Police Suspect May Have Warned Schoolmates; New Video Shows Crews Were Alerted To Teen; Has Snowden Forced NSA Changes?; Leahy: Programs Don't Justify Privacy Intrusion; Obama: I'm Not Waiting For Congress
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Police in New Mexico say the 12-year-old boy who opened fire in his middle school may have warned some students to stay home and out of danger. Investigators won't elaborate who was warned or how they were told. In the meantime, police aren't revealing anything about a possible motive or the source of that sawed off shotgun the boy used to fire on two students. This morning an 11-year-old is in critical condition and a 13-year-old girl, Kendal Sanders, is in stable condition. These images are from her Facebook page. Other students are in disbelief that school violence has shattered their sense of safety.</s>MONIQUE SALCIDO, SCHOOL SHOOTING WITNESS (via telephone): We were all talking and then we hear gunshots. Then the second shot, I turn around and Nathaniel got hit in the face.</s>GABBY VASQUEZ, FRIEND OF MALE VICTIM: Why would somebody even do that to somebody?</s>SALCIDO: I was really scared of what happened, but I don't want to go to the school anymore because of what happened because I'm afraid it's going to happen again.</s>COSTELLO: CNN's Stephanie Elam is live at Roswell, New Mexico, with more on this. Good morning.</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. We take a look at how everything happened. School hadn't even begun yet. Students were arriving. They were gathering in the gym because it's pretty frigid here in Roswell in the morning. As they were gathering there, that's when the report is that this child came in and started shooting and hit those two students. And they're saying if it hasn't been for the quick thinking of the adults in there, in particular one teacher, a social studies teacher named John Masterson, this could have been much worse. Take a listen to what the governor of New Mexico had to say about it.</s>GOVERNOR SUSANA MARTINEZ (R), NEW MEXICO: Mr. Masterson is a hero who stood there and allowed there and allowed the gun to be pointed right at him and to talk down that young boy to drop the gun so that there would be no more young kids hurt.</s>ELAM: And if you think about it, when all of this happened in that split second, this teacher approached the student, got him to put his gun down, and then took the student up against the wall to stop him from doing any further harm -- Carol.</s>COSTELLO: Stephanie Elam reporting live from Roswell, New Mexico. Also this morning we have new details of a truly heart breaking tragedy. A 16-year-old girl survives the crash of her airliner only to die in the chaos that followed. Newly released video obtained by CBS shows first responders not only saw the injured teenager, they waved away the fire truck that would later run over her. CNN's Dan Simon is in San Francisco where that crash took place last July. Good morning.</s>DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. It was such a tragic revelation. Here you had this 16-year-old girl from China. She was excited to come to the U.S. She survives the crash only to be run over by two fire trucks. Now you have this new video coming out and it's raising important questions about how firefighters acted that day.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a body right -- there's a body right there, right in front of you.</s>SIMON (voice-over): Chilling new video obtained by CBS News giving us a rare up close look from a firefighter's helmet cam. The chaotic moments first responders encountered after Asiana Flight 214 crash landed in San Francisco last July. This 16-year-old (inaudible) was accidentally run over twice by fire trucks. Her family has since filed a wrongful death claim against the city. In particularly blunt language, it accuses first responders of deliberately and knowingly abandoning the teen where they knew she would be in harm's way.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stop, stop. There's a body right -- there's a body right there, right in front of you.</s>SIMON: Does the new video prove the tragic accident could have been avoided? There's also this. Another camera appears to show a firefighter directing the truck around the victim.</s>JOANNE HAYES-WHITE, SAN FRANCISCO FIRE CHIEF: We're heart broken. We're in the business of saving lives and many lives were saved that day.</s>SIMON: This video may be crucial to understanding what happened to her who the coroner says survived the crash, but died from injuries she suffered after being run over. At the time officials said her body was obscured by foam and couldn't be seen by the trucks. That combined with the chaos of putting out the fire and rescuing victims.</s>MAYOR EDWIN LEE, SAN FRANCISCO: I will say this, it was very, very hectic, very emergency mode at the crash site minutes after the airplane came to rest and there was smoke inhalation and people were coming out of the fuselage as fast as they could.