Officials say they are aware of the video purportedly claiming to show they have killed hostage peter casic. They are investigating the content to determine authenticity. The 26yearold was captured more than a year ago doing humanitarian work. If it proves to be authentic, he would be the 30 they have killed. They killed two british aid workers as well. The reporter who spent considerable time in the region they will be joining us shortly. Now we want to give you an update from ferguson. The family of slain teen Michael Brown is speaking out about leaks biased against charging the Police Officer in theirsons fatal shooting. The new video of Darren Wilson entering the Police Station shows he was not severely beaten as an earlier alleged leak claimed. The dispatch reports said Law Enforcement is under great strain from the protest and aggravated assaults and robberies are up since Michael Brown was shot while arrests are down. The slous city and county police chief say. The community is preparing for a decision from the county grand jury on whether charges are broad against the officer. Msnbc reporter is live on the ground in ferguson this morning. Thanks for being with us. What can you tell us about the communitys preparations this morning . Good morning and thanks for having me. Various protest groups have been gathering to hold meetings and trainings ahead of the looping decision. What they are doing is offering up a practical information including how milk can be useful if you are caught in tear gas and how you have enough data storage in case you need to film flareups between police and protesters. At least one organizer called a militarized civil disobedience and they want to not only prep the protesters for flareups, but to self contain the crowd that we saw in august when the protesters link arms and create a human barricade against a hot headed protesters in the group to deescalate the situation. What they want to do is ease tensions before police get involved. Amanda, i imagine tensions are high awaiting the grand jurys decision. How do you expect the decision to react depending on what they decide . Whether or not there is an indictment for Darren Wilson, it seems like a foregone conclusion of protests throughout the region. They will be different than what we saw in august for they are supposed to take place in several locations not only here, but in clayton where the st. Louis prosecutors are and in a residential area in st. Louis city. Because of the geographically diverse locations, its likely to impact the resident who is do not want to be in the protests. In a sense it could make it so that residents are not able to freely move throughout their homes and make it difficult to do errands or go to work or go to school. My thanks to amanda live in ferguson. Thank you so much. Thank you. We want to turn now to the world of politics and what could be a story to watch in the coming days and weeks. The open Enrollment Period for the Affordable Care act is now open. For the first day of the period went smoother yesterday than last year, but are hearing about confusion from consumers trying to Purchase Health insurance. Some people had trouble logging in and others say it took 90 minutes. They tried to make it easier to Purchase Health insurance. Most people are covered through the federal exchanges would be reenrolled for the coming year. It may not carry the same premiums. While we may not see the technical cliches that launch the start of obamacare. Here to discuss this weeks other big stories we have katherine ward. And democratic strategist williams. How is everybody doing . Good. Have you sampled the donuts yet . They are delicious. So far this year, a lot better than what we have seen when things kicked off last year. It would be hard not to be. Last year was such a debacle that anything would be better. A lot of glitches are the sort of glitches, people go to the dmv and complain all the time and that is going to be something that is not easy to do. You are dealing with the government and they have to check the databases. If what we hear seems like what you might expect and not that big of a deal. The type of glitches we see this year are what we hoped to have last year. How do we assess the tell us so far. 7 in 10 americans who bought insurance are happy with the coverage that they received. Certainly we have many more people, millions more who have experience who didnt have it before. We have to say this is a good policy. We definitely dont. Unfortunately. There two things going on. One is a minute to minute technical discussion. Like it took 20 minutes to retrieve my password and apple is terrible is the conclusion. What this mimics is a commercial product. What they are doing is trying to replace and supplement things that people are buying on an open market. The standards are and should be higher. This short sort of its difficult because you have to check databases thing, every company made it so you can check a database to see if you have an account and government is not good at doing that. Its not a huge surprise to people. The fact that people are happy with their own status quo. They dont demonstrate that its a good policy, but that people want to have Health Insurance and consider it a black box. I think we have to separate the policy from the function and logistics of buying Health Insurance. So the overall policy is