if you have a great interview, we can tug on your beard. >> my beard, their beard is a lot bigger than my beard. but beards are good. rachel, thanks very, very much. that's it for me, see you at 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." "newsroom" continues right now with brook baldwin. . wolf, thank you. we begin with breaking news. cnn pursued answers and today breaking news in the case of the teenager found dead inside this wrapped up gym mat at his high school. this is a decision, this teenager's parents have been waiting for months and months and month. officials in georgia ruled that kendrick johnson's death was an accident. that was the ruling back in january. but his parents claim he was, indeed, murdered. their lawyers demanded the justice department investigate their son's death further. and moments agree u.s. attorney michael moore announced his

decision. he says his office will reopen kendrick johnson's case. >> this time, however, i'm aware that the sufficient basis exists to conduct a formal review of the facts surrounding the death of kendrick johnson. i do this with an open mind accepting nor rejecting the opinions of anyone who was previously investigated the circumstances of his death. >> huge victory for kendrick johnson's parents. cnn's victor blackwell chasing the story for more than six mont months. his ongoing investigation uncovered new details as to how johnson died. here's a look at his report and how we got here. >> months of protests. sit-ins and marches have shaken the small south georgia city of valdosta. demonstrators say they want answers in the death of 17-year-old kendrick johnson.

in january, kendrick was found dead at school. investigators with the county sheriff office said kendrick squeezed his 19 inch shoulders into the 14.1 inch center of this rolled gym mat. they say he got stuck upside down while reaching for this shoe. after an autopsy, a medical examiner with the georgia bureau of examination agreed accidental positional positional asphyxia. >> we examined all the alternatives presented to us and the only one that fit the physical evidence and the forensic evidence and the testimonial evidence that we received, this was an accident. >> an accident. >> reporter: kendrick's parents believe the story about the shoe is a cover up. >> when i went and viewed his body that sunday, you could see something happened. you could tell he was beaten. >> reporter: in june the johnsons exhumed his body and

hired dr. bill anderson to conduct an independent autopsy. anderson says he found evidence of bleeding under the skin near johnson's right jaw. >> we're able to diagnose the fact that there was, indeed, blunt force trauma to that area. >> he took blows to the neck. >> he took at least one blow to the neck. >> just to be clear you used the word several times. but in your view, this is a homicide. >> yes. >> reporter: also dr. anderson says his organs were missing. instead he was stuffed with newspaper. the secretary of state's office launched an investigation into that. questions made the johnsons more suspicious, including why these shoes found yards from kendrick's body were not collected as evidence and how did someone's blood end up on the wall in the gym. cnn laid out these facts for former fbi special agent herald copes. >> i don't believe this was an accident. i believe this young man met with foul play. >> and victor blackwell joins me

now from macon, georgia. victor, huge news, huge victory for the family who you have been in touch with for months and months. hearing from mrs. johnson she said the only thing she wanted was the truth. for the family, this feels like one step in the right direction, doesn't it? >> it does. they've been waiting and hoping for this federal investigation not just since we started doing this story six months ago, but since his death and since they got that report from the sheriff's office that this was not the result of foul play. that's at least questionable to u.s. attorney michael moore since he decided to open this investigation. there's a couple of sentences in his remarks and i had a copy here today that stand out, brooke. i want it read these two sentences. should sufficient information be warranted to develop a civil rights investigation. oep an civil rights or any other property investigation. that jumped out to me because almost immediately after that

second autopsy from the independent pathologist came out the civil rights division of the department of justice said we dent see any evidence of a civil rights violation. michael moore has at least opened the door that possibly, as he continues to investigate this case, there could be evidence of a civil rights investigation. >> he has now opened the doors. i mentioned we have now heard from both mom and dad of kendrick johnson. this was their reactions moments after what the doj said take a listen. >> that investigation been launched. we're happy with their decision. >> we're happy. the only thing we ever wanted is the truth. >> this is a murder mystery we have to solve. >> we believe it should be a matter of simple gestures. we know the videotape will not show kendrick johnson climbing into a mat and getting stuck and suffocating. that was a ridiculous conclusion. we really believe his parent have always maintained that their son was killed and the

only question we want to know is why they're covering up for whoever killed their son. >> let me ask you about, that was ben crump one of the attorneys and he was talking about the surveillance video inside that high school gym where kendrick johnson was found in that rolled up mat. the bits of the surveillance video that had to be released was released. what can be seen on that video? >> well, we have two clips that have been released thus far. much more coming. but if we have those clips, guys, i want to roll them. one of kendrick outside. we do, let's talk about the one of kendrick in the hall first. walking in the hall and we blurred the faces of the other students. we do not have a time stamp on this, but he appears to be wearing the same thing he was wearing inside the mat. you can see kendrick kind of run

the bottom right of the screen and there in the foreground are three students playing basketball. we know from the stills released from this this is about 1:09 p.m., just minutes before, according to the sheriff's office kendrick went into that mat and then suffocated. we don't know exactly the time length between the going into the mat and this, but we know it was just minutes because another class went in moments after that near the 2:00 hour. so, there's a lot more coming. 48 hours from each of almost 40 cameras in and around that gym. that's about 1,900 hours covered by that surveillance. the office of the attorney representing the sheriff, they have not released all of that yet. but when it is released, it will go to the family because of their lawsuit and also come to cnn because we join that lawsuit as part of our public records request. as soon as we get it, we'll start looking through frame by frame. >> we know you will, thank you very much, victor blackwell in macon, georgia. i want to turn now to legal

minds to sort through really what this means. we'll talk about that coming up here right now with jeff toobin. jeff, let me begin with you. is this a surprise that we now know that the u.s. attorney is taking a look and investigating this case in val dausa, georgia. >> i don't think it is a surprise. the case is so mysterious and circumstances so bizarre. certainly calls out for further investigation. i think people should prepare themselves for not a lot of information coming from this investigation. >> why do you say that? >> he's been dead almost a year. the crime scene has, obviously, is gone. no longer anything to investigate at the scene. and the condition of his body, in this bizarre circumstance where the funeral home appears to have removed his organs and replaced them with newspaper, i think that might limit the amount of forensic evidence that could come from, from kendrick's