</s>SIMON: The spectacular crash of Asiana Flight 214 was captured on amateur video and on surveillance cameras, the Boeing 777 descending too low on landing crashing into the sea wall and cart wheeling across the runway tragically claiming the lives of three passengers and ejecting two flight attendants from the aircraft on impact. A court may eventually have to decide whether fire crews in this video were negligent and should be held accountable for the teenager's death.</s>SIMON: And why it took so long for this video to come out is also an important question. At this point, the San Francisco Fire Department has yet to address the video saying it doesn't comment on pending litigation. Carol, we should point out that many firefighters acted heroically that day, but this is clearly something the fire department needs to address. At this point, they just haven't talked about it -- Carol.</s>COSTELLO: I'm sure you'll stay on the story. Dan Simon reporting live from San Francisco this morning. Surprising new claims about the NSA, which reportedly planted spy software into computers across the globe. That's according to "The New York Times." The paper says the software has targeted everyone from the Chinese military to Mexican drug cartels. The NSA claims the software is used to defend the U.S. against foreign cyber attacks, not to obtain information. The revelation comes as President Obama prepares to outline his reforms to the agency's phone and e-mail surveillance. The president will unveil those reforms Friday. But at a Senate hearing lawmakers stress that the NSA's methods are not warranted.</s>SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY (D), VERMONT: As I said repeatedly, this phone record program is not uniquely valuable enough to justify massive intrusion on Americans' privacy.</s>COSTELLO: Our chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto is with me now. Jim, skeptics think the president won't make too many revisions to the NSA. What do you think?</s>JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think looking at it now that the bottom line is this, that the bulk collection that caused all this controversy, the collection of these mass amounts of phone metadata, phone calls made by Americans and those overseas will continue with safeguards. This is not going to change, not going to eliminate that key program there. What's also interesting is the president got together this blue ribbon panel of very experienced experts, the former deputy head of the CIA, former national security adviser on terror issues, Richard Clark, they came together, put up 46 different recommendations. And when you look at what we're hearing that the White House is going to accept a small number of those recommendations and none of them touching really that big program. For instance, one had had been talked about was moving the metadata from the governments hands, from the NSA's hands back to the private telephone companies. Those companies had resisted it. They don't even want it. It doesn't look like the president is going to take even that step now.</s>COSTELLO: OK, so in our "Washington Post" interview last month, Edward Snowden, who is responsible for all of this, right? He said this, "For me in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission is already accomplished. I already won. As soon as journalists were able to work, everything I had been trying to do was validated." In light of what you just said, is Edward Snowden right or wrong?</s>SCIUTTO: Well, I think he would say that he won. He put this out there. He caused a national debate. He certainly made Americans aware, but you talk to officials here, and interestingly, both supporters and critics of this program are not calling Edward Snowden a hero. You played a sound clip there from Patrick Leahy who's been one of the most vocal critics of the program questioning whether it is worthwhile biggest critics talking about a violation of American privacy. But he's not saying Snowden's a hero. He's not saying Snowden should be granted amnesty or plea bargain. At least in terms of the officials dealing with this, they wouldn't say he won. I'm sure there are some who would disagree. But there was one more powerful moment from those hearings yesterday in the Senate. When the members of that intelligence review panel were asked if this metadata collection would prevent another 9/11, and they gave a nuanced answer. They said what they found was that this collection has not played a significant role in preventing any terrorist attacks to this point. That's a remarkable admission. Given that the administration had initially claimed that perhaps more than 50 plots might have been helped by this kind of collection. But they went on to say it only has to be successful once. So the members of these panel -- this panel that has recommended the 46 changes many of which the president will not take, they did say it's worthwhile. This collection is worthwhile if it keeps Americans safer.</s>COSTELLO: Jim Sciutto, many thanks. Still to come in the "NEWSROOM," what did the Chicago archdiocese do when they learned of sexual abuse claims? Well, thousands of documents set to be released today. Ted Rowlands is following that story. Hi, Ted.</s>TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. Victims have been waiting years for this day. The church has been fighting for years to avoid this day. What will these documents show? We'll talk about it coming up right after the break.