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0 if you remember that, you re about my age. i m don lemon. have a great weekend. happy easter. see you back here next week. good night. fear in texas. a district attorney is gunned down just weeks after the murder of his deputy. the killer or killers still out there this morning. tough talk on the korean peninsula. but this time it s the south vowing to strike if the north crosses the line. on a new york city street witnesses say they saw an armed abduction in broad daylight. but was this all just an elaborate hoax? a gruesome injury then a rousing finish. the louisville cardinals landing a spot in the final four, minus a wallen warrior. i m christine romans this monday for you. i m john berman. it is monday, april 1st. 5:00 a.m. in the east. we re going to start in texas where at this moment there is an intense manhunt under way. the search for some person or some people targeting public officials for assassination. the latest victim, kaufman county district attorney mike mclelland. he and his wife gunned down in their home southeast of dallas. this is the same county where less than two months ago, assistant district attorney was killed as he walked to work. officials have not yet publicly linked the two killings. but this morning there is tightened security at the courthouse and that community clearly on edge. our george howell is there live from kauffman, texas, with this developing story. what s the latest? john, good morning. no new leads in this mysterious murder case. investigators are not any closer to narrowing down a suspect in this case. but we are, john, hearing from several public officials here and they say this, they believe that these two men worked very closely together on different cases and they believe this may have been a revenge hit. now at this point, please here are not officially linking these killings, but the unanswered questions have consumed this community with fear. 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. reporter: so this office here, it was a very close-knit office, and haffey s death had a big impact on that office. mclelland was determined to find his killer and now we don t know who will take mclelland s position, who will replace the d.a. here. we know that mr. mclelland and his wife, they leave behind two daughters and three sons. one of those sons is a dallas police officer. john? george, it s so chilling to hear mclelland in his own words from two months ago. let s leave that aside for a moment. what are the plans in kaufman today? right. well we do know the courthouse will reopen, as you mentioned, with heightened security. very visible security here. the d.a. s office, though, will remain closed as investigators try to get to the bottom of this case. all right, george howell in kaufman, texas. there are so many questions about this case, including the big one, obviously, which is there a serial assassin on the loose right now targeting public officials in texas. we re going to talk to former fbi assistant director and cnn contributor tom fuentes in our 6:30 a.m. time slot. later on starting point we re going to talk to a friend and colleague of the murdered texas prosecutor mike mclelland along with kaufman county judge bruce wood, kaufman mayor william fortner and representative ted poe. new this morning a tragic ending to a rescue mission in the alaska wilderness. a state trooper s helicopter picked up a person stranded on a snowmobile saturday night, and 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 all on board that chopper. officials say the helicopter caught fire but it s not clear how. also new this morning it looks like a crime, but now police are starting to think a dramatic kidnapping caught on surveillance camera was staged. the apparent kidnappers are seen racing around a corner. eventually they force a man and woman into a minivan. some witnesses say they saw a gun but the nypd is seeing a lot of red flags in this because no one in the area has been reported missing. they think it may have happened is that a group of friends staged the whole thing as part of a birthday prank. some prank. all right, finally new developments this morning from the korean peninsula. south korea with some tough talk of its own after a series of threats from the north. its president warning that any provocation will result in, quote, a strong response. meantime, the u.s. has sent two stealth fighters to south korea, as the two countries continue joint military exercises. cnn s kyung lah live for us in seoul. north korea declared itself in a state of war. but south korea says it s ready to retaliate against further threats. where does this all put the u.s.? these escalating dengss. well, what it means for the united states is that they are bound by treaty to respond if there is some sort of squirmish between the united states and between south korea and north korea. the intent here, not being that anyone here wants to. a lot of this is just smoke and dagger talk, it is smoke and mirrors. but the concern is, is that there will be a miscalculation, and that this region could then trip or stumble into war. that is what is really at stake here. what you have is a president in south korea, the first female president for this country, with something to prove in a male-dominated country. then you have the man-child to the north, with his finger on the nuclear button. the question is, is will both sides