have to be a man? why does he have to be old? it looks like old man winter is at work in wisconsin. 3 inches of snow on the ground in the far northern part of that system. forecasters say a storm system could dump more snow on that area before things warm up thanks to mother nature over the weekend. west virginia seeing an inch or two expected across the mountains and good news for people getting ready for west virginia's ski season about a month away. >> or tomorrow, depending on how much snow they have. let's get a look at the rest of the weather and how cold it's going to get. here is chad myers. >> good morning, guys. a cold morning for most of the eastern half of the u.s. this morning. temps in the 40s across a lot of the big cities. new york and it's wayne and

cold. boston gusty as well and denver fog. they would like to get wind to blow the fog around this morning and seattle the same story for the airport delays. not major delays across the country and no really big storm systems around but enough to cause 15 to 20-minute delays here. partly cloudy in the midwest and mostly sunny across most of the rest of the country. only 42 in minneapolis and 46 for chicago, 51 kansas city. and 65 in l.a. have a great day. back to you guys. >> you're going to have a great day! >> not a lot of highs today. i'm high on life. why? because it was game one of the world series in boston and it was all boston. david ortiz and the boston red sox just pummeled the st. louis cardinals. it was a bad night for the cardinals. look at that. there is an error by the shortstop pete kozma. he had two errors in the game. the sox took an early lead scoring three runs in the first thanks largely to that error.

mike napoli a base clearing double after that. the umpires blew the call and called him out and then said he was safe after talking about it. boston red sox went on to win 8-1 and making me very happy and albeit very sleepy. >> it was a cold day -- a cold night. >> old man winter there. >> it was cold. somebody told me it was tied for maybe the coldest first game ever as 48 degrees. >> it was not windy. a lot of times you get the cold windy thing and keep the ball in the park. david ortiz had another home run and another close call for a home run so it didn't affect the game at all. >> before you start talking about the world series you need to bone up on your boston sports. >> research more on what is happening up there. it was a good night. coming up for us next. my family praise every night for michael and has done so for

12 years and he gets justice, so this is -- this is really -- it's -- it's a -- it's a blessed event. >> convicted of murder more than 25 years after the crime, michael skakel, the nephew of ethyl kennedy is now granted a new trial. smoke with it and they were trying to stick their head out so they wouldn't smell the smoke and they were your panicking and kids were screaming. ah! >> neighbors hearing a mother's cry for help for children stuck inside a burning home. that's next. [ female announcer ] we take away your stuffy nose. you keep the peace. we calm your congestion and pain. [ man ] thank you. thank you. [ female announcer ] you rally the team. you guys were awesome. [ female announcer ] we give you relief from your cough. you give them a case of the giggles. tylenol cold® helps relieve even your worst cold and flu symptoms, so you can carry on with your day.

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the next day her body was found in her yard and bludgeoned and stabbed to death from a broken golf club found near her body. the golf club was found that of skakel's home. suspicion fell on thomas skakel. the last person seen with moxley the night of the party. another suspect was kim middleton who move in with the family the day of the murder but police never charged either of them citing a lack of evidence. two decade the case languished. new interest and new tips. a new suspect in january of 2000, 40-year-old michael skakel, thomas skakel's little brother, michael was also 15 at the time of the crime which meant 25 years later, he was charged as a juvenile. he turned himself into police after an arrest warrant was

issued all the way proclaiming his innocence. >> to my knowledge, there is no physical evidence. there is no dna evidence. no scientific evidence or anything that links michael skakel to this crime. >> reporter: despite that a number of witnesses placed him at the crime scene the night of the murder. two witnesses testified they heard boasting he could get away with murder because he was a kennedy. prosecutors claim michael skakel was jealous of his older brother's relationship with moxley and killed the girl in a jealous rage. a charge he denied. the judge eventually ruled michael skakel should be tried as an adult. >> everyone assumes he is guilty. he has been arrested. he is this kennedy cousin. there is books, movies, a lot of disinformation and no one really knows the story. jury trial will expose the evidence to the public. >> reporter: the trial began in 2002. skakel was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years to life for moxley's murder. >> i can't give up. martha was very special. i only had two children and to

lose one was a major, major thing and i'm just not going to give up! >> reporter: deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. >> a connecticut judge has ruled he should be tried again because he did not receive adequate representation. what is unusual here the lawyer mickey sherman was a very well-known lawyer. highly paid. i think he made more a million dollars in this case. you don't usually see inadequate representation then coming into play with a high priced celebrity lawyer in cases like this. it is fatiscinating, fascinatin to see. a colorado judge ordered the release in the 1996 killing of jonbenet ramsey. the district attorney had possible charges against her parents three years after the murder. the indictment remains sealed because the d.a. has decided not to pursue charges. no explanation was ever given about this but these documents, they could shed some light on this long mystery. >> good samaritans rescuing

children from a burning building in miami. their couch went up in flames and two good samaritans sprang into action and became life savers. >> the smoke was coming at them. it was intense. they trying to stick their head out so they won't smell the smoke and panicking and panicking and kids were screaming, ah! >> we heard the screaming and once she put the kids out of the window we ran into action and ran over and said drop the kids and he caught them. >> i'm so glad her and my babies okay. jumping out that window for two babies is dangerous. >> investigators looking into the possibility the fire was intentionally set. the mother had reportedly gotten into a heated argument with her ex-boyfriend just before that fire broke out. thankfully those two men were right there to catch those babies. >> brave people. coming up, could retirement soon be a thing of the past?