body. so, i don't know what they will get at this point, but you'll never know unless you do an investigation and it certainly is appropriate that they start one now. >> just in watching our coverage of this story for the last six months, my question is now to you. looks like the two big mysteries is what exactly happened? right, the obvious. how did he die? and secondly, what jeff toobin eluded to. when his body, kendrick johnson's body was exhumed, they found black friday newspaper ads stuffed inside of him because his organs were missing from his pelvis to the top of his head and the fact that his nails appeared to be clipped short. so, two big mysteries, in my opinion, in this case. >> you're absolutely right. i'm glad that the u.s. attorney has opened an investigation into this because when you have a death like this that is under such bizarre circumstances, people need to be able to trust the process, right? they need to be able to trust

that investigators are doing their jobs properly, not necessarily assuming that something is an accident or no foul play. without first collecting all of the necessary evidence as you know. and as you pointed out in that intro piece, a sneaker found there that they didn't collect. some unexplained blood on the wall. this is a high school, why is there blood just randomly on the wall and that not drawing red flags. with respect to the coroner, how they handled the body. . all these questions come into play and they have to be answered so that people can have trust in the process, brooke. >> okay -- >> brooke -- >> go ahead, jeff. >> it's important to draw a distinction. if this funeral home behaved badly, that's something for the secretary of state to investigate which regulates funeral homes. that's not the core of this case. what the core of this case is how did he die? was anyone else, did anyone kill him? that's what we all want to know and i think that's a very

different and very much more important question than what happened at this funeral. >> to your point, just quickly, a lot of evidence wasn't collected at the gym. jeff toobin, is it too late? >> i think it is too late. those shoes are gone and blood stains are gone. i'm sure they could use the photographs to try to determine what happened but the evidence itself, you know, it's a high school gym, it gets used every day. >> jeffrey toobin and midwin charles. video surfaces of ted cruz's father saying he should go back to kenya, but he doesant stn't there. it is the news every flier has been waiting for, every air traveler waiting for this. will you be allowed to use those electronic devices during takeoff? that decision is next. except when it's too cold. like the last three weekends. asthma doesn't affect my job... you missed the meeting again last week!

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the pressure on health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is mounting. requests for her release, her release obama care documents have gone on to a full-on congressional subpoena. today the house of the oversight committee congressman darrell issa has announced he has subpoenaed for paperwork relating to the "troubled launch" of healthcare.gov. the congressman just talked to cnn about what kind of documents exactly he's seeking. >> we've had contractors give us proof that, in fact, briefings were made in a timely fashion that showed, some of them had been aired. showed that, in fact, they weren't ready. they knew they weren't ready. jay carney said the president was shown this website ahead of time as though it was ready.

so, figuring out who inside the organization knew but failed to communicate is important, but, more importantly, because so many other areas including the risk of private information coming out in a website that isn't ready. we really need to ask those questions and see what's internally going on. >> here is the department's response to the susubpoena. since october 10th, the committee has made five separate requests for a wide-range of documents, their timeline was not feasible given the vast scope of their request. it goes on. we are disappointed that the committee believes a subpoena was necessary, however, it does not change our intent to continue to cooperate with them to produce documents as we were able to. sebelius apologized for that house hearing for 3 1/2 hours yesterday morning. she will next go before the senate finance committee that is next wednesday. senator ted cruz's father told supporters during his son's senate campaign that he would

like to send president obama, i'm quoting him, back to kenya. he also called the president a socialist. this was back in april of 2012, but here he was. >> we need to send barack obama back to chicago and send him back to kenya. let me tell you, when obama campaigned in 2008, it was very, very weird, the problem is most of us suffered from syndrome and we purposely and deliberately stuck our heads in the sand. but he was very clear. he wasn't trying to fool anyone. he was clear from what he was saying that he was -- >> the left leaning mother jones

magazine first posted this story and a series of videos. rafael cruz is a cuban immigrant and a pastor and a hero to some tea party groups. let's go to cnn's crime and justice correspondent joe johns who is on this for us from washington. we are going to debate from the left and the right exactly these comments made a year ago in a minute. but, joe, to you, that wasn't all pastor cruz said. what else did he say at this meeting? >> you know, when you're doing this baio there, you left out successful businessman and a pastor now because in the next clip he really goes after the president on the issue of religion. take a listen, brooke. >> you have heard me recite the pledge. and then he says an oversight. it continues, though, over and over and over again. so, i'll tell you, we have to

unmask this man. this is a man that seeks to destroy, destroy all concept of god. and i'll tell you what, this is classical philosophy. >> now, actually, it is easy to find video of the president reciting the pledge of allegiance and you do hear him sing the words under god. the issue of the president's faith was really put under a microscope during his first campaign for president. that question pretty much asked and answered. we did ask senator cruz's office for a statement about the mother jones article, they declined but referred us to a statement given to the magazine by a spokesman for senator cruz that said the selective quotes not clear which selective quotes we're talking aabout taken out of context, mischaracterized. like many americans he feels like he's on the wrong track and he also added that pastor cruz

does not speak for the senator, brooke. >> joe johns, thank you. i want to talk about this here because the comments from pastor cruz from rafael cruz getting all kind of reaction. bring in two people to break this down. chris cophenes joins me from washington and amy holmes joins me from new york. welcome to both of you, chris, let me just begin with, i mean, shouldn't we just call this what it is. you flat out say this is racist. >> i mean, it's pretty hard to see it any other way. i mean, politics is a hard-core business and you're going to get punched when you're running for office and i think in this business when you run for office, you accept that reality but certain lines that are consistently being crossed by this fringe with the tea part or or the fringes within the tea party where it is not simply they attack the president in terms of what they dislike about their policy. they attack him personally. his belief in god and the notion that he's not american.