then make a mistake with the u.s. trapped in the middle. absolutely. when you look at, i guess, the smoke and mirrors, as you say, of what happens on the korean peninsula and try to separate out what how likely war is, what are the real new tensions, and what the miscalculations could be, clearly american officials must be concerned. very concerned. because, it s so easy to make a mistake. two years ago, there was an attack on an island. it was a conventional attack with some missiles. there was the sinking of a south korean warship. the u.s. recently signed if you could look at it as strengthening of the treaty in this region. two years ago, if that treaty were in place the united states would feel more obligated to come to the defense of south korea s quickly escalating tensions. so that s why all of this is very, very tenuous. that s why all sides are trying to remain as calm as possible. certainly very difficult when you hear all this rhetoric out of the north. and americans in south korea, any movement of americans trying to leave south korea? you know, i talked to a number of americans since we ve been here and we haven t really gotten this reaction that americans are throwing things in their bags trying to catch the next flight out of here. even though north korea is so close, even though the nuclear threat is here, and remember, make no mistake about it, this is the first time that we ve seen such a totalitarian regime with nuclear weapons. we aren t seeing a tremendous flight out of south korea by americans yet. kyung lah, thank you. eight minutes after the hour. three people killed in a spectacular 95-vehicle crash along the virginia/north carolina border. 25 others taken to the hospital. the crash was described as a chain of 17 separate wrecks. in one of them the bed of a tractor trailer caught fire after colliding with six cars. it took tow trucks hours to clear off interstate 77. all lanes have now reopened. investigators are saying that fog may have been a contributing factor. they never imagined what they d have to overcome to get there. the cardinals 85-63 victory over duke marred by a gruesome injury. the sophomore guard kevin ware suffered a broken leg. we re not showing it to you, because you know what, this injury is simply too disturbing to watch. seeing and hearing the break brought players and coaches to tears. and left the crowd in indianapolis eerily silent. a senior member of louisville athletic department spoke to cnn s don lemon last night. while kevin was down, one of the players called the players over and said, you know, win the game. win the game. it was his message to the team. and they certainly took it to heart, and got the task accomplished. have to imagine that those guys at that level they want to win so bad. he said surgery to repair the bone was successful. he ll remain in the hospital until at least tomorrow. this instagram picture overnight shows ware in his hospital bed with louisville s trophy for winning the ncaa there it is on the left. winning the regional tournament. meanwhile, michigan passed florida to earn its trip to atlanta. it s the wolverines first final four berth in 20 years. the final four match-ups are now set. louisville versus wichita state. syracuse versus michigan. the winners meet a week from tonight in the national championship. kevin ware, that i mean what an amazing what an amazing finish i ve never seen for all of his hopes. i ve never seen an injury like that, an outpouring of emotion like that. i ve never seen a team rally like louisville did. the came was essentially tied when he went down there and they came out in the second half after what must have been an unbelievably emotional speech from rick pitino and took over that game. yet his surgery was successful to repair that leg. may take up to a year to recover from that. sunday was a great day to be a louisville cardinal not to be outdone by the men but the louisville women s team scored a ginormous upset beating baylor to advance to elite eight in the ncaa women s tourney. baylor the defending women s champ have lost just once in the last 75 games. this was an epic upset. you re seeing brittany griener who may be the best college basketball player ever. she played for baylor. she didn t score until the second half yesterday. she didn t get a basket until the second half. this was an unbelievable upset. i don t think anyone saw this coming. so zoraida, by the way, is number one in our cnn bracket challenge. she, you know, number one. chris cuomo is third. berman is eighth. i have slipped to 15th. my husband said i m the hare not the tortoise because i was number one for the first week. and tapper is last. so you re beating tapper. but i think you need to highlight the headline which is you are no longer beating me. for a week you were in first place gloating, i m winning, i m winning. no more and i am officially ahead of you in this pool. i will prepare for your gloating. 11 minutes after the hour right now. and terror in the aisles of a california walmart after a man crashed a car straight into the store. this was just the beginning of his rampage. we re going to have a live report about this coming up. you are a business pro. omnipotent of opportunity. you know how to mix business. with business. and you.rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above. and still pay the mid-size price. i could get used to this. 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