but a cold day everywhere with temperatures of just 8 celsius and a brisk northeasterly wind. thank god it's not a bank holiday. >> oh, smashing. the new prince charles does it all. he quips about bank holidays and lay down the fat beats -- i will never use that phrase again, i promise. it didn't sound right at all. i apologize. the point is out with the old, in with the new prince charles on the ridiculist. thanks for watching. the new pr 2.0 reigns supreme. "early start" begins now. breaking news -- a fire raging right now aboard a nuclear submarine at a u.s. navy shipyard, a nuclear submarine. and a bold promise, mitt romney says if he is president, unemployment will plunge to 6%. can the candidate back it up? and tim tebow is not -- a florida teenager punished for

pulling this graduation stunt on stage. >> wait until you hear the whole thing. i have a mixed reaction. >> good morning, everyone, welcome to "early start,". >> we're bringing you the news from a to z, it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. so let's get started. we're following breaking news out of maine. firefighters battling a fire on a nuclear submarine for close to 12 hours. the uss "miami" was in dry dock when a fire broke out in the forward compartment. six people suffered minor injuries. the attack sub is capable of carrying tomahawk cruise missiles but no weapons were on board at the time and the ship's reactor is not affected by the fire. we'll bring you developments as warranted. making top news, a promise from mitt romney. the former massachusetts governor has been hammering president obama for months over the high unemployment rate.

right now it stands at 8.1%. mr. romney is pledging if he's elected president, eel bring that number way down. >> i can tell you that over a period of four years by virtue of the policies that we put in place, we get the unemployment rate down to 6% or perhaps a little lower. >> christine roamens is here with us this morning and is romney really going out on a ledge here? >> he's not going out on a limb and here's why. he'd have to add 155,000 jobs every month between now and what he says would be the end of his first term to get there. the budget office is forecasting that the unemployment rate is going to keep coming down. the nonpartisan advising arm to congress that tells them what's hikely to happen in the economy so they can plan. mitt romney says 6%. the cbo says 5.3% by the fourth quarter of 20016.

mitt romney telling "time" magazine that it's his policies that will bring it down. this is so political, i'm going to give you the numbers. we've already seen job creation. we've already seen the unemployment rate coming down. during the obama presidency, a total number of jobs lost of 4.6 million. but four million of those have been gained back. you've got a net jobs loss during this administration of 572,000. the president needs to add 95,000 jobs every month between here and the election to be able to say all of the jobs lost during the recession have been recovered. >> how many? >> about 95,000 a month. here's the other side of the talking points on that number. you still have the lowest participation rate, labor market participation rate since 198 1. that means a lot of people have dropped out. a lot of people feel like this economy isn't workinging for them. so you've got this trend under way wrr we are seeing jobs created. but we still have a labor market

that's not up to snuff quite frankly. i'm going to tell you one more thing about making presidents and candidates making promises about the unemployment rate. i don't remember really in the clinton and the bush administrations people making so many claims about what the unemployment rate is going to be. it's hard to be able to make a claim -- remember during the stimulus, the whole stimulus debate about what would the unemployment rate be, it's just very difficult, it's a campaign promise, basically. >> and to be very clear, the cbo, when it made this prediction, back a year and a half ago, was not making this president-specific. it doesn't matter who was in office, they made this prediction. >> right, because the economy is starting to recover, slowly, slowly. what mitt romney is saying is his policies will cement this. and he gives a little bit of leeway, depending on what happens in the global environment. depending on this. but look, we're already moving in that direction.

>> you know what confuses me, is the congressional budget office put out this information, mitt romney has to know that. how can he claim what he claims. it seems odd to me. >> there's a lot of pressure on both candidates to say ha is the jobless rate going to be? where are we going to get to. he says, we put my policies in place, we're going to get down to 6%. >> thank you very much. new video and audio of george zimmerman this morning showing the evolution of the relationship between the accused murderer and the sanford police department. cnn has obtained an audio recording of zimmerman at a sanford city hall public forum meeting from january of 2011. in the recording, zimmerman describe as ride-along that he took with a sanford police officer. >> i also had the opportunity to take ride-alongs with the city of sanford police department. and what i saw was disgusting. the officers showed me his favorite hiding spots for taking naps. and explained to me that he doesn't carry a long gun in his

vehicle because in his words, anything that requires a long gun require as lot of paperwork and you're going to find me as far away from it. he took two lunch breaks and attended a going-away party for one of his fellow officers. >> sanford police say they have no documentation showing the specific date that zimmerman went on a ride-along, or if he ever did. according to documents that he did fill out an application to ride with officers and he was approved in march of 2010. zimmerman fast forward eight months later. an email sent by zimmerman to sanford police show a new friendly relationship with the department. in an email obtained by cnn to the then-chief, bill lee, who resigned in the aftermath of the trayvon martin shooting. zimmerman says i have high hopes for and restored faith in your administration and the sanford police department in its entirety. he goes on to praise the department's efforts to launch a

neighborhood watch program in his community. from the start, attorneys for trayvon martin's family have said that zimmer mn's relationship with the police department raises red flags for them. this new video released by the state attorney prosecuting the case shows zimmerman walking unescorted at the police station three days after he fatally shot trayvon martin. the recording raises new questions about whether zimmerman received preferential treatment that night because he was friendly with officers in the department. wildfires are burning out of control this morning, winds of up to 70 miles per hour are threatening to push a fire in nevada to new extremes. later today. the fire has destroyed two homes and consumed more than 7,000 acres. more than 500 firefighters are on the scene trying to fight this one. just 15% of the wildfire is contained. and there's another story, too. in arizona, there's a fire scorching nearly 16,000 acres.