how else would you describe it? it is beyond the pale that people think it is acceptable. i just don't understand why you can't make your point. you can make your point in a very tough, critical way without crossing these lines. but he just tells you why there are certain folks in the republican party have no grasp of reality in terms of why they lose elections. this is why they lose elections. >> listen, both parties are alienating voters and i know this is not, these is not ted cruz's words. this is not his father. he's not a public figure, an elected official. whatever role this is, amy holmes, i want to ask you, does this hurt the tea party? >> i think that it serves to hurt those who advocate for conservative and free market principals when it gets into the free-market attacks. i agree with chris on that basis. it turns off the voters and drives down voter turnout during elections when the attacks get

nasty like this. in terms of, you know, the go back to kenya remark, i disagree with that. i believe president obama was born in america, an american. i have seen the documentation. as far as, you know, charging him with not being a christian. i believe president obalm aulm at his word that he is a christian. this becomes a distraction. >> i have to jump in, i have to jump in. why are so many people still fixated on the president and the chronology and africa. he never lived there. why are people still stuck on this? >> well, as a half african who was born in africa, i have to say that i resent that obama gets all this credit for spending time in kenya, which he didn't. i disagree a lot of people who believe this. a fringe group of people who believe this and try to keep this story alive.

i'm not sure pastor cruz believes president obama was born in kenya, but the remark was personal and inappropriate and i don't think he speaks for senator cruz. >> i want the two of you to stick around. this new poll we have to talk about. shows president obama's lowest approval rating since taking office. not too much better for republicans. we'll look at that on both sides. how completely fed up americans are and ask, is president obama a bystander leader? that's next. pepcid® presents: the burns family dinner. why would i take one pepcid® when i could take tums® throughout the day when my heartburn comes back? 'cause you only have to take one... [ male announcer ] don't be like the burns. just one pepcid® complete works fast and lasts. ♪ [ male announcer ] eeny, meeny, miny, go. ♪ ♪

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york. let's flash the numbers up on the screen, michael. let's put those up. the latest poll numbers from c nbc/"wall street journal" polling this is an all-time poll for the president with approval numbers. 42% americans approving the job the president is doing. so, chris, chris, chris. people are accusing the president of being a bystander. i mean, when you look at the nsa spying. when you see the mess that has been the obama care rollout the sound bites from president obama. i didn't know, i didn't know. now you have the poll numbers to really prove it. i don't want to get into what the president did know or not, but on a pure optics level, it looks bad, am i wrong? >> yeah. >> tell me why i'm wrong, chris kofinas? >> obviously, the poll numbers aren't good, that prr pretty self-evident.

a lot to explain. bystander president is a little harsh. the reality is he is the president and he is accountable and the buck stops with him, we all understand that. there are challenges and the realities of governing a country like it united states where he can't be on top and control everything. that means you have to hold the people under you accountable. now, i think what's happening there is that. >> he's not. people are saying he's not accountable. >> no, i think he made it very clear. >> i think in terms of the website that it's going to be fixed. he made it very clear in terms of the nsa that changes were made. at the end of the day, the bigger problem here there is a growing frustration towards american leaders in general. republicans get more of that than democrats but democrats are immune and not immune and neither is the president. >> hangen eon, i want to get t republicans in just a second. if the president is holding people accountab ablable one hi administration. if he's holding people accountable, should she be gone?

>> exactly. what does this mean -- >> hang on, i want to hear chris' answer to that. >> okay. >> listen, i think if i was advising the president i think that secretary sebelius here has a small window to fix the problem. if this problem gets fixed by the end of november, then we can move on and i think people will start focusing on the good things that are in the affordable care act. if that doesn't happen and these problems persist and we're talking about this into january, i best thing for her to do is resign. >> amy, if you look back at the "wall street journal" 72% see the republican party in a positive light, way worse numbers that we're seeing for president obama. given the mess speaking of sebelius and the obama care rollout. do you think that your camp, did you regret the strategy when you take it back a couple weeks with the debt ceiling debacle and the government shutdown mess.

had that not happened your party's numbers could be looking a bit better. >> i wouldn't call them my party since i'm a registered independent and i never did support the republican strategy, i thought that was a loser. i thought that was a loser, a failure and i think it led in exactly the place that a lot of conservatives feared. for their gop to suffer the backlash from all of that. >> the other thing that it did, obscured attention on the fiasco and the disaster that is the obama care rollout. but so far the only person, the only person who has been fired with this fiasco is a 1-800-operator who told sean hannity the truth that nobody liked the healthcare.gov website. when the president talks about accountability, hold me accountable, dismiss the fact that 2 million americans are getting cancellation letters from their insurance companies

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look at this. these sox fans on their hands and knees making and marking last night's world series triumph at the spot on boyelston street where the boston marathon bombs exploded on april 15th. we'll begin with john berman. >> you can see the evidence of the celebration behind me and some beer cans and cups strewn and 38,000 fans inside the stadium and 25 players, some of the red sox, but it wasn't just what went on in here but what went on everywhere outside the stadium. these streets were packed were f fans. people poured on to the street just so thrilled to share it with one another. >> i think this is what boston strong means.

