. >> robert lopez was a friend and classmate. >> so anything from graphic comments up until picture arteah. he was very gifted in that sense. >> erica and pedro quickly became an item. teenage lovers. but with adult dreams. >> we were a pretty serious relationship, we were a little bit more mature than the average, we didn't go out and drink we were just very focused on school and each other. >> another sharply focused classmate in their circle was pedro's good buddy, christian. >> i met him through pedro, he was awesome, he was funny and he was nice and we instantly were good friends. >> christian was a soccer player who hit the books the son of colombian immigrants became the all american boy, video games, kanye west rap in his ears, and plans to become a doctor. >> it sounds as though to understand christian you have to realize how academically motivated he was? >> oh yeah. he was very driven. and it wasn't like his family was pushing him it was just that he wanted to make them proud. >> these three high achieving musketeers, christian, erica and pedro all went to prom to gather. and

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lopez is here to discuss all of that, plus a live report from the crime-ridden city coming up. >> john: first, is time running out? resignation calls piling up for embattled new jersey senator robert menendez as now his garden state counterpart and long time friend cory booker has joined more than a dozen other senate democrats saying it's time for him to go. total number now up to 18 by the way. i'm john roberts in washington. this is your second go around today, sandra. >> sandra: it is, warmed up, ready to go. good to be with you, john. despite menendez holding a defiant news conference yesterday in which he claimed the hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash seized from his apartment were not bribes, it does not appear to have turned the tide in his favor among his senate colleagues. >> john: complete coverage now moments away on whether the dam is breaking for menendez. >> sandra: bryan, more democrats called on menendez to resign. number is growing. >> 13 a minute before i got on here, and now it's 18, and that includes amy klobuchar and gillibrand, but none more notable than long time friend and colleague, new jersey senator cory booker, says it was "mistake" for senator m