. >> reporter: john ladue sits in a juvenile detention center after police recovered explosives, guns, and ammunition they say belonged to him, to be used in an attack in the next few weeks. >> during his interview with officers, ladue revealed his plan was to kill his family members, start a diversionary fire in rural waseca to distract first responders, and travel to the waseca junior high school. >> reporter: there, authorities say ladue planned to detonate the prepared bombs, allegedly manufactured in a storage locker at this facility, where the teen was taken into custody tuesday night after a citizen saw him walk inside the unit and close the door. >> officers observed materials in the storage locker which were consistent with bombmaking, including a pressure cooker, pyrotechnic chemicals, steel ball bearings and gun powder. >> reporter: and at his home, police found that 180-page notebook. motive unclear, but plot laid out. an attack, police say, john ladue didn't expect to survive. >> the members of the waseca public schools community are deeply saddened and disturbed at the a

ladue idolized eric harris and made several references to klebold. told officer schroeder he wanted to carry out his plan to kill on april 20th, the anniversary of the columbine shooting. joining me now is the author of "columbine." dave, thank you so much for coming back on the show. nice to see you. >> thanks for having me. sorry to be on your show, again. >> at least this time it seems to be a different ending, thank goodness. but columbine, as you well know, happened in 1999, this young man, ladue would have been a toddler, yet he says these killers were his heroes. how does that happen? >> you know, i've been thinking about that this morning, so far today. well, i've been thinking about this for a while with these guys. and it seems to me that it's not just about columbine but more the columbine effect that he's crediting them with. >> how do you mean? >> well, people -- for instance, at virginia tech, he killed more people than at columbine. but he didn't create years and years of killing. he didn't set that in motion. columbine did. all these

police say ladue had been planning his attack for at least nine months recording in a notebook how he set off practice bombs in march near the playground of an elementary school. they say his plan was to shoot and kill his sister and parents at home, light a fire nearby to distract first responders, set off the bombs at school, and shoot students as they fled. >> new information has been revealed indicates that we have escaped what could have been a whorrifiwho rihorrific experien. >> reporter: investigators say ladue was ready to carry out the attack within the next two weeks and they say he might have if not for a woman who just happened to be looking out her window at the right moment. grateful parents have started sending her flowers. >> thank you, whoever sent them. they're very beautiful. >> reporter: pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> we're following breaking news right now and we have this update. >> good evening, a california jury has determined samsung infringed on apple smart phone patents and as awarded apple $120 million in damages. the verdict was just announced in

police say ladue had been planning his attack for nine months recording how he set off practice bombs in march near the play grouped of an elementary school. they say his plan was to shoot and kill his sister at home, light a fire nearby to distract first responders, set off the bombs at school and shoot students as they fled. >> the information has been revealed indicates that we have escaped what could have been a horrific experience. >> reporter: investigators say ladue was ready to carry out the attack within the next two weeks and they say they might have if not for a woman who happened to be looking out her window at the right moment. grateful parents have started sending her flowers. >> thank you whoever sent them. they're very beautiful. >> reporter: for now ladue is being held in juvenile detention but the state has filed legal papers to have him moved into adult court. richard? >> pete williams, thank you so much for that report. >>> at the half hour we will hear more from the woman who made that 911 call and talked to reporters with more details about the plot. >>> now to t

police believe ladue tested his bombs in this playground in march. >> i guess i don't see how someone can have that much hatred towards all these people& who have done nothing. you live in waseca, minnesota. your life can't be that miserable. >> reporter: those who know john david ladue, including his grandmother, say they didn't see this coming. he was upbeat and well liked. scott, he is now charged with attempted murder. >> pelley: jamie yuccas with wcco. the republican speaker of the house, john boehner, announced today a special select committee will investigate the 2012 attack on the u.s. diplomatic facility in benghazi, libya. ambassador chris stevens and three other americans were killed in that attack. democrats say this new investigation is a ploy to embarrass the white house before november elections, but republicans say the administration just hasn't told the truth. nancy cordes reports. >> reporter: for nearly 20 months, four separate committees in the republican-led house have held dozens of hearings, examined documents, and released reports on the benghazi attacks, but h

it's still also unclear if ladue has an attorney.e's being treated as a juvenile and his first court appearance is scheduled for may 12th. he's being charged with four counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of attempted criminal damage to property and six counts of possession of an explosive or incendiary device. nick valencia, cnn, atlanta. >> wow! just an incredible turn of events there. >>> all right, horse racing season kicks off in the u.s. this weekend. if you have any friends that like big, colorful hats, surely, they're excited. we'll preview the kentucky derby for you next here on "cnn newsroom." >>> it is one of horse racing's biggest weekends of the year. the kentucky derby will be contested for the 140th time on saturday, attracting more than 150,000 people to the city of louisville. i love the horses' names. that's what i like looking out for. francesca kimmani from our award-winning show. >> reporter: april means not only spring has arrived, but hopes abound in the bluegrass region of kentucky, and by the f

