brian todd, driving in a car. brian todd, i can tell you, he was pounding coffee and to be precise, he let us know he has been rocking out with his crew to a little lady gaga on the highways somewhere between manhattan and washington. now we're hearing, we may have a winner. tom foreman, there in washington at the finish line. tracking the progress. do i see -- >> yes, yes. >> the weary traveler has arrived. now, nic, you get to officially tag in. >> okay. >> there you go. the winner. look at this. the official winner in the whole thing here. >> 3:15. you left at noon. how did it go? you had real breaks. >> first, let's talk about my sister and my brother colleagues who are still out there. i feel sorry for them. i didn't want to walk in the building until they were coming in, too. i was so lucky. that i got on the flight. purely, there was no one in line. we were ten minutes away from the airport and i didn't think i would get there. i thought the doors were closing. i ran to get on the flight. i couldn't even fi

lisa desjardins by train from penn station, and brian todd, poor brian todd, by car from manhattan.tion, "the situation room" in washington, d.c. try plugging that into your gps. the question, who would get there first? and would it look like the movie with steve martin and john candy. john foreman is in cnn's second place finisher. >> lisa desjardins. >> i made it. where is the button? nic, i'll say hi later. i have important things to do here, bam. 4:30. >> well done. >> how did you pull that off? i'm still not sure. >> it pulled back a minute and a half earlier. some people said, he held the plane. he just got so lucky. i didn't believe it. when i'm sitting in me seat, i thought, i feel so sorry for you. then i thought, no, no, let's go. >> forget that. i thought it was almost in my grasp. as you might have seen in the videos i sent, my whole train car was really into it. they had all these theories about what could happen and how you possibly might come in second. >> i was living those in my head. like the flight would get diverted. it was so bumpy, because of the storm, they co

i'm going with brian todd. sitting in traffic, don't you think?robertson is malfeasance somehow. >> we are all together on thanksgiving. a thanksgiving themed show today. obviously, the big story is the macy's parade here in new york. we know millions will be lining the streets of manhattan to watch this in person. even millions more of you will be enjoying the parade from the comfort of your warm and cozy home! now here is the big question, though. will those legendary balloons that tower over the city will they fly or not? the issue is wind. we don't know if the wind is going to tolerate -- is going to stand up to the levels that we need them to stay under for these balloons to fly. so we're going to be along the parade route taking a look at this and seeing what officials are saying and let you know if the parade balloons will be floating or not. >>> you've seen this dash cam video already and show it to you yesterday. a hero cop risk ing his own safety to rescue the man in the burning pickup truck. the officer will join us live this morning. w

brian todd, cnn, washington. >> thanks, brian todd. >>> we're hearing from the parents of a nevada boywo students and killed a teacher. jose and liliana reyes said they had no idea their son was so angry about his life at school. >> we wish this had never happened. and we are hopeful that everybody involved can heal and go forward as best as can with their lives. >> reyes also says his son had been teased and was working on a speech problem. >>> and the search for a missing family sadly ends in tragedy after three bodies are discovered in a wooded area in mississippi. the victims reportedly died of gunshot wounds. that family was last season friday night in their car, later found on fire, bloody clothes were discovered nearby as well. now, police say a suspect is in custody. he's held on suspicion of arson. a 7-year-old boy, as you saw in those pictures was among the dead. >>> two inmates who made a daring jailbreak last month are back in custody in oklahoma this morning. james mendonca and cheetham. >>> and coming up japer jay z is in hot water. why major league baseball is investigat

brian todd nic robertson and lisa dejarden will be tweeting and skyping their progress all day. u're driving. what's your strategy? >> to lead police on a three-state high speed chase just to give myself any chance of beating these two. no it's got to be patience situational awareness, you know and that will get you through, hopefully. >> nic, you've kind of got the easy one.i don't know. airplanes are hard. you've got a tight schedule. when does your flight leave. >> i've got to get out of the gate so fast. i've got 359 minutes to make the flight. if i don't make that, then i guess i'll just take a horse or start calling in the police on you and get -- something might happen to the train maybe. >> who knows. who knows. >> lisa, what's the schedule? last night, it was an absolute zoo at penn station. wa do you have on tap to get to where you're going? >> it was a zoo yesterday. i'm counting on hopefully a delay for nic, maybe trouble making the flight. >> fine for me. >> nye train leaves at the exact second his flight is supposed to leave, 1:00 eastern time. my advantage is i don

brian todd, thank you very much. and i want to bring in tim cl clemente, a former fbi counterterrorism unit. this unit running the investigation into the shooting at l.a.x. tim picking up on what brian todd just said, you get through the security point and then really you think about horrible things could have happened. so many people walking around. planes and you could hijack a plane. does that concern you sort of that he was able to get as far as he did? >> well, erin, there's the tsa officers, my prayers go out to the family of the individual who died and the wounded people. but the t sa officers are not armed so they have no way realistically to deal with a threat like this. and there's very limited los angeles airport officers that are spread out only in specific areas throughout the airport. usually at at security checkpoints, i flew through this terminal 3 just last night flew from l.a.x. to washington, d.c. last night on a red eye. my daughter flew out of that terminal earlier this morning. but the security

