very significant development here in macon. the u.s.ng this federal investigation into this death. very significant. the fbi is now cooperating, according to the u.s. attorney, although he chose his words very carefully. he was very careful not to say which way he was leaning, whether he thought this was a freak accident as the local sheriffs office has said or whether this was a murder like the family says. he says he is just out to answer several questions. first of all, what was kendrick johnson's cause of death. second, was it the result of a crime? if so, who committed that crime? but finally, he also pointed out that he's trying to answer whether this falls under federal jurisdiction and whether if this was a crime, whether it could be tried in federal court.

attorney this afternoon. >> nbc's gabe gutierrez in macon, georgia.>> here's a look at stories topping the news. frequent flyers, listen up. you may use your electronic devices during the flight. ereaders and games, cell phone calls, they're still banned. new reports that the nsa has secretly that happened the main communication lines that link yahoo and google data centers around the world. "the washington post" and "new york times" claim they have coped vast amounts of emails and other information from hundreds of millions of users. >>> in less than an hour cory booker will be sworn in as the newest senator from new jersey. booker will fill the seat once filled by frank lautenberg who passed away in june. >>> a bus driver went above and beyond to save a distraught woman from the ledge of a bridge. the the driver, darnell baton stopped his vehicle, got out, and helped the woman back over that guardrail and then sat with her to console her on the side of the road. >>> boston stronger. the red sox beating the st. louis cardinal, 6-1, clinching their fi

certainly, but we are extremely concerned that these and other killings documented in our report maconst executions or war crimes. >> reporter: the pakistan prime minister visiting washington today expressed concern about u.s. drone policy. >> more ye recently we have declared the use of drone is his not only a violation of our territorial integrity, but also detrimental to our have you resolve andests at eliminating terrorism from our country. this issue you has become a [inaudible] bilateral relationship as well. i would therefore stress the need for the end to drone attacks. >> reporter: yemen is another frequent target of u.s. drones. human rights watch charges the u.s. launched 80 targeted killings there since 2009. killing 473 people, among them civilians. >> we found despite assurances from president obama that it's doing its utmost to protect civilians from harm that in fact, in many cases it is killing innocent civilians, even dozens of them, if not more. this is a clear violation of international law. even if it was not the u.s. intent, if it indiscriminately killed, it should

also in macon county, missouri golfball-sized hail pummelled drivers along route 36. the conditions so bad trucks and cars were forced off the road. halloween weather promises to be more frightening. hail, strong winds, heavy rain and lightning forecasted thursday for 12 states. one to two inches of rain from michigan to kansas with nearly three to five inches of rain on the southern end of the storm. the weather forcing a change of halloween plans in america's heartland. in indianapolis, events have been cancelled, postponed or moved indoors. >> i have six kids. i don't want to drag them out in the pouring rain. i was considering buying some candy. that way they'll have candy even if we don't make it out of the house. >> reporter: in chicago those we spoke to say the weather won't halt their halloween haunting. >> the weather is not going to stop us. we'll go out and have fun. >> reporter: big storms this time of year usually have a snowy component. this one does not. there is good news with this storm, actually. the east coast and west coast, for halloween day and h

also in macon county, missouri, golf ball size hail pummelled drivers.ed off the road. and halloween weather promises to be more frightening. hail, strong winds, heavy rain and lightning forecast thursday for 12 states. one to two inches of rain are possible from michigan to kansas with three to five inches of rain on the southern edge of the storm. the weather forcing a change of halloween plans in america's heart plans. in indianapolis events have been cancelled postponed or moved indoors. >> i have six kids. i don't want to drag them out in the pouring rain. i'm considering buying candy and that way they have candy if we don't make it out of the house. >> reporter: in chicago, those we spoke to say thank you the weather won't halt their halloween haunting. >> it will not stop us. we will go out and have fun. >> reporter: usually this time of the year a big storm will have a snowy component. and this halloween storm does not. if you are on the east or west coast, this particular storm does not affect you halloween day or even halloween night sam champi

twenty-five years, everything in macon buy and consume in this economy will lobby the same size as theal debt. we know from economic research seven accompany -- country has that my stead you have slow growth, less jobs. people cannot retire and it is a real problem. john: today the president says stop treating government like an enemy. >> people stop treating government like the enemy when the government stop stealing from us. john: i will stop regarding it as in any when it stops spending three plus trillion dollars. it is hilarious to go back in time and look at a responsible senator obama was when he ran for president. he was upset about how the previous president increased their debt. >> the way bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the bank of china. we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back. that is irresponsible. that is unpatriotic. john: just five years later mr. obama is president and suddenly the debt is not the problem, the debt ceiling is the problem. >> congress must authorize the treasury to pay amer

