0 saying is the most horrific sports injury ever caught on camera. if you were watching this game last night you know exactly what i'm talking about. we'll tell you how kevin ware is this morning. how ware and his broken leg are doing this morning and also what about future playing? we'll find out. >> that was just awful. >> before you get pranked today we'll tell you about the april fools' tricks from youtube to twitter to google. be prepared. >> hmm. >> it is monday. april 1st. "starting point" begins right now. our "starting point" is in texas where a district attorney who vowed to hunt down his deputy's killer has himself become a murder victim. mike mclelland and his wife gunned down this weekend in their home southeast of dallas. this is the same county where less than two months ago mclelland's colleague mark hasse was shot and killed on his way to work. >> a manhunt is under way for the killer, possibly killers, and the small dallas suburb certainly on edge this morning. george howell is live from kaufman, texas, and george i know investigators, they're not saying a lot yet are they in terms of any more on these, killings. >> brooke, no. they're not. and you know, as far as linking these two killings, they're not doing that either. but when you talk to people here in town, when you talk to public officials, they do make the point, they say that these men, these prosecutors worked very closely together on similar cases. many people believe the people we spoke to believe that this may have been a revenge hit. again, police are not linking the killings, they are not giving any more information as to what they've already put out there, but the unanswered questions, brooke, in this case have this community consumed with fears. >> we're going to find you. we're going to pull you out of whatever hole you're in, we're going to bring you back and let the people of kaufman county prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. >> reporter: a promise from kaufman county, texas, district attorney mike mclelland two months ago to the unknown killer of an assistant d.a. in his office. a promise, though, he would never see fulfilled. saturday night police found the bodies of the d.a. and his wife cynthia at their home. >> they both had been shot and we are in the process of completing the crime scene workup right now. >> reporter: an investigator says police found several shell casings inside the home from a high-powered rifle. >> it's pretty obvious it's unnerving, and it's unnerving to the law enforcement community, it's unnerving to the community at large. >> reporter: there are no suspects. and the sheriff's office has not officially said whether the mclellands' deaths are connected to the killing of kaufman county assistant d.a. who was shot outside the county courthouse in january. the sheriff says extra precautions are being taken to protect county elected officials, as well as the public. >> there will be complete security at the courthouse tomorrow. visible security. >> reporter: mclelland said his coworkers were like a family, but they all knew their job came with risks. >> when you deal with bad people on a regular basis, you know that there's always the potential for these bad people to do something bad to you, because they've already done something bad to somebody else. and so they could always concentrate and backlash on you. >> and george howell, thank you very much. live with us this morning an attorney who handled multiple cases in kaufman county, also knew mclelland. good morning to you. if you can, just help us understand, as we mentioned you met mike mclelland on several occasions. just the mood in this smaller, texas, county, how palpable is the fear there? >> you know, the law enforcement community here is very uncomfortable. i mean we're talking about, you know, we have a county just west of here, dallas county has got about 2 million people in it and we're standing in a county that's got about 100,000 people in the entire county. everybody knew each other here. it was a great place to practice law. everybody liked the district attorney's office. there just wasn't a lot of activity out here. the biggest shock out here this morning is why, in kaufman, texas, are we having a assistant d.a. get killed and an elected d.a. it's really sending some shockwaves through the community. >> you say you're on edge. mike mclelland had been talking reportedly by the soerked press, had been talking about carrying a handgun every minute of every day even when he was talking about a dog just for extra protection. he was also very public about his hunt for the killer in the hasse case. let's listen to what he said right there. >> anything that you people can do to accelerate getting our hands on this scum will be appreciated. >> now that first killing was two months ago now. why do you think there hasn't been more, at least public leads in that first case? >> you know, there just hasn't been a lot of information that's been provided. i mean, you know, the killing of mark hasse, who was the assistant d.a., there was some speculation that it may not have been tied to his work at the d.a.'s office. it could have been something personal of nature. and it really didn't make a lot of headlines. i think now that the elected d.a. here has been killed and it's making national headlines hopefully we're going to get some leads and law enforcement personnel down here to find out who's responsible. i mean we've