[Christi Paul, Cnn Anchor:] Bottom of the hour right now. Welcome back. I'm Christi Paul. I hope that Saturday morning has treated you well so far. I know it's early.
[Victor Blackwell, Cnn Anchor:] It's just the start. If it isn't going well, it will get better.
[Paul:] Yes.
[Blackwell:] I'm Victor Blackwell. We start with five things you need to know for your new day this half hour. Number one, FEMA is sending 75 tanker trucks filled with fresh water to West Virginia. That's where as many as 300,000 people are being warned not to bathe, drink, wash anything in the tap water. All of this is coming after a chemical at a coal industry company seeped into the water supply. The tests show the chemical level is dropping but still no end in sight.
[Paul:] We could be getting closer, number two here, to the peak of the flu season. Ten more states reported widespread flu activity last week. This is according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, in some places, such as central Texas and the Bay Area, overflow tents have been set up to help flu patients. However, help officials say, so far, overall, this is a pretty typical flu season.
[Blackwell:] Yes, the middle of a neighborhood. High-speed chase here. Bloody shoot-out. This is southern California. This story is wild. It started when cops tried to pull over a driver for using a cell phone behind the wheel, but that driver raced off, took officers on an hour-long pursuit through crowded residential streets. Sirens screaming. You heard those, cops eventually caught up with the driver, fired almost two dozen rounds at the suspect. You saw a few of those bullets go through the windshield. KGTV reports the suspect is in critical condition at a hospital. A firearm and illegal drugs were also found at the scene. Now, officers say that driver pulled out a gun and that's why they started firing.
[Paul:] Number four, a trial is set for the hazing death two years ago of popular drum major at Florida A&M.; CNN affiliate WFTV reports lawyers for the six defendants said their client opted not to take pleas. They face manslaughter and hazing charges in the death of Robert Champion drew national attention. I know you remember this. It sidelined the Marching 100 for more than a year.
[Blackwell:] Number five, the number of people hit by last month's data breach at Target is 70 million. Not 40 million as initially reported. On Friday, the company announced in addition to credit and debit and PIN numbers, customers' names, addresses, phone numbers and emails were compromised. Target says it will offer one year free credit monitoring to its customers. The shoppers have three months to enroll in that program.
[Paul:] All right. Well, let's talk about what a lot of people are talking about this morning, as we get new insight on the investigation into the intentionally manufactured traffic jam on the world's busiest bridge. Now, this comes as Governor Chris Christie is in the spotlight. "The New Yorker" cover shows Christie playing games in traffic. But newly released documents do not prove Christie played a role in that scandal.
[Blackwell:] Yes, CNN crime and justice correspondent Joe Johns is combing through those thousands of documents Joe.
[Joe Johns, Cnn Crime And Justice Correspondent:] Christi and Victor, the paper trail so far shows that at least one other member of Governor Christie's senior staff who has not been named publicly was forwarded an e-mail detailing the extent of problems on the George Washington Bridge. However, we don't know whether the staffer read the document and there's no indication she was involved in any alleged political retribution. There's also a document that says the mayor of Fort Lee thought that the lane closure was simply done to make him look bad. And after the traffic mess cleared up, there was an active attempt to stone-wall media questions about what happened. [voice-over]: The nearly 2,000 pages of documents released by a committee of state lawmakers within the last few hours come as the committee continues to hone in on why traffic was snarled back in September. Chris Christie's former deputy chief of staff, whom he fired Thursday, may be the next person subpoenaed to testify in the widening probe. Sources tell CNN lawmakers want to question Bridget Kelly about her involvement in closing two lanes of traffic onto the George Washington Bridge. Kelly's e-mail, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," was made public this week.
[David Wildstein, Former Port Authority Official:] On the advice of counsel, I assert my right to remain silent.
