and jordan davis, 17 years old, today was his funeral. jordan was shot dead after an argument about loud music. we spoke to his broken-hearted father who has a message for all parents of teenagers. >>> personal tragedy from the world of sports to report to you first. police say a player for the nfl's kansas city chiefs shot and killed his girlfriend this morning and then drove to the team's training facility where he turned the gun on himself. police identified him as 25-year-old jovan belcher. he had been with the team for four years and he and his girlfriend were parents of a 3-month-old daughter. michael coleman of kansas city's kctv has more now. >> reporter: evidently what happened was he killed his girlfriend, came over to the stadium where there was a scheduled team meeting, and he's in the parking lot. the police by this time, they heard the news, they're looking for a black man who has a gun, supposedly a chiefs player, he arrives at the stadium, he's in the parking lot for the players, the general manager, scott pioli, the head c

jordan davis will be laid to rest today.is father described his son as a typical teenager looking forward to starting his job at mcdonald's saving up to buy his first car. the day before he died, his mother says, he gave the thanksgiving dinner prayer where he gave thanks for his family. before jordan could be eulogized at his funeral, they were already telling a different story about this young man and who he was. according to police, jordan and his three friends were sitting in an suv at a jacksonville gas station when he pulled up next to them and asked them to turn down their music. words were exchanged and this story, dunn's attorney, robin, tells us, about why her client felt threatened. he sees that much of a shotgun coming up over the rim of the suv and all he cease are heavily tinted front windows that are up and the back daris down. he doesn't know how old anyone is. he knows a shotgun when he sees one. he got his first gun from his grandparents when he was a kid in the third grade. police have no evidence that jor

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joining me the parents of jordan davis. lucia, you got that phone call.found out first and called you, what was your feeling? what happened to you when you got that call? >> it just, when i happened to come up in the bedroom and i saw my phone light up and i saw that it was ron. i knew it had to do with jordan. i knew 11:00 at night, there would be no other reason why he would be calling. and when i picked up the phone and he said where is earl get earl. and i knew that it had to do with jordan. i knew something was terply, terribly wrong. and i think i knew in my spirit, i knew that he was gone. i felt that. >> ron, dow think that it was in your voice when you made that call. i can't imagine having to make that call to the mother of this child that you both just lost. >> when i cam back from the hospital from seeing him. that it was my child in the hospital that passed. walking up to my front door thinking i can tell my wife jordan's step mother first of all and going through the reaction and then the realization to the both of us that we have to make th

mcafee, he was his neighbor, and the family wants justice. >>> in other news, seventeen-year-old jordan davis was buried a week after he was shot and killed at a gas station in florida. davis was with friends at a gas station, when a man opened fire after being allegedly threatened by the teens, his father says it doesn't add up. >> if you feel threatened, you call 911, never did he do that, i was told. he sprayed the car with bullets, knowing that kids were in the car. drove to his hotel, as i was told. had a good night's sleep, found out somebody died, which was my son, and still did not alert the authorities. >> but does the killing fall under the stand your ground law? we'll talk about that. >>> and other stories we're following today, there were protests in cairo as the democracy enters a dangerous phase, supporters of mohamed morsy packed the area as morsy called for a referendum on a new constitution. his critics say the constitution was rushed through. we'll go live to cairo for a live report in just moments. >>> north korea will try again, taking a stab at sending a rocket into space

our george howell has the story. >> reporter: as family and friends laid 17-year-old jordan davis to for his death that has mourners here baffled. >> that was just terrible. that should never happen. >> the last time i spoke to him was thursday night on thanksgiving. and it's just all hard because i miss him so much. >> reporter: it happened november 23rd, 47-year-old michael dunn told investigators he felt threatened at a gas station, parked side by side with an suv full of teenagers. he complained they were playing their music too loud. detectives say dunn confronted davis, who was in the backseat. dunn's attorney says his client thought he saw a gun, so he pulled his own weapon and started shooting, firing at least eight shots. davis was hit at least twice. investigators never found a gun in the teen's car. davis' father travelled from jacksonville to atlanta for his son's funeral. it's a case that's gotten national attention and has been compared by some to the fatal shooting of another african-american teen, trayvon martin, killed by admitted gunman george zimmerman. but unlike

