0 video running on domestic flights. >> people may concentrate more. but able to use phones so maybe they won't look up. >> i've interviewed richard branson a couple of times, always pushing the envelope. >> that will do it "around the world." newsroom starre starts for the c audience. >> thanks for watching. waiting to hear whether the justice department will investigate the mysterious death of a georgia teenager whose body was found inside a rolled up mat at his high school. a u.s. attorney speaking out on the case any moment. stand by for live coverage. the next round for the battle of obama care taking shape. a subpoena over the website. live with the republican congressman, daryl issa, this hour. and next time you fly, you may not necessarily have to stow your electronic devices. travelers are applauding long awaited news from the faa about what gadgets they can use and when. hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. any minute now, the parents of 17-year-old kendrick johnson are expected to find out if the justice department will step in and investigate the bizarre circumstances surrounding their son's death. johnson's body was found inside a rolled up mat in his valdosta, georgia, high school back in january. his death was ruled an accident. but his parents are convinced he was murdered. a u.s. attorney in georgia's expected to announce a decision on a new investigation any moment now. we'll have live coverage of that. in fact, here he is right now, michael moore. >> becoming accidentally lodges in the mat. shortly after the results of that autopsy were released and the investigation closed by the county sheriff's department, my office was contacted by the family's attorney who requested a review of the local investigation. at that time, i requested and received a copy of the complete investigative report and file from the sheriff's office. the investigative file includes reports, photographs, videos, statements, and a number of other documents. in late august of this year, i received a copy of the second autopsy report which reached a different conclusion as to the cause of kendrick johnson's death. for several months now my office has been continuously engaged in obtaining and reviewing all of the evidence, case reports and other investigative findings that are ooh a. vailable pertaining to the death of kendrick johnson. those efforts are ongoing. as part of that process, there are several questions that must be answers or confirmed. first, what was the cause of mr. johnson's death? second, was mr. johnson's death the result of a crime? third, if mr. johnson's death was the result of a crime, who committed that crime? and, fourth, if a crime, in fact, was committed, who has the jurisdiction to investigate and prosecutor those responsiblresp? >> federal jurisdiction is limited. and there may be circumstances where even if it is determined that kendrick johnson died as a result of a criminal act it may not be a crime which could be prosecutored in federal courts. my office received the official documents and conclusions resulting from the initial investigation. and i have personally, personally, reviewed those documents and have spoken to individuals involved in this investigation. i have offered through the family attorney to meet with the johnson family and i have met on a couple of occasions with the family's investigator and have reviewed a number of documents that he has provided. i ask the family attorney to provide me with a full report from his investigator and any other evidence or information which he has developed. i received that information about two weeks ago. we have also asked the public to come forward with any additional information they may have. we are reviewing literally hundreds of telephone calls we've received about the case to determine if any relevant information exists. and i will pass now again, if anyone has factual and specific information relating to mr. johnson's death, please contact my office 478-621-2701. many people have called to express their concerns, fears, and opinions about mr. johnson's death and the subsequent investigation. let's me say that i appreciate the depth of those concerns. but at this time, what we need are people with facts and knowledge of the circumstances surrounding mr. johnson's death to present those to us. facts, not feelings or opinions no matter how sin vecere they m be are the basis of the investigation. at this time i am of the opinion the sufficient basis exists for my office to conduct a formal review of the facts and investigation surrounding death of johnson. i do this with an open mind, neither accepting or rejecting opinions of anyone who investigated death. the fbi, who i believe is the finest investigative agency in the world, is cooperating with us in our efforts. should sufficient information be developed to warrant a criminal civil rights investigation i will ask the fbi to open civil rights or any other appropriate criminal investigation. as the united states attorney and within the confines of the appropriate federal jurisdiction, i will follow the facts wherever, wherever they lead. my objectives to discover the truth and i believe that can only be done by gathering all of the evidence and relevant information surrounding mr. johnson's death. i am committed to doing everything in my power to answer the questions that exist in this case or as many of them as we can. now, as those of you who have covers the department of justice before or covers my office before know, we do not typically comment on pending investigations. because this is now an ongoing investigation by my office, i'm not going to take questions at this time. going forward, i will not be making any public comments about this matter until my investigative review is complete. but let me assure each of you, mr. johnson's family, the law enforcement agencies, the local community, and all of those interested in or have been affected by the tragic circumstances, that my goal, in fact my oath requires, me to follow the facts, apply the law, and now protect the independence and objectivity