and investigators say ladue had allegedly been plan the attack for about ten months. and sketched out every detail in a journal. a journal in police hands. >> thank goodness that witness acted on her intuition. >>> now, a health alert. a deadly virus thought to have originated in camels in the middle east, has turned up in indiana, in the first known case in the united states. it's called mers, short for middle east respiratory syndrome. and it causes respiratory illness. what is the latest case in the u.s. mean for people living in this country? let's bring in abc's dr. jennifer ashton for more on this. tell us about mers. what is it? >> think of it like sars, which is a respiratory virus, causing acute respiratory failure in some cases. only, believe it or not, it appears to be more deadly. this is a brand-new virus. it's only about two years old. we're learning a lot about it. it did start in the middle east. migrated to some countries in europe. and now, made landfall in the united states. this is something we expected. but the cdc and the world health organizatio

nick valencia is out front. ♪ >> reporter: john ladue appeared to be just a typical teenager.ook page showed the 17-year-old playing an electric guitar with a skull on his shoulder strap. he liked sexual assault rifles. the list of his favorite movies dominated by blood and gore. not so different from many others his age. but ladue had a darker fascination, and in a journal discovered by police at his home, the high school junior plan for committing mass murder. >> his plan was to kill his family members, start a diversionary fire in waseca to distract first responders and travel to the waseca junior/senior high school. once there, he intended to set off numerous bombs during the lunch hour, kill the school resource officer as he responded to help, set fires, and shoot students and staff. >> reporter: the attack was thwarted by chelsea, a watchful resident who reported what she believed to be suspicious activity at a storage facility. >> he shut the door and i thought it looked funny. and normally we see people come here. it doesn't take ten minutes to open up a storage shed.

but tonight, prosecutors want to try 17-year-old john david ladue as an adult for allegedly plotting a sinister attack to kill his own family and bomb his school just days from now. police revealed the alleged plan yesterday, saying the potential massacre was stopped thanks to this woman, chellsie schellhas. >> he was walking on the road and cut over and cut through. >> reporter: police say he was heading when she saw him. he got suspicious. >> he was trying not to be seen. >> reporter: she called 911 and police arrived, seeing him in the storage locker. police say ladue had sketched out every detail of a plan, planning to kill his mother and father and then go to his school to carry out the rest of his attack. >> he intended to set off numerous bombs during the lunch hour, kill the school resource officer as he responded to help, set fires, and shoot students and staff. >> reporter: he admitted to placing explosives in a park in what he said were practice runs. tonight, chellsie is being hailed a hero. you may have saved lives, how does that feel? >> i'm glad i trusted my guts, and

a 17-year-old student, john david ladue was charged with attempted murder. he planned to shoot his sister and parents, then set off bombs in the junior high and high school. they say he planned to shoot down students as they ran outside. police say he has told them he wanted to reenact the 1999 columbine attack in colorado. they found completed, functioning bombs, some of them small at his house kept under his bed. they say he had several guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. the plot was uncovered tuesday night after someone saw ladue enter a storage unit and close the door. that person became suspicious and called police. authorities say he has been talking to them since he was arrested and told them he intended to kill as many students as he could, then assumed that he would be shot by responding police. >> pete williams on this still developing story tonight, pete, thanks. >>> the pentagon announced a big increase in reported sexual assaults in the u.s. military. it said those reports jumped by 50% to just over 5,000. defense secretary chuck hagel c

john ladue has been charged in juvenile court after an eyewitness reported he was acting strangely ateen arrested in teaneck, new jersey, charged with vandalizing their high school as a senior class prank. police say they broke into the school overnight on wednesday overturning desks, spraying graffiti on the walls, urinating in the hallways and taping hot dogs to the lockers. at least 24 of the students are 18 years old and have been charged as adults. >>> kids at an iowa middle school also in serious trouble. police say they came up with the half-baked idea of putting pot in the cookie dough during home ec class. another student alerted authorities before the dough got put in the oven. >> after 23 years you think you have seen a lot and something like this happens and you continue to shake your head. >> cops are taking it seriously. two of the kids are going to face felony charges. they have been suspended from school and as a strange anecdote to this, it is stone middle school. not stoned middle school, thanks for the -- >> interesting. i don't think they realized it wasn't stoned