>> nothing defines this moment. >> we won it here! >> this was the third tital for the boston red sox in the last nine years. the first time that actually won the world series, clinched it at home at fenway park since 1918. it was the most dramatic reversal of fortune for a baseball team ever. they finished in last place last year and they went from worst to first. this wasn't really even just about baseball. of course, what matters so much more to this city is what has happened since april. when the marathon bombings happened in boston and this city rallied behind the red sox. the red sox rallied behind this city and together they really went through this remarkable journey. you know, it was the red sox who opened their doors at fenway park. the day after the marathon bombers were caught. they came from behind and hung the boston strong shirt in their dugout that symbolized this team and symbolized the city ever

since. the most poignant picture from last night wasn't even here at fenway park, it was at the finish line at the boston marathon where people were bending down and kissing that yellow line. so joyful, so wonderful to see. you know, i love that dirty water brooke baldwin. that's all i can say. >> love that song, love the dirty water. from fenway. clearly berman is a fan and i am, as well. you know, a couple days ago i tried to get koji on the bull pen phone right before game two and instead i got some guy with a beard. go figure. ahow gr how gratifying is it. how gratifying is it when today when we talk about boston, we can smile. 199 days that is how long since april 15th the day those two bombs finished near the finish line of the boston marathon leaving three people dead and more than 250 wounded. i have spent weeks in boston

ever since covering the tragedies aftermath and i, like so many others, have just marveled at this city's singular brand of strength. >> it's the worst day of my career. i saw a little girl that another guy grabbed. her leg was severed on the right leg and behind her was a little person that was this little boy that they talked about. his name was martin and we put a sheet over him just out of respect for him. i still see that little boy. i know people that know this little boy. he is the boston resident. all right. he doesn't live far from this firehouse.

>> okay, what can we do to really honor everyone that had to go through this? the running shoes just to honor the runners in the event and the heart to show our support for the community and our love for everyone here. >> celebrating the city and the pride of the city and hopefully making something good out of a bad event. >> we go from tragedy six months ago to now and a lot of smiles on people's faces around fenway park. what has this team done to this city? >> this oershz, the red sox have been amazing for all of us and surviving the first responders in the city itself, you know. >> after the bombing, the sox were on the road in cleveland and they decided together that in that dugout they wanted to hang this away jersey as a way to show solidarity for the events back home. you can see it has the boston

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we're talking about, the next day police find a body in the river and doing dna testing to see if it is a match. the question here is why. police don't know the answer to that yet. he retired from soccer and opened up a health food store and coming home from that on monday. he never arrived home. his wife reported him missing and the next day she funind his head on her front doorstep. he didn't have any enemies and looking at two things. a facebook photo of catching shoplifters from his store. and also his wife was working for the police and while she wassant a police woman, she was a social worker could this be drug/gang related. but they're really looking at this as a manhunt of a particular gruesome nature

because his eyes were gouged out, his tongue was gouged out. this was personal. this was personal and they just don't know why yet. >> all right, lynn berry, thank you. very gruesome. cannot underscore that enough. coming up here, more breaking news involving the mysterious death of that teenager found inside that high school gym mat. his body has beexhumed. it was found stuffed with newspaper and now we have learned this afternoon that the justice department revealing it will reopen the investigation, but what might they find? we have new video of his final moments. plus, 20 years ago today, river phoenix died in a nightclub. and coming up next, we're giving you a new look inside the viper room. the secret is out. hydration is in. [ female announcer ] only aveeno daily moisturizing lotion has an active naturals oat formula that creates a moisture reserve so skin can replenish itself. aveeno® naturally beautiful results.

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hollywood's famed viper room was tragically untimely and devastating to the industry and his fans. can you believe the 20th anniversary of his passing. we wanted to look back at that haunting night outside the club where the 23-year-old collapsed from a drug overdose. >> tragic news from the world of show business. >> one of hollywood's young and upcoming actors is dead tonight. 23-year-old film star river phoenix died early this morning. it's the early morning, halloween, 1993. river phoenix is at the viper room with his brother, sister and girlfriend. he takes heroin and cocaine together. >> phoenix collapsed outside of a nightclub early sunday morning. >> river comes out of this door and pretty soon, as soon as he gets out, he collapses here on the sidewalk outside on the viper room. his sister is laying down on him trying to stop him.

goes to a pay phone and calls 911 and he's panicked. >> i'm sorry, it's my brother. >> johnny depp stepped out and saw what happened. christina applegate burst into tears. the band comes out and end up riding in the ambulance to the hospital. >> i really, really love river and really am grateful that he existed when he did. beautiful, beautiful person. one of the nicest people i knew in my life. >> something special about river phoenix that people responded to. >> like god gave you something, man. all those stories you can make up. >> he's got the gift. >> you're seeing something really luminous. >> i could love someone even if i wasn't paid for it.

>> still casts a big shadow over hollywood that comes after that. in some cases an inspiration to other actors who mrade the unconventional choices and you can see his shadow on other actor's career. i always think of leonardo decap rio. we never know how much we lost. it seems entirely likely that river phoenix will be one of our leading actors. >> i'm brooke baldwin, cnn pursuit answers and today breaking news in the case of a teenager found dead inside a gym mat at his georgia high school. now, keep in mind this is a decision. the teenageer agagerteenager's waited months and months for. kendrick johnson' death ruled that it was an accident back in january, but his parent claim he

was murdered. their lawyers demanded the justice department investigate their son's death and just this afternoon, u.s. attorney michael moore announced his decision. he says his office will, in fact, investigate this teenager's case. >> this time, however, i am of the opinion that a sufficient basis exists from my office to conduct a formal review of the facts and investigation surrounding the death of kendrick johnson. i do this with an open mind neither accepting or rejecting the opinions of anyone who has previously investigated the circumstances of his death. >> johnson's parents and their attorneys spoke to cnn shortly after that announcement and they say they are thrilled with this decision. >> we're happy that an investigation has been launched. we're happy with that decision. >> the only thing we ever wanted was the truth. >> this is a murder mystery we have to solve. >> we believe it should be a