much of the damage has been on rural federal lands, but the town of crown king has been evacuated as a precaution. arizona governor jan brewer is declaring a state of emergency in that area. the obama administration reveal secret information about the raid on osama bin laden to hollywood filmmakers. new documents show the pentagon offered access to a screen writers who are making a movie on the bin laden raid. the access included a planner from s.e.a.l. team 6. new york congressman peter king accuses the white house of jeopardizing national security. administration officials say the filmmakers never had information on the operation, that journalists didn't have. facebook is facing a shareholder lawsuit over its ipo fiasco. the suit filed in u.s. district court in manhattan targets the social network, its ceo, mark

zuckerberg along with several banks. alleging that full details of the company's revenue was shared with only a select group of investors right before it went public, but not with everybody else. facebook says the lawsuit is without merit. eight minutes past the hour. a high school football player flagged by the principal for this. tebowing on stage during graduation. apparently mom wasn't happy, either. hear how she pulled a fast one on the teenager, coming up. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow.

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ohio later today to decide whether accused school shooter, tj lane, will be tried as an adult. the 17-year-old is charged with killing three students in the cafeteria at chardon high school in february. two other students he shot survived. a local tv news station in kansas didn't have to go very far to get the lead story. a man stabbed two people at wibw in topeka yesterday after his story idea was rejected. according to the tv station's website, the man also threw a lamp through the front. it looks like something out of a "diehard" movie, but this is real, a guy driving an suv coming up on a curve, a tractor-trailer coming other way. taking the turn too quickly, the oncoming truck tipping on its side screeching down the road and slamming head-on into the suv. it happened on a two-lane highway in russia.

everyone survived. you can see the truck driver standing up and brushing himself off in the cab. amazing. incredible pictures on the surface of the sun. nasa releasing enhanced video to show the intense activity of the star in a different light. the video was shot over 24 hours back in september of last year. >> i can never get enough of those nasa pictures, they're so remarkable. >> just amazing stuff. >> thanks, ladies. people in the upper midwest on watch for more severe weather today. do you have any good news for us, mr. marciano? >> yes, good news is that the northeast should be okay. >> well, thank you. >> but your friends in chicago and especially to the west are going to have a little threat for seeing some severe weather. we saw it yesterday, video out of north dakota, here's a shot of a storm that dropped a tornado that eventually crossed the border into canada. we're getting into the time of year where the severe weather threat begins to migrate further north. that's as early, may, it still

should be in the nebraska/kansas/oklahoma area. it's been a fairly quiet may, relatively speaking. look at that stuff. very little damage and those storm chasers getting extremely close. here's your threatite now for the next couple of hours. severe thunderstorm watch in effect for parts of nebraska and the rain right now heading up towards minneapolis. we also have the fire weather threat, the winds continue to blow, low levels of humidity. the two fires are more than two fires, the big ones in nevada and arizona continue to burn. and here's your threat for severe weather pushing further east. into western parts of wisconsin. and eventually tomorrow will get to chicago. the heat is building ahead of it. 92 in memphis, 87 degrees in chicago. 73 degrees in new york city. tropical storm bud is now a hurricane with winds of 85 miles per hour will drift towards mexico, hopefully weakening over the next few days, but the forecast than ever-changing. back to you guys in new york.

>> thank you, rob, appreciate it. 15 minutes past 5:00. a 17-year-old boy collapses because he can't breathe and guess what happened? a school nurse stood over top of him and refused to give him his inhaler because of a technicality. this is no joke this is coming to us by wkmg channel 6 news in orlando. the woman refused to give michael rudy his inhaler because school officials said -- are you ready? they had no record of a parent's signature on file. he can't breathe, he's on the ground, he can't breathe and they're looking for the files. they called home, his mother rushed to the school. found her son suffering from a full-blown asthma attack on the floor. >> it's like something out of a horror film. the person sits there and watches you die. she sat there, looked a at me and did nothing. >> the mom is baffled that no one called 911. >> shocking. you can't breathe.

that's -- >> an ambulance could help him. >> look, give him the inhaler. anyway, the school says it's standing by the nurse's decision at the time. more on this as it develops. you know, i have, when i transferred my kids here, my daughter has asthma and the rule and regs were so strict and they said to me, you have to have a signature on file, you have to have the medications here, they have to be up to date. i did not mess around with it. >> that part i get, but when you can't breathe? you're down to minutes, so the technicality would go out the window. >> what they say, if not, we'll call an ambulance, is that what you want? yeah. >> let's hope the person you call at 911 is not snoring, like yesterday's story. tebowing teen getting in trouble at his graduation ceremony in fort myers, florida. chuck shriner, a football player, dropped to one knee on stage and tebowed right in front of his principal. so he was then told that he wouldn't be getting a diploma.

it turns out, he was the one on the receiving end of a high school prank. his mother, who was upset with his stunt, had the diploma the entire time, but didn't let him know until he cleaned up the entire high school gym after the ceremony as punishment. >> that's pretty harsh. >> which is kind of a prayer in a catholic school. >> maybe things changed. p.s., how did she know in advance so she had his diploma the whole time? >> maybe he was threatening to tebow. >> maybe it leaked. he got his diploma in the end. >>s did 18 minutes past the hour. for an expanded look at all of our top stories, head to our blog. the botched facebook ipo still has wall street talking up a storm. and now we're hearing that facebook might unfriend the nasdaq itself. we'll give you that story in a moment. oh, come on!