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now it might be a nightmare for many. more middle class americans say they have saved to little for retirement they expect to work into their 80s or either until they get too sick or die. a wells fargo survey says nearly half of middle class workers are not confident they will be able to save enough money to retire comfortable. up 25% from 2011 and 37% say they would never be able to retire. >> they are sort of squeezing out the millennials from the work force and the young kids are not getting their step in. >> people are looking at social security. that is scary. a starbucks is opening first tea house today. tivana tea bar is located in new york city's upper east side. they say it will elevate the tea

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attack? democratic politicians now criticizing the white house and demanding accountable for the obama care website and its rough rollout. a bitter taste of winter for a very big large part of the country this morning, waking up in temperatures that are 20 degrees below normal. good morning! how cold it's expected to get. there is a car in my house. >> a man smashes into a man's home. >> that is rude awakening. i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. welcome back to "early start." congressional hearings on obama care begin this morning and the blame game is in full force. private contractors that built the healthcare df website are expected to tell lawmakers the problem launch is not their

fault. in the meantime it appears the white house is ready to try something new. to feed the need for information on the obama care rollout. the rollout at least of that website. cnn's casey wian has the details. >> reporter: what a difference a day makes. jay carner said the administration will begin providing daily briefings on obama care. >> there will be regular briefings as secretary sebelius instigation that would try to answer your questions and provide as much information as possible. >> reporter: so far, answers about the obama care rollout have been hard to come by. >> i refer you to agj what information they have. >> reporter: it's not unusual for the white house spokesman to walk away from reporters as he did tuesday. >> trying to help this? >> reporter: when he was still being questioned about obama care but it is an example of the tension in washington over scarce information. >> how much is this costing taxpayers money? as a long time washington reporter before you took this job, obviously, that would likely be something that you felt was a right to know.

will we get that information? >> i would address your question to ahs. i don't have that information. and this is an operation being run by them. >> reporter: health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius was quick to cite some numbers in a quick interview with cnn's dr. sanjay gupta. >> we have had over a million calls and 19 million people visit the website and 500,000 accounts created and people are shopping every day so people are signing up. >> reporter: but creating an account is not the same as signing up. >> how many people have signed up? >> we will be doing what we have done with every other program, medicare part d, we have done it with chip. we will give monthly enrollment figures and we have said that since the beginning. >> reporter: problems are seizing on the secrecy. >> we still don't know these enrollment numbers and ahs is blocking it. this is not transparency and adding to the fears of rolling

out obama care. >> reporter: carney said the daily briefings will help give people a sense what is going on with efforts to fix the problems associated with obama care. we still don't know when the release of the numbers of people who have actually signed up. casey wian, cnn, los angeles. one of the leaders in the fight against obama care, texas senator ted cruz, he is headlining in iowa. interesting. cruz will deliver the key note address to the state republican's party to the ronald reagan tomorrow night in des moines. it is usually a showcase for types of leaders may be considering a run of the iowa caucuses someday. the tea party republican ted cruz made a national game for himself during the government shutdown crisis just before actually with his fight to end obama care and his 21-hour speech on the senate floor. >> he is not going there because it's beautiful there this time of the year? >> it's always beautiful in iowa but you don't go there when the

caucus is two years away. >> this is true. 700 irs contract workers owe close to $5.5 million in back taxes. based on a new report. half of them aren't supposed to be eligible to work because they aren't on a tax payment plan. they say they should treat noncompliance for contract irs workers the same it does for its own employees. >> people don't know why a seventh grader killed a teacher and wounded two other students at his middle school. the 12-year-old shooter also took his own life. students returned to class on wednesday at sparks middle school, the mother of one of the injured students spoke. >> he is saddened by the death of his friend mr. landsberry. from what we have learned from the others at the scene, mason's first instinct was to intervene and help mr. landsberry. we do not believe he was in any

way a target of the shooting and it's my understanding that he was trying to help mr. landsberry when he was shot. >> police say the parents of the shooter could be charged because the gun that he used came from their home. arraignment day for two young florida girls charged with bullying a 12-year-old so relentlessly she committed suicide. 14-year-old guadalupe shaw and kaitlin roman facing aggravated stalking charges for sedgwick who leaped to her death from a cement factory tower in september. police officers in santa rosa, california, thought the replica assault rifle was real and fatally shot the teenage boy who was carrying it. officers feared they would be shot when they spotted andy lopez that turned out to be a

pellet gun. the community very angry with people disputing what the police said. they say the boy never had a chance to drop his weapon. >> if he would have been told to freeze, you know, put your weapon down, if they thought it was a weapon, you know, he would have done that. >> he was a good kid? >> he was a good kid. he was a kid! he was 13 years old! he didn't look like a man, you know, andy was a boy. >> the officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave. >> no charges against george zimmerman in a dispute last month with his wife. the fight happened days after shelley zimmerman filed for divorce. zimmerman was acquitted in the death of a black teen, trayvon martin. reports that a hospital employee stepped over the body of a missing patient days before she was identified. 57-year-old lynn spaulding van

issued from her hospital room and was found dead 17 days later in a stairwell. the "l.a. times" is reporting the employee reported it to nurse and she called police but days passed before another employee found the woman. >> that's bizarre. the cdc tracing the source of some cases of a severe stomach bug outbreak to mexico. investigators say some of the cases in texas which was hardest hit have come from fresh cilantro from pueblo, mexico. the fda wouldn't name the establishments. at least two separate outbreaks last summer left 643 people sick in 25 states. attorneys for the city of detroit trying to convince a civil judge they tried in good faith to avoid filing for bankruptcy protection. detroit is seeking relief from

