right now on "news nation," actors and actsty vists rally together in what's being called the largest privacy protest ever. the boat hijacked off the coast of nigeria was found but two americans kidnapped remaining missed. the biological parents have been found of a girl from a roma camp. stunning new developments in the unsolved murder of jonbonet ramsay who would have been 20 years old. jonbonet's parents were indicted in 1999 on counts of child abuse in connection with their 6-year-old's violent murder. however the documents do not identify a killer. the grand jury also accused the couple of assisting the unnamed person responsible for jonbonet's death in an attempt to prevent an arrest.

they were never charged and until today the documents were kept secret. the district attorney at the time refused to prosecute saying he did not have sufficient evidence. a judge ordered prosecutors to release the documents in response to a lawsuit brought by journalists. jonbonet's body was found strangled and beaten in the basement of her parent's home christmas day 1996. mike taibi joins us now. mike, the question that is still out there is who killed jonbonet ramsay? and these documents don't prove that one way or the other? >> reporter: no, though don't give us and millions curious about this case for 17 years any closer to finding out what happened to jonbonet and who was responsibility, et cetera. all it does is say 14 years ago the grand jury spent 18 months investigating the case decided on the basis of the evidence presented by the prosecutor at that point decided there was enough to indict under vaguely under these child abuse statutes.

the first count saying that they recklessly permitted their child to be in a situation which posed her to further injury which led to the death of jonbonet ram sey and each assisted an unnamed person. that could be each other, their son. it's important to put it in context. the da looked at all of the evidence, not just this brief vote by the grand jury and decided to not sign the document and not prosecute. in 2008, a successor da completely exonerated both from any involved in the death saying there was new dna evidence of an unknown male who was then seen as the suspect. but that exxon race got less publici publicity. i just spoke with one of the attorneyses for john ramsey

said, look, this further defamed john and his late wife patsy. there are many, many people who look at the release of this indictment and see it as new evidence. it is not new evidence, he pointed out and other legal experts who are independent have no dog this this fight have said the same thing. the fact of a long ago document does not mean there was a prosecutable case. the da had discretion to not prosecute and that is the decision then made. are we any closer to knowing? no. still unsolved? absolutely. >> mike, back to the response from john ramsey's attorney here, while you point out excellent points in the things presented and not in the documents or his attorney does, you have this line that the parents here assisted the unnamed person responsible for her death in an attempt to prevent an arrest. did they specifically respond to that portion of the document?

>> reporter: well, lyin wood sad they were asleep in their bed when this happened. people are thinking back to the details, and others fascinated and repulsed years ago and thinking of the details. they were asleep in the bed. somebody else did it. it was definitive in 2008 when the former da lacy exonerated them completely there was a male whose dna was found on two articles of jonbonet's clothing. couldn't have been the ramseys. they were innocent people, said the da who not have you been subjected to so long a trial in the court of public opinion. that exxonration. i want to bring in legal analyst kendall kofi.

>> i think it is dramatic and startling, like it or not they do reopen the case in the court of public opinion. when the prosecutor said in a rather extraordinary thing for a prosecutor to do in 2008, the parents are clear that the dna evidence cleared them, one might have thought even if it didn't get a lot of attention, at least this terrible cloud hanging over the parents would once and for all be gone. with a determination by a grand jury, not approved by the da, we know no charges were brought. it was not in a legal sense a valid indictment but a grand jury and individuals responsible individuals determined there was probable cause to believe the parents were significantly implicated in the death of their daughter, when that kind of thing becomes a public document, of course the public opinion is starting to speculate again. >> when you look at this indictment here, it says they permitted a child to be

reasonably placed in a situation which posed a threat of injury to the child's life or death and resulted in the death. and also felt the prosecution conviction and punishment, basically according to this indictment, help whomever killed jonbonet ramsey. you will have people not legal experts and i am not one. tell us why this did not result in charges and ultimately a day in court where all of this could have been made public two decades ago? >> what's so difficult, tamron, we've got the conclusion, but we don't have the explanation. we only got a portion of the indictment. the chief prosecutor is the chief law enforcement officer. he has to decide -- it was a guy named alex hunter, whether there is enough evidence to prove guilty beyond any exclusion of a reasonable doubt. that's a different standard than