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22 minutes past the hour. the new york stock exchange looking to capitalize on the technical problems the nasdaq encountered during facebook's ipo last week. according to the "wall street journal" the technical glitches forced the exchange to delay facebook's ipo. the journal reports the new york stock exchange has been emailing with facebook about possibly

leaving nasdaq and joining their exchange. citing their use of people po help with trading, rather the computer-automated system that the nasdaq uses. not exactly the honeymoon mark zuckerberg envisioned after his company's celebrated ipo and his surprise marriage. now the excitement over facebook's debut has given way to investor fury and lawsuits alleging the company and its underwriters failed to disclose relevant information about the stock. cnn's mary snow is following all of the developments and is joining us. nothing but outrage over this one. >> outrage and worry about investor confidence overall. this was a stock that held promise for retail investors who wanted a slice of facebook's fortunes. now at least three people felt cheated enough that they filed a lawsuit. they're suing facebook and ceo mark zuckerberg as well as the company's underwriters, the lead one being morgan stanley. this suit alleges that they withheld negative information about facebook's prospects.

samuel ruddman is an attorney for the plaintiffs. >> an individual investor or any regular institutional investor would feel like they were cheated here, because someone knew something and they didn't tell everybody. they only told a few people. >> in a statement, facebook says they believe the lawsuit is without merit and will defend ourselves vigorously. morgan stanley declined comment on the lawsuit. what's at issue here is a "reuters" report that came out saying a morgan stanley analyst told some clients before the ipo that he was reducing facebook's revenue projections. it followed facebook indicated in a public way, in an s.e.c. document that it could struggle to make money in mobile devices. now morgan stanley has rejected any suggestion it did anything improper. so the procedure it is followed for facebook's ipo were the same for any ipo. now we spoke to former s.e.c. chairman, arthur leavitt, who said the restrictions placed on what analysts can say may very

well mean that nothing improper was done. he says it's just another rule that needs to be changed. and he says you know on top of the problems that the ipo had at the starting gate with technical glitches at the nasdaq, the damage is more than monetary. it's eroding investor confidence. >> clearly, it's a black eye for the industry and all the participants. this was company was supposed to be a showpiece for american capitalism. instead of that, it's become a laughing stock. that's going to pass, but it's a fact, we don't look good and something should be done about it. >> one of the changes he wants to see is be able to publish analysts' reports on the web so it's a level playing field, information would be disseminated to everyone. >> isn't there talk about it, that information was available online to everybody, except you have to go and find that information. >> this was in a prospectus, in

an s.e.c. filing, that facebook had said it could be struggling to make money with its mobile devices. but what he's talking about is the analysts' research. and that, he says, he would like to see published on the web so that everyone, all of these investors could have seen that. and that's -- >> that's not currently available? you cannot go online and get it yourself? get the same information yourself? if you search for it? >> well at issue here is some of the restrictions on analysts leading up to this ipo. and there are rules in place. he said those are the rules that need to be changed. >> a lot of the legal analysts at least with the reports i was reading, say nothing illegal was done here. >> and that's what arthur levitt was saying, this may not be anything improper. this is why he wants things to be changed. but there may not be anything illegal here. >> thank you so much for clearing up some of that for us. although it seems that we'll be discussing this for quite some time to come. 26 minutes past 5:00.

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a north carolina pastor's anti-gay sermon goes viral. how opponents plan to strike back. plus the u.s. senate set to take action after cnn expose as charity that's supposed to be helping america's veterans, but actually might be stealing from

them instead. it's raining hot dogs, find out who is behind this very bizarre stunt. we're also going to tell you why. welcome back to "early start," thanks for being with us, i'm zoraida sambolin. >> and i'm ashleigh banfield, it's 30 minutes past the hour. 5:30 on the east coast. let's get you started on the top news stories. hundreds of protesters planning to protest outside a north carolina church after the pastor of the church called for gays and lesbians to be rounded up and isolated behind an electric fence so they can die out. here's the mother's day sermon that stirred up so many emotions courtesy of the reverend charles worley. >> build a great big large fence, 50 or 100 mile long, put all the lesbians in there. fly over and drop some food. do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals. and have that fence electrified

so they can't get out. feed them and you know what? in a few years they'll die out. >> those comments sparked outrage across the country. but as cnn's gary tuchman tells us, the pastor's flock is standing by him. >> on wednesday, toor the second night in a row, a special prayer service was held at this north carolina church. hundreds of people turning out, supporting their pastor and supporting the comments they made on mother's day, we want to talk to pastor charles worley, we've been here for a couple of days, he refuses to do that. we've been told if we step foot on church property we'll be arrested by sheriffs deputies. so far, he hasn't talked. we did talk to a woman who has been up to 20 services over the years, she wasn't at either of these prayer services for two basic reasons, this woman who we'll call jane, we're protecting her identity is not a member. she attends because a close relative is a member.

