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New Video Shows Death of Teen; New Mexico School Shooting Injures Two; Interview with West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey; Retired Police Shoots Man over Texting; Texas Court to Decide Pregnant Life Support Case
Aired January 15, 2014 - 09:00 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me this morning.
We begin with new video of a truly heartbreaking tragedy, a 16-year- old girl survives the crash of her airliner only to die in the chaos that followed. Newly released video obtained by CBS shows first responders not only saw the injured teen they waved away the very fire truck that would later run over her.
CNN's Dan Simon is in San Francisco where that crash took place last July.
Tell us more.
DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. You know, it was a heartbreaking revelation. Here you had this 16-year-old girl from China who survived the crash only to be run over by fire trucks. Now you have this new video and it's raising serious questions about firefighters' conduct.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop, stop, stop. There's a body right -- there's a body right there. Right in front of you.
SIMON (voice-over): Chilling new video obtained by CBS News giving us a rare up close look from a firefighter's helmet cam. The chaotic moments first responders encountered after Asiana Flight 214 crash landed in San Francisco last July.
Sixteen-year-old Ye Meng Yuan was accidentally run over twice by fire trucks. Her family has since filed a wrongful death claim against the city. In particularly blunt language, it accuses first responders of deliberately and knowingly abandoning the teen where they knew she would be in harm's way.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop, stop, stop. There's a body right -- there's a body right there. Right in front of you.
SIMON: Does the new video prove the tragic accident could have been avoided? There is also this. Another camera appears to show a firefighter directing the truck around the victim. JOANNE HAYES-WHITE, SAN FRANCISCO FIRE CHIEF: We're heartbroken. We're in the business of saving lives and many lives were saved that day.
SIMON: This video may be crucial to understanding what happened to Ye who the coroner says survived the crash, but died from injuries she suffered after being run over.
At the time officials said Ye's body was obscured by foam and couldn't be seen by the trucks. That combined with the chaos of putting out the fire and rescuing victims.
MAYOR EDWIN LEE, SAN FRANCISCO: I will say this, it was very, very hectic, very emergency mode at the crash site minutes after the airplane came to rest and there was smoke inhalation and people were coming out of the fuselage as fast as they could.
SIMON: The spectacular crash of Asiana Flight 214 was captured on amateur video and on surveillance cameras. The Boeing 777 descending too low on landing crashing into the sea wall and cart-wheeling across the runway, tragically claiming the lives of three passengers and ejecting two flight attendants from the aircraft on impact.
A court may eventually have to decide whether fire crews in this video were negligent and should be held accountable for the teenager's death.
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SIMON: So you have the pilots who made an error by bringing in that plane way too low and now you have the firefighters who apparently made an error in how they responded to the victims of that crash.
We reached out to the fire department for a response now that we have this video and at this point they have not responded to us, Carol. But we should also point out that yes, and many firefighters who acted in a very heroic fashion that day, but the fire department really needs to come clean and sort of open up in a clear and transparent fashion in terms of how all this happened. At this point they just haven't done so -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right. Dan Simon reporting live this morning. Thanks so much.
Police in New Mexico say the 12-year-old boy who opened fire in his middle school may have warned some students to stay home and out of danger. In the meantime police are not revealing anything about a possible motive or the source of that sawed off shotgun that was fired into the school.
This morning an 11-year-old boy remains in critical condition and a 13-year-old girl named Kendall Sanders is in stable condition. These images come from her Facebook page. Other students remain in disbelief that school violence has shattered their sense of safety.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MONIQUE SALCIDO, SCHOOL SHOOTING WITNESS: I wasn't really scared of what happened. But I don't -- I don't want to go to Berrendo anymore because of what happened. Because I'm afraid it's going to happen again.
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COSTELLO: CNN's Stephanie Elam is in Roswell with more for you.
Good morning.
STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. And school is closed today as investigators spend more time digging to find out why this 12-year-old could have possibly gone on the shooting rampage and at the same time these students are getting some counseling.
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ELAM (voice-over): A nightmare striking this Roswell, New Mexico, middle school Tuesday morning.
UNIDENTIFIED 911 DISPATCHER: We have one student or female subject possibly shot.
ELAM: Police say around 7:30, a 7th grader, just 12 years old, pulled a sawed off 20-gauge shotgun out of a bag inside the gym opening fire and striking two students.
UNIDENTIFIED 911 DISPATCHER: We have a report of possibly two patients shot at this time.
ELAM: The two students injured in the shooting airlifted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas. An 11-year-old boy in critical condition after suffering injuries to his face and neck. And 13-year-old Kendal Sanders now in stable condition after being shot in her right shoulder.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It just breaks your heart, you know, to see these kids, they're too young to have to witness and be a part of such a tragedy.
ELAM: Ten seconds of terror as heroes like 8th grade social studies teacher, John Masterson, bravely stare down the barrel of the shooter's gun.
GOV. SUSANA MARTINEZ (R), NEW MEXICO: Mr. Masterson then begins to talk to him to put it down. The young man put the gun down and raised his hands. At that time, he put the young man up against the wall.
ELAM: Another middle school staffer sustained injuries but refused care so he could stay with the students in the gym.
CHIEF PETE KASSETAS, NEW MEXICO STATE POLICE: I commend the principal and the people that work at this school for saving many more lives.
ELAM: Residents in Roswell now trying to heal. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We know that we need to pray for two children.
ELAM: After becoming the latest American town rocked by a school shooting.
MARTINEZ: Please keep these two children in your prayers who were shot while simply sitting in their gym waiting to go to class. God bless those kids.
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ELAM: And the superintendent in the school district says that the staff here did have active shooter training and if it hadn't been for the quick thinking of the adults there this situation could have been much, much worse -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Stephanie Elam reporting live from Roswell, New Mexico, this morning.
In Iraq dozens are dead, more than 100 have been wounded in a series of bombings in and around Baghdad this morning. This latest wave of violence continues to fuel fears that parts of Iraq are slowly falling into the hands of al Qaeda.
CNN's Michael Holmes is in Baghdad with more.
Hi, Michael.
MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol. Yes, particularly deadly day here but this is become a daily report, really.
Seven car bombs in the city this morning. In Baghdad alone. Also in Baqubah just north of here there was an IED, a hidden bomb that went off in a funeral tent. In total we're talking about nearly 30 people have been killed. Around 100 have been wounded. The killing, little sidebar to that, security forces are saying they actually did stop another four suicide car bombs before they were detonated.
Things looking pretty grim not just here in the capital, of course, but out west in the Anbar Province, Fallujah, Ramadi, still some activity there. It's not open sectarian conflict yet as opposed to these daily individual attacks but a lot of people are worried that it is heading that way -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Michael Holmes reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
It is now day seven without running water for thousands in West Virginia. Still slowly residents around Charleston are being told they can start flushing the contaminated water out of their homes. The blue areas you see is where the water is safe. It's about half of those affected. Those who live in the red parts, some 180,000 people, still cannot use their water.
This contamination mess is now reaching all the way to Washington where the speaker of the House places blame not on a lack of regulation but on the Obama administration.
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