18 billion dollars in debt. many of its creditors claim the city did not negotiate fairly for them before filing for bankruptcy. gay rights advocates hope new mexico is the 15th state to legalize same-sex marriage. the justices hearing two hours of arguments yesterday. it is not clear when they will make a decision. hawaii and illinois are close to deciding whether to legalize gay marriage. a strange fight here in new york city. banksy blaming the nypd for shutting him down for the day. the anonymous artist posted his message on his website the day's art has been canceled due to police activity. the cops busted the artist and two snins in brooklyn but the nypd denies it. so far during his month long what he calls his new york residency, banksy arts have popped up in manhattan, brooklyn, queens and the bronx. a lot of people love it but not apparently the city. >> right. massive cold front taking over much of the country this morning. many are waking up to freezing

temperatures. chad myers has a look at how cold it's going to get. >> good morning, guys. a cold morning for most of the eastern half of the u.s. this morning. temps in the 40s across a lot of the big cities. new york and it's windy and cold. boston gusty as well and denver fog. they would like to get wind to blow the fog around this morning and seattle the same story for the airport delays. not major delays across the country and no really big storm systems around but enough to cause 15 to 20-minute delays here. showers across part of the northeast. partly cloudy in the midwest and mostly sunny across most of the rest of the country. here are the highs today. not very much. we don't go up very high. only 42 in minneapolis and 46 for chicago, 51 kansas city. and 65 in l.a. have a great day. back to you guys. >> we will have a great day! >> two robbery suspects led police on a car chase when they crashed their truck into a house

that was about a mile away from the home they allegedly broke into. fortunately for the owner of this home he was in a different room at the time of the crash. >> i had just woken up and then a few minutes later, all i really heard was breaking glass and i was like, what the heck some we had some stuff stacked in the other room. so i went out and looked and there is a car in my house. >> not in the garage either. in like the living room there. crazy. >> police say the suspects split up after the crash. one briefly held a neighbor hostage inside her home nearby before he surrendered. that could have ended so much worse than it did. i mean, car crashing. holding hostage. my goodness. >> bad for the house and could be bad for a lot of people around there too. coming up, hundreds of homes destroyed in a string of huge, huge wildfires in australia. we are live with why that country and its military is being blamed right after the break. [ female announcer ] we take away your stuffy nose.

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a huge fire burning out of control in australia. dozens and dozens of them burning across a thousand mile stretch in new south wales. hundreds of homes have been destroyed and the weather described as volatile and unstable. no help at all to the fire crews. cnn's robin curnow joins us by the phone from sydney. robin, what is the latest on

these fires? >> reporter: the fires are creating a huge danger and potential for loss of life. the real key day was going to be on wednesday when the fire team ordered these fires literally run out of control. however, that didn't happen. the worst case scenario didn't happen. the authorities here saying that a bulletin had been launched that the winds had changed, the temperature -- a lot cooler. the fires did not encroach on private property and they did not destroy in the way many thought it would. that doesn't mean, i must say, john, that the risks and the dangers are gone. the firefighters say it's still out of control. 60 of them burning and 20 out of control. that said, this is going to be a

long hot, dry summer for the australians. >> robin, what about the cause of these fires? because one of the potential causes, speculation has been that the military may be to blame here. >> and it has. i think that shocked and angered many of the australians who have watched these bush fires ran across the areas for a number of days now. essentially what happened was there was live ammunition training exercise at one of the army bases in a mountain region and that sparked the bush fire and the dry australian bush and that literally just ran away and they have really not contained that at all yet. also we know the reason for many of these bush fires, we know an 11-year-old little boy was charged for making two of the fires. today we heard about an

8-year-old boy who was caught trying to start a fire. the combination of the military exercises arson and combined with the unseasonable parched, dry windy weather has created this perfect storm essentially for some of the worst bush fires we have seen for years in this region and i think have many people extremely concerned is that many of those have been board bordering on the outskirts of sydney. >> let's hope they get this contained, robin. thank you. to ireland now. police have returned two children to their roma parents. one case involved a 2-year-old boy in the irish midlands. the other, a 7-year-old girl in dub bin. authorities thought she might have been kidnapped because she has blue eyes and blond hair, but dna tests showed she is, in fact, the roma couple's child.

>> positive. >> translator: we don't want it to happen to any family. that's all he wants to say. she's very happy. yes. >> reporter: what is the first thing she said when you spoke to her? >> she said she was very happy. she is crying. >> irish police may have been influenced by this girl named maria taken from a roma couple because of her blond hair and blue eyes. authorities say dna tests proved that little girl is not the couple's child. that roma couple is charged with abduction. they claim maria's biological mother is a prostitute from bulgaria trying to find her a home. >> odd there. i think more to come. a historical day but not

just because the red sox took on the cardinals in game one of the world series. that is historic but even more historic who is here on the set to tell us about it? andy scholes came here to give us the breaking baseball news. >> you enjoy this too much! ordinary rubs don't always work on my arthritis.

