let's bring in brian todd. brian, we're hearing from the former deputy who was at the school during the attack. >> that's right, wolf. through the efforts of our team and our colleague sara ganim, for the first time we're hearing the story of the former broward county resource officer scot peterson who's been so heavily criticized by his former boss, sheriff scott israel, and by president trump, for not rushing into douglas high school as shots were being fired. this comes as sheriff israel himself is facing enormous pressure from the highest levels of government in the state. >> tonight florida's top law enforcement agency is investigating how officers have been to the horrific shooting at stoneman douglas high school. including the actions of resource officer scot peterson. peterson resigned on thursday after scott israel suspend him pending an investigation into why peterson was seen on video waiting outside the school as shots were being fired. >> i was disgusted, demoralized with the performance of deputy p

brian todd, good report. thank you very much. >>> coming up, the breaking news.te house communications director, hope hicks, stepping down one day after being grilled by lawmakers in the russia probe. stonewalling when question good her time in -- questioned about her time in the white house. >>> president trump stuns lawmakers by suggesting tough gun-control measures including taking weapons away from troubled individuals before going to court. >> a lot of times by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due process procedures -- i like taking the guns earlier. vo: gopi has built her business with her own two hands. each unique piece comes to life in the same way... a messy, sloppy, splattery way. but now she's found a way to keep her receipts tidy, even when nothing else is. brand vo: snap and sort your expenses with quickbooks and find, on average, $4,340 in tax savings. smarter business tools for the world's hardest workers. quickbooks. backing you. your heart doesn't only belong ♪to you. bye grandpa. and if you have heart failur

brian todd is joining us. n, there were some awkward moments today. >> awkward moments indeed, wolf. it raises a key question tonight. with the north koreans and south koreans engaging with each other at the games, with kim jong-un's sister even meeting with south korea's president this week end, which side's message is resonating more at these olympics? their eyes never meet, sitting just a few feet from each other, enemies whose countries have never been closer to nuclear war, the sister of kim jong-un shook hands warmly with the south korean president in the vip box at the olympic opening ceremonies but vice president mike pence by all accounts never turned around and even acknowledged kim yo jong. should mike pence have turned and smiled, nodded, acknowledged? >> i think that would have been a more elegant way to handle the situation. nobody expects north korean negotiations to start on a whim but south koreans watch the choreography very, very closely. >> reporter: should the north koreans have smiled, nod

but as brian todd explains...the students say they are not giving up.night- anger, and action...(--nats--)"so i just want to thank you guys for coming out.."busloads of students who survived the attack at douglas high school in parkland, are converging on florida's state capitol... with a clear and passionate message:they want tighter gun- control laws, a ban on assault-style rifles and high- capacity magazines.chris grady/student, marjory stoneman douglas high school: "if you're not with us you're against us. we are trying to save the lives of innocent children. so - and if you're not for that, we will vote you out."the student-led call for change- comes as investigators are learning more about nikolas cruz, the confessed mass-murderer.ariana lopez, a former friend of cruz's, tells cnn: back in 2015, he asked her to be in a relationship with him.when she refused... she says, he stalked her.in a new interview (today)-- she said cruz's behavior raised alarms-- with her, and others who knew him.ariana lopez/former friend of nikolas cruz:"he used to sell k

brian todd reporting. >>> coming up, the breaking news.presidential son-in-law jared kushner loses his top secret security clearances, the "washington post" reporting several countries have discussed how to manipulate jared kushner based on his come flex business arrangements and lack of foreign policy experience. >>> happening now, breaking news, clearance clampdown. sources say jared kushner has been denied access to top-secret information after failing to get a full security clearance for more than a year. this as new reports reveal foreign officials are looking to manipulate the president's son-in-law and senior adviser. >>> no power to act. the head of the national security agency says president trump hasn't given the authority to fight russian election interference. tonight, escalating fears that the u.s. is failing to prevent the kremlin from meddling in the u.s. midterm elections. >>> stonewalling? white house communications director hope hicks faces the house intelligence committee and refuses to answer some key questions in the r

lets bring in brian todd, working on this story, what have you learned?new information divide between key players on president trump's national security team on whether to launch a preemptive first strike against korea. an interceptor failed a critical test from kim jong-un. >> pentagon today confirmed a test similar to this one and an interceptor in hawaii missed hitting its target. the system is designed to protect the u.s. from any missiles launched by kim jong-un. despite the failure, they still learned crucial information of the system. analysts are worried how north korea, the young dictator is rapidly vamping his ballistic missile program. >> it as long as they helicoptc advance their program, maybe some day they'll evade those defenses. sources are telling cnn tonight of a growing division inside the trump administration of going offense specifically on whether to hit north korea of a preemptive first strike trying to get kim to stop his build up. tillerson and mattis are urging caution of a danger of a first strike. >> reporter: on the other side