actual indictment, which is probable cause. so it's the job of a prosecutor to say not only does an arresting officer have probable cause or does a grand jury have probable cause, do i believe there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt there's a good likelihood of conviction? he didn't find this to be a prosecutable case and wasn't until years later that another da said, not only is he not a prosecutable case, i think the parents were innocent all along. >> kendall coffey, this does not close the door on public opinion and how she died. also developing now, authorities say dna tests confirm the identity of the parents of the girl known as maria found living with a roma couple in greece. the girl's uncle is in bull gar ya says he hopes she will come home now. what do we know about her biological parents? >> to be honest, what it all

leaves you with is heartbreak and how some youngsters around the world live. what we know now through dna tests is that this little girl's mother lives in bull gar i can't remember ya . they were with this little girl in greece and she didn't have enough money so she left her there. what they are saying is they didn't sell her. there have been stories in the past of children being sold by families like this. they are saying that didn't happen. they simply were so poor they weren't back to bulgaria and she had other children and wasn't able to go back and get her though she intended to. >> so the family who was caring for this child or i don't know if that's the appropriate word considering the allegations they face as well. they did not purchase her.

do we know any more of how they came to have this child in their custody? did the mother directly give her to that roma couple? >> that's a good question. i don't think we know the answer to that. there are court proceedings under way. so as you'd expect, the authorities will be trying to find out the answer to that question. by the way, in terms of what's really important here, maria we're told now has been -- come out of the hospital and now being looked after by a charity. so she is now being looked at after well. but you're right, the question now is how did she end up in greece? what is the truth behind this? that is what they'll be trying to find out because as i say, the story from her mother is that she simply left her there. and we're hearing also from her mother, from the grandmother, who says, they left the kid because they had no money at all. and when she the mother saw the

child on tv, she went to neighbors and told them i was a fool to leave the kid there. well, i think many people would agree with that, although, of course what she's saying is that her circumstances are such that she had no child and it was a pretty desperate thing to do clearly. >> keir simmons, thank you very much. what organizers say could be the nation's largest ever protest over privacy and the government's surveillance program. also, the tables are turned on the former nsa spy chief, michael hayden, after his phone conversation on the train was overheard and live tweeted. u.s. officials say two americans were single out by being kidnapped by pirates off the coast of nigeria. we'll have the latest on the search. officials have set a date for when the troubled health care website will be fixed. this is new information coming in.

we'll talk about it in the first read. join our conversation on twitter, you can find me at tamron hall at newsnation.

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happen tomorrow. thousands of marchers are expected to turn up at the national mall to protest say secret surveillance state that collects private information on all americans. they plan on delivering a petition to congress signed by more than 500,000 people demanding an end to the nsa surveillance program. one of the groups released this video featuring maggie guillen hal and john conyers, in support of the rally. >> we've gt a wake-up call just recently. >> nsa snooping includes the interception of call detail records. >> audio, video, photographs, documents, chat logs and e-mails. >> every american is at risk for getting caught up in the nsa dragnet. >> nsa whistle blower edward snowden is throwing his support behind the protest. it comes amid fresh revelations

that the nsa has been spying on 35 world leaders including allies like angela merkel. they promise to review the surveillance policy. joining me now is juana summers, for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> they are saying this is the largest rally of its kind in history. to note there haven't been vem but this will change after the details. >> it absolutely has with all of the disclosures from edwa edwardsnowden, in the trenches of capitol hill and the policy community has been brought into the public eye. what we're looking for is so see how much ferver go behind this offer and will what lawmakers are response be next week? will be there a push for more limiting on the nsa surveillance