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we have a surprise for you this morning p.m. all right. first off, the boston red sox they came out swinging last night and they just crushed the cardinals. this thing almost never in doubt. andy scholes is here. you know, when the red sox win, you have to come up every time. >> i had to deliver this good news in person just for you, john. you know? red sox nation, great night for them. awesome night if you're a red sox fan but a cardinals fan, not so much. the red sox were boston strong last night and 4-0 load right away and could have easily been -0 but check out this catch by

carlos beltran. he robbed big papi of a grand slam in the second inning. take a look. great catch. but the bad news for the cards is beltran had to leave the game with bruised ribs. he should be okay but have could keep an eye on that. big papi got his revenge and in the seventh making sure no one catches that one. red sox cruise to 8-1 win and game two tonight and first pitch at 8:00 eastern. high school football team in wisconsin turned a big win into a very special moment for their water boy. a popular senior who has down syndrome suited up for the last game of the season and check it out. 1.2 left on the clock, they called a time-out and brought him out on the field and handed him the ball and he goes 35 yards for the touchdown! he spiked the ball before getting swarmed by his teammates. definitely a great moment there for noah. trending on on bleacherreport.com. notre dame beat usc this past

sat and during the game, running back cam mcdaniel had his helmet ripped off during a run and this amazing picture was taken. this is a real picture during a football game. he's got 300-pound linemen chasing him and his helmet is ripped off but looks like he is coming straight out of an ad right there. some of my favorite captions after this going viral is rushing up the middle straight into our hearts. >> yeah. >> if you can't be good at football and that handsome at the same time. it seems not fair. >> he probably has a terrible time at notre dame. >> that poor guy! >> he looks like tom brady. >> if you look like tom brady, you're doing something right. >> smart, rich. >> nice to see you, andy. >> great to be here. >> we will be right back. ure an, you feel...congested. beat down. crushed. but sudafed gives you maximum strength sinus pressure and pain relief. so you feel free. powerful sinus relief. sudafed. open up.

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good morning. welcome. you have 1 1/2 minutes if you're trying to get out of the door at 5:00 a.m. michael jackson earned 160 million the past year alone.

more than any living celebrity made, by the way. elvis presley was a distant second. 55 million. the third time michael jackson topped this list. he reclaimed his crown from last year's number one list. >> a list you want to be on. >> i don't want to be on that list. >> on that note, "early start" continues right now. clearly, there's problems with the website. i already the problems go much further than that. >> we did not know until the problems manifested themselves after the launch that they would be as significant as they have turned out to be. >> politicians, including now democrats, pointing fingers over the launch of the obama care website. today, the contractors who built this site will face tough, tough questions on capitol hill. a cold front giving much of the country a big taste of winter this morning, as temperatures up to 20 degrees

below normal. how far the mercury is expected to drop. and what a game it was! world series smackdown. the red sox with a big win against the cardinals. what went wrong for st. louis? surprising, indeed. >> i know you're having a wonderful morning but remember that old story the tortoise and the hare? >> i'm only stating the red sox win. you have to appreciate the moment when it comes because it doesn't come that often. >> unless you're a cards fan. just saying. good morning, i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. i am not gloating. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. white house is putting together its team to fix and get the bugs out of the obama care website. in the meantime, the original website developers likely to get a grilling on capitol hill this morning as hearings on the health care mess for this website begin. more now from cnn's jim accooac.

>> reporter: with the obama care finger pointing shifting in high gear, the contractors who built the troubled healthcare.gov website are saying don't blame us but still offering conflicting stories of what went wrong. they hear testimony today before the house and energy and commerce committee. while one site is say the site passed eight technical reviews prior to going online october 1st, another contractor says a late decision requiring consumers to register for an account before they could browse for insurance products is behind some of the problems. not only do house republicans want answers. >> it's our job to hold them accountable when it comes to obama care, clearly there is an awful lot that needs to be held accountable. >> reporter: some of president obama's fellow democrats want heads to roll. >> it's inexcusable. somebody ought to get fired. >> kathleen sebelius? >> no. they should wait and get the thing up and running and then determine and let somebody be accountable! >> reporter: a health insurance

industry insider tells cnn contractors and officials at the department of health and human services knew about the site's problems but gave a far rosier picture to the white house that insider say nobody wanted to say your signature achievement may not go so well. but the president was not intentionally kept in the dark. >> we did not know until the problems manifested themselves after the launch that they would be as significant as they have turned out to be. >> reporter: hhs secretary kathleen sebelius told cnn the president did not know about the problems until after the site was fully launched. >> i think it became clear early on the first couple of days. >> not before that? >> no, sir. >> reporter: all the more reason the republican say for the president to hold somebody accountable. >> in other words, the president himself seems embarrassed by it and if he is not going to resign over this mess, he should decide who should.

>> reporter: jim acosta, cnn, washington. >> president obama is expected to shift focus from the health care rollout for immigration reform. he will call on congress to act and urging lawmakers to finish the work by the end of the year. work on measures to strengthen u.s. borders and provide a pathway to citizenship for many in the country illegal. john boehner expressed optimism by house action by year's end. the senate has passed the immigration reform bill and everybody waiting on the house to act. a report that claims the nsa tapped german chancellor angela merkel's cell phone. president obama assured merkel during a phone call on wednesday that the nsa is not listening in on her conversations. the german magazine reporting that merkel called obama to discuss these allegations which are based on disclosures from nsa leaker edward snowdeny. more from cnn's frederik

pleitgen. >> reporter: very few details have emerged so far. the german government only came out and said it has information that merkel's phone was possibly tapped into by the nsa and they would not say anything else. now, there was that phone call between merkel and barack obama earlier on wednesday when merkel according to the german government finds this unacceptable and stop immediately and wants a treaty between germany and the united states and makes clear the relations between the two countries intelligent communities for something like this not to ever happen again. the germans have been on the edge about u.s. intelligence gathering in germany for a very long time. the government in berlin said that it's asked the u.s. government to clarify what sort of intelligence gathering, what sort of spying and espionage it has been conducting in germany about six or seven months ago and so far it has not gotten satisfactory answers from the united states. one of the things that berlin

