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This morning on "world news now" -- major manhunt. colorado's top prison chief is shot and killed as he answered his front door. >> the high-profile crime, the all-out search for a suspect, and a motive included as well. it's thursday, march 21st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. good thursday morning. that murder taking place during a sensitive time in colorado. we'll explain why. that's our top story. also this morning, protecting student from gun violence with something simple and cheap. one state wants to make a $30 addition to eve...

Is let's keep going to the expensive restaurant. handouts to big oil companies. continued loophole for special interests. no, invest in sending your kids to education and cut the special interest handouts. those are the budgets that we ought to pass and those are the budgets that most americans agree with. >> new york congressman steve israel. thank you. still ahead, poll divide. from the budget to same sex marriage. even guns. when it come to these hot button issues, we'll look at why congress and the american public appear to be on totally different pages. we're also following the manhunt ...

And -- >> my roommate just pulled a fire alarm and he's got a gun out. >> hear from the students who may have prevented a massacre at a florida college campus. this is the "cnn newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. we begin with two major developments out of colorado where the governor has just signed into law a series of gun control measures. they are some of the most restrictive in the country. one limits magazine capacity. the other to deal with background checks and how to pay for them. this comes just hours after the state's prison chief was gunned down. authoritie...

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Me. i'm carol costello. it is a busy wednesday morning. the search is on for whoever shot and killed colorado's prison chief. tom clements, the man in charge of all the colorado prisons, was shot in the chest, at his house, outside of colorado springs last night. there was a knock on the door, he answered the door, and then somebody shot him in the chest. clements was rushed to a hospital where he later died. right now police do not have a suspect description even. clements was the executive director of the colorado department of corrections and he spent 30 years with the missouri department o...