got to. i mean this is our local criminal justice system. most people who they're going to deal with it are going to dpoea with it at the county level and taking out the elected d.a. in such a small county in texas makes every elected d.a. vulnerable. and that's the mood this morning. >> let me also ask you we just saw the clip with mike mclelland referring to these killers as scum. he's this 23-year-old army veteran, tough talking guy. what's the talk around town about that? >> yeah, he was. he was an army veteran, practiced law here for several years, 18 years before he ran for first public office. three years ago, in 2010, and beat out the incumbent district attorney three years ago and took over. he kept a lot of the same personnel out here. he kept the same policies and procedures in place, and he was very well liked. people would see him throughout the town. he was very personable. everybody knew that when he was in charge, you know, communities in kaufman would be safe. so, great guy. i mean it's a big loss for the entire north texas region. >> absolutely tragic all the way around. thank you very much. we're going to talk much more on this story. we'll talk to the kaufman county judge bruce wood. he worked with mclelland and hasse and in the next hour we're talk to the may william fortner and texas congressman ted poe. >> everyone is talking about one game and one awful moment in the final four march madness. sophomore guard kevin ware shattering his leg. this was so awful, so gruesome, it left players and coaches on both teams in tears. we're not even going to show it to you because frankly it is just too tough to watch this morning. kevin ware did put out this instagram picture overnight. shows him in a hospital bed with louisville's trophy. they did go on to win the game. they won the midwest regional. louisville head coach rick pitino who was in tears on the court said his whole team was inspired by ware who told them, i'll be fine, just go win the game. cnn's jared greenberg is live in atlanta. i've never seen anything like this, jared. >> certainly not on the basketball court. you would expect an injury like this from football or soccer or hockey. this is the talk of the country. kevin ware's injury. he will not be available for the final four. the sophomore is providing his teammates with a level of motivation that simply cannot be measured. known for his tenacious defense his injury occurred when he gave his all attempting to contest a shot. the aftermath left everyone in the stadium stunned. emotion between the lines, as you know, is a rare sight. especially when it has nothing to do with winning or losing. tears were everywhere as louisville felt for a fallen teammate as ware was rushed to a hospital the cardinals played inspired basketball outscoring duke by 19 in the second half earning louisville a trip to the final four this year to be played in atlanta. not far from ware's high school. a destination that louisville head coach rick pitino said is a bittersweet next step on the cardinals' mission to win a title. >> if we let up for a second, then kevin ware doesn't mean how much he means to us. i said we're going to dig in. we're going to play this game to the end. we're going to get him back home. nurse him to good health. and we're going to get him to atlanta. >> surgery to repair ware's broken leg was successful. he'll remain in the hospital until at least tomorrow. >> all right. >> the school says they are hopeful that he will return with the team and hopefully travel to atlanta for the final four. >> that would be amazing if he makes that trip. thanks to you. >> just the presence on the court will help his team come saturday. want to talk a little bit more about this injury with cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. and i know this was an open fracture. his right tibia. he's already undergone surgery. what did doctors have to do, elizabeth? >> the first thing you mentioned that it broke the skin, brooke, the first thing they worry about is infection. making sure to keep that site clean then they go in and do surgery, they fix it, they did this very quickly. i was talking to ordrt pedic surgeons not involved with his care and they said it looked gruesome but it's relatively easy to fix. you put a rod, steel or titanium, put a rod in that bone so he's now got a rod in his shin bone, and it works quite well. it was a two-hour surgery. and believe it or not, brooke, they told me that people on him are standing up on crutches the next day. like today. >> no way. >> so even though it looks so horrible it really is quite fixable. >> we should all be hoping for is that he gets up and walks again. he's perfectly healthy. but there are a lot of people asking this question right now, could he possibly get back on the court sometime next season? >> you know, the orthopedist i speak to, both of whom have treated athletes with these kind of injuries, they said yes. they said they were very hopeful that he would be up and playing basketball maybe in like six months or so. they said it's really, again, relatively easy to repair these intensive physical therapy, every day for many months, but they thought in six months, let's say when the next season starts, that he would be able to play. they said they've seen it happen with other professional and college athletes. >> let's hope that's the case. that would be amazing. elizabeth cohen our thanks to you. >> thanks. >> christine