said today, again, it expects those answers to be forthcoming as fast as possible. merkel is on her cell phone all the time. a well-known fact in germany she texts during parliamentary debates and on the phone all the time. there were future pieces done on that phone saying it was impossible to tap into that phone and clearly that is not the case and it is something that is very, very damaging to u.s. and german relations. the germans in this whole saga surrounding edward snowden felt the americans were insincere to them and germany thought it was a closer ally to the united states than to have america collect as much data from german internet users from german phone be user and now german politicians that is coming to light. frederik pleitgen, cnn, atlanta. we are learning more about a secret deal on drone strikes between the u.s. and pakistan. it comes on the heels of a meeting on wednesday between

pakistan prime minister shareef and president obama with shareef calling for an ento the strikes. "the washington post" cites cia documents and memos that says pakistani has been given classified briefings on the strikes as well as casualty totals. in the u.s. the united states and israel not apparently seeing eye-to-eye over iran's nuclear program. prime minister benjamin netanyahu telling secretary of state john kerry iran must dismantle its nuclear bomb program and the u.s. suggest putting safeguards in place saying it's peaceful and not military in nation. the talks will be resumed next week in geneva on finding a solution to the deal. aid workers say no food or supplies have come into soar since the rebel blockade on the

capital. they fear that it will become like that in the western suburbs where hunger is so severe. doctors have reported deaths from malnutrition. a warning that egypt might be on the brink of civil war. opponents of the coup that toppled president elect morsi are saying pay attention. they believe the crackdown on morsi's muslim brotherhood is ripping egypt apart. 1,000 have been killed and 2,000 arrested since that. lawyers for boston bombing suspect tsarnaev may try to save him by blaming everything on his dead brother from the death penalty. prosecutors for the first time monday said a friend of his told them he took part in the killings. the younger tsarnaev's attorneys may argue he fell under his brother's murderess influence.

a cold snap that feels like winter. gripping much of the country right now from the plains to new england and people getting their first real taste of chilly winter weather. it was snowing last night in columbus, ohio. forecasters say temperatures in the midwest are 10 to 15 degrees colder than normal. >> check out northern wisconsin. a nice dusting there in northern wisconsin. three inches of snow on the ground there that piled up beyond this, i'm told. forecasters expect a storm system to dump more lake-effect snow on the area before things warm up over the week. the hills are alive with the soft sounding fall of snow in west virginia. >> you sound just like julie andrews. i've always said that about you. >> an inch or two across the mountains there and people are getting ready for west virginia ski season which is a month away. brown paper packages tied up in

strings. let's get a picture of the weather with karen maginnis. >> good morning. john, congratulations on your big win last night. here comes the snow and in the isolated areas. the typically snow belts wrapped around the great lakes from syracuse to erie and towards cleveland and grand rapids and traverse city and lewis county a lake-effect snow warning. there could be between 6 and 12 inches of snow and as we go through the afternoon, the wind is going to be a big factor with possible gusts close to 40 miles an hour. all the way from the eastern great lakes and into the northeastern new england. so watch out with those temperatures much colder than they should be this time of the year. it is going to feel brutal with those additional wind gusts. right now, we have a little bit of snow falling across the eastern great lakes. most of that is on the light side but with that area of low pressure sweeping across the great lakes, that's going to enhance that snowfall so some

areas could see some isolated heavy snowfall. this is a view for the great lakes when you see some of those streaks, that tells us the wind is fairly gusty and blowing across the open waters of the great lakes and so that's what produces that lake-effect snow. chicago, you stay below normal. the average high is close to 60 degrees. you're in the 40s and 50s. washington, d.c., it is still the big chill. john, christine, back to you. >> thank you, karen. appreciate the good wishes on the boston red sox who did, in fact, take game one of the world series last night at fenway park. they really dominated. the sox did just about everything right and the cardinals not so much. 8-1 at the pend. take a look at this error by shortstop pete kozma. the ump initially called him out and later they had a conference and everyone was safe and after that, mike napoli came to the plate and emptied the bases driving everyone home with a three run double. david ortiz had a big night.

this is mike napoli's double here. base clearing double in the first inning. that made it 3-0. david ortiz had a big night as well. he had a two-run home run after being robbed earlier in the game of a grand slam by a great catch by carlos beltran. >> how in the world are you going to get through this and get up so early in the morning? >> this is a great catch by carlos beltran right there. check that out! >> some bruised ribs from that, right? >> he does. here is where you sweat. here is the two-run home run where he hits it far enough that no one can catch it. as i said, the red sox won 8-1. sleep is insignificant compared to world series glory. >> i'll just get the highlights from you. how is that? coming up. >> my family praise every night for michael skakel and has done so for 12 years that he gets justice and so this is a -- this

is really a -- it's a -- it's a -- it's a blessed event. >> convicted of murder more than 25 years after the crime, michael skakel, a nephew of ethyl kennedy, now granted a new trial. >> they was trying to stick their head out so they won't smell the smoke and they was just panicking and panicking and kids screaming, ah! >> neighbors hearing a mother's cry for help. her children stuck inside a burning home. an amazing story of heroism. plus, it is time for your morning rhyme. tweet us with your own original verse. it can be about anything. it can be about christine romans, if you'd like. #earlystart or #morningrhyme. we will read the best ones coming up. >> keep it clean, america.

