FBI Seizing School's Videos Where Teen Died
WHITFIELD: New developments in the mysterious death of a teenager whose body was found inside a rolled-up gym mat at a Georgia High School. Kendrick Johnson was found dead in January. Well, this week, the FBI was expected to seize the original hard drives from the school's surveillance system, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation. Victor Blackwell is joining me now. So Victor, you've been following the story from the very beginning. The school did provide surveillance video to CNN, but were most questions answered?</s>VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Very few questions answered. Actually, it was the video from the sheriff's office, and that gets to the point of why the FBI is getting involved. You know, this was supposed to give the family answers. You know, the Johnsons, the parents of the 17-year-old, they were hoping this would show something. But in the hours, hundreds of hours of video, it did not show Kendrick Johnson going into this mat, reaching for a shoe, and an accident, as the state says, which is supported by state autopsy. Nor did it show Kendrick Johnson being beaten by someone in and rolled in the mat, which is supported by independent autopsy, paid for by the family, and that's the family's theory. So they wondered if it had been altered. There is -- after we took it to our expert, forensic video analyst, he says there is a mysterious hour that he would expect to see some activity, nothing there. So the FBI came in to take the original hard drives, something that our experts said that the sheriff's office should have done.</s>WHITFIELD: At the very beginning.</s>BLACKWELL: At very beginning. Instead of asking the school to give us the video, they should have taken the video.</s>WHITFIELD: Seized it.</s>BLACKWELL: Yes.</s>WHITFIELD: Now when we look at the video, some of those clips, we're seeing one angle in the gym, and we're seeing another angle in the hallway. In the gym, is there more than one camera? Are there other angles that might be revealed on this hard drive if it ends up being a complete picture, or is it still just one angle, and the hope is any suspicious activity taking place in the view of that one camera?</s>BLACKWELL: We've got four angles that we know inside the gym. We have video from them. But the question is, and then you get to the point of it, is there more that was not supplied by the sheriff's office? And that's what the FBI is going to do. They're going to look at what the sheriff's office has, what the school district has. Quite possibly, maybe not an additional angle, but more video from those cameras recorded through the cameras and that could possibly fill the whole of an hour, where we'd know there was activity in the gym, but no video recorded through the motion-activated cameras, possibly that will lead to some information. But the FBI, according to the source we have, now has that video, and they'll start to look through it, as well.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, thank you so much, Victor Blackwell, for bringing us all the developments. Appreciate it.</s>BLACKWELL: Sure.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, the U.S. Winter Olympic team could be missing one of its stars, skier, Lindsey Vonn was seen crying after a recent competition. What could happen to put her gold medal hopes in jeopardy?