. >> the president made it clear he won't macon sessions on his healthcare law if it's attached to any spending plan. democrats are demanding a clean bill. we heard from the president earlier in an interview with cnbc. >> we have a situation right now where if john boehner the speaker of the house puts a bill on the floor to reopen the government at current funding levels so that we can then negotiate on a rell budget that allows us to stop governing -- real budget that allows us to stop governing from crisis to crisis, it will pass. >> no. real progress or compromise at the white house -- the district and n.i.h. democrats believe it's just an attempt to buy the g.o.p. to minimize the pch.r. damage so the blame game continues. >> we're following breaking news tonight military academy football teams will be allowed to play ball despite the shut down. now that includes saturday's navy air force game in annapolis. the department of defense temporarily suspended the games but the department decided to allow the games since they are paid for with independent funds not under congressional au

twenty-five years, everything in macon buy and consume in this economy will lobby the same size as theal debt. we know from economic research seven accompany -- country has that my stead you have slow growth, less jobs. people cannot retire and it is a real problem. john: today the president says stop treating government like an enemy. >> people stop treating government like the enemy when the government stop stealing from us. john: i will stop regarding it as in any when it stops spending three plus trillion dollars. it is hilarious to go back in time and look at a responsible senator obama was when he ran for president. he was upset about how the previous president increased their debt. >> the way bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the bank of china. we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back. that is irresponsible. that is unpatriotic. john: just five years later mr. obama is president and suddenly the debt is not the problem, the debt ceiling is the problem. >> congress must authorize the treasury to pay amer

cnn anchor victor blackwell has been all over the story, he joins us live from macon, georgia.or. >> reporter: carol, good morning. we're at the center of a very crucial 24-hour period for the parents of kendrick johnson and here's why. in january, when the sheriff of the county told ken i.t. and jacqueline johnson their 17-year-old son in the middle of a school day ran into a jim, climbed on top of a six-foot gym mat, reached into the center for his shoe, got stuck and died they did not believe that. they think the story say coverup that their son was beaten to death and rolled in that mat and put in the corner. now the sheriff's office says that they've done nothing wrong here. so the family sued for access to the full file including the surveillance video and we are getting the first few glimpses of what has been released. first we have video of kendrick on the day that he died according to the sheriff's office, going into that gym. now he's following another student, cnn has decided to blur the faces of all the other students in this video. we can also show you the next pie

twenty-five years, everything in macon buy and consume in this economy will lobby the same size as theal debt. we know from economic research seven accompany -- country has that my stead you have slow growth, less jobs. people cannot retire and it is a real problem. john: today the president says stop treating government like an enemy. >> people stop treating government like the enemy when the government stop stealing from us. john: i will stop regarding it as in any when it stops spending three plus trillion dollars. it is hilarious to go back in time and look at a responsible senator obama was when he ran for president. he was upset about how the previous president increased their debt. >> the way bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the bank of china. we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back. that is irresponsible. that is unpatriotic. john: just five years later mr. obama is president and suddenly the debt is not the problem, the debt ceiling is the problem. >> congress must authorize the treasury to pay amer

. >> and victor blackwell joins me now from macon, georgia. victor, huge news, huge victory for the family who you have been in touch with for months and months. hearing from mrs. johnson she said the only thing she wanted was the truth. for the family, this feels like one step in the right direction, doesn't it? >> it does. they've been waiting and hoping for this federal investigation not just since we started doing this story six months ago, but since his death and since they got that report from the sheriff's office that this was not the result of foul play. that's at least questionable to u.s. attorney michael moore since he decided to open this investigation. there's a couple of sentences in his remarks and i had a copy here today that stand out, brooke. i want it read these two sentences. should sufficient information be warranted to develop a civil rights investigation. oep an civil rights or any other property investigation. that jumped out to me because almost immediately after that second autopsy from the independent pathologist cam

attorney in macon, georgia, is expected to comment on the case of kendrick johnson.he teen was found up in a rolled up wrestling mat in his school earlier this year. police are calling it a frequent accident but his parents all along have suspected foul play. yesterday they won a key ruling when the judge order ad school surveillance video to be released. john roberts can tell us if that is what we're seeing here. you have more from atlanta. >> reporter: good morning, general in. the u.s. attorney for the middle district of georgia, michael moore is considering whether or not to launch a federal investigation into the death of kendrick johnson. here his decision in just under 90 minutes time. back on january 11, kendrick's johnson's 17-year-old body was found rolled up in the wrestling match. the medical examiner at the time sid say ted was suffocation when he fell into the mat retrieveing a shoe. but second autopsy found i was died from a sharp blow to the neck. as for the court ruling they will get all the surveillance videos from the school, lowndes high school fr