brian todd, fascinating.. >>> now some other stories we are following in "the situation room." incredibly impressive, that's how one analyst describes october's job report. the labor department says the u.s. economy added 204,000 jobs last month, much more than expected. but the employment rate ticked up a notch to 7.3%, partly because of the hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed by the government shutdown. >>> wall street welcomed the employment news. it helped send the dow to a record high, closing up more than 167 points at 15,761. the nasdaq and s&p also posted strong gains. and you know, a familiar name will be on george's ballot next year. jason carter, the grandson of former governor and president jimmy carter is running for governor himself. he's been a state senator now for three years. republicans have held the governor's office for the last decade. >>> she's teething. she's crawling. and soon, she will be walking. yep, the national zoo says its hugely popular panda cub right on track. you kno

lisa had a delay on the train and then caught up, and then brian todd.. just about three hours. lisa, 4:31. both of you, big finishes here. did you think you would finish this fast? >> i thought i would finish a little faster. >> and i thought i would miss my plane. i came so close to missing it, i mean so close. 12 minutes when i went through security. then it pulled away from the gate like a minute and a half early. i thought, barring a hitch. >> you both made it here. brian has been slogging along in the car, getting closer and closer, although i'm not sure where now. brian, have you made it any closer, broken through the traffic in baltimore or what? >> tom, i have made it. i'm at the d.c. bureau, getting out. >> yay! >> so you're coming in now? >> the clock is running, brian. >> look, there's the clock. you're running out of time, brian. 5:13. did you think it was going to take this long? >> i think he took the equipment off in the name of escape. >> he ran for it. he's running for it in the spirit of competition. did you guys think he would be that

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> edward snowden's attorney saying snowden is starting a job today workingundisclosed russian website. the 30-year-old is wanted here in the united states on charges of espionage and theft of government property. russia granted snowden asylum earlier this year. >>> the policy is constitutional and removing a judge from a case. three-judge appellate panel ruling the lower court decision appeared to be bias. critics say the stop and frisk law amounts to racial profiling. city official insist the practice has cut crime. >> probably the lowest it's been in -- since in october 31st in perhaps the 1940s so that is how safe the city is. our tactics and strategies i think have worked and continue to work. >> other appeals to stop and frisk are still pending. >>> another big legal decision to tell you about. most of texas tough abortion restrictions struck down this week have been reinstated now by a federal appeals court. under the law abortion doctors must have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. the court ruled it can take effect immediately while a lawsuit

brian todd is working on this part of the story. brian, what are you finding out?that mental health in the u.s. is in crisis. they say that crisis is manifesting itself in rampage killings, other horrific incidents like the newtown shootings. a new report which includes some jarring photographs addresses the mental health of shooter adam lanza. the shot-out windows of the entrance to sandy hook elementary school. the bushmaster rifle used to kill 20 children and six adults. newly released bone-chilling images of the crime scene in the newtown shootings from connecticut state investigators. black plastic bags taped over the windows of his bedroom mirror the dark mind of shooter adam lanza. just off his computer room, there's a gun locker, a gun still perched inside. the new report says lanza did a spreadsheet on other mass murders, kept a newspaper clipping from an 1891 school shooting. >> adam lanza is sort of a black box in which we see the crash but we don't really know what happened that led to the crash. >> reporter: the report says lanza had significant mental

brian todd, cnn. >> tune in tonight at 9:00 p.m.stern for the assassination of president kennedy. it is a terrific documentary. >>> 19 minutes past the hour. >>> a los angeles judge is sending singer chris brown back to rehab. he checked into anger management last month after an assault arrest in washington. brown was reportedly discharged after he threw a rock threw his mother's car window. the judge cited the incident while handing down three months of therapy, along with drug testing and he added some community service. brown is due in court in washington next week. >>> a settlement in the $3 million lawsuit against lance armstrong, the disgraced former cyclist was sued by an insurance companies that paid him every time he won the tour de france. turns out he didn't win any tour de france's. he was accused of using performance-enhancing drugs earlier this year. no world on the settlement round. armstrong faces two more potentially lawsuits. >>> i won't ask you about that because you may lose your head. >>> a blockbuster trade in

here is brian todd. >> reporter: richie incognito unplugged.his tmz video shows the dolphins guard jumping around shirtless in a bar, dropping f bombs literally. no comment from incognito or the dolphins on the video. incognito was more measured when approached by wsvn about allegations he bullied teammate jonathan martin. >> no comment right now. we're just kind of going to weather the storm and that's it. >> reporter: he may not weather the storm. team sources tell the miami herald the dolphins will release incognito, and there may be other casualties. the fort lauderdale sun says they asked him to toughen up martin after he missed a voluntary workout last spring. he said he wouldn't comment, saying he will fix any problems uncovered in an nfl investigation. >> the culture that i championed said the day i walked through the door was one of honesty, respect, and accountability for one another. >> reporter: incognito has been involved in hazing rookies, as shown in this clip from hbo program "hard knocks." >> have you checked the facebook latel

