but at some point someone is going to have to say something other than no comment about this case. it is devastatingly inconclusive to do otherwise. good thursday morning. right now on first look. heartbreaker. a beloved boston teacher found murdered and a 14-year-old being charged as an adult. and then why was the u.s. spying on her private phone calls. freeman, kennedy cousin can walk out of jail today as a judge grants him a new trial. driving up the steps of the capitol is not the best way to get your point across. good morning. another day, another country outraged over nsa surveillance,

and this time it's germany. wednesday, merkel called president obama asking him pointblank if the u.s. spy agency is tapping her cell phone and if so it would be an unacceptable breach of trust. t her suspicions come from a magazine. >> i can tell you that we are not monitoring and will not monitor the german chancellor. >> when google tried to implement street homes, germany insisted on the rights to blur them. outside boston a community is mourning the loss of a young teacher who was murdered at

school, and this morning one of her students just 14 years old is held for her killing. we have the story from massachusetts. >> at the high school an outpouring of support and emotion. students coming together to mourn a young teacher, 24-year-old colleen witnesseser. >> she was also making everybody else's day better than hers, whether she was happy or not she was always up lifting to all the students there. >> it happened tuesday night, one of her students is charged with murder. chism moved here earlier from tennessee, and he was on the soccer team. >> he just seemed normal. >> if police know why she was killed, they are not saying just

yet. >> colleen dedicated her life to better our town and our community. >> she had been teaching just two years but was popular with students and parents and often wearing homework assignments and words of inspirations on twitter, and she said find something good in every day. as they deal with grief, they are having a hard time doing that now. later today, a series of meetings on the website. the administration is taking friendly fire after reaffirming the march 31st deadline to sign up for insurance, and six senate democrats, five up for re-election next year are calling for the changes to the law. west virginia's joe mansion is

taking the strongest approach, and he is back legislation to delay the laws, and currently $95 fines kick in for those that do not enroll in time. michael skakel was convicted of murdering a friend three decades prior. martha phaubgsly was beat with a golf club after leaving a halloween party, and both were 15 at the time. he always maintained his innocence but was found guilty. and game one of the world series was dominated by the red sox. we begin in the first inning with a botched call, after david ortiz hits a grounder, and

pedroia runs, and the umpire says he is out. later mike naply doubles to left and clearing the bases, giving boston a 3-0 lead. and big poppy, robbed of a grand slam thanks to beltran with the great steal, but it costs them. he was sent to the hospital with a contusion to the rib cage. big poppy gets his 16th homer, and game two is tonight at fenway park. for the rest of the day's sports headlines, i will send it over to richard lui. >> cowboys, brian is not shy here, and he says anything that johnson can do i can do better. funny thing is, his boss, jerry

jones, just said megatron was the best. nbc connecticut says the charges here. according to the new york post, he tweeted a plan to sneak into the clubhouse and put bombs in every one's cleats, and he is supposedly a mets fan. >> always smart to threaten people on twitter. >> and then a long-term knee issues may be in the past. watch this, he says, power dunk. the bench likes that one. nba commissioner david stearns. at his retirement dinner his

bobble heads were given out. they only move up and down -- >> maybe it's just because he is agreeable. >> come on, it may be defective after all. and then lindsey vonn still rehabbing her knee from this crash last february. the girlfriend of tiger woods, as she will forever be known saying she will be back by november 30th. we have a date there. 30-plus-mile-per-hour winds are making borders happy. 22 countries on site there, and stretching it out. 70 degrees and looking nice. and then the fastest pumpkin paddling -- >> doesn't look very fast. >> that's 600 pounds there, that pumpkin. it's going 100 meters in two minutes, and he can just be

doing the solo world record, who knows. >> something for everybody. >> yeah, and a 72-foot long canyon gap -- >> that's some speed. >> the competitor back flipping over that one. he was only in second place for doing that one. he said he was freaking out and a little scared. >> yeah, we go from the slow pumpkin to those guys -- did. >> yeah, a 72-foot jump. and then a water main break sent water shooting six stories high. no word on what caused it, but the officials say a location is an active construction site and crews were able to shut it down. now a look at the weather. >> we were a little concerned with the baseball game and rain, and it was dry. a little chilly, and chilly again tonight but fine for baseball. and the cold air moved in, much

colder this morning in much of the eastern seaboard than yesterday at this time. breezy out there, too. the western half of the country will remain mild for the foreseeable future. this is the coldest it has been in many spots. in the 30s, and everywhere there in the blue. that's a good north half of the country. and freeze warnings tonight. if you have plants that are important, take inside if you can do so to extend their life. we do have rain and snow showers up through the great lakes, and the early winter chill is here to stay. no big storms on the horizon either. >> yeah, i have my sweater here and i'll live. a cute panda video of the day. one woman's dental nightmare. and then the brutal attack of an