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welcome back to "early start." kennedy cousin michael skakel is

getting a new trial after 11 years behind bars for murder. the connecticut judge has overturned skakel's conviction ruling his attorney failed to adequately represent him in court. skakel was sentenced to 20 years in life in prison for the 1975 murder of his teenage neighbor martha moxley. cnn's deborah feyerick has more. >> reporter: the last time 15-year-old martha moxley was seen alive was october 19, 1975. she went to a party with friends that night and seen flirting with 17-year-old nephew of ethyl kennedy, michael skakel. she never returned home. the next day her body was found in her yard and bludgeoned and stabbed to death from a broken golf club found near her body. that club was traced back to skakel home and no fingerprints were found. >> they hit her so hard that the golf club broke and they took the shaft and stabbed her six or

seven times. >> reporter: suspicion fell on thomas skakel. another -- the last person seen with moxley the night of the party. another suspect was kim middleton who move in with the family the day of the murder but police never charged either of them citing a lack of evidence. two decades the case languished. a series of books renewed interest on the crime and a new trial. a new suspect in january of 2000, 40-year-old michael skakel, thomas skakel's little brother, michael was also 15 at the time of the crime which meant 25 years later, he was charged as a juvenile. he turned himself into police after an arrest warrant was issued all the while proclaiming his innocence. >> to my knowledge, there is no physical evidence. there is no dna evidence. no scientific evidence or anything that links michael skakel to this crime. >> reporter: despite that, a number of witnesses placed him at the crime scene the night of the murder. two witnesses testified they skakel boasting he could get away with murder because he was a kennedy.

prosecutors claim michael skakel was jealous of his older brother's relationship with moxley and killed the girl in a jealous rage. a charge he denied. the judge eventually ruled michael skakel should be tried as an adult. >> everyone assumes he is guilty. he has been arrested. he is this kennedy cousin. there is books, movies, a lot of disinformation and no one really knows the story. jury trial will expose the evidence to the public. >> reporter: the trial began in 2002. skakel was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years to life for moxley's murder. >> i can't give up. martha was very special. i only had two children and to lose one was a major, major thing and i'm just not going to give up! >> reporter: deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. police in colorado testify that accused aurora movie james holmes may have been a serial

killer in denver streets and revealed in a hearing on wednesday what may be admissible in the trial. he has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. six and a half years is the sentence for matthew portal who confessed on youtube to a fatal drunk driving crash in ohio. he pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and drunk driving. he says his true punishment is simply living. a programming note qis qchr cuomo will be talking to matthew cordle coming up. a colorado judge ordered the release in the 1996 killing of jonbenet ramsey. the district attorney had possible charges against her parents three years after the murder. the indictment remains sealed

because the d.a. has decided not to pursue charges. no explanation was ever given but these documents might shed some light. >> >> good samaritans rescuing a woman and her young daughters from a burning apartment building in miami. their couch went up in flames and two good samaritans sprang into action and became life savers. >> the smoke was coming at them. it was intense. they trying to stick their head out so they won't smell the smoke and panicking and panicking and kids were screaming, ah! >> we heard the screaming and once we seen the kids and she was putting the kids out of the window, we just ran into action and ran over there and said, "drop the kids," and he caught them. >> i'm so glad her and my babies okay. jumping out that window for two babies is dangerous. >> investigators looking into the possibility the fire was set intentionally. the mother had reportedly gotten into a heated argument with her ex-boyfriend just before that fire broke out.

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welcome back to "early start." a police chase in fresno, california, ended when an irresistible force met an

immovable object. the immovable object, a house. a truck driven by two alleged burglars crashed into a house. fortunately the homeowner was in a different room at the time of the crash. >> i had just woken up and then a few minutes later, all i really heard was breaking glass and i was like, what the heck? we had some stuff stacked in the other room. so i went out and looked and there is a car in my house. as bad as it it was, it turned out better than it looked. police say the suspects split up after the crash. one briefly held a neighbor hostage inside her home nearby before he surrendered. let's see what is coming up on "new day." >> this is an exciting morning and here is why. although that wasn't an exciting reaction. it was halloween in 1975. 38 years ago that martha moxley was killed at a halloween party at the skakel house.

you know this story, right? michael skakel, the kennedy cousin wind up becoming the target of this and it was a long and tortured trial and it wasn't until many years later he wound up being convicted, although it was weird because they treated it like a juvenile trial because he was 15 the allegation said when the murder happened. now it's been overturned as it says on your screen. we will tell you why. we will tell you if it is real that there could be a retrial in this case because that would be very unusual. >> difficult, right? >> yes. it creates a whole load of complications and, and the interesting question is this just about procedure why he is getting a new trial, or did someone else commit this crime? we will go through it with you this morning. west virginia a lot of people w -- we have a lot of people that know about this story. an ohio man knadmitting he drove drunk and killed someone. that is matthew cordle. he will be talking to us this

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she is one of the nicest teachers. always went out of her way to talk to you and always saying hi to everybody. it was a tragedy. >> really tragic. a popular high school teacher found murdered and now a 14-year-old student stands charged with this crime. a bitter taste of winter for parts of the country this morning, waking up in temperatures 20 degrees below zero -- below normal, i should say. now you should feel better about it. how cold it's expected to get. >> everything is relative. it's still cold. the highly anticipated hearings on the doubled website

health care. they have have to answer problems that have plagued the online health care enrollment. they are expected to say it's not our fault. health and human services kathleen sebelius will not be at the hearings. she is in arizona touring a health care facility. she is getting plenty of heat as the administration's point person on health care. cnn's brian todd has more on the secretary under fire. >> reporter: she says this is the most important work she's ever done in her life, but kathleen sebelius is on the ropes as she tries to carry it out. in an exclusive interview with cnn's dr. sanjay gupta, president obama's health and human services secretary repeatedly dodged questions about the rollout of obama care. >> reporter: how many people have signed up? >> we will be doing what we have done with every other program. >> reporter: would you consider resigning over this? >> i think my job is to get this

