John Merman News Today

0 welcome to "new day," its october 31st. you know what that means. halloween, :00 in the morning. very nice costume. you are looking live at fenway park where the celebrations are ending after quite a night. we want to show you two images. the red sox win it all. they pile on top of each other, team, team, team, no team shows it more than these guys have. set off a celebration across the city. then this, this is the finish line at the boston marathon last night. we remember thats what boston st...

John merman looks at what happened to this eighth grader. >> reporter: its being called the saddest moment in "jeopardy!" history. an eighth grader loses "final jeopardy" during kids week for misspelling a word. >> emancipation -- well, because he misspelled it badly, emancipati emancipation, you put a "t" in there, thats unfortunate. the judges are ruling against you. >> reporter: 12-year-old thomas hurley iii held back tears after his loss. he later told his local newspaper, i was pretty upset...

0 challenge for either one of them. have they responded to the charges? >> reporter: no, not as far as im aware. they have swept this investigation sort of under the carpet and behind them. they are not responding in any way. theres been a lot of speculation in the press about how angry they must be. >> we got to let it go there. thank you. appreciate. . thanks for watching "around the world." "cnn newsroom" starts now. alex rodriguez is considered one of baseballs greatest sluggers but his ca...