also in make ckon macon county,. trucks and cars were forced off the road.e more frightening. hail, strong winds, heavy rain, and lightning forecast thursday for 12 states. one to two inches of rain are possible from michigan to kansas with three to five inches of rain on the southern end of the storm. the weather forcing a change of plans in america's hartland. in indianapolis events have been rescheduled or postponed. >> i have six kids. i've been considering buying candy and that way they'll have candy even if we don't make it out of the house. >> in chicago those we spoke to said the weather won't halt their halloween halting. >> it won't stop us. we'll go out and have fun. >> reporter: usually this time of year the big storm will have a snowy component. this halloween storm does not. more good news, if you're on the east coast or west coast, this particular storm does not affect you, halloween day or even halloween night. sam champion, abc news, new york. >>> okay. with the storm hitting much of the nation we want to know, what are your halloween plans

also in macon county, missouri golf ball sized hail pummelled drivers. the condition so bad trucks and cars were forced off the road. halloween weather promises to be more frightening, hail, strong winds, heavy wind and lightning forecasted for 12 states. one to two inches of rain from michigan to kansas with nearly three to five inches of rain on the southern end of the storp. the weather forcing a change of halloween plans in america's heartland. >> i have six kids. i don't want to drag them out in the pouring rain. i was considering buying some candy. that way they'll have it even if we don't make it out. >> reporter: in chicago those we speak to said the weather won't halt their halloween haunting. >> the weather is not going to stop us. we'll go out and have fun. >> reporter: big storms this time of year usually have a sno snowy component. this one does not. for halloween day and halloween night you're not affected by this storm. it's from the great lakes to america's heartland that are going to be affected but will be a very strong line of storms d

. >> critics say the law could result in the release -- the defense attorney association warns it macon applicant with may conflict. >>> a dog's sense of smell may be a way of detecting ovarian cancer in women. ovarian cancer has a distinct odor and according to them few animals can smell it better than dogs. now they're breaking down the chemicals in ovarian cancer to see what exactly the dogs are smelling. >> this is the size of a tumor when it is generally diagnosed. it is hidden. it is inside the female. this is the size when it should be diagnosed. this is an aspirin and it should be diagnosed when it's about this size. >> once researchers find out what's causing the odor the dog is smelling they can transfer that information to an electronic sensor or artificial nose. >> the nfl is supporting the color pink for the entire month of october. football fans are also raising awareness this weekend. colt fans died the downtown canal pink in indianapolis. they are dedicating the game against the seattle seahawks to breast cancer awareness. >>> runners will be rocking as the rock 'n' roll

i think the case i'm talking about in macon county bell is a case, if we're successful, and it is an uphill battle because we don't have the supreme court now. that court of appeals, the district judges that we used to have in the 50's and 60's, but we still have to go through the process. the civil rights movement has never been a one facet movement. true enough the demonstrations and the speeches are not what really change the landscape of america. what changes are those federal court orders. when the court ordered it to be done. and he knew he had george wallace on the other side. and if he did not get the federal government to enforce his orders they will run him out of the state. so he has designated the government in a lot of cases, and that was particularly true in our case of lee fee and make in which segregated all of pistols and alabama. it started out as a single school system and the governor decided to close it down rather than let it be integrated inserted all private school movement. i decided if he could close one's cooled down been active and him as a party at the st

nbc's gabe gutierrez is in macon, georgia. he joins us.ents of kendrick johnson as well as their attorneys shortly. let's get to the details of this video. first, we are seeing an edited portion. his parents will see more video, as i understand it, in the coming days. this is an edited portion of what police have released. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, tamron. the family is still asking for much more from the school. the dozens of surveillance cameras in the school. they say there's about 1900 hours of that surveillance video over that two-day period when kendrick johnson went missing back in

very significant development here in macon. the u.s. attorney, michael moore, opening this federal investigation into this death. very significant. the fbi is now cooperating, according to the u.s. attorney, although he chose his words very carefully. he was very careful not to say which way he was leaning, whether he thought this was a freak accident as the local sheriffs office has said or whether this was a murder like the family says. he says he is just out to answer several questions. first of all, what was kendrick johnson's cause of death. second, was it the result of a crime? if so, who committed that crime? but finally, he also pointed out that he's trying to answer whether this falls under federal jurisdiction and whether if this was a crime, whether it could be tried in federal court. he did not say whether he thinks there's enough evidence to warrant criminal civil rights violation. he's just looking into it right now. now, within the past few minutes, we did get some reaction from the county sheriffs office. lieutenant stri