programs. >> we're showing video of edward snowden. he's given his support as estates in moscow. civil liberties groups are behind this. do we know about the organizers, part of the demands they want full congressional investigation of our country surveillance programs and calling for reforms in federal surveillance law and accountability from public officials responsible for hiding the surveillance from lawmakers and from the public. we see a number of well snoen celebrities and people in the world of politics. >> they have gotten quite a number of big names behind this effort. what will be interesting, how they justify when we're talking to them over the weekend and how lawmakers do the argument between tension and security. i'll be interested to hear thousand thhow they find that balancing act. >> as i mentioned, lisa mohn in the op-ed, went on to say, the

president directed hem to review the suffer verveillance capabil we want to make sure we're collecting information because we need it and not because we can. the president has met before with that of the members of aclu and other organizations who have been concerned and really want to be at the table as the administration takes a closer look at its surveillance program, to make improvements and american people feel they are not being spied on all the time. >> that's absolutely right. one of the big things we heard from the administration months ago, the programs are necessary and important are critical to national security but we didn't do good enough job of putting information out there as we could and explain to the american people why they matter. i would expect a renewed push from there from critical lawmakers on capitol hill who are supportive of national security administration's efforts in this arena. >> what is the real picture at

least from what you're hearing of the support and what we will actually see over the weekend? >> obviously it's a little dhily, end of october, halloween weekend. i will be interested to see how many people they've got. when you look at the scope of the petitions they are planning to deliver to congress. it's clear it has sparked public outcry. doi not think this issue is going away. >> are many of the participants, you will see they'll be there similar to participated in occupy, meaning young people who are engaged through technology and certainly frustrated with d.c. and the culture, which of course they see, the concerns related to the nsa as part of that, although wall street was the focus of occupy movement. >> i think there's certainly a tendency to link the two together given the types of people that may be drawn. it's important to note, people of all walks of life are concerned, it just isn't a 20-something problem. you have a lot of people concerned about government overreach and particularly

concerned not with the latest revelations how it will impact potential trade deals on the line. i want your thoughts on tom mattzie being on acela train with michael hayden, not doing anything wrong or illegal, but simply overhearing a conversation and live tweeting the former nsa chief, who i can't imagine took great pleasure in his conversation being overheard but don't know why he was speaking that loudly on the acela train. it speaks to who is in charge and who is listening and how they conduct themselves. >> i've got to tell you, i can't tell you how many times i'm flying back and forth, and they are mouthing off about votes and talking back and forth about policy disagreements within their own party. this is a good reminder for everyone in washington, this is a small town and new york as well, perhaps it's time to pay attention to who's around you and save the conversations for the privacy of your own office. >> and reminder of loose lips sink ships even on the acela.

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jim miklaszewski has the latest. what do we know on the attempt to find these two people? >> there's still no idea as to the condition of whereabouts of these two american grabbed by nigerian pilots early yesterday. i can tell you, there is a little bit of concern here that the nigerian military and even one rebel group said they are going to seek out the pirates and rescue those americans. some people here don't think that's necessarily the best idea. they fear for the lives of the americans. at the same time, there are no really active plans for any kind of u.s. military operation to rescue them. many of those in this counter piracy world here at the pentagon will tell you that what usually happens in cases like this, is that ultimately, the shipping company pays a ransom

and hostages are released and then the shipping company really writes it off as a cost of doing business. i can tell you u.s. officials have told us that the u.s. government has pretty much stepped back for the time being to allow the company to make whatever arrangements are possible, which would equate probably to some kind of payment of ransome and that's the way it was done. there are have been more than a dozen americans kidnapped by pirates but we've never heard about a single one of them because all of this is done on the qt behind the scenes which is the way many companies want to handle it. >> what about reports that individuals were targeted or specifically focused on because they are americans? >> well, you know, this was an american flagship, flying the american flag. these pirates are nothing more

than common criminals out of nigeria, their m.o. is not to seize an entire ship. they'll take the cargo off the ship but they don't want to be captive themselves on a ship if any nation comes to the rescue ever that hijacked ship. what they do is go on and get off as quickly as possible with whoever hostages they can grab, whatever cargo they can take with them easily enough and so, it appears that at this point that all efforts are being directed toward somehow contacting middlemen in the region and gaining the release of these hostages. >> thank you very much. you're going to keep us up to date on any developments there. new detail emerging about the massachusetts teenager accused of murdering his teacher as students return to class for the first time since her body was found. first, senator ted cruz is

capping off a post shutdown tour with a speech in hiiowa. it is his third visit in three months to iowa and you know what kind of speculation follows. we'll get a live report.