more important reason, number two. she's a lesbian, she's an open lesbian, she has children. >> when you heard these comments he made on mother's day, pastor worley, how did you feel? >> i was saddened. i was disappointed. >> were you surprised? >> i was not surprised. >> and tell me why you weren't surprised? >> i've been aware of his opinions and his beliefs about homosexuality. >> have you heard him utter similar comments over the years when you've attended the church? >> i've heard comments along those same lines in the past. >> if you had a chance to talk to him now and perhaps you will soon, because it's a small town, would you say something to him about this? >> i would, i would say hello, i would extend my hand and i would say, you've been going through a tough time, this was a very difficult situation for our

community. and i pray for you, for hope, healing, peace, tolerance. >> do you think that he's a good man? >> i think it would be difficult to judge his entire life ministry, character on that sunday sermon. i believe that he probably is. >> a good man? >> i think he intends to do good. i think in pastor worley's mind he is preaching love. but it's in his mind. he's preaching love. >> as you can tell, jane's feelings are complex. but she's obviously not fighting fire with fire. we can tell you one thing we've learned about the pastor from someone who attended one of these special prayer services, is that the pastor is amazed at all the national attention. we can tell you that this weekend, a large protest is scheduled by a civil rights group up to 2,000 people they

say, are expected to attend to protest this pastor. ashleigh? >> there have been other sermons since the mother's day sermon and the pastor has dialed back somewhat, only in that he's dropped the word "queers." instead he refers to people he disagrees with as gays as lesbians. pastor worley has refused to grant any interviews since the video of the mother's day sermon went viral. >> the woman in the video -- talk about tolerance and forgiveness, good gracious. >> i would extend my hand. i would say you've been going through a tough time. that's incredible stuff. >> it is. 35 minutes past the hour here. the senate finance committee launching an investigation in a well-known charity that is supposed to be helping disabled veterans. it was with a two-year cnn investigation of the disabled veterans national foundation that got the attention of lawmakers on capitol hill. cnn examined the tax records and

found little of the millions raised by the foundation over the past three years has actually gone to help veterans. $61 million has gone to a direct mail company that works with the foundation and many other charities, something senator max baucus of montana finds very suspicious. >> frankly, i smell a rat there. i have a hunch is that the outfit, that the mail order is using the veterans organization as a front for themselves. so they get the contributions from good, well-meaning americans thinking they're helping disabled vets. when in fact the money is going to this other outfit. >> the nation's largest charity watch dog group gives the disabled veterans national foundation an f grade, they estimate only 2% of the money raised actually goes to help save veterans. a growing scandal in the

mayor's office in washington, d.c. and it does not involve marian berry, a second former aide to mayor vincent gray is facing federal charges for allegedly using underhanded tactics to get the mayor elected in 2010. howard brooks is charged with lying to the fbi and is expected to plead guilty in court today. brooks and a second gray campaign staffer admit that they paid off another mayoral candidate to make negative comments about then-mayor adrian fenty. all of this in order to help their candidate, mr. gray, win the election. the oldest two-year college in the state of texas has fallen on really hard economic times. tiny lon morris college, a private faith-based school in texas, with about 1,000 students has furloughed its entire staff and president has now resigned. students and staff were given ten days to vacate. but a spokesman for the school is holding out hope for a fall semester. >> it's simply a down time for the reorganization.

efforts to be done. so we can begin to be fruitful and go forward in a positive manner. in the fall. >> summer courses at lon morris college have been canceled. the school has been operating in east texas since 1854. a principal is now apologizing to students who were suspended for taking part in an end of year stunt of good, fun, senior bike ride. you heard from two of the kids and one of their moms yesterday right here on our program. they had their parents' permission to do the bike ride, they had a police escort. they were with the mayor. the mayor brought them doughnuts, but the principal of the school, katherine pennington didn't know about the bike ride, and was pretty mad about it. she sent 60 kids home because they caused a traffic jam. now she says, i made a mistake and sincerely regret my actions, did i overreact?

of course i did. i now applaud the students for their foresight in contacting the police department to insure the safety of their senior surprise, not senior stunt. >> that's a happy ending, right? it's always nice when an adult apologizes and said, i did something wrong. >> the kids thought it was a great idea, it was supposed to be a price. they called the police. 38 minutes past the hour. guest host week on cnn's piers morgan kicks off next tuesday with a rare and exclusive interview. regis philbin filling in for piers, talks to his close friend, david letterman, here's a taste for you. >> now you see over the years, talk show hosts have not gotten involved in politics. because they fear -- >> it's all different now. >> that if you know, one portion of your audience is a republican, or democrat, they don't like what you're saying, they're going to tune you out. >> that's right. >> does it bother you? >> well, you, i know what your point is and i've been guilty of

appearing to be playing partisan politics. however, i just like to say that for the record, i am a registered independent. you go where the material takes you. poor bill clinton, no president that i'm aware of got hammered harder than bill clinton over the monica lewinsky situation. we beat up on him. we still use him as a reference. and then we were desperate, we thought, well this was so easy. then we got george bush and within a matter of days, we realized, our prayers had been answered, he's just as good in terms of material. so we -- it may appear to people that we have a slant one way or the other. but if a guy you know drops his dog or a guy straps his dog to the roof of his car, or if a guy gets a shoe thrown at him, well, this is where the material is going to be.

