there is a long back story to this huge codey near times profile of you. this project is the first movie that you wrote that you could not get it financed. it could not get it done. you have to go do something else that could get finance to come back to this. tell me about the journey that led to this place. and what the audience to appreciate you have to go to where everyone is talking about ava duvernay. >> i had to make something i could finance myself. to storiestting no's about the interior lives of black women, not top of the list to be made by studios. a lot of closed doors and we had to go through that to get to a place where i understood that there is a way to do it without permission and to get to a place where i could empower myself to make the film and tell the stories i want to tell. the first film i wrote, "middle of nowhere," the first film i wrote. we made a film on 50 grand and everyone worked for $100 a day. that film came out last year and proved the point there is an audience for this kind of story and we were able to put together more

the alameda counties sheriff's investigators say 18-year-old codey nicosia and 16-year-old christian birdsall killed barbara latiolais over money. they say the 16-year-old is a distant relative of the victim's boyfriend a retired san francisco firefighter. they say the two teens planned the attack knowing the woman was home alone and the boyfriend out of found. deputies believe they asked one to do yardwork. once inside the house the suspects came behind the victim and choked her until she passed out. >> miss latiolais started making noises. she was not dead at that point. and the two of them took a rope and together they strangled her to death. >> reporter: detectives say the teens robbed her of jewelry, money and guns. they say the pair admitted to killing the woman when the parents confronted the teens. >> asking them what's going on? what are you doing? if you did anything, you need to come clean. and the kid turned and looked his father and said, we killed someone. >> reporter: the two teens will return to court first thing monday morning. that's when they will be assigned to an

a forerunner and driven by the man suspected in the kidnapping and rape of an 11 year old girl in codey, wyoming on monday. she was found wandering by a group of hunters and the young victim provided this possible destription. a white male between 45 and 60 years old. a heavy guy and be you pound and short strawberry blondee hair or white hair . neatly trimmed mustache or beard. we'll have information on whether the f.b.i. believes it was connected to the kidnap murder of jessica ridgeway. we'll have the f.b.i. report on that in the bottom of the hour. you will hear a teen who survived being kidnapped by a monster. presidential politics and the latest on benghazi gate with senator bob corker back from libya. back here at home romney, the gop contender is widening his margin. what is so far unclear is whether thursday night's vice-presidential debate will move the polls one way orth other. three smart connected guests are here to weigh in. ab stodard joins u. and here in the studio with me. mord stucker man who owns the new york daily news and editor in chief. it is great to see everybod