0 easter. >> who came up with that one? it must have been the guys. it was not the women. >> i guess this is supposed to bring in the spring season showing their strength. >> i'm going to go down do the newsroom and do now that. >> see how that goes over. >> just to celebrate my slovakian ancestry. not that i don't love spending time with you, but we'll do it again tomorrow. you carry on working. bye. who's killing prosecutors in texas? police, the texas rangers and the fbi are all trying to find out after a district attorney and his wife are shot down in their home, assassinated just two months after the assistant d.a. in the same county was killed. brand-new video of kevin ware, up and around, just one day after the horrendous injury on the basketball court. find out his prognosis and what louisville players are doing to honor him today. and in the age of american idol and real housewives, who would think a show about the bible would create so much buzz, we're going to look at the history channel's surprise hit. this is cnn newsroom. a texas community is now on edge. there's a massive man hunt that is underway, authorities are on high alert after a second prosecutor is killed within two months. kaufman county d.a.m mccullen and his wife cynthia were shoot to death in their homes, this is just two months after an assistant da was gunned down in broad daylight. after his colleague was killed outside the courthouse in january, mccullen vowed to put away the people responsible. here's what he said at the time. >> i hope that the people that did this are watching because we're very confident that we're going to find you, we're going to pull you out of whatever hole you're in, and we're going to bring you back and let the people of kaufman county prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law, anything that you people can do to accelerate our getting our hands on this scum, will be appreciated. >> the guy you have seen there, he has just been murdered. the george howell who's joinings us live from kaufman, texas that's just east of dallas. first of all, it is uncanny when you see this. i imagine there's quite a bit of nervousness on the part of law enforcement there when you've got a d.a. and an assistant d.a. gunned down within two months of each other. >> reporter: people are uneasy, people are on edge, people are scared, fearful. given the fact that you have two prosecutors killed in the span of two months and you have people asking is there a connection, is there a link? and when you talk about these two men, mcclelland and his wife, they're not making any connection between this murder and what happened two months ago with mr. hasse. again when you talk to public firms, we talked to a few public fi officials. these two prosecutors worked on very similar cases and they believe these two hits may have been revenge hits. you talk to people on the streets, suzanne, they tell me one and one seem to add to two. this just seems to be connected, but again, investigators are not making that connection at this point. >> you say the people they went after, the cases they prosecuted are very similar. who did they go after? i mean do we know anything about who might be seeking revenge? >> reporter: and again, what we're hearing from investigators, we're not hearing much, so not getting any indication from investigators but people have brought up this concept about the arian brotherhood here in texas and here's the thing with that. back in december, suzanne, the texas developmepartment of publ safety put out a bulletin stating they had credible information that the arian brotherhood would actively target law enforcement. so that question came up after mr. hasse's death and mr. mcclelland at the time said that anything looking into that would be merely just speculation, the question has come up again, but investigators are not saying whether that could mbe connecte. fair to presume that they're looking at all angles in this case to find the alleged killer or killers. >> as mentioned, you have two prosecutors shot and killed within a two month period. investigators are trying to figure out if they are connected. i want to bring in someone who knows what it's like clearly to dale with dangerous defendants. christopher triko, he's the attorney of oklahoma bomber timothy mcveigh. do you think this is a coincidence? more than a coincidence? how two you assess this? >> use sang, i can only remember the last 25 years four or five prosecutors being targeted, these two including. it's such a rare event and to have two random acts of violence on prosecutors in a community as small as kauffman, texas. i don't know how to square that so i don't know how we can turn a blind eye as to whether these two are linked and tied to the same case. we'll see how it goes, but i don't know how you cannot finds that link. >> if you look at the kinds of cases they prosecuted in leading you to possible suspects here, people who might have a motive for revenge. >> that's the first place to look is what cases have been prosecuted in the last year, two years to see if you can find that link. you know, what we do, suzanne, in the criminal law field, we're exposing raw nerves every stay in our courtrooms and this is as high powered as it gets with respect to the emotion that's going on inside of a courtroom, both from a prosecutor's side and from the criminal defense attorney's size. that's where we need to look to find this because that's probably where this link is going to be. >> you arrested a guy who a lot of people didn't like, timothy mcveigh, did you ever feel like there was a need for security for your own security, did you ever feel like someone that was representing somebody like that could make you a target? >> when i got appointed to that case, i took extra security measures in my house, i went to houston and i was leaving for denver for about seven or eight months. i did some things at home to ensure that my family was safe. and i'm happy that the entire time that i represented tim mcveigh, not one time did anyone ever then me in any form or fashion or my family. and it's testament to our belief in your system, that i didn't get threatened, that doesn't mean it won't happen, it has happened in other cases. but it's a testament that we all understand that the prosecutor and the defense has a job to dw and we didn't buy the problems that we're litigating. >> do you think there could be a chilling effect on prosecutors i mean people who take on these cases and they're representing some pretty rough guys and these people are gunned down? >> well, it's going to have an immediate impact, i know in harris county, our brand-new d.a. and his family was given 24-hour security yesterday by the harris county sheriff's department to ensure his safety and i think it's going to cause everyone in the short-term here to be a little bit more vigilant and to look around a little bit more and to pay attention on what's going on around you. but it's not going to stop the justice system from moving forward both from a prosecutor's side or from a defense attorney's side. >> thank you very much. he is accused of opening fire in the colorado theater in july, you'll recall. now prosecutors say they're going to seek the death penalty for james holmes. last week defense attorneys for holmes offered to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding a death sentence. but the district attorney says, quote in this case, justice is death. holmes is charged with 166 counts of murder and attempted murder. 12 people died, 58 would bed in theater shooting, holmes' trial date now set for august 6. what was caught on camera was actually a hoax. police release this surveillance video that shows a couple, they're walking near, this is new york city park, seconds later, there's a man in a mask, races around the corner after them, followed by another person with a plastic bag over his head according to our affiliate, wabc, witnesses say they saw someone force the woman into a minivan and speed away. now they say it was all ahoax among friends to celebrate one of their birthdays. now the hunt is on for the killer of a college athlete. 19-year-old jacob was home on spring break visiting family when he was shot outside his home early saturday morning. investigators believe the gunman mistook him for a gang member while he was an honor student and a star player on his school's football team. here's what we're working on as well for this hour. so if you like to tweet on the job, yeah, you probably do. we have some good news for you and your boss. turns out that using social media at work might actually make you a better worker. and what is it about jodi arias that the country is so transfixed by. we're going to take a look at this obsession, how far some people willing to get a glimpse, just a glimpse of the trial. and somber moment on baseball's opening day. derek jeter talked to cnn about what the new york yankees will do to honor the victims of the newtown school massacre. 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