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cnn news 2014-10-24

CARL AZUZ, cnn ANCHOR: Great to have you watching cnn STUDENT NEWS, your commercial-free source of current events for middle and high school

classrooms. I`m Carl Azuz.

We are starting this Wednesday with a headline out of North Korea. Yesterday, the secretive communist country released an American it had held

prisoner since May. Jeffrey Fowle was accused of leaving a Bible at his hotel in North Korea. The country does have some churches, but they are

operated by the government. And it`s made independent religious activity illegal, because it`s seen as a potential threat to that government`s

authority.

Fowle arrived in the U.S. territory of Guam yesterday. Two other Americans, Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller are still being held prisoner in

North Korea. And the U.S. government says it`s still working to get them freed.

Across the Pacific and halfway across the U.S., Ferguson, Missouri, a town that`s been on edge since an incident on August 9. That`s when a white

police officer named Darren Wilson shot and killed an unarmed African- American 18-year old named Michael Brown.

Witnesses said there was some sort of scuffle between the two, but that Brown was trying to surrender to the policeman when he was shot. Police

said Brown struggled with Officer Wilson and then reached for the policeman`s gun before the shooting.

Protests started afterwards. Some peaceful, some violent. And not it`s up to a grand jury to determine whether Officer Wilson should be charged with

any wrongdoing.

CROWD (CHANTING)

SARA SIDNER, cnn CORRESPONDENT: This is the new normal in Ferguson. Protests night and day for the past 73 days. Their number one demand,

justice and to them that means the indictment and arrest of Officer Darren Wilson who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown August 9.

Tensions are high again after new details about the investigation were leaked by a federal source to "The New York Times" indicating forensic

evidence may mean potential civil rights charges are unlikely.

U.S. law enforcement sources told cnn Brown`s blood was found on the Wilson`s gun, inside Wilson`s patrol car and on his uniform.

DANNY CEVALLOS, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: What that does, is that tends to support any testimony that there was some kind of scuffle in the police

car, and if so, that tends to support Officer Wilson`s testimony and his justification for using deadly force.

SIDNER: Early on, Brown`s friend said there was a scuffle, but that Wilson was the aggressor.

DORIAN JOHNSON, MICHAEL BROWN`S FRIEND: He pulled up on the side of us (ph), he tried to thrust his door open, but we were so close to it that it

ricocheted off us, and it bounced back to him, and I guess that, you know, got him a little upset, as he was trying to choke my friend and he was

trying to get away, and Officer then reached out and he grabbed his - to pull him into the (INAUDIBLE).

SIDNER: cnn legal analyst Danny Cevallos says the forensic evidence revealed only goes so far.

DANNY CEVALLOS, cnn LEGAL ANALYST: Ultimately, that officer will have to come up with justification not for firing his gun the first time, but for

each and every bullet that came out of his firearm. Whether at the car or away from the car.

SIDNER: Whatever happens, police tell cnn they are preparing.

(on camera): Are you worried that there`s going to be serious violence?

SGT. BRIAN SCHELLMAN, ST. LOUIS COUNTY POLICE: Yeah, I mean, again, we are constantly looking at those things. I believe it was five shootings in

August .

SIDNER: During the protest.

SCHELLMAN: You know that came, yeah during the protest that came out of that, and then also to protect businesses and the property and the citizens

who live in the area.

SIDNER (voice over): Protesters also have plans.

AMY HUNTER RACIAL JUSTICE DIR., YWCA: Everybody has planning for whatever the grand jury decides. I think certainly there are lots of us that are

planning peaceful protests for should it not be indicted, certainly, there are other people that have other ideas at hand.

SIDNER: Sara Sidner, cnn, Ferguson, Missouri.