brian todd, washington. >> bizarre story. 85 years old. >> they will still haven't heard from him.w that story. >>> all right. this is, of course, the 50th industry of jfk's an sass nation and conspiracy theories are still very popular. >> hear from one of the emergency room doctors who tried to save the president. stay with us. farmer: hello, i'm an idaho potato farmer. and our giant idaho potato truck is still missing. so my dog and i we're going to go find it. it's out there somewhere spreading the good word about idaho potatoes and raising money for meals on wheels. but we'd really like our truck back, so if you see it, let us know, would you? thanks. what? (horn, ding, ding) how long have i had my car insurance? i don't know, eight, ten years. i couldn't tell you but things were a lot less expensive back then. if you're 50 or over you should take a new look at your auto insurance. you may be overpaying. actually that makes a lot of sense. old policy. old rates. and thanks to your experience behind the wheel, you might save $395 by switching to the aarp auto insurance program f

i'm around newark, so forget it. >> and a good sport, brian todd, anyway.ived in washington more than two hours sooner than brian. brian made it to d.c. for a lot less, $100 for his tank of gas and tolls compared to nic's $500 outlay. and that was why i was wondering why he was so out of breath when he got in "the situation room." i was like, what is up with that? he sounds like a nine-month pregnant woman like me. no, man upstairs. >>> shocking allegations that celebrity chef jila lawson abused drugs. he reportedly called his ex-wife higella in reference to her constant drug use. the couple divorced this summer after is a chi was pictured with his hands around his wife's neck. cnn has reached out to lawson's representatives, but they have so far refused to comment. >>> fireworks lit up dubai's largest tower. she's a beautiful girl, she really is. those fireworks were to display the city's winning bet for the 2020 world expo. dubai should be excited. this is a very big deal. over the years, the six-month expedition of the world expo, which some of you may h

that is precisely what brian todd did, coming in with the slowest time of all, 5:15. >> thank you, tomell you about your trip. >> even when it goes smoothly, the drive from new york or d.c. or vice versa cuss tedious, frustrating, so we decided to break it up, by putting video to vine. that's where you can take short videos, just short lighthearted moments we can say, from our tip. take a listen. >> one power back, lemonade, two rihanna songs, great race home. >> we just have to stop and use the bathroom. >> saddle up, we've got to go. let's go! >> you have to take a bathroom break. >> and you were saying must have helicopter. >> i was so exasperated. these two kicked my butt getting here, and i couldn't take it anymore. >> lisa, you have the most similar experience. >> i think it's possible that brian saved the most money, nick had the fastest time, but i think i would have had the best time. >> 4:31 was the clock time, but you're talking about all the other stuff. >> this caused me a problem from the beginning. am track was delayed today. >> and then you got on the train. >> who are

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cnn's brian todd is here in "the situation room."lem for so many of these veteran players. >> it's getting a lot of attention now. the nfl has just told us it's going to look at a new test, a new brain scan, that tony dorsett and eight other former nfl players have just taken to determine whether they have symptoms of that disease. for dorsett and others, this may offer hope to possibly treat the disease that comes from years of vicious pounding. >> at the 10, at the 20, tony dorsett. >> reporter: this hit in 1984 against the philadelphia eagles was the worst one tony dorsett ever took. >> tony dorsett is still on the ground. >> reporter: dorsett now says hits like that have left him with some menacing symptoms. memory loss, outbursts of temper and depression. dorsett doesn't know how many concussions he got in his 12-year hall of fame career or during his four seasons in college, but he's one of nine former nfl players who have had a new brain scan that may help identify chronic traumatic encephalopathy or cte, a brain disease cause

thanks very much, brian todd. other political news, with our great cnn team here. we have john stanton from buzzfeed, l.z. granderson in new york, cnn political commentator and mark preston, cnn political director, to talk 2016. start with you, mark. is it a hillary/biden race? what are the numbers telling you right now? >> i think at this point, it's hillary clinton, hillary clinton, hillary clinton. if she decides to run, she's so far ahead right now. she's at 51% lead over anybody else. her closest person is joe biden. remove hillary clinton from the equation, you get joe biden as the leader. however, everything will get scrambled up at that point and a couple names we have to look at is elizabeth warren. liberals want to see her run. andrew cuomo is chomping at the bit, governor of new york, dying to run. martin o'malley can't hide the fact that he is already laying the groundwork right now to run in 2016 if hillary clinton doesn't. >> i want to ask john and you, l.z., as well. do you agree, because it's early

