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14-year-old Girl Dies by Suicide Days After TikTok Video Shows Attack; Study Shows Lack of Mental Health Services to Children; Portions of Georgia Special Grand Jury Report to be Released; Florida Lawmakers Vote to Expand Ron DeSantis' Migrant Relocation Plan; Kansas City Chiefs Win NFL Championship 38-35 Over Philadelphia Eagles. Aired 10:30-11a ET

Aired February 13, 2023 - 10:00   ET

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JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR: The father of a New Jersey 14-year-old girl who died by suicide is demanding justice this morning. Adriana Kuch was found dead in her home on February 3rd just two days after a video was posted online showing her being beaten and attacked at Central Regional High in Bayville. There's a clip of it there. We're not showing it to you because, listen, it's just disturbing.

ERICA HILL, CNN ANCHOR: This story is awful. Adriana's father believes her suicide was fueled by longtime bullying.

CNN's Brynn Gingras has been following this story. So the four teenagers who allegedly jumped her in the hallway.

BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes.

HILL: They're facing criminal charges. The superintendent resigned.

GINGRAS: Yes.

HILL: What more happened here?

GINGRAS: All within a week. And as Jim said, we're not going to show you the video but I do want to describe it to you so you get a better sense. And you guys, you know, as parents, it just makes you angry honestly.

Basically it shows this high school freshman walking down the hallways of her high school with a boyfriend when four people approached them. They throw some sort of liquid at her, and then basically take her to the ground and start beating her until school officials intervene and break up that fight.

Now the father of Adriana Kuch says that the school then just sent her to the nurse, didn't call authorities. They did suspend those students but that was it. And he says he's the one who actually took her to the police department to file a police report, then this video comes out of the incident. It's gone all over social media. He gives that authorities.

I want you to hear from him more about how he describes the video, and then we'll talk about it.

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MICHAEL KUCH, FATHER OF ADRIANA KUCH: They think it's fun to attack people, make videos and post them. People acts out, and they don't call an ambulance. They checked her into the nurse's office. Adriana was the most happy, beautiful young lady in the world.

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GINGRAS: Now the school says that they did alert authorities. As I said those students were suspended. They've also been charged. One is charged with aggravated assault. But the point here, guys, is that this whole entire community is up in arms because they say this isn't a one-time incident.

There is a culture of bullying. The school says now that the superintendent has resigned, that they're going to go back and look at these, you know, past allegations of bullying with other students.

They're going to consult with the school district and the Department of Education and how they reform their policies. But it's horrific. I mean, this girl took her own life two days after this cyber bullying incident was posted online.

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We talk about the online hate and harassment that these teenagers have to go through all the time, and, you know, it's just horrific. 14 years old.

HILL: It's awful. And this poor family now mourning their daughter and also having to deal with everything that led up to this.

GINGRAS: There's no words.

HILL: Just leaves you at a loss for words.

GINGRAS: Yes.

HILL: Brynn, thank you.

GINGRAS: Thank you.

SCIUTTO: Well, to that point, this morning a new study highlights that not enough young people are getting adequate mental health services.

HILL: That study finds nearly half of children who go to the E.R. with a mental health crisis do not receive the follow-up care that they need.

CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is with us.

So I would imagine that health professionals do see this as a growing problem. I guess the question is, is there an answer to it? Are there the resources? ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Right. The answer

is going to be so tough, Erica. So we all know that when you're treating someone for a mental health issue they need to have ongoing treatment.

A visit to the emergency room is not enough so these researchers looked at nearly 30,000 children who had a visit to the emergency room for a mental health issues. A lot of times it was depression, sometimes it was a trauma related mental health disorder.

And what they found was it didn't -- the follow-up did not go so well. What they found is that seven days after only about 31 percent in that week following the E.R. discharged only 31 percent of them had some kind of a follow-up visit. And if you take a look at a month later, so in other words lots and lots of time to have a follow-up visit, only 56 percent of them did.

How in the world are we expecting to treat our children with mental health disorders? And we know that the number of children with mental health issues is rising all the time. How can we treat them if we can't get them care?

So there are several issues going on, one is just poor access to care. There aren't enough people out there to treat the children or the adults for that matter who need help with mental health disorders.

Also this study found something really disturbing but not surprising. Black children had a much harder time getting that follow-up care -- Erica, Jim.

SCIUTTO: They need help. I feel like we cover stories like this nearly every day.

Elizabeth Cohen, thanks for highlighting it for us.