. >>> today 17-year-old jordan davis will be laid to rest in an atlanta suburb. the high school senior was shot to death at a florida gas station following a disagreement about loud music. 45-year-old michael dunn is charged with davis' murder in a case that remind some of the trayvon martin shooting in florida. but dunn's attorney said there is no comparison here and her client was acting in self-defense. >>> today marks world aids day. the white house is marking the event by displaying the red ribbon, an international symbol of support. a procloimation president obama says in part that the united states is committed to preventing the disease to spread and ending this pandemic once and for all. >>> world aids day is a time for some say the truth, the naked truth. yeah, these folks, they're naked and they're naked in john boehner's office. their protesting huge cuts to hiv and aids funding. jennifer flynn was one of those naked protesters and she joins me now from new york. good to have you with us. >> thank you so much for having me. >> why did you take your clo

joining to us talk about this is lucia mcbeth and ron davis, jordan davis' parents and their attorneyn a horrific three weeks for you. i cannot imagine how awful it has been, if you can, ms. mcbeth, tell me how you found out that jordan had been killed. what happened? >> a phone call from his father, my husband and i were in chicago for thanksgiving and i happened to come up to the bedroom and i saw ron's name pop up, and i knew the moment i saw his name, that late at night, i knew it had to do with jordan. >> did you know it had to be bad? >> i knew in my spirit it was not good. i knew that it could not be good that late at night for him to be calling. >> when did you, mr. davis, learn the details of what had happened in the parking lot? because the shooting was horrific, but the details around the shooting awful as well. >> yes. its first call i got was from the best friend of my son, and he had phoned his mother while in the car and his mother called me and i rushed to the hospital to see about my son and when i found out that he had been shot and killed and the way that we been sh

that was a story we covered here, 17-year-old jordan davis.et me go back to javn belcher. >> police say belcher turned a gun on perkins in the home that they share with their 3-month-old daughter. the child was spared. the player then went to the stadium, thanked his coaches for believing in him and then shot himself as they watched in horror. >> cenk: were guns a factor in this shooting? of course, of course! of course they were. he shot her nine times. he shot himself as well. but not in the ultimate reality that the conservatives live in. they're reacting not at him but at bob costas. here is ted nugent. we thought bob costas was smarter than that. only fools blame tools instead of human failings. shame, bob. this guy talking about shame. remember ted nugent was the rocker who crapped in his pants to get out of vietnam. that embarrassment, that pitiful excuse and you talk about shame. you walked around in your own waste for a week, you coward. shame. then we weapon "g" to matt yoder whoyo--then we go to matt yoder so that's the place where

. >> 17-year-old jordan davis was laid to rest today in suburban atlanta. his father says this didn't have to happen. and the "stand your ground" law encourages such shootings. george howell interviewed the dad today. holly hughes is a criminal defense attorney. i was watching that interview and i was wondering how that dad even stood up to do an interview. >> here you have a man who just lost his son. he told me, i buried half of my heart today. but you still find a person who is very calm and he's focused on these "stand your ground" laws. he says it's got to change. he says deaths like this don't have to happen. >> you spoke to him about the comparisons to trayvon, the race comparisons to trayvon and about "stand your ground" as well. let's listen. then we'll talk. >> i believe it was strictly anger. people try to associate that whenever people of color are different from someone else. and i believe -- still believe to this day, unless the gentleman tells me different, that it was anger that was involved in it, having the accessibility of a gun. >> your

that presumption of guilt may be why jordan davis was shot and killed.rounds from his car at another that davis was in because after trading angry words, dunn said he saw four black then and a shotgun. police do not find said shotgun. some don't understand how a central park jogger case can happen in a city that would happen in a city that would elect david dinkens. being black in america is