brian todd is here in "the situation room" looking into this. what are you seeing? >> there is an impression now that there has been one high profile shooting after another in the u.s. some of that has to do with media attention and perpetrators wanting that attention. either way, as one expert says, it's giving americans a collective case of post-traumatic stress. panic and terror inside a new jersey shopping mall. bullets fly but no one except the shooter is hurt. >> we heard four gun shots and everybody was scared, everybody was panicked. >> reporter: authorities now believe the gunman only intended to kill himself. days earlier, a man wielding an assault rifle kills a tsa officer at the los angeles international airport. every time we turn on our tvs, it seems there's more breaking news coverage of a high profile shooting. is this the new normal in america, this trend of people wanting to go out in a blaze of glory? >> it's not the new normal. since the 1980s, we have seen crimes exactly like this, angry psychotic depressed young men, mentally ill, haven't been

let's bring in brian todd.s over at the magic wall along with our cnn law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes. guys, you're mapping out how all of this went down. >> that's right. according to patrick shannon, the police chief of l.a.x. airport, the shooter made his way in at the beginning, at the lead here of the terminal. he could have come in through the front area, could have come in through an exit. they're not quite sure yet. began opening fire after he opened up a bag and pulled out an assault rifle according to the police. then shot his way past tsa passenger screening. tom, i will bring you in here. tom is also, we should tell viewers, a former s.w.a.t. team member with the fbi who dealt with airport security. first of all, you heard jim sciutto mention just a moment ago tsa officers are not armed. obviously if he's shooting, he gets past here easily and should they rethink this rule? should they be armed at this point to be able to stop someone here? >> tsa's position over the years is that leave that to

>> brian todd in brookport, illinois. brian. >>> 50 years after jfk is assassinated, his daughter, caroline, is carving out a new family legacy, meeting with the japanese emperor at the imperial palace in japan in her new role as ambassador to japan. kyung lah has more. >> reporter: clutching cameras and waving, thousands of japanese line the streets to watch a daughter fulfill her father's sojourn. she's completing the mission he couldn't fulfill, says this woman. this is significant here. jfk was to be the first u.s. president to visit japan, but he was assassinated. 50 years later, nearly to the day of his death, his only surviving child made her way through the streets of tokyo by horse-drawn carriage to the emperor. she passed by many in this crowd who witnessed the first-ever images broadcast from the u.s. to japan. caroline is like my friend, she says. of course, we are in totally different worlds. but, to me, she is special. this is the sort of enthusiasm usually reserved for pop stars or the japanese royal family

cnn's brian todd is there. can you hear me?n. >> what are you seeing on the ground. >> reporter: at the home of an elderly man who lived there with his sister frances. that home completely destroyed. an ef-4 strength storm touched down there on sunday and we were walking around the area, the property with friends and neighbors who just were talking about how upset they were about the death. they could not survive injuries. were found by a niece who came by trying to rescue them and just could not. but that home, we were just right there. it was completely leveled. there is -- you know, there is a lot of farmland's in that area. some other properties that wereship distance from the home that were not damaged nearly as badly, but for this poor family, just that ef-4 strength tornado just hit them scare-head-on and it was complete devastation. we're headed to another place in illinois where two deaths were confirmed. the death toll where we are is pretty heavy as we move from one devastated area to another. christine? >> wow. ef-4

brian todd, cnn washington. >> our hearts go out to the dorsett family.rgh. we wish him all the best. >>> we have much more straight ahead in the newsroom and all starts right now. hello, i'm fredricka whitfield. here are the top stories we are following in the cnn newsroom. the jury renders its verdict in the case against a prominent doctor accused of murdering his wife. we will bring you that decision and the dramatic courtroom reaction coming up. >>> plus, the death toll from a super typhoon skyrockets. officials warn it could get even worse. the overwhelming aftermath of what may be the strongest storm in recorded history. >>> and three u.s. navy officers, including a commander, are implicated in a major bribery scandal. wait until you hear what prosecutors say they did in exchange for prostitutes and lavish gifts. >>> we begin with a staggering death count from a super typhoon that hammered the philippines with a force three and a half times the force of hurricane katrina. the red cross there estimates that as many as 1200 people have been killed by

brian todd traveling by car. and we've got tom foreman in d.c. tracking them. ehind the wheel. he left new york 45 minutes ago. so brian tell us where you are now. >> suzanne, we're just south of elizabeth, new jersey, approaching mccutchen on the jersey turnpike. my colleagues tom and julian cummings and i are in the car. we're having fun. what we are surprised with is the lack of a backup here. we thought it would be snarled coming out of new york city, snarled in northern new jersey. smooth sailing. i'm not going to get overconfident that i'm going to beat my colleagues to washington but i like my chances right about now. maybe around baltimore, i'll tell you something different. one staggering stat here is that it may stack the odds against me, aaa says 43.58 million people in the united states are going to drive 508 miles or more this holiday, this thanksgiving eve. and 43.4 million will travel 508 miles or more. 90% of them are driving. that means volume on the roads is going to be very, very heavy. that may stack the odds against us here. so far, so far o