popular because people want affordable Health Insurance and access to it. Its different in saying that the policy itself is flawed because i cant log in or it takes me 20 minutes to log in. Those are not comparable. At the same time, what you see is people say i want affordable insurance and at the top of the segment, what we hear as well, prices may be going up. You decree we will have affordable Health Insurance. The fact that the implementation has been so varied across the states. Part is what the Supreme Court did and part is the fact that some states went with the federal exchange and a lot went with the federal exchange and others have tried to set up exchanges and failed and others, kentucky is the great example. They did a great job setting up and when you look at the premiums and its varied whether or not they will go up a little bit. Particularly because of that state. People may be complaining about their service or access to service. To the everyday person, they are blaming president obama because they cant log in or president obama because the state exchange is different here than it is from their cousin or grandmother in another state. We getting to a place where we have enough people getting insurance that it really is not feasible to roll back what has been done at this point . It would be extremely hard to try to remove obamacare at this point. Millions of people have insurance equivalent to what you have from private sector insurers. To go back to your point, its unfair to say i get the same experience from apple. These are private insurers. These are the same things you see everywhere. I think that to the extent that they are going up, i think its easily disprovable. In general it is a system that there is a gateway that is the government. We are seeing the expected this is a problem that we see both to your point and we are seeing prices go up in the same way that inflation goes up. All of those make something very normal for people. The overall process is i have insurance and this is the sort of thing. We expect Health Insurance to be popular. I dont have to be lucky enough to live in kentucky for it to be easy. There is a serve strong element where regulatory uncertainty and multiple bureaucracies are the source of a less friendly user experience. I would dispute that because i think you would be in favor of states having more control. What we are seeing is problems at the state level in certain circumstances now that the exchanges are more or less working. In some ways, it would have been better if the federal government set up exchanges across the board. My view is it would have been better if the government was not involved in the process at all. The buying and selling of Health Insurance even if you say the government should be involved in subsidizing. We as a society want people who cant afford it to get Health Insurance. This vast bureaucracy that state or federal level sucks in lots of people who could have had it. Was the status quo before better . It was nothing like a free market. What are should republican dos . Should they give up on repeal and move to their own solution some should they give up on Affordable Care act and fighting it because people have insurance and they are happy with the insurance and it is moving sfrd . Republicans are screwed. The best case is to complain and change nothing. Or we can Work Together and improve the system. Something tells me thats not going to happen. Much more to discuss. Well be right back after this. man some things are Worth Holding onto. Theyre hugging the tree. man thats why we got a subaru. Or was it that tree . man introducing the allnew subaru outback. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Ring ring . Progresso its ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. Its our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. Apology accepted. Im watching you soup people. Make it progresso or make it yourself all around the world the dedicated people of United Airlines are there to support you. Thats got your back friendly. And were new to the pacific northwest. The rain, the mud babam its there. The outside comes in. Its kinda nasty so you start the towelmop shuffle. Where are you sun . [ doorbell rings ] oh, wow, its a swiffer wetjet. This puts my towel mopping to shame. Whoa ewww. Sunshine is overrated, now we can get messy. There is still one u. S. Senate seat up for grabs and that is Mary Landrieu facing off against bill cassidy in weeks. She is in the fight of her political to hold on to her seat and cap that republican majority at 53 seats in an effort to give her a muchneeded boost. Harry reid is allowing a vote on landrieus bill to authorize the Keystone Pipeline. Its popular among the oil industry. Can she get the 60 votes she needs to put the bill on the president s desk and it will do anything to help herness chances with voters back home . Its looking tough at this point. She has been here before and going to a run off election. Typically you would say that a run off election or something that is going to be on november or here in louisiana the run off is in december. I think its in january. You would think there would be a lot of drop off. There has been little to moderate drop off and that has to focus on the Retail Business that we run in the campaign and not going to drag in and pull out voters if they are going to make this