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cnn's brian todd has more for us. >> escapees from north korea. >> reporter: president trump hopes ae to pressure kim jong-un. he defecto defectors. >> i came from the most ridiculous country. >> reporter: they praised trump for his unvarnished talk about north korea. >> it will give courage. >> reporter: trump is not the first president to meet with defectors, but he is embracing the enemies of the kim regime at a time of heightened tensions. could trump's meetings prompt a response from the young dictator? >> north korea may be wrangled that the president is heating with escapees. we may see official propaganda reaction to it that it is the wrong focus, that it is undermining the peace olympics. >> reporter: but while trump's move could encourage other north koreans to defect, one analyst says the meeting could also raise the question of whether the trump administration is starting to push for regime change in pyongyang. white house officials won't say what is behind friday's meeting. the president was cagy when asked if he wanted to send a message to the kim regime with this meeti

more on that from cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: it's a worrisome misfire in the middle of a high-stakesoff with north korea. the pentagon confirming that in a live-fire test on wednesday, similar to this one, an american missile intercepter in hawaii missed hitting its target. a medium-range intercontinental ballistic missile fired from a plane. the system is designed to protect the u.s. from any missiles launched by kim jong-un. u.s. officials say despite the failure, they still learned crucial information about the system. but analysts worry about how north korea's aggression young dictator, who is rapidly advancing his nuclear missile program, might read the failed american test. >> all it does is embolden them. it just encourages them that as long as they continue to advance their missile program, maybe some day, they'll accomplish the ability to evade those defenses. >> reporter: the failed defensive test comes as sources are telling cnn of a growing division inside the trump administration about going on offense, specifically over whether to hit north korea with a preemptive first

brian todd, i appreciate it. evan perez as well. >>> more than a dozen people were injured in the shooting and taken to hospitals. seven of those remain. they're still there, many in critical condition, fighting for their lives. here with me now is dr. christopher roberts with broward north medical center. thank you for being with us. you've had a horrific 24 hours or so. can you just take us through the condition of those who are still in the hospital? >> we still have a couple critically injured at our north hospital, sister hospital, broward health north. one has been downgraded so that's good news. and everyone is fairly stable at our hospital, broward health medical center. >> were you involved in the triage last night? >> i was. i was there -- i'm the chief of neurosurgery, so i take care of brain and spinal cord injuries, and fortunately we did not see any at our hospital. >> you had also been involved in the past shooting, i believe, at the ft. lauderdale airport. >> yes. >> so you've seen these kinds of

brian todd and evan perez. first to you. you're in the gunman's previous neighborhood here in parkland. we're talking about a tipster calling in this line on january 5th. what exactly was he or she warning the fbi of? >> this tip had horrible and very chilling detail. it almost seems to predict what the shooter was going to do. as you mentioned, the tip got to the fbi on january 5th of this year, 42 days before the shooting. according to the bureau, the tip spoke of the shooter's gun ownership, his desire to kill people, his erratic behavior, disturbing social media posts as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting. the information should have been assessed as a potential threat to life, according to the fbi, but the fbi now admitting that information was never passed on to its miami field office, brooke. that is the horribly disturbing part of all of this. here is a statement from fbi director christopher wray today. quote, we are still investigating the facts. i am committed to getting to the bottom of wha

all right, brian todd in florida for us. brian, stand by. we'll get back to you when you get some more information. i want to get more on all of this, the broward county mayor is joining us right now. mayor, thanks so much for joining us. >> good evening, wolf. >> how concerned are you, mayor, that the suspect was flagged to the fbi, they apparently were unable to identify him, and passed that information on to local law enforcement authorities in broward county? >> i think all of us are concerned with that. any time, you know, you see the things that were on youtube or you know that someone has been -- had some mental health issues, how those are not red flags that should just be -- go flying, i don't know how you can ignore those. i mean, any time -- if someone's going to buy a gun, and those red flags have been flying, how do they get within 1,000 feet of a gun? we don't know. >> do you have any information, mayor, on this shooter's extremist views? >> on the what? i'm sorry. >> do you have any information on the shooter's extremist views