brian todd is joining us. tell our viewers what's going on. what he's accused of doing?. one is the speech that you mentioned, we're going to play an excerpt of that in a second. and also he's accused of plagerizing one graph and actually we found a couple more that were very similar. from this 2012 book called government bullies that rand paul put out. one paragraph and several others are very similar from a 2003 sudd study by the heritage fountation. one graph was word for word, every bit the same as the paragraph in the heritage foundation's study. but there are many other paragraphs that are very, very similar in this book. now, paul, as you mentioned, wolf, apparently lifted an entry from wikipedia from a speech he gave at liberty university. there he is going up to the podium. he referenced the 1997 movie "gattica" we pulled a bit from the speech. we'll see the excerpt >> in the the movie >> we reached out to the publish center street, about the book and the apparent plagiarism there. any response back for them on that, heritage foundation, which pout out the study

brian todd has been looking at the numbers. president biden only a kond tender if hillary clinton is out of the race or is he preparing regardless. >> he is doing the subtle things to lay the frowned work that he's going to do this no matter what she does. is he making phone calls to key democrats in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. he is not doing they fund-raising. that's poor form to do that before the midterm elections but doing the subtle things that you need to do to lay the groundwork. it looks like he's going to make a run. you pointed out poll numbers. we always talk about the elephant in the room, hillary clinton. he's way behind her in an same an poll. he's 51 points behind her in that poll today. if she runs, he most analysts don't give him much of a chance. if she doesn't run, you saw the numbers, 43%, he's in good shape. he's going to probably do this no matter what it appears now. >> some of this must be strategic against the other candidates. build that machinery and support so that warren and cuomo decide n

bri brian todd report what is we know about her. >>> a 72-year-old retiree outside wall part in texasher wouldn't recognize the grandmother with the worried look is one of the last people still alive with a deeply personal family connection to that weekend in dallas 50 years ago. this is merina oswald purto, a woman who now simply wants to be left alone. after 50 years of being harassed like that and having reporters show up at your home and, you know, anywhere you go and everyone is trying to to only speak about one subject. >> reporter: a film maker says in recent years she's become recollusive. she lives in a house behind these trees outside dallas, signs clearly indicating visitors aren't welcome. she married kenneth porter two years after the assassination and raised the son she had with him and the two daughters she had with oswald. >> i understand they have grown up to be quite out standing citizens, are holding good jobs. so i commend her and her children and her husband for what they have done. >> reporter: a friend says in recent years, she turned down a network offer of $3

this is a significant story and brian todd is "outfront" with the details. >> reporter: this satellitet a ton and bits to reenter earth's atmosphere. there is a picture of it. when it reenters earth's atmosphere this sunday or monday, it is expected to break up into 25 to 45 flagments. some of them will not survive reentry but some will. and some may weigh up to about 200 pounds. about you the european space agency which launched this satellite says the chances of any of us getting injured by it are miniscule. very tiny. i'm going to stop this and show you a map of where this is in real-time. this is very cool. this colonel from the webb, n 2 yo. you can see it right now and the altitude. about 111 miles above the surface of the earth and here is where it is going. past south america heading south toward antarctica. that is the arc that it takes. the european space agency saying the chances of it hitting anyone, the debris hitting anyone are very 50 miniscule. most of the earth's surface is covered by water. a little more on this satellite as we go to more video of it. this was the lau

brian todd covering the story with us.speak with tony dorsett in "the situation room" later today. tell us what's going on. >> he has been diagnosed with depression, with -- that's he's had thoughts of suicide, he's had memory loss, he's more short tempered than ever, prone to outbursts toward his wife and daughters. he's one of nine former nfl players that have gone through the special new test for early signs of what you've called cte, chronic traum platic encephalopathy. degenerative brain disease linked to head traumas in the nfl and other sports. some say these tests cannot be conducted very well on people who are still alive, that the only way to really test for cte is after you're dead and they can examine your brain. a new test they found a protein that is common in cte where they can kind of find that out while alive and in your brain. one of nine players who have undergone testing for that. he believe his may have symptoms associated with cte. >> he's in his late 50s? >> he'll turn 60 in april. >> what does the n

brian todd has more. >> reporter: a reterired execute from palo alto.fl north korea. >> korean war was discussed. i understand that my dad was a bit bothered. >> reporter: the next day, his son says, five minutes before his flight was to depart from pyongyang, merle must bhan pulled off the plane. his family hasn't heard from or about him since. what could have provoked the north koreans to do this? something unwittingly to set them off. >> he might have said something disparaging about the north or this was a liberation. the north koreans have all kind of laws and with them, all prices is subject to change without notice. >> reporter: senator john kerry calls it disturbing. newman has a heart condition. kenneth bay another american detained in north korea has diabetes and other illnesses. poli pollack has a warning. >> is a scenario that would, i would think, that the north koreans could find disturbing. >> reporter: he says humanitarian groups which do so much to help the starving sick people in north korea may cut that off. >>> a disturbing hate crim