happen for her. Certainly through this keystone vote and the campaign voek using and bringing voters out for this run off election. Part is that democrats are not winning white voters. In 2008 Mary Landrieu won 33 of the white vote. This time she won only 18 of the white vote. This is a much bigger group than in 2008. I would be surprised if woe had the same turn out. The problem is not only white voters, but the people who are voting have compared to the republicans combined, she lot of by 14 points. A lot of support from tea party voters, she will not pick up those voters. Calling this tight is generous. The best case is its tight for landrieu. I dont think thats the case. Internal polling was showing him up by 16 points. Its hard to see how that saves her. We are in a place where its impossible. What she was able to do in a powerful position on a powerful committee for her state and it doesnt have the resonance for voters that it used to. These have become National Elections. As a libertarian living in washington, d. C. You would think i used up all my cynicism, but the keystone stuff has been amazing. After months and months, we have to study and think. All of a sudden we have one seat at stake and there it is on the floor. Its not necessarily a Bad Development though if local elections are not about what you can bring home. The best way to choose our legislator is who can bring the most federal cash back to whatever sent them to washington. I dont want to see that. I would rather elections be about broader frameworks or something that is less mercenary. There is a difference between bringing pork home which declined with that. And just i am representing my state. An interesting study is scott own in new hampshire. He tried very, very hard to nationalize it. You have to look out for people with ebola across the border. She won, but won barely. None the less. Contrary to the example you just said. It depends on whether or not you have a National Election going on where everybody across the country is running so there is the opportunity for all of the races to be nationalized. You have these issues democrats need to realize this is a reality. What i saw this election season was republicans trying to nationalize the election and make it about obama. Much more successfully than democrats who were every man for themselves. I dont remember if i voted for that guy and having to support background checks. That strategy is not working. There is a balance. There is also speaking to voters and constituents where they are and some of the work our organization has done and others have done where we have poled voters and we know what our base wants to increase turn out and we have to speak to the issues. Voters also know when you are not authentic. You say you are a democrat and yet you cant say that you are a democrat in public. People smell that. Its less about the issues than inauthenticity. What about the keystone. Do we have enough democrats to get it across the threshold . It is incredibly cynical move. It is one of the weirder things i have seen done. It looks like there 59. Let me say at this point with republicans coming into the majority and with a number of moderate democrats already on the record of supporting keystone, wasnt it going to be a reality whether you did it now or later and may as well do it now when you have a chance of helping a democratic senator . Thats the point. This was going to happen in january anyway. 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We cant confirm if it is casic this that video, the british Prime Minister tweeted this morning saying i am horrified by the brutal murder. They show their depravity and my thoughts are with his family. They killed two americans, james foley and steven and two workers. He spent considerable time covering the little east. This morning is particularly difficult for you because you knew casic personally. Talk to us about who he was as a man and what he was doing in the region. We had the opportunity to see peter as he was going into syria on of the many trips he made over the last several years since 2012. He started a Relief Organization that was helping provide medical supplies and other kits to syrian communities in desperate need of these supplies caught up in the war. We had a chance to see him before he entered syria the last time. He was an individual who is very humble and a man with a sense of purpose. A man who after serving in the u. S. Army began to question a lot of things that were happening in the region and found a way through this organization that he created to really give back and help the people of syria. That is what he will be remembered for. How he lived the last few years of his life. Heart breaking that someone committed to the people of the region doing such great work could have lot of his this this way. This is the third american who has been killed and the fifth western hostage who has been killed by isis. Any idea how many more westerners they might be holding at this point . We have seen various accounts and i do believe that there is still one other american who is being held by isis according to several reports. A few others that may be dual nationals, not americans, but european nationals that are still in their custody or captivity. We dont have a complete and accurate account. Its not yet clear whether all of these types of beheadings and k