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on to other stories making news this morning. london police released video of a brutal attack on a student from florida. that attack left the 22-year-old with stars on his face and head. the reason for the senseless violence? police believe he was attacked because he was not a local. the man who used the internet to confess to killing somebody while drunk driving was sentenced to 6 1/2 years to prison, and there is no chance for early relief. a bizarre incident at the capitol. a man demands to see the supreme court. officers ultimately had to tackle him down after a taser proved unsuccessful. he could face charges. and then a remote controlled

helicopter, and you can see people running for their lives. the phantom mennious bears down on them. mitt romney's new house has a secret. we'll tell you what it is, and the best political buzz of the morning is just ahead. getting a home loan might be getting a little easier. the average credit score for a closed home loan fell 18 points from a year ago. and the average down payment is about 19% of a home's value and that's compared to 22% a year ago. christmas, of course, just around the corner, and target is getting ready. the retailer announced this week it's rolling out a service that let's you order online and pick up the products in the store. and boeing's iconic 747 may be on the way out.

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a book shelf swivels to hide a room. gop megadonor is not happy the u.s. is talking to iran. he thinks diplomatic negotiations are pointless and has another suggestion. >> you pick up your cell phone and you call somewhere in nebraska, and you say, okay, let it go, so there is anatomic weapon in the middle of the desert that doesn't hurt a soul. it may hurt a couple rattle snakes and whatever, and then you say, see, the next one is in the middle of tehran. >> all righty, then. cory booker will be sworn into the senate next thursday. in texas, the rollout of the state's new voter id law hitting big bumps. just 41 voter i.d. cards have

been issued since the law went into affect, and women have been turned away because of married names and maiden names are not matching up. 1 million eligible voters don't have proper i.d. that's your dish of scrambled politics. now, joined from our washington bureau. a lot of different groups are fighting the voter i.d. law. >> well, you know, there will be legal challenges. the question is in light of the supreme court recently, will they be sufficient to overturn the texas law, which certainly has questions being raised about it. first of all, the obstacles to women are coming up just as a

woman, and it looks like she is going to be the democratic candidate for governor, and we are talking about davis. that could be significant. there's an accusation made the republicans in texas is trying to make sure it's difficult for the constituencies that oppose them, it's difficult for them to vote. >> and let's talk about the financial as secretapect of thi. the cheapest document to get a valid i.d. is a birth certificate is $22, so is it like a pole tax? >> that's exactly what that is. i got in trouble when i said some of their number were trying to harken back to the days of jim crow, and this is proof of what i was saying. >> they only issued 41 of the new certificates that allow people without a valid i.d. to

vote, and more than 1 million in that state are eligible, but they don't meet the requirements, and is it suggested a lot of people are going to be disinfranchised. >> well, those are people in the constituencies that would vote against the conservatives and republicans, people who are latino and minorities. this is something that is going to come up with the courts, but in the wake of the supreme court ruling it's going to be very, very difficult to prove that in fact what texas is doing is not allowable. >> syndicated columnist, bob frank, thank you. bill karen and richard lui will be here for the "first buzz," including new panda

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before the break we asked what is the first non-u.s. team to win the world series. the montreal expfrpblgsos, or the blue jays, and -- it's the toronto blue jays. on this date in 1992, they defeated the braves 4-3. and all the stories we are

talking about, richard lui and bill karins. >> this is a study that has been done for about five years about kids in the united states age 4 to 14 done by highlights, and that's a magazine. they survey the kids. they got about 1,400 of them to respond to the survey. what they found is that 77% of kids in the united states believe the u.s. is the best country in the world. however, look down to the second bullet there -- third, rather. 68% of kids believe it's safer to be a kid today than when their parents were kids -- >> well, that's good. >> on the flip side, 1 in 2 feel it's safer to play inside rather than outside. >> i think that's accurate. aren't you safer in your house. >> yeah, safer to be sitting there in front of your xbox. >> i think kids in any country

think their country is the greatest country. >> 40% of them think freedom is the best thing about living here. so they are very aware of what america stands for. you have had that sinus pain. a woman in italy went and got an x-ray and they found her dental implant moved up next to her eye socket and into her sinus cavity. this is two years after she had the implant put into her jaw. it did not say into her upper jaw. this is the national zoo's panda cub. it's old enough now for the vaccinations. listen to the sound it makes.

>> i don't speak panda, but something tells me he is saying i don't like this. >> he is saying no. >> he is crawling around. >> hands off. >> stop. >> and this is "first look," and stay tuned, "way too early" starts right now. the company behind websitegate is montreal-based spe. [ speaking french ] >> there is no sugar coating it. the website has been too slow and people have been getting stuck during the application process. we have had some of the best i.t. talent join the team and we are well into a tech surge