of this investigative process. thank you all very much. >> all right. there he is, michael moore, u.s. attorney, in georgia, announcing they are reopening the case into the mysterious death of 17-year-old kendrick johnson earlier this year. you saw family members, they are xleerly pleased. they had been searching for answers into the death surrounding 17-year-old kendrick johnson and are very, very pleased. you see the family and friends in valdosta, georgia, right now. just a moment, we'll talk about what happened with cnn legal analyst sunny hostin. victor blackwell doggedly chasing the story for more than six months and walks us through what happened. >> reporter: months of protests. sit-in and marches have shaken the small south georgia city of valdosta. demonstrators say they want answers in death of 17-year-old kendrick johnson. in january, kendrick was found dead at school. investigators with the sheriff's office says kendrick squeezes his 19 inch shoulders into the 14 1/2 center of the rolled gym mat. he got stuck upside down while reaching for the shoe. after an autopsy, a medical examiner with the georgia bureau of investigation agreed, the official cause of kendrick's death, accidental positional asphyxia, suffocated by his own body weight. >> we examined all of the alternatives presented to us and the only one that fit the physical evidence and forensic evidence and testimonial evidence was this is an accident. >> an accident? we just didn't believe. >> reporter: kendrick's parents, kenneth and jacqueline johnson, believe the story about the shoe is a coverup. >> when i went and viewed his body that sunday, you can see something happened, you can tell he was beaten. >> reporter: in june, the johnson's exhumed the body and hired dr. bill anderson to conduct an independent autopsy. he found evidence of bleeding under the skin near johnson's right jaw. >> we were able to diagnose the fact there was blunt force trauma to that area. >> so he took blow to the neck? >> one blow to the neck. >> reporter: you've used the world self-times, but in your view, this is a homicides? >> yes. >> reporter: also, dr. anderson says kendrick's organs were missing. instead, stuffed with newspaper. the georgia secretary of state's office launched an investigation into that. questions about the sheriff's office investigation had made the johnson's more suspicious including why these shoes found yards from kendrick's body were not collected as evidence and how did someone's blood end up on the wall in the gym. >> cnn laid out facts for former fbi special agent harold copus. >> i don't believe this was an accident. i think this young man met with foul play. >> that was victor blackwell doing excellent reporting for us. he's been on the case for six months. many suspicions, unanswers questions in the case. joining us right now, cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor, sunny hostin. the u.s. attorney announced they're reopening the case. what do you think? what is happening right now? >> you know, this is a significant development for this family and for this case because, as you heard the u.s. attorney mention, now you have the resources of the federal government, in particular, the fbi. i agree with them, i think the fbi does some of the finest investigative work in our country. and so with that type of resource directs at this investigation, there will be more answers to be found. what i found also very significant, wolf, was that this u.s. attorney, who is the top prosecutor in his office, says he personally reviewed some of these documents, personally reviews reports, the family investigator's reports and determined, based not only on everyone's else's review but there was sufficient evidence to reopen a federal investigation. now that is very significant. i will say this, which gives me some pause about this case, is that, as he mentions, federal jurisdiction is limited. even if they find some sort of evidence that supports that a crime was committed, that this young man was murdered, the federal government may not have jurisdiction to prosecutor this case in which case this would go back to local authorities, perhaps, for prosecution. but all in all, a positive step for this family. >> one thing that just short of jumps out at me, and you've been involved in these cases over the years two autopsies, the second autopsy showed that several vital organs were removed and the body had been stuffed with newspapers. is that a normal situation? a normal autopsy? they throw newspapers in a body like that? >> absolutely not. i actually never heard of that before, wolf. it's so bizarre. it's so strange. and what is also very strange about this case is the lack of transparency, quite frankly, of the local authorities. they didn't want to release videos that we know were released yesterday because the minors perhaps on the videos needed to be protected. this is a murder investigation, after all, and that is where you want the most transparency. so the fact, the odd fact of the autopsy finding, you know, second autopsy finding newspapers in his body, the fact that the videos have not been released up until yesterday, the fact that he died under very suspicious circumstances, ruled an accident, all of that together, i am sure, are the reasons why this u.s. attorney says, huh-uh, this is time for the federal government to get involved. we need more transparency, we need more answers. >> i think it's fair to say the investigative work of cnn and our team on this case over the past six months, victor blackwell, producer devon sayers, did an excellent job bringing new evidence out there causing in part the u.s. attorney in georgia, michael moore to announce they're reopening the investigation. all right. sunny, thanks very much for that. coming up later this hour, we'll speak with kendrick johnson's parents. they're standing by. we'll get their reaction to what we heard from the u.s. attorney. congressman daryl issa demanding more information about the problems plaguing healthcare.gov. the congressman, he joins us live when we come back. hey guys.