. >> 17-year-old jordan davis was laid to rest this afternoon. police say he was shot and killed because he and his friends wouldn't turn their music down at a florida gas station. michael dunn is charged with davis' murder. investigators say he fired several times into the vehicle davis and his friends were sitting in after a verbal altercation. two bullets hit and killed davis. dunn's lawyer said his client thought he saw a shotgun and felt threatened. he's using florida's stand your ground law as his defense. >>> parts of the pacific northwest, they are bracing for more severe weather this weekend. a nasty mix of rain, wind, and snow pummeling northern california, oregon, and washington. the national weather service predicts soaking rain and wind gusts that could hit 70 miles per hour in some places. that could trigger flooding and mudslides after spring fires that destroyed whole forests. >>> and a professor hopes to get a few extra students in his statistic s class. he ends up with 54,000 new kids. luckily, he didn't need a classroom for all

i'm talking about jordan davis, the 17-year-old who will be buried today after a disagreement at a florida gas station ended in his death. 45-year-old michael dunn has been charged with murder, but his attorney says comparisons to trayvon are not accurate, that he acted in self-defense, that his client did. george howell talked to jordan's father. >> i believe it was strictly anger. you know, people try to associate that whenever people of color are different from someone else, and i believe, still believe to this day, unless the gentleman tells me different, that it was anger that was involved and having the accessibility of these guns. >> reporter: your focus is on guns. >> yeah. >> reporter: your t-shirt. >> kill guns, not kids. law enforcement has been trarng trained, and they are the only ones that should have guns in public. >>> two pakistani brothers living in florida are accused of plotting to use a weapons of mass destruction against americans. they were arrested on thursday, indicted yesterday. the federal indictment says the plot started in 2011, but investigators are now being

. >> costas and whitlock, were talking about the death of jordan davis. hail of bullets fired by a motorist over the volume of the music jordan and his friends were playing. we haven't forgotten the hundreds and thousands of nameless people who are nameless to the media who are falling victim to gun violence in cities like chicago. how many more kassandras and jordan and trayvons and gabby giffords do we need before our political leaders talk seriously about our country's gun problem. with me at the table, law professor, kenji yoshino, donna edwards of maryland. senior fellow at dee moes, bob herbert and john a nanny, the founder of a program dedicated to introducing urban and rural high school students to activities. >> you've written column after column about guns and gun violence in our country. every time, he have time there's this kind of high-profile incident, we say now we're going to have the national conversation. but then we never really do. >> i'm pessimistic on this issue. we were talking about gay marriage earlier. that's an issue where i thi

needed spotlight on the killing of a young black boy whose name might otherwise be forgotten, jordan davisthe young boy who was shot to death after the motorist complain ed about a loud music that a motorist was complaining about next to him in a suv. dunn may claim protection under the florida's stand your ground law. and "jet" magazine explores the details of the night that took his life, but introduces us to a 17-year-old who loved to fish with his dad and inspired to be a marine and about to start his first job and now is gone. back with me at nyu journalism professor and radio show host marc steiner, and joy-ann reid from thegrio.com, and now out to mitzi miller. i led with the emmett till discussion, and why did you begin with jordan's case for the cover of 2013? >> well, most people understand that conventional publishing wisdom beliefs that you need a celebrity to kick off the year on and up-note, but when i heard the details of jordan case in november, i knew it was important and i knew that we could not be moved to action without it. i knew that people had been moved to action ar

jordan was well respected. he always encouraged people who wanted to do something because he had the backing, diane feinstein has been there, willy brown has been there, some -- i think sammy davis junior went there once. so it's not famous people haven't visited it and it's not that sam jordan was very well known. i think in this case it's what has been happening and how his spirit has been kept alive by serving the poor. that's what we need, that's what we need in the bayview. we need people who are compassionate, people who do not forget their roots. people say they represent, if you represent and you know your people, especially the people who came from the south, i'm talking to the people at home, then your representatives should be those that represent the poor, much like phillip burton did, much like other good representatives did that you respect in city hall. so if sam jordan was here i think he would have said that his work was something for the community, that working for the community, that working for uplifting somebody, that would bring joy to his heart. i think that's what he would have said and i am glad there are a few members, i don't know his family members pe

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