romans has the rest of the top stories. a rescue mission gone tragically wrong in the alaska wilderness. a state trooper's helicopter picked up a person stranded on a snow mobile saturday night, then the chopper went down. the wreckage was found yesterday. authorities say they didn't find any survivors. the pilot, a trooper, and the rescued snowmobiler were on board. it's not clear why that helicopter crashed. new developments in what looked like a brazen kidnapping in new york. police now think the whole thing was staged. surveillance cameras caught the apparent kidnappers on tape eventually they forced a couple into a minivan and speed off. the nypd says no one in the area has been reported missing. they think a group of friends did this as some kind of elaborate birthday prank. south korea's president promising to strike back if the north stages an attack. it comes just as the u.s. deployed two health fighters to seoul for joint military exercises. north korean leader kim jong-un ratcheted up the rhetoric of late. new york congressman peter king says kim is a diplomat unknown and shouldn't be taken lightly. >> it's not an empty threat. i wouldn't be that concerned about the mainland u.s. right now. or even any u.s. territory. i think the real threat is to what north korea might be boxing itself into. kim jong-un is trying to establish himself. he's trying to be the tough guy. >> over the weekend, north korea declared it was a state of war with the south. power company officials say a deadly accident at a nuclear plant in arkansas did not put the public in danger. one worker was killed, three others injured, entergy, the power company, says the victims were helping move part of a generator out of the building when it fell and they insist the accident did not happen in a radiation area and the reactor was not affected. three people killed in a spectacular 95-vehicle crash along the virginia/north carolina border. 25 others taken to hospitals. this crash is described as a series, a chain of 17 separate wrecks. in one of them, the bed of a tractor trailer caught fire after it collided withix cars. all lanes of interstate 77 have now been reopened. investigators say they believe weather was a factor. meteorologist jennifer delgado joins us now to explain. good morning. >> good morning, christine. weather was a factor especially when you have visibility down to less than a quarter mile. that's what we're seeing for some of those reports. now the area zoom in a bit more for you located roughly about eight miles north of north carolina into virginia right along mile marker six. it's in carroll county. as we zoom in for you. want to point out the ridges here. of course these are part of the blue ridge mountains. when you get interstate 11 which is basically moving through a valley area you get this fog and it sets up and some of these locations we're talking about fog can develop very quickly and dissipate very quickly as well. but sometimes it takes longer like what we saw on that car accident. as i take you over and show you our graphic, if you happen to be caught up in fog, make sure you slow down. and if you're driving, your first instinct is to turn those bright lights on but the problem is when you turn your lights on bright that actually causes the light to reflect off the fog. so that reduces your visibility even more. and don't try to drive close and try to ride the taillights of the person ahead of you because, of course, somebody can come hit you from right from behind. talking about fog we do have an advisory in place for northern virginia as well as into maryland. this is in place until 9:00 a.m. we're seeing visibility down to half mile, even down to 1/8 mile in parts. make sure you're careful on the roadways and the same for areas down toward the south also dealing with the same advisory until about 9:00 a.m. christine you have to be careful on the road and drive slowly. >> all right, jennifer delgado, thanks. 17 separate wrecks. chain reaction, took hours, hours for tow truck drivers to pull all those cars off the road. >> i wish that was a joke or a prank. it's not. but it is april 1st. watch your back today. i'm just saying watch your back. i'm a little bit of a prankster. google recited new ways to prank it to users. the internet giant putting out a video claiming youtube has been nothing more than an eight-year contest. insisting it will take a decade to go through all the injuries with the site going dark until 2023. that was supposed to happen last night at midnight. last check youtube still there. >> yeah. i actually like this one better from google. they say they're offering now their first google smell offering right here. you can search for video promoting smells. you can, you know, search for things like -- >> s'mores, like wet dog. things like that. it's, it's an experience now that google says they want to offer. there's also a new twitter prank. >> no confidence. >> no consonants. the company says they're offering two tiered service, the no vowel service. >> 140 characters or less. >> if you want to pay an extra $5 you can include vowels. >> are your little boys aware of april fools'? >> every day is tape fool's day with them. i -- >> the cutest little twins. >> they're cute until they start messing with you, which is like every day. they don't need april fools' day. i hope they're not watching right now. >> we'll see. we'll 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