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church on sunday. after his death, she was texting friends about her dance moves. prosecutors say she created false email account from an imaginary person saying that johnson had gone hiking and fell to his death. then she led police directly to the murder scene and miraculously found his body 200 feet below. now, police call this first degree premeditated murder, that graham pushed her husband in the back and away he went. he may have also been blindfolded. this piece of black cloth was found near the body and the judge has yet to rule whether this will be admitted into evidence. jury selection should take about two weeks, trial up to eight days. jon: what a story. william covering it from los angeles. thanks. jenna: we'll have more next hour with the legal pabl. in the meantime, cancer break through harnessing the same techniques the human body uses to fight off the common colds.
question. if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor? >> yes, but look. if you want to pay more for an insurance company that covers your doctor, you can do that. this is a matter of choice. >> so if you want to pay more, then you can keep your doctor. this is another example of how the administration may be finally fixing the website, may even be putting a new coat of paint on it, spruce it up a little bit but at the end of the day, if some of the president's promises he used to sell a law get broken, it's more hits to their credibility. jenna: i was doing a little shopping. it is easier to figure out what your insurance might look like in different states that are turning to the federal exchange to set up their exchanges. the deductibles that i saw were 2 to sometimes 10 what i'm getting through my private insurance through work right now. sticker shock is still a concern. >> "wall street journal" has a story about the deductibles being high, several thousand dollars for some people. others are lower which means a
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problems but now the story is shifting to cost. remember the administration obamacare would reduce costs. certainly there will be winners and losers here. if you can't get your own doctor or hospital, those losers will be awfully loud. jon: well here is one of the consequences apparently of obamacare. "the financial times" has a story out today suggesting that many of the, the majority of insurance plans being sold on the new health care exchanges in places like new york, texas and california, for example, will not offer patients access to memorial sloane kettering in manhattan or m.d. anderson cancer center in houston, two top cancer centers or cedars-sinai in los angeles, one of the top researching and teaching hospitals in the country. i guess there is a reason they are the top hospital. they come with a price tag and obamacare is generally not going to let people get coverage that will allow them to access those hospitals. >> yeah, these are some of the
full of children in october, plans to appeal his firing claiming wrongful termination. the video shows the officer shooting at minivan as it drives away. there is more to that story. the shipwrecked costa concordia when the captain left his ship, he is on trial for manslaughter abandoning the ship and causing the 2012 shipwreck because of sailing too close to the island. jon: north korean leader kim jong-un sending a tough message that no one is beyond reach in his regime even his family. he ousted his uncle at a leadership role after the uncle was arrested at a party sunday. this is far from kim jong-un's first purge. jonathan hunt is live with more. jonathan? >> reporter: very interesting, jon. this is a clear sign that kim jong-un, the leader of north korea very much wants to could consolidate and demonstrate his power.
okay, i don't need a low deductible, i'm fairly healthy. basically get sir, they will not be able to afford those deductibles. that will fall on hospitals. they will be concerned about the price tag they will have to pick up for those patients. jon: bob cusack from "the hill." every day a different story it seems with this new program. we'll keep an eye on it. >> thanks, jon. jenna: in other news a powerful storm affecting millions across this country and drivers could barely see the roads as snow pounded pennsylvania. take a look at that the. cars getting stranded. tow trucks called out. that is in pennsylvania. in austin, texas, a 10-year-old was killed over the weekend on a crash on icy road there. the child was in a wrecked car on the side of a highway when hit by another car. take a look at this. those are huge sheets of ice
>> reporter: the problem started in the '60s with deinstitutionalization and closing mental hospitals with no places for sick people to go. they turn to the street and often for jail. >> over the last few decades it has grown to where the jails have become the defacto mental health institutions. >> reporter: the crimes are usually non-violent, trespassing, stealing food. zick people self-medicate and steal to take drugs. >> you have to break the pattern. >> reporter: the staff at cook county often sees the same person dozens times. >> when you get arrested is there a part of you relieved? >> in some sense. because i know i will get my medication. >> reporter: there are some legislative efforts, nothing revolutionary. the national liance for mental illness says the nation spends $9 billion annually warehousing mentally ill people in county jails. jenna? jenna: great story for us today, mike and one we'll continue to watch. thank you. jon: there is trouble at the top in north korea. kim jong-un kicks out his own uncle from a leadership role as
pushed her newlywed husband off a cliff. today she's going to trial for his murder. joining me now, a former prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney. nice to have both of you today. it's going to be quite a case and it's quite a story. you say, though, her side of the story is implausible. why? >> if you're a newlywed, you're supposed to be happy and love. we get that. maybe not everybody is. but to say the day this happened, she did not push him over a steep cliff that he was standing on the edge of, instead she was trying to push his arm off hers because they were in the middleeof the argument and then she doesn't call the authorities for three whole days. even if they were in an argument and even if she was trying to push him off, if your spouse calling the police, plain and simple. jenna: what do you think of her defense as it looks right now?
650 last night. the airport putting out cots for folks who were stranded because area hotels filled up quickly. as of right now, at this hour, 714 total flights in and out of dfw international have been canceled for today. this ripple effect no doubt will be felt for days across rest of the country with the storm taking aim on the east coast now, jenna. jenna: we see some of it, the evidence of some of it, casey outside of our studio. weather is certainly a big story for the airlines but today is a very big day for american airlines. how so? >> it's a story really getting floated down because of the treacherous weather conditions but today, marks the day, that the american airlines and us airways merger is complete. it has been years in the making and that means a couple of different things. number one, it means american reemerges from bankruptcy. number two, today the new combined carrier begins trading on the nasdaq as one company,