[Johns:] On Thursday, David Wildstein, the Port Authority official that Kelly sent that e-mail refused to answer state lawmakers' questions. He was held in contempt. The pair are accused of snarling traffic on the bridge as political retribution. Thursday, Christie said he was unaware of the plan to cause the traffic jam.
[Gov. Chris Christie , New Jersey:] I had no knowledge or involvement in this issue, in its planning or its execution, and I am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here. Regardless of what the facts ultimately uncover, this was handled in a callous and indifferent way.
[Johns:] So, how bad was the mess on the bridge? Twenty-eight hundred vehicle hours were lost during the traffic test according to a report. The documents paint a fuller picture of the chaos and outrage that occurred in the days after the traffic test. The Fort Lee police chief was quoted as saying it was a monumental failure. There's no indication from the documents we've seen so far that Governor Christie played a role Christi and Victor.
[Blackwell:] All right. Joe Johns, thank you.
[Paul:] And today, a family in North Carolina is going to lay to rest Keith Vidal. But if they're waiting for closure in his death, they're still waiting because that's not coming.
[Blackwell:] Yes, authorities are still investigating why a police detective shot the schizophrenic teenager. CNN's David Mattingly spoke with the lawyer defending the detectives David.
[David Mattingly, Cnn Correspondent:] Victor, Christi, funerals services are today for Keith Vidal, as the question looms, why did a police detective believe that lethal force was necessary. [voice-over]: Shortly after he shot and killed 18-year-old Keith Vidal, we could hear South Port Police Detective Byron Vassey on the radio saying he was defending himself.
[Byron Vassey, Police Detective:] I don't know if you've been advised or not but shots fired. I've had to defend myself against the subject.
[Mattingly:] Apparently suffering through a schizophrenic episode and holding only a screwdriver, Keith Vidal had been hit with stun guns and was on the floor of his home restrained by two officers when Detective Vassey shot him in the chest. Vassey's attorney now tells me why. [on camera]: You're telling me this young man was not subdued and that he was fighting back?
[James Payne, Byron Vassey's Attorney:] He was, yes, sir.
[Mattinly:] He was actually taking that screwdriver and stabbing one of the officers multiple times?
[Payne:] In the abdomen area, yes, sir.
[Mattingly:] But not causing any injury?
[Payne:] Apparently he had not. Again, apparently the officer had a bulletproof vest on.
[Mattingly:] Just 5'3" and maybe 100 pounds, the smiling teen in these pictures, according to Vassey's attorney, had become such a threat to the safety of the one officer that Vassey had no choice but to use deadly force. [on camera]: Did that officer yell for help or ask for someone to shoot this man?
[Payne:] No, sir, did not.
[Mattingly:] Then why did the detective feel like he needed to use deadly force at that moment?
[Payne:] Because the stabbing motions travelled to an exposed part of the down officer and he was not being subdued.
[Mattingly:] The North Carolina Police Benevolent Association agrees. The legal support group calls the situation dangerous, call Keith Vidal's screwdriver a deadly weapon. And says Detective Vassey used authorized law enforcement action. The aggressive and threatening picture described is in sharp contrast to the family's belief that Keith Vidal should not have died.
[Mark Wilsey, Shooting Victim's Brother:] Why would somebody shoot a 90-pound kid with two full-grown officers on top of him with two tasers deployed inside him? There's no reason.
[Mattingly:] Was that the only option here, to pull a firearm and pull the trigger?
[Payne:] At the instant that it occurred, again, having to step up into the shoes of the officer to make that judgment call, he had to make it in a split instant.
[Mattingly:] Was it the right decision?
[Payne:] Yes, sir.
[Mattingly:] The family released a statement Friday through their attorney, not responding to any of these latest accounts but saying that they will allow for time for the investigation to continue Victor, Christi.
[Paul:] All right. David Mattingly in Southport, North Carolina, thank you so much.
[Blackwell:] Well, in the shadow of last month's deadly bombings in Volgograd, Russia, Russia has now mounted a huge security initiative. What they're doing to protect athletes and spectators, next.