cooler, but dry. we ll take it. thank you so much. let s take a look at what s coming up on new day. happy friday. hello, my friends. chris christie is the news. the bridge scandal, the epic press conference he gave probably just the beginning. why? here comes the support stage. will his story stand up? we ll vet with about a thousand pages of documents being released this morning. you re also going to have it tested with all the analysis that we can provide with people who have been following this story. we have a reporter who is digging into this, the 91-year-old woman who died. was it really a result of the traffic problems cacreated by t? we also have a cnn exclusivive. it s been one year since a teen daep disappeared. he was found dead rolled up in a gym mat inside his school. cnn has covered this story
scandal putting him in the center of the political spotlight. he says he s embarrassed and humiliated and sorry for what he claims happened without his knowledge. he s now fired a top aid and asked an adviser to give up a job for their roles in a shutdown of traffic on the very busy george washington bridge during last year gubernatorial campaign. apparently it was political payback against a mayor who wouldn t endorse their boss. documents are expected to be released today. a source says the fbi now looking into what happened to see if federal law was violated. even though christie apologized, one person connected with the shutdown is not talking. joe johns begins our coverage. i come out here to apologize. another had no interest in
that s what mayor was so concerned about. all the complaints from ems, school buss, late to school because they couldn t get through the traffic because the bridge was backed up. this effects people in ways they understand. everyone knows what it s like to sit in traffic. a lot of questions about what happens going forward. let s bring in political editor paul steinhouser. great to see you. paul, i want to ask you this. we all judged the performance. let s talk about today. let s talk about tomorrow. what questions still remain for governor chris christie? there are a host of questions that still remain. chris christie said he had no knowledge of this. but as you just mentioned, 907 pages of documents will be coming out today from that committee that was investigating this controversy. so there could be a lot of questions that will arise as we pour through the documents. other investigations, a civil lawsuit, this thing is far from over.
by the base of the republican party. conservatives haven t trusted chris christie. they consider him willing to work with democrats and they look back to his embrace of president obama of soouch storm sandy. this will not help him with those people and those voters are key if he has presidential ambitions, which we know he probably does. thank you so much. one of those telling comments came from senator rand paul who will likely run against chris christie for president. rand paul, his response was everyone knows how frustrating it can be to be caught in traffic. a little shif right there. congress is going to take another vote over obamacare. two bills are before the house. bills that republicans say would strengthen security requirements for the health care website. it would also require weekly reports on how the site is doing. the bills do not seek to defund or repeal the health care law. something republicans have been trying for a couple years now.