fully implemented genetic the website working right. >> reporter: sebelius knows how to navigate political troubled waters. the daughter of governor of ohio and wife of a federal judge. >> i think she learned a great deal from that and i think it has served her very well. >> reporter: this isn't her first health care battle, as governor of kansas, a catholic, vetoed an abortion bill. she fought to bring premiums down and drove insurers out of the the stay by regulating them too much. >> thought it was not profitable to do business in kansas so it limited our choices for health care providers. >> reporter: ron policyic, a close ally, says sebelius focus was to help consumers, above

others. i guess the criticism of her management style, how is she as a manager? >> i think she is an extraordinary manager. she not only is smart and is very thoughtful, but she also has a listening style that i think is very important for this position. >> reporter: he thinks sebelius will survive all of this but she has lost a personal ally across the aisle. kansas senator pat roberts a one time family friend and work for sebelius father-in-law was the first in congress to call for her resignation. brian todd, cnn, washington. a 14-year-old is charged of killing a teacherer in danvers, massachusetts. he was in one of the colleen ritzer's classes. the teacher's body was found in the woods behind the high school. a crime has stunned the suspect's classmates. >> first i found out he was missing and like this was last night. i was like shocked by that because i was like, like why

would he go missing? did he get kidnapped or run away? and everyone is praying for them to find him. once i found out in the morning that there was like a homicide, i was like wondering if it was connected because that's the reason we didn't have school because of the homicide. then i was like really shocked that it was him. like i wouldn't have suspected it at all. i was like -- like people say it's always a quiet ones so maybe that's why. maybe like it could have been like he had troubles at home or something. but he was nice. >> prosecutors say they will ask a grand jury to indict the 14-year-old suspect as an adult. sparks, nevada, still a still in mourning days after a seven grader there shot and killed a teacher and wounded two other students at his middle school. the 12-year-old shooter also took his own life. as students returned to class wednesday at this school, the mother of one of the injured students spoke about the tragic incident.

>> he is in good spirits but saddened about the death of mr. landsberry. from what we know, he tried to help mr. landsberry and don't know that he is a target of the shooting and it's my understanding that he was trying to help mr. landsberry when he was shot. >> police say the parents of the shooter could be charged because the gun he used came from their home. authorities in san francisco are investigating reports that a hospital employee stepped over the body of a missing patient days before she was identified. 57-year-old lynn spaulding disappeared from her hospital room and was found dead more than two weeks later in a stairwell. the "los angeles times" is reporting that the employee reported the body to a nurse. she called police. but then days passed before anything was done. >> the source of some cases of severe stomach bug outbreak traced to mexico. the cdc reports some cases in

texas which was hardest hit came from pueblo, mexico. they say it was served at mexican style restaurants and sold at a similar store. the fda would not list the establishments. the outbreak last summer left 426 sick in 25 states. 37 minutes after the hour. chilly. very chilly this morning. a major cold front moving through parts of the country. temperatures as much as 20 degrees below normal. >> karen maginnis joins us how cold it's going to get. >> these aren't staggering snowfall totals but impressive. sioux st. maria 4.5 inches. the cold is solidly in place wrapped around the great lakes with those prone snow or lake

snow effect stones in the eastern great lakes and extending toward syracuse and buffalo. the snowfall isn't going to be heavy but fairly persistent on and off throughout the day with the wind blowing in from the east. as a consequence some of those wind gusts may be gusting up to as high as 40 miles per hour and making it feel bone chilling cold and with these temperatures already a good 10 to as much as 20 degrees below where they should be, bundle up because it is going to be very chilly outside, especially in the eastern great lakes. temperatures only making it to the 40s. john, christine, back to you. >> we are ready for it. bring it on. thanks, karen. appreciate it. we will be right back. the american dream is of a better future,

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nas dask up 29% and s&p 500 up 22%. i try to do it every day to remind you where we are comr. the ten-year treasury yield now stands at 2.49%. this is the first time it's dropped below the 2.5% mark since july. the yield on the ten year falling a half a percentage. it will likely push down mortgage rates. that chart right there means likely lower mortgage rates. good for you if you're financing first-time home buyer. fresh off a chunk of profit from netflix stocks, carl icahn hasn't forgotten. he tweeted on wednesday just sent a letter to tim cook and full letter on my website. the site hasn't launched yet. we will look for it. when he tweets, people listen. interesting to see what the letter has so dsay.

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you could hear the screams coming from fenway park last night. screams of ecstasy. the red sox crushed the cardinals. >> come on, it's a baseball game! >> it's a family game too. andy scholes joins us with the bleacher report now. >> screams from your living room? especially early on in the game because it was awesome for the red sox now. for the cardinals fans, it was not awesome. the red sox they were definitely boston strong last night and early and often in this one. they jumped out to a 4-0 lead and it could have easily been much worse. it could have been 8-0 but carlos beltran made an amazing catch in right field. big papi going for the grand slam and beltran reaches over the wall and makes the catch. bad news for cards is he bruised