what are you learning about these cases, brian todd?eigh deeds really just shortly after this tragedy that occurred in his family had very choice words about the virginia mental health system. but if you look at the situation in connecticut, not an exactly identical case, but once again, this very critical issue of mental health is staring us in the face. >> it is, jim. a lot of questions being asked how we treat the mentally ill and are we getting them the treatment they need. some cases it clearly shows we're not. in the lanza case, that's not as clear penned to the report state investigators released yesterday. you see adam lanza there. there are also pictures in this report, some photos of the crime scene we're seeing for the first time, the windows shot out in the school, chilling images there. there's a picture of the bushmaster rifle he used to kill some of the children there and ammo clips and things like that. some of these pictures we're seeing for the first time. that report does say that adam lanza "had significant mental he

cnn's brian todd is here with us. brian, the pictures, the images are totally devastating. >> they really are. all day we have been bringing in incredible video, gathering information, getting accounts of what some of the victims are going through as the world gets its first significant look at this devastation. we have to warn you, some of these images could be disturbing to some viewers. in tacloban, some bodies are covered, placed on the sides of the streets, but many others remain where they died. a tourist from new zealand describes what he saw in that devastated city. >> we saw five dead bodies just wrapped up in plastic and one other child probably 8 or 9 just being carried in a plastic bag who had drowned. most of them are drownings. >> two responders remove a body from a massive field of debris. relief officials are worried the decaying bodies will create health risks for survivors. many of whom are drinking water from wells, not knowing if it's contaminated. >> we don't have enough water, even though we are n

brian todd is following the story. what's going on, brian?an of the korean war. his son and others believe something about that experience may well have played into this. he's an 85-year-old retired tech company executive from palo alto, california, a longtime red cross volunteer, who had been looking forward to a trip to north korea with a friend. but merrill newman is now a captive in that oppressive country and has been for nearly a month. according to his son newman was near the end of an organized heavily monitored tour, when the subject of his status as a u.s. soldier in the korean war came up at a meeting with north korean officials. >> the korean war was discussed, and my dad's role in the service. the meeting concluded. i understand that my dad was a bit bothered. >> reporter: the next day, his son says, five minutes before they flight was to depart, he was pulled off the plane. his family hasn't heard from or about him since. what could have proceed vocced the north koreans to do this? this analyst said he could have set something t

cnn's brian todd is working the story for us today. brian, what are you finding out? u.s. officials and to the chairman of the house intelligence committee today. he has got a really chilling warning. mike rogers says al qaeda poses a bigger threat to attack inside the u.s. right now than it did before 9/11 and it's the smaller scale attacks he says that are the real danger. they have become the new faces of terrorism against america. the failed airline underwear bomber. the fort hood shooter. guided in ideology by al qaeda, now a jarring assessment of the threat from al qaeda to launch an attack inside the u.s. from house intelligence committee chair mike rogers. >> now they have a different attitude and more affiliates trying to commit acts of violence in the united states. to me, that makes this threat much worse than before 9/11. >> reporter: a u.s. official also tells cnn the threat from al qaeda affiliates has grown. they have set up in unstable countries in africa and the middle east, where they get safe haven. their leaders are encouraging smaller scale attack

brian todd has the latest details.te unfolding right now. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. there is backlash from some passengers who say they need a break from these in flight but others say they just can't do without the connectivity. we can already connect from almost everywhere, and cell phone calls from cruising altitude may be next. the federal communications commission chairman says the ban on cell phone use on passenger flights is outdated and restrictive, and he's proposing allowing cell phone use above 10,000 feet. the fcc says technology's advanced enough so that cell phone transmissions from the air would no longer interfere with cell towers on the ground, but it's the response from the flying public that's all the buzz. >> it would be a big disruption. people wouldn't respect the ones around them. it could get pretty loud and out of control. >> you might want to talk the entire flight in a loud voice about every single problem you have in your family, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? so i'm afraid it won't w

brian todd is there with this part of the story. >> reporter: from blast messages like this one on cellk, people in the paths of these storms can get real time locations of the storms and can get out of the way as one resident from this neighborhood behind me did on sunday. donnie was out shopping with his wife sunday afternoon when his phone started beeping. >> i looked down, it started saying tornado warnings and what area. we few we were in that area. >> reporter: they raced back to their home in brook port, illinois, made sure their daughter and grandchildren who lived next door got into a safe area of their house and then took cover in their own. >> me and my husband ran in here in the bathroom. we got down and stayed like this. >> reporter: everyone in the family survived the tornado. how do you think that warning worked for you? >> yeah, i think it probably saved our lives. >> reporter: the warnings came from apps for two tv stations that were on his phone, but they originated here, the national weather service's warning office in nearby paducah, kentucky. chris is a coordinator

brian todd has been working the story for us and has got the dramatic details. what do we know? is now the subject of an internal secret service investigation. the agency was trying to clean up its act following a prostitution scandal last year but now new allegations of misconduct, this time involving elite secret service agents and women. they are the agents closest to the president, ready to take a bullet to save his life. now two of them are under investigation for alleged misconduct. according to the "washington post" a senior supervisor in the elite presidential protective detail of the secret service was discovered trying to re-enter a woman's hotel room after accidentally leaving a bullet from his service weapon in that room. i asked larry johnson, a former agent in that same protective detail, about the agent taking a bullet out of his gun. >> that's very unusual. not something that is taught or trained. >> reporter: the incident happened in may at the upscale hay adams hotel across the street from the white house. the "post" reports the investigation led to a search of