>> now that's interesting. you can see regis' full interview with david letterman tuesday at 9:00 eastern on cnn. we're both sitting here waiting, where's the one-liner coming in. very serious. >> it's great to see those two together, though, because they have such a history. not only the talk show history. they both went through their heart crises together and shared those stories and oftentimes they were each other's first guests after coming out of the hospital. another exclusive for you, al qaeda on the move and our barbara starr live in jordan. where they're worried that instability in the neighbor to the north, syria, could end up making its way across the border. then guess what, spread throughout the middle east. that is not good news. we'll tell you what's the story here, coming up. you can part a crowd, without saying a word. you have yet to master the quiet sneeze. you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts.

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al qaeda members and sympathizers in syria. barbara starr has gotten extraordinary exclusive access to very sensitive areas in jordan, including the syrian border. she is live in ayman jordan now, what can you tell us about that, barbara? >> well good morning to you from jordan, the winds are picking up out here as it usually does midday in the desert. a couple of days ago we did get the access to the syrian border to the north of the capital here in amman, jordan and we walked through the no man's land between the two countries. an area where the jordanians are trying very hard to keep access and control. they're doing a pretty good job right now. the barbed wire, the guard posts, the controls at the border as the taxis come into jordan, from sir yarks bringing in goods and commodities they're trying to sell. why are the jordanians so concerned? they don't think bashar al assad

is going to attack them. but here in amman, we're hearing from high-level officials, they believe there are at least 1500 al qaeda members and sim pa thids thizers and supporters inside syria. that's the kind of instability in the region right now that jordan does not want to see coming into its country. zoraida? >> barbara, what are you hearing about the other al qaeda threats, those in yemen? >> well that's a good question. it's really those two al qaeda affiliates out here that are the problem. al qaeda in syria and al qaeda in yemen. just yesterday, we caught up here in amman with the secretary of homeland security, janet napolitano, she came here to talk about these issues of border security and control. and talk to us about why it's so important. >> we work with a lot of these

countries on border, border-related issues, aviation, aviation-related issues. it's because we want to have as early a warning sign as possible, that someone affiliated with al qaeda or any al qaeda-type group is traveling towards the west. >> and there are right now, zoraida, about 12,000 foreign troops here in jordan, about half of them are u.s. troops. they have been here conducting training and exercises so that all the allied forces in this region are ready, if it came to that. and right now, what we do know is that u.s. special forces here in jordan have been training with a very crack, very elite jordanian forces, ready to move against syria, concerns about the weapons of mass destruction, concerns about al qaeda, they hope it doesn't come to that. but that is part indeed of what

we've seen here and what is going on in this country. zoraida? >> barbara starr, live in jordan for us, thank you for that. it is 47 minutes past 5:00. this just in, a fire on board a nuclear submarine is finally out. this all happening in maine. the fire broke out yesterday evening in the forward compartment of the ". uss miami" no weapons on board. the ship's reactor is not affected by the fire, isolated from the forward compartments where the fire had its biggest effect. take look at this, folks, a man who was eating cereal in indiana had his breakfast rudely interrupted when a school bus suddenly crashed into his home. the accident caused major damage to the house in the town of carmel, the bus driver suffered minor injuries. the homeowner was shaken up. the good news -- no children on board the bus. if you're planning your vacation for 2020 -- there's only three cities that remain in

the running to host the summer games in that year. the international olympic committee has narrowed the field. are you ready? there they are, your choices, madrid, istanbul and tokyo. they're the finalists, those cities are going to spend the next 15 months spending a whole lot of money and trying hard to convince the ioc that they have what it takes to host the summer games. the winner will be picked in september of 2013. >> that's tough for madrid, they don't have a lot of money. it stood taller than the empire state building, it took less than ten seconds to bring down the brent tower in nevada jackass flats. the tower hadn't been utilized since the 1990s and authorities say demolition was the most cost-effective solution. >> you should have seen that. my pen went flying right into her face.

i'm so sorry. >> a battle of the girls on tv in the morning. >> i'll survive. this would be tough to survive if you happen to be underneath that bag of hot dogs being unleashed from a helicopter in detroit. here's the story. hot dogs from heaven. where's the mustard? it was part of a contest. one of those wacky radio stunts to celebrate the 95th anniversary of america's coney island hot dog. even the puppies are like, i don't know. here's why they're collecting them up, putting them in the garbage, not to throw them away. it's a contest to see who can collect the most hotdogs. $1,000 was nothing compared to the other prize they got -- a lifetime supply of coneys. it wasn't these in your freezer for lifetime. it was a real lifetime supply. look at them. going crazy. picking up the dogs. hot dogs from heaven.

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>> geez. >> got to get that out of his mouth. >> that's something to behold, isn't it? a fisherman posting this video. that's a massive 18 foitder. a great white, biting off the head of a blue shark that was on their fishing line. they catch a blue shark and they're reeling the blue shark in and along comes the 18-footer great white, off the coast of bondi beach off the coast of australia. the australian authorities are assuring the swimmers and the beachgoers at bondi, that lifeguards are routinely patrolling for sharks. they do say it's safe. every time i hear about a shark attack, it seems like it's either somewhere near bondi or up the gold coast of australia. i don't know what it is about the australia and the sharks the great barrier reef. >> i would not be swimming in the waters there.