the person president obama appointed in charge of fixing the website, promises the site will be function by november. the glitches have dogged the site and congressional lawmakers grilled government contractors in first hearings on the botched web launch. >> the rollout of obama care is not short of a debacle. >> nobody is madder than me about the fact the website isn't working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed. >> the zast disaster, train wreck, nightmare that is obama

care. >> this is more than a website problem. frankly the website should have been the easy part. >> we've got to make it right. we've got to fix it, not what the republicans have been trying to do, nix it and repeal it. >> the system is working. people are enrolling. >> will the gentleman yield? >> no i will not yield to this monkey court. >> this is not a monkey court. >> whatever you want. i'm not yielding. >> we fought the fight. we didn't win. we live to fight another day. >> we should pass immigration reform. [ applause ] >> joining me now live msnbc news senior political editor, mark murray. i'm going to get my monkey court t shirts online. nevertheless here, let's go forward, you have the man in charge of fixing the health care website making a bold promise that things will be up and running to i guess hopefully perfection or close to by

november. that is good news if it is pulled off. >> well, yes, jeff zienst, who is heading up the project ended up saying he hopes this will be up and operational and all of the kinks will be fixed come november 30th. the question is whether this is as pierational or something very doable. you and i have talked about all week long, november 30th date is actually pretty important because all of the traffic was supposed to start coming in december. if it actually is fixed by november 30th, i don't think there's going to be much of a problem. we'll look back on this two or three years and see it was a blip on the radar screen, much like the first debate with mitt romney, historical footnote than something that mattered. if the problems do persist after november 30th, if they go into december, that is a very real problem for the health care changes and how the whole health

care law works. >> you point out, you have two story lines or problems for both parties in first read. saying here, democrats are asked about the website and their response is what about the shutdown? and when republicans are asked by the shutdown, their response is what about the website, but with the republican party, that is a gamble because again if the website is fixed and issues dealt with, they lose ammunition here. >> one way to look at it further, the whole wblt website issues can be seen as a proxy. and once the website is up and operational and there aren't in he kinks, the health care wars shz over. republicans will counter, we're going to continue to note examples where some persons health care premiums are now higher, whether or not there are other problems that go well beyond the website. but after fighting this battle for more than four years now, tamron, if the website is up and

operational, you will end up hearing democrats and some republicans saying let's move on to other issues and stop fighting the same fight we've been fighting for the last four and a half years. >> before i let you go, i have to ask about jean shaheen and nine other democrats who have urging for a deadline extension here. it is not just one or two person thing. >> absolutely. there are democrats particularly from red states that are up for re-election in 2014. they want to distance themselves with the health care law even though they supported it when it was being drafted in 2009 and 2010. democrats say they don't think any type of legislation would come to a vote on the senate floor or signed into law by president obama. so this is a lot more retore cal distancing for these folks that live in states like arkansas, north carolina, this could be able to be sure they are let being their folks they are doing everything they can for their constituents but this is not

something to turn into realty. >> have a great weekend, mark. >> today, texas republican senator ted cruz is making his third visit in three months to e iowa. the senator will be the headline speaker at tonight's annual ronald reagan iowa gop fund raising dinner in des moines. all of this is fuel gs speculation about what he wants in 2016. here's what what was said about his visit tonight. >> he's a bright young guy, one of 100 members of the senate, i think we should hear from all viewpoints. as you've heard from me, i believe the leadership in this country is coming from the governors and the states, not from washington, d.c. i don't think one freshman senator can turn this all around. >> nbc's casey hunt joins us live from des moines. that is not a welcome to iowa remark to say the least. whatever his feelings maybe,

said a lot with that remark. >> terry branstad falls closer into moderate republican, pragmatic practical republican. and those people here in iowa are not necessarily excited to see ted cruz. they are the only ones in doubter's camp, the activists are excited to see him. they have a crowd of 600 people for an off political year for the reagan dinner they are hosting tonight. on the flip side, the other group that are welcoming him here are democrats. they just put out a memo, all five the party committees charged with electing get democrats essentially saying ted cruz has been the face of the republican party here in iowa and especially after the shutdown, that's something they think will again fit their candidates, it will let democrats run against cruz instead of running against a democrat governing in a different way. >> ted cruz has not been in office a year.