HILL: Just ahead, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, with the controversial migrant flights. Remember those from the end of the December? Well, we're learning they could resume after the company that runs the program filed an extension to their proposals for two additional flights. We'll take a closer look, next.

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SCIUTTO: This just in to CNN, something we've been watching for closely. A judge is now ordering portions of a Georgia special grand jury report on 2020 election interference by Trump and others in that state to be released to the public this Thursday.

HILL: CNN's senior crime and justice reporter Katelyn Polantz is joining us with more on this developing story.

So portions but not all. What more do we know about those portions?

KATELYN POLANTZ, CNN SENIOR CRIME AND JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Jim and Erica, shortly after this special grand jury has wrapped up, it does look like we are going to be seeing this week some parts of that report will be made public.

Judge Robert McBurney in Fulton County, Georgia, he is one of the judges that is looking at this. He's saying right now that the parts that will be made public include the special grand jury's introduction, their conclusion, and also some of the discussion that the special grand jury put in writing that they had concern that witnesses may have been lying to them under oath. That doesn't indicate that there are any people specifically that could be named in that report.

So there's not specific names right now that appear to be released or about to be released, but the judge is going to bring some transparency quite early after this special grand jury concluded their report. Now the reason that the rest of the report isn't going to be public at this time is because this criminal investigation still is ongoing in the state of Georgia.

Now that the special grand jury has made its findings, another grand jury comes in to decide on potential charges along with the district attorney, and there is still an expectation later down the road the rest of the report could be made public -- Jim and Erica.

SCIUTTO: Goodness. We'll see what the evidence is if we can. Katelyn Polantz, thanks so much.

Well, lawmakers in Florida are giving Governor Ron DeSantis millions of dollars now to expand his migrant relocation plan. The measure would allow DeSantis to pick up where he left off last year when he helped send two planes of migrants from Texas, rather than Florida, to Martha's Vineyard.

HILL: So the program resulted to multiple legal challenges and questions about whether he could legally take migrants from other states and use Florida's money to do it, to transfer them.

CNN's Steve Contorno is joining us now live.

So, Steve, what does this new measure change? What does it mean?

STEVE CONTORNO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Erica, there is a key new measure -- part of this measure that will allow DeSantis to take migrants from anywhere in the country to anywhere in the country, and here's why this is important.

Last year when the governor arranged for those flights from San Antonio to Martha's Vineyard, there was a question as to whether or not that was even legal. The state law that created this program said that it was for moving migrants from Florida to other parts of the country.

Now Texas is certainly not in Florida. So what this legislature decided to do is say, OK, look, we're just going to lift that restriction and hopefully that legal hurdle is gone and now the governor can move people as he sees fits. [10:45:06]

Now there are still a lot of questions about the legality of this program and the humaneness of this program. There are questions about whether or not the governor's office and the people on the ground who are arranging these missions, you know, lied to this people or misled them when they sent them to Martha's Vineyard, and what authority does the state have to get involved in immigration matters.

But at the end of the day, the governor's office has said that this is a priority for them going forward and that this legal restriction that has essentially kept these flights from taking off ever since those Martha Vineyard's flights, now that that's gone, there is a good chance that we're going to see migrants being moved from Texas, maybe Arizona and other parts of the border to these so-called sanctuary jurisdictions mostly in Democratic parts of the country.

HILL: Simply interesting to see how that plays out. Again, DeSantis, governor of Florida, but looking to do this from other states, too.

We'll be watching it, Steve. Appreciate it. Thank you.

SCIUTTO: Well, coming up, the Super Bowl's biggest moments, the major plays, that red hot halftime show, other highlights you might have missed or may want to see again. That's coming up.

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SCIUTTO: All right. Kansas City Chiefs, if you missed it, are Super Bowl champions after a thrilling 38-35 comeback win over the Philadelphia Eagles.

You see the red there in Kansas City after the Chiefs won their second title in four seasons. I wonder, Erica, if they had to grease the light poles there like they were doing in Philadelphia.

HILL: Yes.

SCIUTTO: Awaiting the celebration.

HILL: I got a note about that.

SCIUTTO: Yes.

HILL: On Friday, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes of course had been named the league's Most Valuable Player just days after winning the league's MVP award for the season.

CNN's Chloe Melas and Coy Wire are both with us now.

So, Coy, let's start with you. Two Super Bowl wins over the span of four seasons. I mean, that's pretty good.

COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: And what a game. This was just two points shy of tying the highest score in Super Bowl ever. Coming in, these were two of the most even matched teams we'd ever seen going into a Super Bowl and the game was a perfect reflection of that.

Here are some of the highlights. Eagles star Jalen Hurts leading the way for Philadelphia, set a Super Bowl record for most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback with three of them. And despite an injured ankle, the Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw for three touchdowns, and with the game tied on their final drive, he took off for the longest run of the season for him, pushing the Chiefs deep in Eagles' territory.

And then came a play that Eagles fans will not soon forget. A defensive holding call. That set them up further down in towards the end zone there. After that later James Bradberry admitted that it was a good call. It was Harrison Butker kicking the game-winning field goal with just seconds ago for Kansas City.

This was one of the most exciting Super Bowls ever. Patrick Mahomes went to Disney after winning his first Super Bowl title, and now he's going back. I asked Patrick how he puts all of this into perspective.

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PATRICK MAHOMES, CHIEFS QUARTERBACK SUPER BOWL MVP: It's hard, man. I hasn't even sunk in. I don't think even yet. I mean, I appreciate it because of the failures. I mean the failure of losing the Super Bowl and losing the AFC championship game, and that gives you a greater appreciation of being standing here as a champion.

And luckily I'm going to Disneyland now. So I have Disney World and Disneyland crossed off. And they'll have to make some more parks so I can go around everywhere and do a world tour.

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WIRE: And 27-year-old Patrick Mahomes became the youngest quarterback ever to start in three Super Bowls including two wins and two MVPs, The GOAT Tom Brady has seven Super Bowl wins but Mahomes is making moves with sunglasses, a hat like that. I mean, does that never look like Jim Sciutto, on a Friday getting ready for the weekend?

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HILL: Yes, it does. That's actually how Jim rolls in on a Monday morning. Just before he goes to makeup.

SCIUTTO: I do have fewer Vince Lombardi trophies than he does. I just can't remember how many fewer.

Chloe Melas, there were some other performance last night. I think between the two halves that attracted some attention. I liked it. I know some folks were like a little disappointed. But come on, she had a special surprise guest and that was pretty cool special surprise guest.

HILL: And she's Rihanna. SCIUTTO: Yes.

CHLOE MELAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: OK. Well, first of all, look, I mean, Rihanna was epic. She did her hits, she has said that she was going to -- you know, she was trying to whittle down her set list. She changed it like 39 times.

And yes, she didn't exactly bring out a special guest, she had a special guest in tow. She is pregnant and I mean, look, and she just had her first child in May. So that was just nine months ago, guys, do the math. I mean, it's incredible that she was up there and she rocked it. But I do want to say that not just halftime, people tuned in for the commercials.

HILL: They do, it's true.

MELAS: OK. And I got to say, I mean, I love the Ben Affleck-J.Lo commercial, Dunkin, but instead of me telling you, why don't you watch it? Take a look at some of those commercials from last night.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you excited about buying an electric vehicle, but worried that it could leave you unsatisfied? Then you could be one of many Americans concerned about premature electrification. Symptoms may include fearing you might not be able to last as long as you'd like.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, corporate types, will you stop calling each other rock stars?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're a rock star.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You are a rock star.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Rock stars. Please.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you know what it takes to be a rock star?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've trashed (INAUDIBLE) in 43 countries.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was on the road since I was 16.

OZZY OSBORNE, ROCK STAR: I've done my share of bad things. Oh, so you will share a bad thing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One second I'm trying to find the bagels. Do I look familiar?

BEN AFFLECK, ACTOR: Should I be in there or you want to see some self- portrait?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want you.

JENNIFER LOPEZ, SINGER, ACTRESS: What are you doing here? Is this what you do when you say when you say you want to work all day?

AFFLECK: I got to go, guys.

LOPEZ: Grab me a glazed.

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MELAS: I mean, look, I would see that overall last night, it was an A- plus-plus. The game, the commercials, the halftime show.

SCIUTTO: And by the way, Chloe Melas, Coy Wire, Erica Hill, you're all rock stars.

HILL: Oh, Jim Sciutto.

CHLOE: So are you.

SCIUTTO: I don't care what they say.

HILL: It was a lot of fun. And still a lot to talk about on a Monday and that's the sign of a good Super Bowl, as you guys say.

Thanks to all of you for joining us today. I'm Erica Hill.

SCIUTTO: And I'm Jim Sciutto. "AT THIS HOUR WITH KATE BOLDUAN" starts right after a quick break.

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