brian todd has been looking into this part of the story. he's joining us live from noaa.? >> reporter: experts here do not believe the climate change creates a greater number of storms, but they do say global warming could make the storms more intense. he's the philippines delegate to the u.n. climate change conference. he also happens to be from tacloban. as he spoke at the conference, he said he's in agony over the uncertain fate of his relatives, and he couldn't contain his yes motions. >> i speak, speak for the countless people who will no longer be able to speak for themselves and the devastation. it's staggering. i struggle to find words, even, for the images that we see on the news coverage, and i struggle to find words to describe how i feel about the losses. >> reporter: he says he'll go on a hunger strike until a meaningful outcome to climate change is in sight. he believes the intensity of this typhoon is the result of global warming which many scientists believe is a man-made problem. luis says there could be a link queen climate change and these storms. >> th

brian todd, thanks very much. >>> we're joined by merrill newman's wife lee and his son jeff.thing, jeff, from the u.s. government about his condition, about his fate, what's going on? >> well, we've had talks with the state department, regular conversations since the detention, and i think they've been working very hard to secure the release to establish such communication to get some feedback, but at this point we don't think there's been any official feedback. as was reported just a minute ago, the swedish consulate, which would be the first touchpoint, hasn't had any contact with him. that's what we need to know, if nothing else, just to establish his well-being and the fact that he's getting his medication. >> mrs. newman, what kind of medication does he need? obviously you're very worried about that. >> primarily for his heart. he's had aidryial fibrillation and has been under a doctor's observation for this, an he as other issues, and we have sent -- we've sent the second package of medications now. they should have arrived today, on monday, and the hope is that they ca

brian todd has details. >> the latest we in news organizations have uncovered what we believe is a patternnd in this recent book he wrote seems to have listed whole passages not his own and used them without immediately citing sources. a consieve -- abomination, but now senator rand paul stands accused of doing something our third-grade teachers would nail us for. in a recent speech as liberty university, first flagged by msnbc and the buzzfeed website, he doesn't -- when he talked about the movie "gattica" but listen to his words on the wikipedia entry. >> in the not-too-distant fut e future, it plays the primary role in determining your social class. vincent freeman is conceived and born the old-fashioned way. due to the frequent screenings, vincent faces genetic discrimination, the only way to achieve his dream of being an astronaut, he has to become what's called a borrowed ladder. >> paul and his aides says almost all his speech been have not been footnoted, but they will be in the future. >> i think the spoken word shouldn't be held to the same sort of standard that you have if you'r

cnn's brian todd is in washington. you had an up close and personal look at the technology.lion man, i don't know if it costs that, but it sure is worth it. >> we remember that tv series in the '70s. that's pretty much that come to life. this man is zach. he lost his leg in a motorcycle accident some years ago. doctors at the rehabilitation institute of chicago developed a software and a prosthetic that allowed the leg to read the signals from his brain. it attached to his thigh. there are electrodes that read the signals that the brain sends to the thigh. then a computer processes those signals and a mechanical leg then executes the signals and tells his leg what to do. you can see him there. he can bend his leg, extend it, point his toes up and down. he talked to us in just much more simple form, in real life, about what this is able to do for him. >> it's just reading the signals that my body is sending to walk. just like walking. so there's nothing -- there's nothing special about it in the sense of what i have had to learn. i just get up from a chair and walk. >> but ag

brian todd reports what big change nrs store. >> we can already connect from almost everywhere. cell phone calls from cruising altitude may be next. the fcc chairman says the ban on cell phone use on passenger flights is outdated and restrict i have. he's proposing allowing cell phone use above 10,000 feet. the fcc says technology has advanced enough so that cell phone transmissions from the air would no longer interfere with cell towers on the ground. it's the response from the flying public that's all the buzz. >> they might want to talk the entire flight in a loud voice about all their problems. i'm afraid it won't work. >> that potential tension between passengers are is also a safety hazard cord aring to the flight attendants union which is against the idea. they say it's also a security risk. >> we have concerns about the ability for those who might wish to do harm to be able to coordinate during a flight or among the flight. >> some passengers say theable to communicate trumps all. >> there's lots of work are that i do that i need to be in touch with people. >> at a time