he's always ever elusive when it comes to answering the question of what his goal is for 2016 or what really is in his heart. list this is the third trip and hasn't been in office a year. >> right, he's getting started with this very early and that's something that i'm hearing as i was talking to people in advance of my trip out here. particularly few of the people who worked for rick perry, the texas governor when i was making his bid for president. if you start in on this too early, they say, running for president is a different undertaking than running for governor or running for senate, holding a statewide office. it can be more of an undertaking than one might anticipate. for cruz to take this on, they suggest he might be biting off more than he can chew. his schedule looks like somebody who's running for president in 2016 and not anyone who is trying to accomplish anything else. he's going out to steve king out in western iowa, his faes ant

hunt. i went to one of those with rick perry when he ran for president. he is ticking off the boxes you would tick if you're a conservative running in the caucuses here in iowa. >> thank you, casey, we'll see what happens there. still ahead, nypd scaling back the search for the aus tis tick boy who is missing, it's unlikely the boy will be found alive. a lot of people not happy made by the police commissioner. holly robinson peete will join us again. united airlines hit with the largest ever fine for leaving passengers on the tarmac. we'll have details. and fans put more pressure on jay-z to end the clothing deal with barney's, being sued for racial profile, our "news nation" gut check. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals:

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new details are emerging about her death. a senior law enforcement official tells nbc news that colle colleen ritzer was killed a box cutter and her body was dumped in the woods nearby. joining me live with more, ron, a lot of this information police say they've been able to obtain by looking at surveillance cameras in and around that school. >> exactly. it's a brand-new school there, as much as as 150 or more cameras that record what's being gone on there. people woen dered how this could happen if they were watching. they record this information. you may recall this started out as a missing person's case and they put the pieces together, but yes, there seems to be we

understand evidence on tape of the young man walking into the bathroom and coming out bloody and following colleen ritzer into the bathroom. that's where the murder apparently happened or allegedly happened. yes, it's a gruesome crime and students who were here just left after a very, very difficult day. we talked to many of them and they said they felt they had to be here. they went through the day. it was a day of discussion, day of talking and supporting each other, not regular classes but everyone felt they had to be here in talking with parents as well. they felt it was important for them to be here, to begin to move forward, to talk about what had happened openly and try to begin to come to terms with it. it's an incredible thing that happened here, very profound thing that happened. first day of school, after this, and the people we talked to, the kids we talked to especially said they were feeling they were good they were able to get

through this but this is the first of many difficult days to come. >> all right, thank you very much. it's very difficult for those teachers and students and their families there. thank you. it's now been three weeks since avante oquendo went missing. despite officials say publicly he's not open ttimistic about finding him alive, his family is not giving up. >> everyone is entitled to their opinion. you know what they say about opinions. i have no problem with that. it's not going to slow us down. >> dozens of volunteers have joined the all-out search for avon avonte, including the national action network. sasha brown joins me along with advocate holly robinson peete, the co-founder of the holly rod

foundation. i'll start with you here, you've joined us before at the beginning of the search and came to new york from your home in california to help participate here. the family is not given up, even though it is three weeks, nor should they. how was it being out there with them assisting them? >> it was like a nightmare wrapped inside a horror film. i couldn't believe just being there across the street from the school, where we all know he left, we know that he walked out of that school, there was according to the family, there was a security guard that saw him leave. he didn't respond because he couldn't. and he was allowed to go out into the street. you know, this is just unconscionable, tamron. this boy cannot self-advocate. and in my heart of hearts, i don't believe he's -- i believe he's still alive. we have to continue to advocate for him and continue to look for him. there are so many cases that we no have gone past 20, 30 days,