was the leader of that effort historian he understood the history of the south he was elected from macon county georgia hotbed then and now of racism he understood how you played that game and he was extraordinarily successful at it but as i said it has come around to bite them because i think whereas they thought that they were going to get the benefits of the solid south they eventually succumbed to the frankly the the racist culture that is still there so when the we have about a minute after the between shutting the government down and this problem with racism in the party in both cases it's sort of like the dog you know loves getting credit for chasing the car but now it's caught the car it's got its mouth on the bumper and the cars going thirty miles an hour down the road what is the republican party. well they're caught between a rock and a hard place i think their best hope for the party is to run a total lunatic like cruz or pale and are santorum in two thousand and sixteen a lose all fifty states which they would an open strategy yeah exactly and then you can rebuild something

not to let iran wiggle with the partial deal they macon sessions. you lift the sanctions or part of them then the sanction regime can collapse. >>> this is an important point hmpt where is it the united states differ having negotiations with iran. the president says we have to see deeds not rhetoric. >> absolutely right. >> what do you differ on? >> we don't object to testing the diplomatic group. any country on earth threatening there iran nuclear weapons, it's us. if we can resolve this diplomatically, bravo. what is a deal that doesn't? >> and we are going to hear more from the israeli prime minister in our next hour. this morning the commander of iran's cyber warfare program is reported dead in possible assassination. officials say he was shot by two men on a motorcycle. his death is not treated as an assassination. since 2000 the ballistic missile program have been killed. >>> the navy officer is relieved of duty in a growing bribery scandal. captain daniel is being investigated for an alleged scheme to swap classified ship information in excha

>> well, you need to macon sessions to age as i have.i used to but i really try to encourage people to do less but more often. it's really important to do something every day. whether it is just walking around the block for five minutes or get to the gym. i also try to help people to do things they love to do when they were young, whether it was running or maybe playing soccer or anything active with a friend to get to doing that rather than go to the gym or do nothing. take that first step. do something. and if you do it with a friend, do something that you really love doing, you're more likely to do it. >> as your helping people get fit, stay moving. what are you hearing from them particularly as it pertains to this government shutdown, a lot of elderly people, young people, families concerned about the services they're not going to be getting while this government shutdown is in place. >> well, i think for so many people now it's just about survival. so trying to think about actually going to the gym and do something for yourself, tha

a very emotional homecoming for a second grader in macon, georgia, and her mother.imberly foster was in school when she went to the library with her school mates when she got a surprise visit from a familiar person coming home from overseas. >> how long has it been since you've seen mommy? >> she put these on her computer where i could skype her. >> i'm so happy to see you, honey! how do you feel right now? >> happy and kind of surprised. >> kind of surprised? >> you said the 17. >> i love that. calling her out. >> did you see the smile on that face when she saw her mother? >> speechless. >> she is speechless. >> i love that. joseline foster is in the air force and was in southeast asia. her daughter says she has one plan now that mom is home, that is to have fun with her. look at that hug. >> i'm sure they can take care of having fun. that is a feel good story. >>> coming up here on "early start." >> you're looking at vendors that are putting these products to market without doing a lot of thorough research to security. >> criminals finding a new way to target thei

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victor blackwell is in macon, georgia this morning.e midpoint of a really crucial 24-hour period for the family of kendrick johnson. on the front end that decision in valdosta by the judge to release the full case file, meaning all of the investigative leads, and everyone they interviewed for five months, trying to figure out how kendrick johnson died. that's one element. the second element is the release of the surveillance video in an and the gym. up to 48 hours from 40 cameras, close to 2,000 hours of surveillance video and we're getting our first few glimpses of what is being released. it's video showing kendrick johnson run into the gym at 1:09 p.m., just minutes before investigators say he got trapped in the mat reaching for a shoe and died. we blurred the other students playing basketball. what we do not see is what happens near the mats. the back end, an announcement today at 1:00 p.m. eastern from the u.s. attorney whether or not the department of justice will investigate this crime. chris? >> all right. key question is, do th

we expect to see the temperatures rising up. 75 in manassas, watertown, 65, macon, georgia, 52. kansas city 61, 63 in >>> 7:38. good wednesday morning. temperatures are chilly out there. it is crystal clear. you can see it here from the you can see the embarcadero. no clouds in sight. 77 degrees as a result of all the sunshine coming in so early in san francisco. 82 for san jose. 88 degrees getting close to the 90-degree mark in fairfield. temperatures are going to stay warmer than average all the way through saturday. we'll drop off sunday through tuesday. >>> and that's your latest weather. >>> all right, al, thank you very much. coming up next, judgment day for a woman exposed by a rossen reports investigation. she tried to profit off the sandy hook tragedy. >>> and on trending, inspirational or annoying? the fit mom whose message to other women has people talking. but first, these messages. we know you can't affordy o, wrong turns on the road to your future. that's why we build tools like our career guidance system. it's kind of like gps, you know, for your career. it walks