i called it in. >> reporter: police were led to ladue and found ladue with bomb making materials. >>d bombs and papers documented for his plans. >> reporter: the investigation started in late march when police discovered devices at a playground in march. a place ladue used as a testing ground. the plan was to target students at waseca high school and he expected s.w.a.t. teams to kill him. he originally wanted to carry this out on april 20th to commemorate the massacre on columbine, but he could not because it was easter sunday and school was not in session. >> this occurred as a lucky break or as i do, to choose that god is looking out for us. >> reporter: a small minnesota town thankful this day their town did not become one more in a long list of tragic school shootings. the town of waseca, minnesota, thankful for the residents. he is facing a litany of charges. four counts of first degree attempted murder among them. >> what do we know about the family and the mom? i heard somebody was able to contact her and all she would say is we are all grieving. >> a confusing time for the f

this morning 17-year-old john ladue is in jail.harged thursday with attempted murder and possession of explosive devices. police say ladue was planning on killing his parents and siblings. and then, going to this junior and senior high school in waseca, minnesota, to murder as many of his classmates as possible in cold blood. >> he planned to set off numerous bombs in the lunch hour. kill the school resource officer as he responded to help, set fires and shoot students and staff. he planned to be killed by responding law enforcement officers. >> reporter: police say a 180-page journal recovered in his home tuesday laid out his alleged murderous plans in great detail. and also noted his obsession with other mass shooters, including the columbine killers and the virginia tech murderer. according to authorities, the attack had originally been planned for april 20th, the anniversary of the columbine massacre. >> he was preparing. he intended of doing a great amount of harm. >> reporter: they say ladue had been training for the last ten

ladue had a darker fascination.tailed his deadly plan for committing mass murder. >> his plan was to kill his family members and start a diversion area fire in rural waseca and travel to the high school and then setoff numerous bombs. kill the school resource officer. set fires. >> reporter: the resident reported what she believed to be suspicious activity at the storage facility. >> he shut the door. i thought it funny. normally it doesn't take ten minutes to open a storage shed. i called it in. >> reporter: that led police to ladue. police found a locker with bomb making materials. >> guns, ammunition and paper work documents his plans were recovered and removed from the home. >> reporter: the investigation started in late march when police began discovering devices at an elementary school playground. a place ladue used as a testing ground. he was going to target students at the waseca high school. and he expected s.w.a.t. teams to kill him. he originally wanted to carry out on april 20th to commemorate the massac

. >>> police arrested 17-year-old john ladue on tuesday after being tipped off by someone who spottedg into a storage facility late at night. when police arrived they found bomb making material and later found weapons and ammunition at ladue's home. he confessed to police in the coming weeks he was planning to kill his family, start a fire to distract first responder, set off bombs at an area school, kill the campus police officer and shoot students. >>> 62 high school students were arrested in georgia after police say a senior -- in new jersey after police say a senior prank went too far at teaneck high school. when police arrived they found dozens of students trashing their own school. >> numerous desks and chairs were dragged out into the hallways. they urinated all over the hallways. grease was applied to the doors. there is a large amount of it. >> minors were released to their parents. the 18-year-olds were taken to jail and appeared before a judge. custodians were called in overnight to clean up mess before class could resume. >>> 5:56. a major safety improvement in san francis

police arrested john ladue after being tipped off by someone who spotted the teenager entering a storage facility last night. investigators later found bomb making material and ammunition at his home. he said in the next coming weeks he planned to kill his family, set a fire, set off bombs at a school, kill a campus officer and shoot students. >>> 62 students were arrested in new jersey after police say a senior prank went too far. officers responded to a burglar alarm about 2:00 a.m. yesterday at teaneck high school. when police arrived they found dozens of students trashing their own school. >> numerous desks and chairs were dragged out into the hallways. you could not make it through the hallways. urinal all over, grease applied to the doors -- there is a large amount of it. >> minors were released to their parents. the 18-year-olds were taken to jail and appeared before a judge. custodians were called in overnight to clean up the mess before classes could resume. >>> a focus on airport security in the next hour. the action a bay area congressman is taking today following a major secu

. >> reporter: a 17-year-old student, john david ladue, has been charged with attempted murder. police say he amassed a huge supply of explosive ingredients, made six working bombs and even practiced setting a few off in march outside an elementary school. court documents say investigators found a 180-page notebook in which ladue had been carefully recording his plans in the past nine months. they say he intended to shoot and kill his sister, then his parents at home, set a fire to draw nearby first responders to, set off a bomb at the school and shoot his fellow students as they fled the school building. school officials say he was quiet, something of a loner. a neighbor who grew up with him says she's in disbelief. >> he was always nice. passive. always followed the leader, basically. he was never the first one to jump out and say hey, let's go do this. >> reporter: police say the plot was discovered when someone saw ladue wearing a backpack enter this storage unit tuesday night and close the door. that person thought it suspicious, according to an emotional police captain. >>

there's no telling how far 17-year-old john ladu would have gotten had it not been for an observant neighbor who spotted him near a storage shed. >> he shut the door and thought it looked funny because normally we see people here it doesn't take 10 minutes to open up a storage shed. that's why i called it in. >> police found three bombs several guns and ammunition in the house. two alaskan state troopers shot an killed during an investigation. it is 130 miles west of fairbanks. the two were responding to reports of a man waving a gun in the village. one person has been detained. >>> already in jail on murder charges former new england patriots aaron hernandez is now indicted for a jail house brawl. a grand jury charging the ex football player with assault and battery and intent to do harm. >> new fallout from the investigation of a possible coverup at a va hospital in phoenix. three employees on leave after claims of vetrans died while waiting for treatment. >> the president denies evidence of a cover rup but now we have the extensio -- suspensions. 40 patients died they say because of delay