even years where we found children. we cannot stop looking for him. we have to continue this. >> absolutely. and the pictures that you sent out via social media of being on the scene, touching and knowing that this is personal for you and your family as well as you try to educate people on autism and the issues when you were on with us, you talked about children who are autistic having the tendency to wonder and leave and go astray. and no one notice or at least the security guard did not follow him. >> well, the security guard didn't follow him and apparently, allegedly she asked where he was going. and listen, when i was in high school, if you were leaving campus at 12:00 in the afternoon, you were either ditching -- and if you didn't respond to the security guard they went after you. i feel the school failed him and being out there with van he is necessa -- vanessa and the family, to hear the commissioner saying, we

don't have any hope he's really alive, we're going to scale back. that's keeping volunteers from coming down. i'm urging people to have hope and i hope the commissioner will rethink the decision to pull back resources. >> you talked about in the article you've written, searching for avonte, you say racial suspicions hurt missing black kids. what do you mean to that as it relates to this case? >> i think people have an aversion to interacting with brown and black boys in particular, it would prevent them from intervening, particularly if they were skittish, unable to speak for themselves, it would prevent them from getting involved. >> obviously we don't know if that is the case. we don't know if anyone has seen him. tips have come in but nothing leading to being found. it is interesting, how people of all races have come in. my producer lives just near that school. we were over first week of the search and i saw people from all

races participating all around new york, looking for him and wanting his safe return so desperately like holly and others. >> i think everyone is very concerned for avonte and everybody is looking for him. i would urge people to continue to do that in all cases where they see something that might be amiss with any child of race or creed. and i hope they find him alive. >> absolutely. holly, the reward fund is up to $89,000. donated 5,000 to the rewards fund, national action network. having been there and participated in that search, what do you say to people watching right now who may not have anything to do on the weekend and really maybe could go down and help them? >> i would say if you're in the long island city area or queens area at all or even in new york city, go after, help with the family. they've asked the mother to move all of her stuff, her command

post and tent away. imagine, that's where you last saw your child. you know your child is missing from there and you don't want to move there. you want to stay where that happened. and so she's been asked to move. it's a really desperate situation and they need support. the family needs a lot of support. the mayor hasn't been out there. there are a lot of people who haven't come forward who should have. i would say to support the family, get out if people live in the neighborhood and don't give up hope. he's still out there. he has value and we need to continue to search for him. >> thank you both for your time and paying attention to this important story and this important exposure it needs so we can find. a $1.1 million fine against united airlines for tarmac delays. the department of transportation handed down the fine for more than a dozen lengthy delays that took place on the same day at chicago o'hare, this happened last july. it is by the way the largest fine given by the government

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two congressmen jumped into action and helped revive a passenger. an emergency room doctor provided oxygen and checked the passenger's vital signs. the congressman from texas also helped resuscitate the passenger. the plane made an emergency landing in north carolina where paramedics escorted the passenger on the plane and able to rush him to the hospital and republican official in north carolina, out of a job after stunning interview with a

reporter for the daily show. take a listen. >> the law is going to kick the democrats in the butt. if it hurts college kids too laysdy to get a photo i.d., so be it. if it hurts the whites so be it, if it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks, so be it. >> the county republican denounced his remarks and so it be, asked him to resign. time for the gut check. m m m mogul rapper, more than 2800 people have signed to the online petition urging jay-z to end his partnership with barneys after two african-americans, a 19-year-old and 21-year-old claimed they were racially profiled while shopping at barney's. both stopped by police after

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developing right now, we're awaiting president obama's arrival in brooklyn, new york, he touched down at jfk moemgts ab and choppering over the borough for an event already in view. he tries to move from the obama care exchange problems to the priorities that he detailed in his state of the union. remember that? yesterday was immigration and today it's education and preparing middle class students with job skills for the modern world. he'll speak in about 45 minutes. one of the schools he referenced during that february address. >> schools like ptech in brooklyn, a collaboration between new york public schools and city of university of new york and ibm, students will graduate with a high school diploma and associate's degree in computers or engineerin