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0 we are going to go drink and talk about a basketweaving firm. donny is buying for us tonight. we re going to start a basket weaving company because jason thinks it s a good idea. a college coach crossing the line. the abuse of his boys. the sad song of dr. conrad murray singing the blues in a cnn interview, saying he s a scapegoat in the king of pop s death. a stolen cab with the cops in hot pursuit with speeds totaling over 100 miles an hour. and watching the bid for history slip right through his legs. oh, so close. good morning. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. and i m john berman. zoraida is off today. we re going to start with this video that has the university facing tough, tough questions this morning. it shows rutgers head basketball coach mike rice physically and mentally abusing players at practice. you can see rice grabbing, shoving, even kicking players. he hurls basketballs at their heads, and you can hear him shouting obscenities, including gay slurs. athletes and fans across the country have just been dumbfounded by these images. rutgers officials first saw the video last december. what did they do about it? did they fire the coach? no. the athletic director suspended the coach for three games three games. a punish that has fueled some outrage this morning. cnn s pamela brown is following these really shocking developments. shocking is right. the university became aware of this video back in december, but it was released to the public yesterday causing shock and outrage over rice s homophobic rants and physical abuse toward his players. now the university is under mounting pressure to fire rice. hurling basketballs at players legs, even their heads. [ bleep ] reporter: grabbing, pushing, kicking, and punching them. and screaming homophobic slurs. [ bleep ] reporter: this video obtained by cnn s outside the lines shows rutgers head basketball coach mike rice going off the handle and abusing his players during practices from 2010 through 2012 according to the sports network. the footage surfaced after eric murdoch, who was rice s director of player development until he was fired, showed it to rutgers athletic department officials. in an interview with espn, murdoch says the alleged abuse caused several players to leave. to see your coach physically putting his hands on players, physically kicking players, firing balls at players from point blank range, the verbal abuse, the belittling i was in total shock this guy wasn t fired immediately on the spot. reporter: on espn on tuesday, the school s athletic director was asked why he didn t fire rice. the moment we became aware of the video in november when it was presented by eric and his lawyers, we immediately commenced an independent investigation into the matter. we talked to everyone in the program. we evaluated the situation, and we suspended mike in a more significant way than coaches have been suspended in recent memory. reporter: seeing basketball coaches lose their cool is nothing new. remember legendary coach bobby knight, he was known for his hot temper and throwing chairs. but it was this video showing him with his hands around a player s neck that led to his dismissal at indiana. maybe i grabbed reed by the shoulder. maybe i took him by the back of the neck, i don t know. i don t remember everything that i ve ever done in practice. reporter: now the question looms. will rice face the same fate as knight? and we attempted to get comments from rice or the university, and we were unsuccessful. but certainly a developing story here. lebron james and other nba stars have been following this. they ve been tweeting overnight saying they re shocked by this too. it s not like athletes are saying, it s okay. this happens all the time. new developments this morning in the murder of two district attorneys in kaufman, texas. police have a person of interest, a former justice of the peace who was fired for corruption and prosecuted by the two dead men. eric williams says police met with him at a local restaurant and swabbed his hands for signs of gun residue, but williams he doesn t even own a gun. police are not officially calling him a suspect. meantime, new developments in another deadly shooting involving a prosecutor in colorado. police in the small town of hot sulfur springs, colorado, say an intruder was shot dead monday night inside the home of a deputy district attorney and her sheriff s deputy husband. jim fespellman is live. reporter: it was just before monday evening when a 911 call was placed reporting a stranger at this woman and her husband s door, causing a disturbance. that woman is a deputy district attorney in hot sulfur springs. her husband a sheriff s deputy in grand county, colorado. there was an altercation, and this man was shot at that door. wasn t clear whether it was the woman or her husband, but he was shot dead in the torso. early reports are that he was not armed. we do know a lot of people in prosecutor s offices and police around the state here after the murder of prison chief tom clements were definitely on high alert. at this point, no indication why this man was at their door or what led to this altercation. obviously, jim, there s been a lot going on in terms of law enforcement officials lately with officers killed in colorado and texas. do authorities right now think there s any link in this case? reporter: there doesn t appear to be a link at this time, they say, but they re working on this guy s background. he apparently was only in hot sulfur springs for about a week, moved there from michigan looking for work. we did find a 2007 arrest, basically fleeing police in a car chase. early indications are he wasn t armed when he showed up at their door. a lot for police investigators up there to work on. since it involves a prosecutor and a deputy sheriff, they brought in police and prosecutors from elsewhere in the state to conduct this investigation. we ll see what they find out. our appreciation. tensions building between north and south korea this morning. north korea making good on its threat to block south korean workers from entering or leaving a joint industrial complex. the news comes a day after pyongyang announced it would restart a shuttered nuclear power plant. the north s increasingly hostile behavior, promising harsh criticism, even threats from the west. i reiterate again, the united states will do what is necessary to defend ourselves and defend our allies, korea and japan. if we have solid evidence that north korea is going to take action, then i think we have the moral obligation and absolute right to defend ourselves by taking i wouldn t even consider that preemptive. to me, that s stockipping an atk that s about to happen. today the u.s. sent a warship near the korean peninsula to monitor north korean activity. today litigation continues in the civil trial over michael jackson s death. the man convicted in the criminal proceeding, jackson s former doctor conrad murray, is speaking, and i guess you could say singing, currently to cnn. murray is serving four years for involuntary manslaughter. in a television interview with anderson cooper from jail, murray said he did his best to get michael jackson off propofol, the powerful sedative that led to his death. yes, indeed, i did order propofol to his home, but i wasn t the one who brought propofol into his home. i met him with his own stash. i did not agree with michael, but michael thought it was not an issue because he had been doing it for years, and he knew exactly how things worked. given the situation at the time, it was my approach to try to get him off of it, but michael jackson was not the kind of person you could just say put it down, and he s going to do that. as a doctor, though my approach may not have been an orthodox approach, but my intentions were good. murray says he regrets not testifying at his own trial. he s now appealing the conviction. in kind of a strange moment during this live interview, murray serenaded our anderson cooper with a song that he says tells his story. he s a little boy that santa claus forgot and goodness knows he did not want a lot he wrote a note to santa for some crayons and a toy it broke his little heart when he found santa hadn t come so that song, in case you re wondering, is nat king cole s the little boy that santa claus forgot. a man in a stolen taxi taking police in south florida on a wild rush hour ride through two counties. this high speed chase started in miami, where the driver lost control on the florida turnpike but kept on going. after hitting well over 100 miles an hour and a brief chase on foot, police finally caught the suspect. they found marijuana and other drugs on him. this morning 33-year-old lazaro ca castellano is facing grand larceny charges. louisville s kevin ware is back on campus after being released from the hospital. the 20-year-old sophomore suffered that horrifying compound fracture at sunday s ncaa game. ware is expected to be on crutches for a year as louisville continues to the final four. ware wants to go with him, but he needs clearance from team doctors first. an oh, so close moment. texas rangers hugh darvish retired the first 26 batters he faced. he appeared completely invincible until up came little known marwin gonzalez, a career .244 hitter. watch. gonzalez with a base hit! right up the middle. a clean single right through the legs. it breaks up the 24th perfect game in history. so darvish was pulled. they brought in a relief pitcher, and the rangers win. and he still gets to keep his $107 million. he still gets the money, but that was brutal. a woman who talked about enjoying her private life a few months ago, hillary clinton is spending a lot of time in the public eye. a sign perhaps? 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