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let's bring in cnn's brian todd. brian, what have they apparently gotten away with it?> it looks like they've gotten away with tens of millions of dollars. we're told tonight that this heist along with other similar ones recently have u.s. intelligence now watching kim's hackers very closely. tonight, north korea is being accused of a brazens and lucrative internet heist, likely committed by kim jong-un's hackers. a south korean lawmaker, briefed by that country's intelligence service, says north korea stole millions of dollars in digital money last year, all from south korean exchanges. the lawmaker says the attackers used a spearfishing method, which analysts say was a clever way to pluck that money, known as cryptocurrency, from victims' electronic wallets. >> they used actual credentials of real existing people to fabricate a job application, using the fact that these cryptocurrency exchanges are booming in south korea right now and that they're hiring a lot of new employees. >> reporter: by most accounts, north korean hackers are now in overdrive, becoming much mor

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brian todd has more now on the vice president's plans. what are you hearing, brian?e told by white house officials tonight that vice president pence is going to be on a mission to continue the trump administration's strategy of applying maximum pressure on kim jong-un and that pence is going to be doing that even while he's at the opening ceremonies. at the same time, secretary of state rex tillerson isn't entirely ruling out a possible meeting with north korean officials at the sidelines of the olympics. all of this collectively tonight could be making south korean official is much more nervous about the prospects of an incident-free olympics with north korean athletes taking part. as kim jong-un prepares to send his skaters, female hockey players and skiers to the winter olympics, are signs tonight of growing tension on the korean peninsula. >> i think the south korean government is highly anxious and very nervous right now because they just want to have smooth olympics and there's a lot thrown into the mix. >> reporter: vice president mike pence will be at the oly

our brian todd is in parkland and was there during trump's visit. he has details about critical information the fbi bungled. >> reporter: president trump is spepding the weekend at his mar-a-lago estate, not far from here after the horrific school shooting wednesday afternoon. the president came to south florida on friday and spent time with the victims of the shooting at a hospital in broward county, then came here to the broward county sheriff's office to get an extensive briefing from first responders and the sheriff's office on the shooting wednesday and the response to it. this comes as we are getting really disturbing, chilling new information about warning signs, clues that were missed and some information that was mishandled about the shooter, specifically a crucial tip that was given to the fbi. new and alarming details of missed and a mishandled warning sign. the fbi says it was given information on january 5th on a tip line. the caller provided information that nikolas cruz was erratic, armed, had a desire to kill people and showed the po

cnn's brian todd is joining us with more on the gun debate which reignited in the wake of the massacrea at that high school late last week. brian, there's growing demand for action on guns and new developments in the investigation. >> that's right, wolf. tonight we're learning as the students arrived at the florida capital, students from douglas high school, to lobby for gun control, the florida legislature showed just how tough changing those laws is going to be. voting to not even take up debate on an assault weapons ban. meantime, we're learning more tonight about the threatening behavior exhibited by the florida shooter years before that massacre at douglas high school. in florida to want, anger and action. >> i want to thank you guys for coming out. >> reporter: bus loads of students who survived the attack in verging on florida state capital, they want a ban on high capacity magazines and assault rifles. >> we're trying to save the lives of innocent children, if you're not for that, we'll vote you out. >> reporter: the student-led call for change comes as investigators are learni

