very hard with the black community, he s going to go very hard on criminal justice reform, he s going to go very hard on his common touch which he does have with ordinary people. but is he going to catch fire. he s going to catch some flak from the left of our party. i can just say one thing, though? when you re mayor of newark, he brought major investment into downtown newark. that was part of his job and it is hard to do. big companies weren t coming into newark and he helped turn that around and that involves reaching out to wall street and big corporations. so that hit on him from the activist class, i get it. but did he his job in mayor in doing that outreach. he s going to there s an interview i think he gave in 2012, might have been on meet the press, where he criticizes the approach that the obama campaign is making to mitt romney and beating up on venture capitalists and that s going to come back to him. he called it naus eighting the way that the obama allies and obama
breaking news. all right. good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day. alisyn is off, erica hill joins me and we do begin with breaking news in the race for president. the democratic field in the hunt for 2020 getting bigger. a big new entry as of this second, new jersey senator kory booker is making it official. he is running for president. we want to go straight to cnn s rebecca who is live near booker s home in newark, new jersey, with more on these breaking details. rebecca. reporter: that s right. we re here in newark, the city that launched cory booker s career as mayor some years ago. today he s takes that next big step to run for president. and he picked a symbolic day to do it. this is the first day of black history month. booker is the second african-american candidate to jump into this democratic primary after senator kamala harris and is he putting that
seen to be close to financial interests. i think one of the reasons why in addition to his personal passion for the issue that he s leaned to hard on criminal justice reform is because it is, you know, a very, very strong progressive value that rounds out the picture of cory booker. cory booker really was that guy who would in the morning he might be in the community center in newark talking to the poorest kids in new jersey and that after mean it might be on wall street talking to some of the richest people in the world and then back in newark. and basically with the same message to both constituents. but if you just grab him on the wall street side you can do some damage to him with this democratic naert do democratic party that does not like wall street. cory booker can sometimes be characterized as being too close to that so-called 1%. this may not be the year for that. so you re going to see him go
his wife watched in horror. the incident occurred six days ago inside a mall parking deck. at a news conference this morning authorities applauded the public for helping in this particular case. you have the right to be safe and the expectation that you should be safe in this county and in the state of new jersey. and in particular you shouldn t have to worry that wherever you go, whether it s in downtown newark or the shore hills mall or anywhere else, that someone will put a gun to your head and take your car. the men are charged with murder and could face life in prison if found guilty. and still ahead a 5-year-old boy disappears and it goes unreported for more than hear this three months. the details just ahead. plus, an emergency space walk outside the international space station. we ll tell you what the astronauts were doing. avo: the volkswagen sign then drive
new jersey mall. 30-year-old dustin freeland was shot and killed in front of his wife last weekend as the the two returned to their car. two men allegedly took off in the couple s range rover which was found the next day, ten miles away. friedman s funeral was wednesday. his friends and family say the last thing he did before he died was open the door, the car door, for his wife. you go to school here. whether you shop here. or whether you re just passing through. you have the right to be safe and the expectation that you should be safe in this county in the state of new jersey. and in particular you shouldn t have to worry that wherever you go, whether it s in downtown newark or the mall or anywhere else that someone will put a gun to your head and take your car. we ll have a live report and the latest developments at the top of the hour. getting a new reaction from president obama this week about the botched health care rollout. during his end of the year news