matter of simple justice. we know the videotape will not show kendrick johnson climbing into a mat and getting stuck and suffocating. that was ridiculous conclusion. we really believe his parents have always maintained that their son was killed and the only question we want to know is why they are covering up for whoever killed their son. >> cnn correspondent victor blackwell has been pursuing answers for more than six months in this case. here's his report on how he got here. >> reporter: months of protests -- sit-ins and marches have shaken the small south georgia city of valdosta. they want answers in the death of 17-year-old kendrick johnson. in january, kendrick was found dead at school. investigators with the sheriff county office said kendrick squeezed his 19 inch shoulders into the 14.1 inch center of this rolled gym mat. they say he got stuck upside

down while reaching for this shoe. after an autopsy, a medical examiner with the georgia bureau of investigation agreed, the official cause of kendrick's death, accidental asphyxia. he was suffocated by his own body weight. >> we examined all the alternatives that were presented to us and the only one that fit the physical evidence and the forensic evidence and the testimonial evidence that we received was this is an accident. >> an accident. we just didn't believe. >> reporter: kendrick's parents ca believe the shoe is a cover up. >> when i went to view his body that sunday, you can see something happened. you could tell he was beaten. >> reporter: in june, the johnsons exhumed kendrick's body and hired anderson to conduct an autopsy. he found evidence of bleeding under the skin near johnson's right jaw. >> we were able to diagnose the fact that there was blunt force

trauma to the area. >> reporter: you used the word several times, but in your view, this is a homicide? >> yes. >> reporter: also dr. anderson said his organs were missing. instead, he was stuffed with newspaper. the georgia secretary of state office has launched an investigation into that. questions about the sheriff office investigation had made the johnsons more suspicious, including why these shoes found yards from kendrick's body was not collected as evidence. how did blood end up on the wallen in the gym. cnn laid out the facts for special agent herald copas. >> i don't believe this was an accident. i believe this young man met with foul play. >> victor blackwell joins me live and, victor, just to watch the pictures. watch the u.s. attorney making this statement. it looked like family or community in the town from where the johnsons are from.

just on the phone, relieved, happy that finally this investigation is happening at this level. >> brooke, that's a street corner in downtown valdosta across from the judicial center. there has been a sit-in there for eight months, six days a week, eight hours a day. the family members have been sitting there with signs that say who killed kendrick johnson and they hope this announcement today gets them a step closer to that answer. >> let's talk about the now unredacted surveillance video that has been released. what do we see in these pictures? >> well, we see two clips coming from surveillance cameras, one inside the gym and one outside the gym. let's start with the camera, the image outside the gym. we blurred the images of the other students because they're minors but you see kendrick johnson walk into the gym behind another student. now, we don't have a time stamp for that, but he appears to be wearing the same clothing on the day that he was found in that mat, that white t-shirt with an

orange t-shirt and genes and orange and gray sneakers. there is also an image from inside the gym. we know this one is 1:09 and 47 second. because the stills of kendrick running across the bottom right of that image were released and that was a time stamp there. there are three students playing basketball in the foreground of that shot. and we know that was just minutes before sheriff deputies at least believe that kendrick went into the mat and that's where he died. so, a very short time between the time that image was taken and when the next class came in. the class that said they didn't see or smell or notice anything out of the ordinary. a very small window. >> victor blackwell, thank you so much. want to continue the conversation. huge, huge news with regard to the u.s. attorney's decision to investigate this. your reaction? >> you know, honestly brooke, when i heard the announcement of

the u.s. attorney i was somewhat surprised and i was surprised because we have not yet heard whether or not there is a federal nexus to what happened in that gym. we know that something bad happened. we suspect it was murder, but even if it is a murder, it doesn't necessarily mean that the feds would have jurisdict n jurisdiction. so the fact that the feds are opening an investigation and announcing it to the public is extremely significant. and it makes me really, really happy and excited because i believe that finally this family will get the answers that they deserve. >> danny, though, it has been months and month and months since kendrick johnson's death and you hear from critics they say the crime scene and evidence, it was bungled. is it too late to really be able to put these pieces together? >> it's never too late. murder does not have a statute of limitations, so, we understand that sometimes murders take a long time to investigate and prosecute. but, in this case and echoing on what was just said, look, the local government concluded that

there was not even a homicide for the federal government, remember, they have limited jurisdiction. they cannot simply investigate or reinvestigate a murder. that is the state's province. however, if there is a murder, they must additionally prove, i think that is very difficult and that's why, i, too, was surprised that the federal government decided to investigate. be mindful, that is not a promise to prosecute anybody, only the promise of an investigation. >> and then what about, in a different, in addition to the promise to investigate, this coroner's inquest. what is that? >> well, essentially, a coroner's inquest is like a miniature trial to determine the cause and manner of death. literally, you have the coroner presenting evidence to a jury focusing on what happened to this victim, physically. what the toxicology tests say and what the investigators say all with an eye towards deciding what caused the death and

whether or not it was a homicide, an accident or some other unexplained reason. >> but describe, danny, the challenge that must be posed there because when this teenager's body was exhumed for this second independent autopsy, it was discovered he was missing half his organs and he was stuffed with newspaper. >> well, i have to say, that is a cisof first impression, at least for me. but on my review of some of the practices of different funeral directors, that could potentially explain it. but candidly i mean, if it is alleged there is a grand conspiracy. the organs were removed and he was stuff would newspaper. if the allegation or the belief is that the government or whoever allegedly covered this up filled him with newspaper, that starts to become a very large web conspiracy and i have to believe there is going to be some evidence, if that's what's being alleged. or some misconduct at that funeral home. that is just per plexing. i don't have any sort of conclusion about that yet.

