democratic milwaukee mayor tom barrett head to head tonight. will scott walker be able to tame the unions? bud light. the hurricane downgraded to a category 2 but still packing a punch. popular resorts of mexico in the crosshairs this morning. casting call from folks that brought you extreme makeover home edition comes a new game show based on the bible. jeff foxworthy live this hour and we ll talk to the people behind the game show. newsroom begins right now. good friday morning to you. i m carol costello. 33 years ago today this little boy, etan patz, vanished on his way to school. this morning his alleged killer is expected to be in a new york city courtroom. his name is pedro hernandez. this is his picture on inside edition. hernandez confessed to the killing and may have solved a mystery that started a national discussion on missing children. susan candiotti is following the latest developments. hernandez is expected in court. what may happen today, susan? repo
a threatening message from a new leader in his first public speech north korea s kim jong-un said his nation s time has come. also nick kristof is back live. he s talking about his stunning epidemic among military veterans. today is the 100 year anniversary of the biggest maritime disasters in history. while the titanic remains silent, fascination with the ship is still very much alive. good morning, everyone. it s 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 on the west. we have a lot to tell you about this morning. we start with tragedy in woodward, oklahoma overnight. five people were killed in those storms. i talked to the mayor last hour and he said the town is just flattened and devastated. he said their early morning system failed. take a look at this. our cnn crew shot this video in a different part of oklahoma. storms produced several tornadoes just like that one right there. there were as many as 88 reports of suspected tornado touchdowns. in creston, iowa, a hospital was hit
17-year-old trayvon martin. and unfortunately, it was the teen s life. listen to the brother as he spoke last night to piers morgan. the gun, i believe, was in his inside tucked inside his pant waist. right. so he has pulled it out and he has fired it? well, he has taken control of his firearm. he prevented his firearm from being taken from him. and used against him. and that s called saving your life. what trayvon said ease to the effect of, i believe this is going to be easy. you die tonight, or you have a piece, you die tonight. and then attempted to disarm him. so when you say have a bag of skittles and an iced tea, nobody just stood there with a bag of skittles and an iced tea. reporter: the other big interview is the one that was given to anderson cooper last night. this from an eyewitness. this will be the first we ve heard of. listen to this account. after the shots, obviously, someone the one man got up, and it was kind of like that period of him
the controller involved. this might be the final saw that could lead to more regulation on air traffic controllers, megyn. megyn: new concerns over the cruise ship s stability as it theaters on a cliff in it lean forces rescue crews once again to suspend the search for survivors. this as disturbing new details emerge about what the captain was doing and who was with him during the critical moments following the crash. you are not going to believe the latest on this. we have that in three minutes. president obama, blaming the presents for, quote, his old and aloof reputation. is the media really his enemy? we ll debate it. major controversy over a high school mascot. just ahead we ll show you why the school board said no to this particular choice. but here is a little hint.
grandmother who says police are not doing enough. and tracking hurricane rina. florida may be impacted by the weekend. plus a new film about j. edgar hoover has created a controversy before it s even made to it theaters. a group that campaigned heavily against any depict of hoover as gay. and now to the republican race for 2012 where rick perry is debuting his first tv ad in iowa where the caucuses are just ten weeks away, if you can believe. as president, i ll create at least 2.5 million new jobs. and i know something about that. in texas we created over 1 million new jobs while the rest of the nation lost over 2 million. i ll start by opening american oil and gas fields. i ll eliminate president obama s regulations that hurt other sources of domestic energy like coal and natural gas. that will create jobs and reduce our reliance on oil from countries that hate america.