his ribs on the play and leave the game later. big papi comes up in seventh inning and get his revenge and make sure no one could catch this. two run home you run. 8-1 red sox win. first pitch tonight at 8:00 eastern. high school football team in wisconsin turned a big win into a very special moment for their water boy. noah van burren, a popular senior with down sdryndrome suid up for the game. they brought him out on the field and he got the handoff at the end of the game for the touchdown and then swarmed by his teammates. definitely a great moment there. >> best run of the game. >> definitely was. for the first time in nearly four years, greg oden, that's right, greg oden was back on the court. the former number one pick is considered a huge bust. he got in the game for the heat last night in the preseason. he actually threw down that dunk right there. the bench jumped up and everyone was very excited for him. lebron tweeted after the game

couldn't imagine being away from the game for three years. feel like a proud big brother. oden is trying to revive his career that has been derailed by several knee surgeries over the years. looked like he was going to come back and knee swell up and he had to have surgery to good thing for him back on court. notre dame beat usc last saturday in the football game. this looks like it's out of ab abercrombie and fitch ad. >> lookses how his hair looks. not to mention the exposed bicep there. >> he has no trouble getting a date is all i can say. >> this picture has gone viral. my favorite caption is rushes up the middle and straight into our hearts. >> i think he looks like tom brady. >> he looks good! stick around, andy. because game one of the world

series it was one for the ages. and one lucky fan hat story of a lifetime. baseball fan eric jabs was looking for a ticket on stubhub when he stumbled across a $6 ticket for the world series. it turned out to be fake but stubhub sent eric to the game any way. >> he joins us right now. wow. what an amazing stroke of luck for you! you got a seat. 750 bucks retail is what one of these seats go for? >> it ain't cheap. >> you go how was it? >> it was great. >> we are going to have the whole interview when we come back. >> no, we are going to stay and talk to him while we have him here. i think that is a better idea. eric, give me a sense how much they paid for the people around you. you paid exactly nothing for that seat. >> i got the ticket for free. i originally paid $6 but stubhub

eventually gave it for me for free since it turned out to be a fraudulent ticket so i was sitting in the right field box seat 97 which is past first base and pretty close to the field behind first base. >> you're a big baseball fan. season ticket holder to the pirates, correct? >> right. i'm a full season ticket holder to the pirates. last night was my 109th game that i've attended this year. >> you're rooting for the red sox because the cardinals knocked out your pirates, right? >> yeah. the cardinals knocked out my pirates in the nlds round. unfortunately, cardinal fans, i can't help you. >> so you're on stubhub looking for a seat to the world series and you see one advertised for six bucks. what goes through your head? >> well, my first thought was, i

need to buy this immediately because somebody else is going to snap that ticket up within a few seconds so i immediately typed in my password and credit card information and purchased the ticket and then i got the e-mail several minutes later from subhub with downloaded instructions to get the ticket. i printed it out in my hand and thought i was going to the world series for $6. unfortunately it turned out to be a fake ticket. then came the crushing news that, oh, i'm not going to the world series, i'm getting my $6 bam back. the next day, stubhub said we will make this right and send to you the world series. it was like a roller coaster of up and downs but it turned out to be a happy story. >> so right away, they told you you were going to get a new ticket. they never said, oh, this is just going to be canceled and you're out of luck, you're not going to the game? >> at first, they said that they were going to give me a 50 dollar comp. credit. >> but you're a smart man.

>> i spent the day thinking, okay. i thought i wasn't going to be able to get it. >> stubhub decided to step up and do right thing. you're not an average fan. a pirates season ticket holder too. you have a special calling at baseball games, don't you? >> that's right. i usually show up for the games about two hours in advance for batting practice. during batting practice, i catch the baseballs that are hit into the stands or players throw me balls and this year alone, i've caught 731 baseballs. >> what? >> that is crazy. that is crazy. >> how many did you get last night? >> including two last night. >> who? those are valuable. >> one from the red sox that -- this is a ground-rule double from the red sox that i snagged over at the bull pen and this was thrown to me by one of the

cardinals pitchers in foul territory. i didn't go empty handed from batting practice. i got two yesterday out of the collection. >> what do you do with all of them? >> right now, i still have every one that -- i'm almost at 3,000 and in my garage. i have two young kids and when they are old enough to hit field and throw, we have a lifetime supply. >> erik, congratulations on the game and congratulations on the balls. great to have you here this morning. we really appreciate it. >> each one with a story. so cool. >> he could have vvets them. >> we will be right back. has the fastest retinol formula. to visibly reduce fine lines and wrinkles in just one week. neutrogena®. to visibly reduce fine lines and wrinkles in just one week. ♪ don't disguise bad odors in your trash. neutralize them and freshen.

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if you only knew what happened when the commercials were playing. that's it for "early start." >> it is time for "new day." it is all yours, friends. >> thanks, guys. happy way to start our show. there is very big and important stories going on right now so let's get to it. here is your top news. we are not making excuses for the serious problems, but, you know, an element of this is the enormous demand. >> call to the carpet. this morning degree of medical hearings begin on the affordable health care rollout. cnn learns new details about who knew what, when. >> the big chill and early freeze slamming the eastern half of the country and snowing in some parts. even the south is bracing for the cold. dramatic turn in the case of michael skakel granted a retrial in the murder of his 15-year-old

neighbor more than 40 years ago. will he walk free? your "new day" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. good morning. welcome to "new day," it's thursday, october 24th, 6:00 in the east. a lot going on this morning, including the mystery in massachusetts. why did a 14-year-old student kill a popular young teacher? we have new video this morning of that teacher and new information on the investigation. the entire city of boston rocked by the turn of events here, even a moment of silence at last night's world series game. plus, a powerful interview in our next hour, the story of matthew cordle in an online video confession he admitted to killing a man while driving drunk. in a jailhouse interview, cordle is talking to us on the first day of his 6 1/2-year sent