>> thank you, both, very much. the pressure on health and human service secretary sebelius. gone from formal inquiries to a congressional subpoena. today the head of the house overnight committee congressman darrell issa announced he has subpoenaed secretary sebelius for paperwork related to the "troubled launch" of healthcare.gov. just talked to cnn about what kind of documents he wants. >> we've had contractors give us proof that, in fact, briefings were made in a timely fashion that showed, some of them had been aired showed, in fact, they weren't ready. just today jake carney said the president was shown this website ahead of time as though it was ready. so, figuring out who inside the organization new, but failed to communicate is important. but more importantly, because there were so many other areas, including the risk of private information coming out in a website that isn't ready.

we really need to ask those questions and see the, what's internally going on. >> what was the department's response to the subpoena? >> since october 10th the commit has made five separate requests and their timeline was not feasible given the vast scope of their request. we were disappointed that the committee believes that the subpoena was necessary, however it does not change our intent to continue to cooperate with them to produce documents expeditiously as we are able to. secretary sebelius did apologize for the site's many problems and lasted for some 3.5 hours and she will go before the senate finance committee. that happens next wednesday. also the government announced high-tech pros will help with the, we'll call it the rehab of healthcare.gov including an engineer from google and plus folks from red hat and oracle.

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the announcement some of us have been waiting quite a while for. clearing our electronic gadgets for landing and taxies and approved for use right out of the gate. take a look with me. laptops, e readers, cell phones, keep in mind, it has to be in airplane mode, wifi, bluetooth accessories. don't break out your smartphone just yet here on takeoff. each airline has to file plans with the faa showing its planes can tolerate electronic interference also, this is probably a good thing. no chatting on your cell phone during your tloitflight. we are going to take you back to boston, the scene of the red sox first world series at fenway in 95 years. what a game. wow. what a celebration. went on to the wee hours of the

morning and nothing captures it better than this. you see where these folks are? these sox fans are marking their cities and their teams resurrection at the spot where the boston marathon bombs exploded on april 15th. that is the finish line leaning down and kissing it. p poppy harlow. ladies, good to see both of you. poppy harlow begin with you. i don't know if people really slept last night. i imagine people got to bed pretty late last night. >> we didn't sleep much and most of boston is still out partying and that's not an overstatement. i'm going to bring back and bring close with me. tested and triumphant. not only the red sox, but this entire city erupting jubeulation, i was at one of the big sports bars here just

listening to it people and they kept saying to me, over and over. this means so much to our city and it was echoed in "the globe" where they wrote a city rises from the darkest hours. that tragic day of the marathon bombing here. look how far this city has come. i think in a lot of ways this team has helped heal this city, sort of worn the weight of this city on its shoulders. listen to some of what the folks said last night when the victory came down. >> this means everything. we just want it home! we just won the world series! >> we're coming back better than ever. we're all together. this is the best thing that could ever happen. >> boston strong has really been like been such a theme this year and everybody has really been coming together whether it's for buildings and everybody is out and everybody is excited and everybody is united.

>> the last five minutes or an hour that lasted on and on and on and we have something really cool, special. we just took this video. 2013 banner. world series champions. can we pull that up for everyone to see. >> there we go. >> there we go. >> beautiful. >> that literally just got put up. so what a day, what a moment. >> rachel nichols. i mean even for the players, big popi and all of them. this transcended baseball. >> absolutely, no question. poppy talking about the connection this city had with this team after the bombings at the marathon. you know, patriots day is a very big deal here in boston. that is the day it happened, the boston red sox play the early game and get away to another city. when the bomb happened the red sox were headed to their destination. they got to cleveland that night and they weren't supposed to do

anything together. they gathered tomorrow for an impromptu team dinner that evening just to be together and talk. a lot of these guys haven't been on the team for a while. a lot brought in just this season and it was the first opportunity that they really just broke down with each other as people that exposed emotion and that new connection to that new city that they had. it cemented the bond between each other and cemented the bond with the city and a lot of players said to me last night, the perception that we as the red sox, we lifted up boston in some way, but they all said to me it was boston that lifted up us. i want you to hear a little bit of what we got around the clubhouse and the field last night. brooke, you'll see champagne on the lens from time to time. what can i tell you, take a look. >> we wanted to do anything we could possibly to help out the people, coming in here and playing for three, four hours and get their minds off it and something very special for us to give back to the people and just been amazing here. >> we've been through so much this year and just, you know,

getting to this point, it change a lot of people mind and something that we dedicated to the whole city. >> it's just been special from the get go in spring training all the way to april when it happened. the city has been through so much and it's such a sports town. this is just the best place to play and best fans and for us to be able to do it in front of them tonight and be able to celebrate and take that duck boat ride. >> brooke, you saw all the beards, of course, all the very famous now beards that the red sox have been sporting all season in those clips and i ask all the guys, i said what happens now. you won the world series, do you get to shave? a few of them said, maybe a little trim. i know their wives are not going to be that happy. >> it's a superstitious sport, keep the beards. >> poppy, grab me a boston globe, that is something to cherish for a long time.

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this is a place where you can buy anything from elicit drugs to hitmen and all of it under the radar. joining me now, lev grossman senior writer for "time" magazine cover story. called secret web where drugs, porn and murder live online. lev, welcome to you. gosh, reading, reading this piece, i mean, to access this deep web, people have to download the certain software. so, once you're actually in this deep web, what is it? what exists there? >> it looks like regular websites. i thought you must have to be some sort of expert hacker to get on this thing. it's not the case at all. you download the software and it takes about two minutes and you set it up and it's free. and then you start browsing and, you know, within five minutes you're looking at stuff that you would never want to see. child pornography, weapons and