. >> brian todd in ft. lauderdale, thank you. >>> now, the florida high school massacre reignited the gun control debate here in washington and we spoke to republican senator ted cruz about the political fallout as well as the chance for any real legislation to deal with the nation's plague of gun violence. >> we've heard your reaction to the tragic shooting but you have also said that democrats are politicizing this tragedy. can you explain that? >> what happened in parkland was horrifying and every parent looks upon school-aged kids being targeted by a deranged madman and that's the definition of evil. someone that would murder children is the embodiment of evil. i've spent a lot of years in law enforcement going after and seeking the strictest punishment possible for murders and those that abuse kids, and this is horrifying. invariably, whenever there's a criminal attack, within it seems minutes of the attack you get democrats going on tv going, this is yet another reason to push a gun control agenda tha

let's go to brian todd who is working the story. >> reporter: we have flew details on disturbing information a child welfare agency had on the shooter a year and a half ago and the family nikolas cruz stayed with in the weeks leading up to the killer are now speaking out. the family who took nikolas cruise in for three months say they had a mondster living unde their roof and didn't know it. their son was a friend of cruz's retelling news outlets are saying they had no idea cruz was capable of inflicting the carnage that he did. they knew he was depressed and knew he had an ar 15 assault rifle in their house. >> it seems like you had no problem with him having a weapon. >> that at all. he followed the rules. >> followed the rules. >> they weren't allowed to be out if we weren't home or one of us wasn't home. and he knew that. to our knowledge he never had them out. >>> the attorneys say they were not aware of previous police incident reports saying the police had been to the house more than 20 times between 2011 and 2016 to check on multiple outbursts reported by his now deceased mother incl

with the military and government to address any sensitive areas that might appear on a heat map, brian toddhington. >> thanks, brian. cnn juliette kieiam is joining us now. first of all, i know you are a boston gal, so i especially appreciate you taking a few minutes with us to discuss this story. >> i'm at a party about six minutes away so they're waiting for me. this is perfect counterprogramming at this stage. >> excellent. let's discuss the vulnerability our country -- our country's men and women who are serving overseas using these fitness tracking devices can be in. how concerning is it? >> well, it is -- let's just put this in perspective. this is historical data so the bigger concern is actually sort of pattern and practices, where is their location, do the service members go to a certain place or time regularly. something that you wouldn't want our enemy or even an ally to necessarily know. so while it may not be an immediate threat for service members it would give someone a foreign country or terrorist some knowledge of pattern and practice behavior. that should be the biggest co

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let's go to brian todd. what are you learning?wolf, just getting confirmation now from nick ayers, the chief of staff to vice president mike pence. nick ayers telling cnn tonight that north korea's delegation to the olympics dangled a meeting in the hopes of -- that the vice president would meet with them and according to the vice president's office in the hopes that vice president pence would soften his message at the olympics. of course we know that vice president pence was there to promote the idea that north korea was a human rights violator, to call attention to their record. now according to the chief of staff to the vice president nick ayours that the north koreans dangled this meeting but that the north koreans then walked away from it, apparently having seen vice president pence's messages and meetings with defectors and other missives while he was there about north korea's human rights record. they walked away from this apparently at the last minute. the "washington post" that first reported the story said the north kore

here with more cnn's drew griffon and brian todd at broward county's sheriff's department headquartersng messages you've seen on social media. >> we've been able to get inside this. it's a private instagram, just six people. but it was filled with home phobic, anti-semitic and quite frankly racist views. we know nicholas cruz was on this. he joined in august. he posted pictures of himself wearing body armor and also posing with guns. some of things he said along this chat was he hates jews, blacks, using the n word, and immigrants. and also he'd like to shoot gay people in the back of the head. but i think the most disturbing at all was he asked the group if it was legal to wear body armor to school. one of these people asked why. he wrote back school shooters, i think going to kill people. don. >> good lord. brian, let me bring you in here because what are authorities saying about the explicit warning the fbi got about the shooter a month ago? >> don, this really could not have been more egregious of a mishandling of information by the fbi. the fbi with a stunning admission today that

cnn's brian todd is outside the broward county courthouse in ft. lauderdale. you have, brian, new details about the suspect's ties to extremism. what have you learned? >> brooke, the anti-defamation league says a spokesperson for a florida based white supremacist group, a group called the republic of florida a spokesperson for that group says the suspect has ties to that group. the spokesperson for that group, republic of florida telling the anti-defamation league that the suspect conducted training exercises, took part in training exercises with that group but the spokesperson saying that the group did not expect or ask or order him to commit any kind of a crime like the one we saw yesterday. so, that's kind of another piece of the background we're learning about this suspect in this case, the anti-defamation league, talking about his ties, his possible ties to a florida white supremacist group. again, brooke, talking about his appearance here in court today, we knew it was going to be very brief. we knew that the judge would talk to him about the charges agai