. >> 17-year-old john ladue was arrested tuesday at a storage facility where police say he was trying to break into one of the units. inside officers say they found more explosives than they have ever seen in one place. in his bedroom three more bombs, seven guns and a journal planning the attack. police say he was planning that attack for within the next few weeks. >>> tonight for the first time a mysterious virus has hit the u.s. dr. john lapeuch on what you niece to know about mers. >>reporter: the unidentified patient was a healthcare provider in saudi arabia. on april 24th, the patient traveled from riyadh to london and onto chicago and then took a bus to indiana. three days later, fever, kof and short -- cough and shortness of breath developed. the next day the patient was admitted to community hospital in munster, indiana. ann shooket is with the cdc. >> we are working with partners in england and with others around the world to make sure that the people who were on the airplane are contacted and notified to be on the lookout for signs or symptoms. >>reporter: mers was first re

ladue. police knew something was happening but they didn't know where to point to until they got the tip. no one saw this coming. the superintendent of schools said he was a good kid. he was an honorable student. he didn't hang with the popular kids but he was not anou an -- s not an out cast. >> he's real smart and has a lot of things going for him. unfortunately he just took the wrong papt i guess. >> reporter: the plans show he planned to carry out the attack april 20, the anniversary of the columbine massacre. but that was foiled because april 0 fell o -- april 20 fella sunday. martha: a whole street collapses. watch this. it's dissolving away. a massive sinkhole putting drivers on the edge. we'll show you more of that incredible video. bill: a prominent christian leader drawing attention at a national day of prayer event. dr. james dobson's message on abortion in america and the president. martha: is the administration taking the bengazi issue seriously? >> we are investigating. avo: wh

ladue had been planning the attack for nine months including to 180 entries of pages in his notebook. the plan was to shoot and kill his sister and parents at home, light a fire nearby to distract first responders, set off the bombs at school and shoot students as they fled. grateful parents have started sending flowers to the two women who became concerned enough to call the police at just the right moment. for "today," pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> a deadly virus from overseas has now turned up in the united states and has many people wondering how concerned we should all be. our chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman has more. >> reporter: it's called mers. it has been deadly for one out of every three people who get it, 93 deaths in the last two years. it was first identified in saudi arabia and five other middle eastern nations in 2012. as for the new case, the first confirmed here in the united states. health officials say the infected person left saudi arabia a week ago on april 24th, stopping in london before flying to chicago and then taking a bus to indiana. by

police say john david ladu was planning to kill his family and carry out a bomb and shooting attack atis high school. chelsea says she saw the 17-year-old acting is suspiciou and she called the police. >> looked like a young boy. didn't look like he just got done with school. the fact he was sitting here struggling for ten minutes to open the storage unit, something just didn't feel right about it. >> when police arrived, they found part of the suspect's arsenal in the storage facility. earlier today, we spoke to a local nbc affiliate reporter who has been covering the story. >> neighbors talk in his front yard, there was a tree he would be throwing knives at or chipping away at every day. just the detail he went into and the bombs that he practiced with, for lack of a better term, explosive devices. back in march, he set them off at a church, at a playground, just trying to perfect them. and he told police from what they're telling us, all of that, in his initial interview, and then he wrote it all down, exactly what formulas could be the most lethal. what formulas didn't work. so he

minnesota stopped 17-year-old john ladue in his tracks thanks to a neighbor who saw them near a storage unit he was renting and thought it was suspicious. >> he shut the door. it doesn't take ten minutes to open up a storage shed. so i called it in. >> thank goodness she called police. inside police found three bombs, guns and ammunition and then they went to his house and found journals that showed he looked up to the columbine shooters. we'll keep you posted. >>> in the meantime three executives of the veterans hospital in phoenix are on leave this morning after 40 patients allegedly died when they should have lived. the suspensions include hospital director, associate director and a third person who has not been named. the hospital is accused of keeping a secret list of patients who had been waiting for care in order to hide delays in treatment and then purgingei 1.5 million unfinished orders. >> donald sterling is battling pros state cancer. his racist remarks may have been released by a friend of his girlfriend. the head of the chapter of the naacp just resigned. leon jenkins is hi

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