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to go and neither he and i are technology geeks. and we assume that it was up and ready to run. but the good news is, although it's not and we apologized for that, we're confident that by the end of november it will be and still be plenty of time for people to register and get online. >> so, that was huge because he is the highest ranking official within the administration to say i'm sorry. so, that, obviously, making news and then you were there as part of the speech. you wrote a very personal book about domestic violence. tell me a little bit about that. >> it was my own experience with abuse in a prior relationship, but the national domestic violence hotline would not exist if it were not for joe biden and the fact that he offered the violence against women act. he is very active there. i found out he calls them about once a month or his team does to find out if it's going smoothly and do they have arveverything y

need? they just got their 3 millionth call. and one of the things i was so grateful he touched on was a lot of things socially, a lot of instances where people blame the victim. it's hard to talk about, but he addressed it. >> young woman would testify before us and say, they'd say this happened and that happened, i asked the question, what was your response to your girlfriends. why were you worried what you were. begin to educate the public. for example, what i say to men. if a man gets drunk in a bar and he's just dead drunk, he staggers out of the bar walking out of the street and he gets does anybody blame him?. no, they don't. they go ahead and they blame, they blame who they should, the robber, the mugger. >> he's also celebrating the fact that the center has now started an online chat for people who are more comfortable chatting online and chatting on

the phones. so, they're really taking technology to try to reach everybody they can. but at the end of the day, the vice president is adamant that he told me this is the most important work i will ever do. he is so, so firmly believes that. and it's a great interview, the whole thing is on hlntv.com and he just has some really important things to say i cristcris christi paul, thank you very much. >> thank you. kathleen sebelius catching blame for the rollout and the vice president has spoken out and he did so in an exclusive interview. which we just showed to you, so i'm going to move in. the republicans raising stakes over the battle of the benghazi and blocked two presidential nominees today. one a judge appointed to an appeals court and congressman melvin watt named to leave the agency that overleads freddie

mac and fannie mae. he's not going to drop his push on benghazi. the senator talked to cnn's "new day" host kate bauldin. >> a separate branch of the government with oversight responsibilities. the basic evidence about what happened. i don't like holding up people. that's not my nature. i've run out of ideas and i'm not going to, kate, i'm not going to let this whole chapter close. >> let's go to jake tapper, host of "the lead." so, jake tapper. we have senator gram's point. is there any clear indication that these benghazi survivors have not been allowed to testify? >> well, depends who you ask. the white house says they have

cooperated and participated with every reasonable requesten th i their view coming from congress. testimony from survivors behind closed doors, but not the kind of public testimony from survivors, many of whom are intelligence officials, intelligence officers in the field. and that is something that has caused republicans a lot of, a lot of questions about benghazi that have yet to be answered. along with the serious questions are many intimations of suggestions, of things that are not fair or accurate in terms of president obama giving a stand down order. things that just did not happen. so, there is a real sensitivity and, unfortunately, in this tragedy and this horrific event in which four americans were killed, both political parties are reaching, are fighting and turning this into a partisan fight when it really shouldn't be. >> i mentioned a minute ago, you know, republicans raising the

stakes with blocking possible nominations and senator graham even threatened to hold up confirmation of jennifer who is nominated to carry the federal reserve. is that taking it a little too far? >> well, just to be clear about the senate rules, one senator cannot actually block a fed reserve chair nominee. after that fed reserve chair nominee is officially nominated, senator harry reid, the majority leader can call for a vote. as long as it's only one or two or anything fewer than 41 senators, that nomination cannot be blocked. you need 60, 6 ovot0 votes from senators can bring the nomination to the floor. lindsey graham can block a unanimous consent. he can block that. one senator, two senator, two

senators, that can't happen. >> we'll be looking for you to talk about this on "the lead." mr. tapper, thank you very much. we'll see you in 20 more minutes. president obama's approval rating have hit an all-time low. his administration under a huge assau assault. what's nextt for the president? i'll challenge one of his former aides coming up next. facebook ceo says younger teens are leaving that social networking site. which leaves one question for you parents. if they're leaving facebook, where are they going? ♪ ♪ ♪

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president obuma's approval rating has hit an all-time low here. this is a number nbc news/"wall street journal" 42% approve of the job the president is doing and aapproval at 51% and as i mentioned a new high for president barack obama.

but it's not like other politicians are making gains on the back of obama's lower ratings. 22% see the republican party in a light. the same number feel the country is headed in the right direction. a whopping 70% say it's on the wrong track. one of the hosts of "crossfire" and also former adviser to the obama administration. van jones, nice to see you, sir. >> nice to see you, too. >> you worked in the white house, this is a mess. some people are accusing the president of being a bystander when you look at nsa spying and the mess that has been the obama care rollout and the president over and over saying i didn't know, i didn't know. the poll number s prove it. how do you defend him right now? >> first of all, i think you have to remember this president has actually been able to defy gravity given how tough the economy has been, given how the

opinion has been. people gave him a lot of credit and lot of forgiveness because of the mess he inherited from bush and because republicans have been so tough on him. i think you're now seeing a problem for the president because some of the wounds seem self-inflicted. i think, obviously, gave an overly broad assurance to the americ people. he was right on obama care, you're not going to lose something. i feel like people feel he was overly broad on that and then the rollout. i think he's now in trouble when you are starting to even that base of support. i think he can come back. >> how, how does he do that? >> sure. well, you saw him today. he's trying to talk about stuff people care more about the glitch he rolled out. they care about jobs, he's talking about. they care about immigration, he's talking about that. punch his way out of a corner. you have this culture and the

next beat in the story if something else happens we can show more leadership and he can bring himself back. if he goes below where he is right now, he is in george bush territory and that is tough. >> you bring up george bush and talk about inheriting the problem, why are you going there? >> well, look, republicans talk about ronald reagan like he was president three weeks ago. they don't want you to mention george w. bush. he gave us record deficits and have taken a while to dig out and people understand that obama inherited a bunch of problems. we have been patient with him trying to rebuild sxwr we a. >> we are talking about obama care. this has nothing to do with president bush, this is this president. >> why his numbers have been high despite some of the problems. i agree with you right now. this glitchy rollout has been harmful to him with people who like him and i think the overly broad assurances where he says nobody is going to suffer, we're only going to have winners under obama care. not one single loser. that is an overly broad