>> it's so beautiful there. >> i'm sure. >> he's really batman. daredevil pulling off an unprecedented stunt. jumping 2400 feet from a helicopter, landing safely on the ground. did not have a parachute. the british stuntman, gary connery, landed on top of close to 1900 cardboard boxes set up as a cushion. technically his flight wasn't a complete freefall, as he wore a special wing suit. worn by other base jumpers. still, the first time anyone has pulled this off as far as we know. connery has done stunt work in several hollywood films, including "batman begins" and "indiana jones." he was also in the james bond film "die another day." >> it's a good thing he didn't. that's one dangerous pasttime. but can you imagine landing on the boxes? >> how is that a cushion? >> especially landing on the edges.

56 minutes past 5:00, on the east coast, a dangerous job for firefighters this morning. how would you like to be trying to put out a fire on a nuclear sub? yes, nuclear sub. we're going to update you on this and let you know how the flames are no longer that bright orange. look at the car! my dad's gonna kill me dude... [ male announcer ] the security of a 2012 iihs top safety pick. the volkswagen passat. that's the power of german engineering. right now lease the 2012 passat for $209 a month.

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mitt romney's bold promise, he says if he is president, unemployment will plunge to 6%, account candidate back it up? and all-night firefight in a dangerous place -- aboard a nuclear submarine. we'll have the latest from the scene, straight ahead. and facebook not making many

friends this morning. a lawsuit over the botched ipo and now word the company could kick the nasdaq to the curb. good morning to you, and welcome to "early start," i'm zoraida sambolin. >> hi, everybody, i'm ashleigh banfield. we're bringing you the news from a to z, it's the top of the hour, 6:00 a.m. in the east. mitt romney, on the record promising that if he's elected president, the unemployment rate in america is going to drop at least two full percentage points by the end of his first term. a pretty bold promise. what do you know? romney has been pounding president obama for months over the high unemployment rate right now it's 8.1%. romney is insisting that that number is going to plunge after his first four years in the white house. >> i can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we, we put in place, we get the unemployment rate down to 6% or perhaps a little lower. >> christine romans now with us minding your business this morning. that's a bold promise, christine, however, there is more to this headline. like, i don't know, a year ago

that headline should have been made. >> it seems like a bold promise but there are a lot of people projecting that the unemployment rate is going to move lower. what you would need to get what governor romney is promising is about 155,000 jobs created every month from here on out. what he is promising is something that is indeed doable. i mean you look at the they're already forecasting that. they're forecasting by the fourth quarter of 20165.4%. >> that's regardless of who is the president? >> right. what policies are, what policies might be. now, governor romney is saying it depends on what happens to growth around the rest of the world, what we see here in the u.s., but that they would get their policies, his policies would get the unemployment rate down quite substantially. the fact is, we are, indeed, moving in this direction, albeit too slowly. here is what we know. we know that the total jobs lost during the obama presidency was

$4 4.6 million, the total jobs gained was 4 million so you have a net jobs lost of 572,000. if the president can get 90,000 jobs every month from here until november, he can rightfully say he has presided overall those jobs lost, positive job creation, but we have a labor participation that's the lowest since 1981. this economy is not working for people. when we talk about promises about the unemployment rate and where it's going, that unemployment rate is moving lower, but there are too many people who have been left behind by this economy, and those are the kinds of questions we need to keep asking, hammering both candidates about, quite frankly, how we're going to get more people involved in the labor market and not just promises about that unemployment rate. >> that participation rate you're talking about. >> it's horrible. >> why is that not our barometer? it doesn't count for those who decided no longer to look. >> an analysis of jobs numbers,

we have a very dynamic huge labor market. there's a lot of different numbers and barometers to look at. you look at another number. i like to look at the current population ratio, which shows you how many adult people are actually working. it's far, far too low. that's as low as it was in the 1980s as well. able-bodied people who aren't even countered in the labor market. >> that's by choice as well, right? >> stay-at-home moms. >> people who are wealthy who frampgly said i don't want to -- or people who are relying on someone else, people who are ill. it's all kinds of people. it's also students, by the way, who were never counted in the labor market. they've graduated from college. since they've never been in the labor market they're not counted in that unemployment rate. 6% is a number that has at least 35 asterisks. what mitt romney is promising is doable. this is campaign stuff, guys. both of them are trying to show

that they're the one to lead the economy out of it. committee seems to be moving on its own at this point, in my view. >> and certainly the cbo's view? >> right. >> christine romans, thank you. firefighters in maine, hooray, they put it out. it's been burning all night on a submarine in a port shipyard. it was there for maintenance. fire broke out in the forward compartment. six people were hurt, suffered injuries while fighting this thing. this attack sub is capable of carrying tomahawk missiles, but we're happy to report there were none on board. a wildfires burning out of control. winds up to 70 miles an hour are

threatening to push a fire in nevada to new extremes. that's expected later today. the fire has consumed more than 7,000 acres. look at those charred remains there. more than 500 firefighters are on the scene. just 15% of the wildfire, however, is contained. another fire in arizona, scorching nearly 16,000 acres. much of the damage has been on rural federal lands but the town of crown king has now been evacuated, governor jan brewer declaring a state of emergency in that area. facebook slapped with a shareholder lawsuit over its ipo disaster. it names not only the social network but the ceo as well, mark zuckerberg, and several banks, too. that suit is alleging that the full details of the company's prospectus was shared with a select few investors before the

company went lawsuit but not enough of the little guys. whether the obama administration leaked sensitive information on the osama bin laden raid to hollywood film makers. judicial watch suggests katherine bigelow was offered interviews with a member of the s.e.a.l. team. peter king accuses the white house of jeopardizing security. bigelow's movie on the hunt for bin laden is due out in december. >> how does she get an interview with those guys when nobody else is able to? s.e.a.l. team six. oh, man! >> i know. >> if it's true. what were they thinking? 1-year-old baby, adorable. put in the washing machine in a laundromat. what the parents have to say about this. and the video.