and let me get at the initial criticism that comes from brian todd, republican consultant, people see him on the show, which is okay, one partisan gerri man der eed map that favod the republican just got replaced by another partisanly drawn map. is that fair? >> the republican map that had been in place was a pretty egregious gerrymander. even when they won a minority of the vote. >> that is the definition of a gerrymander. >> right. so the democratic map -- or the man that the court put in place is probably the best case scenario for democrats. i think republicans have a right to be slightly annoyed because it does actively help democrats in certain parts of the state when parity versus the currentity map. but still -- >> so it only on looks like a gerrymander if you believe the baseline was the original republican gerrymander. >> right. and democrats already had up to sikts unit its to pick up republican seats in the state. what this map does is it makes the opportunities a lot better. those now become much easier targets. >> so let's explain geographically. essentially what it did

brian todd with the latest. >> reporter: president trump is spending the weekend at his mar-a-lago estatecouple of days following the horrific school shooting on wednesday afternoon. the president came to south florida on friday and spent time with some victims of the shooting at a hospital in broward county. he then came here to the broward county sheriff's office to get an extensive briefing from first responders and the sheriff's office on the shooting on wednesday and the response to it. this comes as we're getting disturb, chilling new information about warning signs, clues that were missed, and some information that was mishandled about the shooter, specifically a crucial tip given to the fbi. new and alarming details of missed and mishandled warning signs. the fbi says it was given information on january 5th on a tip line. the caller provided information that nikolas cruz was erratic, armed, had a desire to kill people, and showed the potential of conducting a school shooting. this information was never passed on to the miami field office. >> the potential of fbi to miss something

a teacher at the high school where the deadly shooting took place tells our brian todd that he got aarning e-mail about the shooter back in 2016. math keateacher jim guard says got the e-mail in november or december of 2016. the administrators wanted to be notified if that student, if the shooter showed up on campus with a backpack. guard says he wasn't given any explanation for the e-mail, but the kids with a student in his class at that time. joining me now are cnn senior law enforcement analyst tom fuentes and contributor steve moore. tom, i'm wondering what you make of that breaking news, the idea that administrators certainly had their -- seems to be had their eye on this student and were concerned enough about him coming to school with a backpack to alert one of his teachers. >> anderson, the main question i would have about it is once that student was expelled, is that the time then that the administration of that school district decides they have nothing to worry about anymore, he's gone, he won't be back, the heck with it? we don't know. you have that warning going to member

cnn's brian todd has the details. he is in this gunman's previous neighborhood here at parkland. also with us, cnn analyst charles ramsey, who used to lead the police forces both in philadelphia and in washington. brian, starting with you, this phone call, six weeks before this school shooting, what did this person who knew the shooter say? >> brooke, this is simply just a stunning and disturbing development coming less than 48 hours after the shooting took place, by the fbi. because of a detail of this tip. it's really -- almost seems to predict what the shooter was going to do. this tip coming to the fbi on january 5th, just last month. here is some of the detail of the tip. this is from a person close to the shooter, according to the fbi. they talked about the shooter's gun ownership, his desire to kill people, his erratic behavior, disturbing social media posts as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting. the information should have been assessed as a potential threat to life, according to the fbi. that's the detail that they got in that tip 42 days before the

here with more cnn's drew griffin at the scene of the rampage and brian todd at broward county's sheriff'stment headquarters. good evening, gentlemen. drew, tell us about the disturbing messages you're seeing on social media. >> reporter: yeah, we've been able to get inside this -- it's a private instagram group, just six people. but don, it was filled with homophobic, anti-semitic, and quite frankly racist views. we know that nikolas cruz was on this. he joined in august. he posted pictures of himself wearing body armor and also posing with guns. some of things he said along this chat was he hates jews, blacks, using the n word, and immigrants. and also, don, that he'd like to shoot gay people in the back of the head. but i think the most disturbing of all is he asked the group if it was legal to wear body armor to school. one of these people asked why. he wrote back, "school shooters. i think i am going to kill people." don? >> good lord. brian, let me bring you in here because what are authorities saying about the explicit warning the fbi get about the shooter a month ago? >> reporter:

brian todd is monitoring the situation. >> the situation is very fluid. the broward county school system says this occurred sometime the in the afternoon dismissal. gun fire was heard. the school summit in broward county says there are numerous fatalities. we just heard the sheriff say more than one. law enforcement sources telling cnn there are at least two fatalities. sources telling us as well, the broward county sheriff saying there are at least 14 victims transported to local hospitals. the father of one student said his daughter told him there was blood all over the place. the sheriff says the shooter is in custody. he was a student, they believe and they do not believe as he current student there. there's aerial footage of a young man being placed into custody. students were hiding in closets. one teacher said she sheltered some 19 students in a classroom. >> we thought it was a fire drill. as soon as the fire alarm got pulled, i said that's not a drill. >> it's a shame. it's unnecessary. no words to describe how i feel. i was shaking, panicking. a

beginning to to abolish dangerous buildings which were left badly damaged by the quake well rob brian todd joins me now from a leather and rob just twenty four hours ago we were talking about these this window of opportunity to try and find people alive it's still being called a search and rescue operation but for how long. that's right i think they're working on the principle that you do in these circumstances that you continue the search while there's a chance of finding people alive and this morning friday here in the search area hale they are working on the what has been assigned of life detective during the hours of darkness this has given rescue is some optimism here it was a search and rescue party in an area of this building over to one end of it that used to be a hotel on the first and second floors where they understand two of the missing people unaccounted for a couple who were visiting the city were meant to have been staying they haven't been accounted for anywhere else so they believe that if there is somebody alive it could be one of those so that's what they're working on b

brian: thanks, todd.ed and we have been discussing for the last hour and have you been listening to for the last 18 hours. okay. he is trouble. don't bring a backpack to school. he gets kicked out. he tells another classmate when he got to that school last year, he sat next to him during one of the shop classes reportedly if this telling the truth i was kicked out of two schools prior to that. steve: the shooter. brian: if you're 18, turning 19, what's the responsibility of law enforcement once the education system says you're too scary or for whatever gown after he was taken to the hospital after he was carted off. apparently after the come in? shooting he tried to blend in with the kids and got through the police and they found him through surveillance video about an hour later. but, regarding not being allowed on campus, that's one thing if he had a backpack. the other thing is he had an ar rifle. and he apparently bought it legally. at this house he is staying at in parkland, florida, apparently, the

ainsley: todd who -- brian: one thing, ainsley. let's bring in pastor paula white. iansener. long time spirit all advisor to president trump and chairman of president trump's evan gel can advisory board. paula, did you have a chance to meet billy graham? >> good morning, everyone. i absolutely did. one of the most amazing man as you're saying. our condolence, our love and prayers to all of the family and to his grandchildren. i have gotten to know some of them. he was absolutely one of the most loving, we felt like we were in the presence of god with billy graham. it use oozed out of him. he was such a strong man, a mighty man. a man of faith. a man of integrity. what an honor and, what a loss as all of our hearts grieve today. ainsley: paulas as minister, what do you say to all of us, as this is a man with all we're going through as nation with isis and terrorism, with politics? we look at him, he is someone we all want to be like, he and his wife and family. they never really talked about politics. they loved everyone. most important for them was sharing the love o

brian: the bike stays in the family. todd: the bike stays in the family. egally. okay, good. 11 minutes before the top of the hour. a video unbelievable. mom and daughter used their own gun to stop an armed robner his tracks. that mom and daughter join us live. ainsley: plus you loved them in "duck dynasty." missy and leah robertson here with a new book series for children. they are going to tell us all about it coming up next. ♪ tonight let's get some ♪ and live while we're young ♪ at bp, everyone on an offshore rig depends on one another. that's why entire teams train together in simulators, to know exactly what to do before they have to do it. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. brian: all right. you know from the all-time hit tv series "duck dynasty." ainsley: i love that show. me a and missy robertson are launching a action pack teenage girls called princess in camo. here to tell us about it missy and m mia robertson. >> good morning. >> what's the reason behind this. >> fiction. reality versus fiction. here we go

brian: that's what makes this different. he is alive. our own todd piro is in nd