assurance and it has come back to bite him and he now has problems with people who actually like him who are feeling frustrated. >> it is earlier you brought up the notion of the self-inflicted issues. some something we were watching last night david gergen four-time working in the white house david gergen here made this observation. let's roll it. >> i think they came in thinking that the white house was essentially a political instrument, as opposed to a governing instrument. and the inner circle was mostly political. if you look back at bill clinton, his inner circle or mostly policy people. >> so, even on, you believe even on issues of national security or domestic policy, they're running it through a political prison, they're running it through a group of -- >> absolutely. >> david gergen knows his stuff. david gergen sees this as a big problem. what is your response, van? >> all due respect to daveuid gergen, he is the wise old man

of washington, d.c. i would be foolish to take him on too hard. he was too much of a policy dude and he wasn't handling the politics of public persuasion of dealing with the hill, of dealing with the republicans. now, they're switching it up and saying he's too political. i think what you have right now is a president dealing with an unprecedented level of opposition from the republican parties. almost like there's a tea party insurgency that is more interested in making it hard for him to govern than to help him govern and in that situation, you cannot make mistakes and he has handed his enemies, i think, a bludgeon to beat. >> van jones, thank you very much. you can watch van and rest of the "crossfire" co-hosts at 6:00 p.m. some comments by ted cruz's father are resurfacing. united states is a christian nation and that president obama

should, "go back to kenya." racist? does that hurt or help the tea party? we'll talk about that, neblsht.

senator ted cruz's father told supporters during his son's senate campaign that he would like to send president obama back to kenya. also called the president a socialist. that was back in april of 2012. >> we need to send barack obama back to chicago. i would like to send him back to kenya. let me tell you, when obama campaigned in 2008, it was very, very clear that he was a socialist. the problem is most of us suffer from ostrich syndrome. and we purposely and deliberately stuck our heads in the sand.

but he was very clear, he wasn't trying to fool anybody. he was clear from what he was saying that he was an outright marxist. >> the left-leaning mother jones magazine first posted this story in a series of videos. rafael cruz is a cuban immigrant and pastor and a hero to a number of tea party groups, so those comments from mr. cruz senior here, senator ted cruz's father, are getting strong reaction today. i want to bring in two people to break this down. democratic strategist chris kofinas joins me from washington and the hot list anchor, amy holmes, joins me from new york. welcome to both of you. chris, let me begin with, shouldn't we call this what it is? you flat out say this is racist. >> it's pretty hard to see it any other way. listen, politics is a hardcore business and you will get punched when you're running for office and i think we all kind of accept that in this business.

i think you run for office, you kind of accept that reality. but there are certain lines that are consistently being crossed by this fringe, you know, with the tea party or the fringes in the tea party, where it's not simply they attack the president in terms of what they dislike about his policy. they attack him personally, his belief in god, the notion that he's not american. how else would you describe it? it is beyond the pale that people think this is acceptable. i just don't understand why you can't make your point. you can make your point in a very tough, critical way without crossing these lines but it just tells you why there are certain folks in the republican party that have no grasp of reality in terms of why they lose elections. this is why they lose elections. >> both parties are alienating voters and i know, this is not -- these are not ted cruz's words, this is his father. he's not a public figure or elected official. no matter whatever role this is,

amy, i want to ask does this hurt the tea party? >> i think that it serves to hurt those who do advocate for conservative and free market principles when it gets into these personal attacks. i agree with chris on that basis. but both sides do it. they do it plenty and it turns off the voters. it drives down voter turnout during elections when the attacks get nasty like this. in terms of go back to kenya remark, i disagree with that. i believe president obama was born an american, in america, an american. i have seen the documentation as far as charging him with not being a christian, i believe president obama at his word that he says he's a christian. he's referred to it many times. unfortunately, this becomes a distraction and it becomes a way of trying to characterize the gop, conservatives and the republican party. >> i have to jump in. why are so many people, though, still fixated on the president and the chronology and africa?

he never lived there. why are people still stuck on this? >> as a half african who was actually born in africa, i resent that obama gets all this credit for spending time in kenya when he didn't. which we all know. but i would disagree that it's a lot of people who believe this. i think it's a fringe group of people who believe this, and try to keep this story alive. i'm not sure if pastor cruz believes that obama was born in kenya, but i do think that the remark was personal and inappropriate and i don't think he speaks for senator cruz. >> okay. thank you both very much. coming up, facebook cfo says younger teens are leaving the site but where are they going? what does that mean for facebook? so what can i get you? we'll take something tasty and healthy. ♪ must be the honey!

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let's talk facebook. the company has been doing pretty well lately so why did its stock price get beat up in after hours trading?

the company's cfo says young users are leaving the site. zain asher joins me now. what's happening? >> well, teenagers are leaving the site and it spells major trouble for facebook. investors are certainly raising their eyebrows. shares of facebook have been on a dramatic roller coaster ride since yesterday. the stock was up 15% last night but gains were wiped out when as you mentioned the cfo of facebook admitted that teenagers were ditching the site. they have been asked about this before and mark zuckerberg often denies that the company has any problems with the teen market but this does not bode well for the future of facebook. the fear is that if teenagers are leaving the site, what is that going to do to future growth. but wall street does not think this is the death of facebook. remember the company does have 1.2 billion monthly users and is making more and more money off mobile ads. shares right now are up 2%. >> 20 seconds. that's all i've got. where are they going? >> they're going to different types of sites, instagram is

one. facebook owns that. they are going to snap chat. twitter as well. facebook does have a problem with holding on to teenagers. they have to work on that. >> thank you very much. there is the closing bell. thank you very much for watching me. see you back here tomorrow. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. so i had this great idea to dress up as the obama care website for halloween but it turns out the costume won't be ready until the end of november. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead. syria, remember syria? the country the u.s. came this close to attacking? after concluding the assad regime gassed its own people? now a watchdog says syria has destroyed or disabled all its chemical weapons facilities. can we trust that? the national lead. local police called it a freak accident but the parents of kendrick johnson suspected foul play. now after cnn joined their quest for answers, the feds are stepping in. and the sports le