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a man stabbed two people at wibw in topeka yesterday after his idea for a story was rejected. according to wibw's website, the man threw a lamp through the station's glass front doors. eight station employees held him down until police came. looks like something out of a "die hard" movie. but this is real. tractor trailer, coming the other way, taking that turn too quickly. and the oncoming truck tipping on its side, screeching down the road, slamming head on, you guys into the suv on a two-lane highway in russia. >> why does the suv have a camera? >> that's a lot the interesting. a lot of people have cameras in that car. you can't see it, but the driver stands up and brushes himself off. >> oh, my gosh, you see him. >> i know. >> and no one is hurt. >> right in there.

>> that's good news. los angeles, by the way, is the largest city to ban plastic bags in stores. they passed a bill requiring larger stores to faze out these plastic bags. they've got a year to comply. some are calling for a statewide ban in california. >> scourge of all landfills. >> i forget to put my bags in the car sfwh i have them in the car and i forget to take them in the store. >> yes. lady liberty, the first of p many ladies to welcome sailors this week. we love that. the city welcomes 6,000 service men and women for r & r. this year's event marks the bicentennial. >> that was my view for half an hour. the traffic was backed up. i have never been happier to be

in a traffic jam. i look like a total nerd tourist. i had my cell phone up out the window, taking pictures and people were getting on the -- driving by and -- but enjoyable. >> something to enjoy that is free. >> and the sailors. would you call me jessica rabbit? that was my ode to "sex and the city." do you remember that show? >> i did not really watch "sex and the city." that's a whole other story. >> neither did i. >> gosh, imagine. 6:14. poor rob marciano. he has to follow -- >> hello, sailor. >> yeah, hi or talk about carey's shoes on "sex and the city." >> have you watched it? >> yeah. i was force fed it at some point in my life. thankfully, that era is over. it was a popular show. >> let's switch gears to hurricane season.

i know that gets your boat fleeting. >> bud, hurricane bud. there's been more exotic names, haven't there? strengthening quickly now. 85-mile-an-hour winds. the last couple of satellite pictures, you see the eye just developing right there. it's probably even stronger than that. could be a category 2 hurricane at this point. we could have another update in a couple of hours. forecast, kind of tricky, brings it toward mexico. it will track toward manzanillo. and hurricane forecast puts the brakes on and sends it out to sea. that would be the best case scenario. this one shot north -- or south of the canadian border yesterday. reed timer shot this across the border. no damage. out in farm land, thankfully. that video for you. as far as the forecast for

today, another day where things are a little messy across the northeast and down across parts of southern florida as well and out west, dry and windy conditions are expected. extreme fire danger for this area and severe weather for west of chicago today in through minneapolis, maybe madison, wisconsin as well. zoraida, back up to you. >> all right. thank you very much, rob. so, this is not smart, but apparently it's not criminal. that is the word from prosecutors in southern new jersey who decided not to press charges against a babysitter and her friend who put a 1-year-old baby in a washing machine at a laundromat. it was captured by store security cameras. the couple panicked when the door locked. yep. >> yeah, and the water started. >> a clerk pulled the plug on the washer in order to free the baby. the child's mother wasn't even aware of what happened until the night before the hearing! >> i never knew about none of

this. that's what i was trying to tell her. i never knew about none of this. i found out on the news -- i mean on the -- yeah, the news. >> did you recognize your son? >> yes. >> what did you think about what you saw? >> truthfully, y'all don't want to know. >> look at that cutie pie. it happened nearly two weeks ago. the baby suffered minor injuries and has since recovered. i was reading a blog online of a dad who says don't judge this guy who did this, because he has done really stupid things in his life. but that, i think, would take the cake. >> i don't think a lot of people would expect a washer door to shut, lock and the water to start. for that reason, obviously, he would never have assumed that to happen but what a stupid stunt. >> why put the baby in there to begin with? >> god, i hope it wasn't because the baby was crying is all i can say. a movie extra suffered permanent brain injuries on the set of "transformers:bark at the moon" now settled a lawsuit.

paramount agreed to pay her $18.5 million. she was struck by a vehicle. she had a portion of her skull removed, suffers from seizures and is blind in one eye. it's the third film of the transformer series and that series is the fourth highest grossing ever. it's tough to see that picture. 17 minutes past the hour. bidding ends today on a few gross pieces of celebrity memorabilia. a glass vile supposedly contains traces of former president ronald reagan's blood. >> ick. >> big ick. $30,000. >> seriously? >> the auction house claims that the vial was used after he was shot. also a couple of strands of michael jackson's hair. current bid is $14,000.

that was supposedly taken when the singer's hair caught fire during the shooting of a pepsi commercial. there's more. you could own a lock of the famous bob, a piece of justin bieber's hair on sale for a minimum bid of $31,000. >> okay, that i would bid on. >> how about stale or staler? a piece of william and kate's wedding cake or a piece of charles and diana's cake for about the same price now? >> that one -- i think it was jinxed. >> the vial of blood. >> there's weird stuff you can see on ebay like britney spears gum, chewed. >> what do you do with that stuff? >> i'm a baseball memorabilia