. >> brian todd, thank you. >> definitely an interesting race. >> oh, yeah. >>> so imagine getting arrested >> every week for years. that's what happened to a florida man. now he's fed up, and you're not going believe where he was arrested over and over again. hey kevin...still eating chalk for heartburn? yeah... try new alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. enjoy the relief! >>> bottom. hour now, welcome back, i'm alison kosik. >> and i'm george howell. here are the five things you need to know to start your new day. number one, at least one person is dead, dozens are hurt and an unknown number of people are still trapped inside a pub in glasgow, scotland. a police helicopter came crashing through the roof last night. the pub was full of people listening to a band perform. rescuers are trying to get the people out. we're continuing to watch the story. >>> number two, by the end of the day, healthcare.gov is supposed to work smoothly. the obama care websi

brian, we'll be watching it all. >> chuck todd starting us off. tysons corner just outside washington. thanks. >>> now to the other big race. chris christie looking to get re-elected as new jersey governor. nbc's kelly o'donnell with the christie campaign. kelly, good evening. >> reporter: greetings from asbury bark, brian. in bringing his campaign to an end here along the jersey shore which is a sentimental journey as well after what he says has been the toughest year of his life in the post-hurricane sandy period of trying to bring his state back. i spent several days on the campaign trail with him. he said what he wanted to accomplish tonight was more than winning a second term. that was first but he hopes to get more than 50% of the vote. he said that would send a signal to his republican party around the country that his style of leadership has a way to win in a very blue state like new jersey where president obama won re-election by 17 points just a year ago. so christie has been campaigning hard against washington dysfunction saying that vo

todd, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. normally these off-year elections are a signal about how the party in power is doing. but this year it's different. these governor races in virginia and new jersey are going to have some ramifications. but it is about a presidential campaign in 2016. in new jersey, republican chris christie is running for re-election as governor. but many of the supporters have their eye on a bigger prize. how many are excited about chris christie running for president? two hands? >> i'm so excited. he's wonderful. i think he'd make a great president. i want to be there. >> hey, everybody. >> reporter: in just a three hour drive to the south in swing state virginia reveals another high-profile governors race where presidential politics is lurking in the background. a test of hillary clinton's clout. terry mcauliffe, a friend of the clintons is favored to be the next governor. >> terry has always been there for me. i'm pleased to be here for him. >> reporter: the clintons together have made ten appeara

todd. chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good eving, brian. under unting political pressure from his owparty the president unveiled his plan to make good onhe health care. the problem, his proposefix may nofix anything. >> we fumbled the rollout on the heth care law. >> reporter: a contrite presidt today. and it's just a week removed from h apology to americans who saw their health insurance caeled. deite his assurances that if they liked their plan they cou keep it. i said that i would do everything we can fix this problem. today i'm offering an id that will help dot. >> reporter: under the affordable care acas many as 5 million amerans have had their health iurance cancelled because their policies don't cover everything the new l mandates. among those mandates -- emgency room visits, mernity care and menl health. the president's solutionoday -- allow insurance companies to renew polies for a year, even if they don't comply with the law. >> the bottom line is insurers can extend current pla that would otheise be canceled into 2014 and america

because if they don't, brian, congress will take over and the white house doesn't want that. >> chuck todd on the white house lawn this friday night. thanks. >>> and there's more to report on this health care law. it has to do with mental illness. the new law requires health insurance companies to cover mental illness and substance abuse the same way they cover physical diseases. it's a big deal because it's estimated only a fraction of those people who need those services are getting them currently. we get more from correspondent rehema ellis. >> reporter: 20-year-old chris valdez was diagnosed ten years ago with bipolar disorder. an illness that could lead to dramatic mood swings. even with health insurance as a police officer, his mother says her costs have been overwhelming. >> if you need treatment, you can go to the doctor. you have a selection of hospitals. when my son is suffering or in a crisis, i don't have those options. i have to go where the insurance company tells me to go. >> reporter: in the wake of the school tragedy last september in newtown, connecticut, the president pr

so, brian, this is going to lead to more partisan fighting. >> just what we needed to washington. chuck todd from the white house lawn tonight. chuck, thanks. >>> tonight the obama administration is pushing back hard on reports that thousands of u.s. troops could remain in afghanistan for another decade or more as part of a deal now being debated in that country. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel has that report tonight from kabul. >> reporter: on patrol over kabul with the afghan air force. security tight. more than 2,000 tribal elders gathered today to debate a deal that could cost the u.s. billions and leave thousands of american troops here for years. president karzai asked them to accept the deal, assuring them that american soldiers won't be doing combat missions anymore. karzai also referenced a letter from president obama confirmed by the white house, promising the u.s. will, quote, make every effort to respect the sanctity and dignity of afghans in their homes just as we do for our own citizens. if approved, the deal would commit the u.s. to support and pay for afghan se

brian rooney for us at lax. we appreciate it. joining me now from boston for more on the security response at lax is al jazeera's transportation contributor, toddtis. you told me a bit over an hour ago that this could have been a lot worse. i think intuitively we all know that's true, but i'm curious you were thinking. what scenarios were running through your mind in making that statement? >> well, the primary thing is the layout that have particular terminal. if you've seen some of the layouts of this terminal you have the security area several hundred feet were the main terminal area. apparently he made it all the way from the security checkpoint down a long highway, into a food court area where police officials say later where he was confronted. this is where several airplane gates were and where several passengers were. potentially this could have been much worse if he had been able to get off more shots. even though there was massive security at airports, and even at smaller airports it does take time to response. and in this case this alleged gunman was determined enough to make his way into an area where he could have wreaked all sorts o