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20 minutes after the hour. welcome back to "early start". the new york stock exchange may be trying to bigfoot the nasdaq and lower facebook to the big board. the journal says the nyse has

court courted facebook. cnn's mary snow is following it for us. she joins us now. this is a major mess. >> it is a major mess is right. so much outrage out there. three investors felt so cheated enough they filed a lawsuit here in new york. and the attorney representing them says shareholders lost billions of dollars and the suit seeks class action status. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg as well as other facebook executives are named in the suit, as well as the underwriters, the main one being morgan stanley. the suit alleges that they when would negative information about the social network's earning process before the ipo and then it was selectively disclosed. samuel ruddman is an attorney for the plaintiffs. >> an individual investor or regular institutional investor would feel like they were cheated here because someone knew something and they didn't

tell everybody, they only told a few people. >> facebook says the lawsuit is without merit and will defend itself vigorously. morgan stanley declined comment on this suit. that issue, started the whole thing that a morgan stanley analyst told some clients before the ipo that he was reducing facebook's revenue projections. indicating in an sec document that includes struggling to make money in mobile advices. morgan stanley is denying that it did anything improper. arthur levin says the restrictions placed on what analysts can say may mean nothing improper was done. it's just another rule that needs to be changed, he said. and on top of the problems that the ipo had at the starting gate, the technical glitches, the damage is more than monetary. it's eroding investor confidence, especially coming on

the heels of jp morgan's $2 billion loss. >> clearly, it's a black eye for the industry and all the participants. this was -- company was supposed to be a showpiece for american capitalism. instead of that, it's become a laughing stock. that's going to pass, but it's a fact. we don't look good and something should be done about it. >> one of the changes he wants to see is to be able to publish analyst reports on the web so it's a level playing field and information is disseminated to everyone. >> you mentioned some glitches. some people don't know whether they own facebook yet or not, right? >> talk about investor anger and outrage. so much confusion with that starting on the opening day. there's confusion about who owns what. >> they're still expecting more lawsuits as well? >> yes, definitely. just talking to his lawyer yesterday, he said as soon as he

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cnn exposes a charity that's supposed to help mern america's veterans but it turns out not all the money is going where it's supposed to be going. >> good thursday morning. i'm zoraida sambolin. >> and i'm ashleigh banfield. let's get you started. hundreds of protesters are planning to demonstrate outside a north carolina church this saturday. why? because the pastor of that church called for gay and lesbians to be held behind an electric fence until they die out. this is not a joke. it was a mother's day sermon. >> a great, big, large fence, 150 or 100-mile long. put all the lesbians in there. fly over and drop some food. do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals.

and have that fence electrified so they can't get out. feed them and -- you know what? in a few years, they'll die out. >> i think we tried that once, america, japanese interment camps. didn't turn out so well. among worley's florks there seem to be a lot standing by him. gary? >> reporter: a prayer service was held at this north carolina church. hundreds of people turning out, supporting their pastor and supporting the comments he made on mother's day. we want to talk to pastor charles worley. we have been here for a couple of days to do that. he refused to do so. we've been told, matter of fact, that if we step foot on church property, we will be arrested by sheriff's deputies. 20 sermons from this pastor, a woman we spoke to wasn't at

these for different reasons. for one reason, jane, we'll call her, is not a member. a close relative is a member. number two, she's a lesbian, open lesbian, but she has children and her children's friend's parents don't all know she's a lesbian. >> when you heard these comments he made on mother's day, pastor worley, how did you feel? >> saddened, disappointed. >> were you surprised? >> i was not surprised. >> reporter: tell me why you weren't surprised. >> i've been aware of his opinions and his beliefs about homosexuality. >> reporter: have you heard him utter similar comments over the years when you've attended the church? >> i've heard comments along those same lines in the past. >> reporter: if you had a chance to talk to him -- perhaps you will soon, because it's a small town -- would you say something to him about this? >> i would say hello. i would extend my hand and i

would say, you've been going through a tough time. this is a very difficult situation for our community. and i pray for you for hope, healing, peace, tolerance. >> reporter: do you think he's a good man? >> i think it would be difficult to judge his entire life, ministry, character on that sunday's sermon. i believe that he probably is. >> reporter: a good man? >> i think he intends to do good. i think in pastor worley's mind, he is preaching love, but it's in his mind he's preaching love. >> reporter: as you can tell, jane's feelings are complex but she's obviously not fighting fire with fire. what we learned from the pastor from someone who attended one of

these special prayer services is that the pastor is amazed at all the national attention. a large protest is scheduled by a civil rights group. >> gary tuchman reporting. mother's day was a few weeks ago and the pastor has tempered his sermons lightly, only taking the word queer out of his statements. >> little shocking there, huh? >> just a little. 35 minutes past the hour. senate finance committee is investigating a charity that is supposed to be helping veterans. disabled veterans national foundation. cnn examined the tax records and very little of the millions raised by the foundation over the past three years has actually gone to help veterans.

$61 million has gone to a direct mail company that works with the foundation and many other charities. something senator max baucus of montana finds very suspicious. >> frankly, i smell a rat there. using the veteran's organization as a front for themselves so they get the contributions from good, well-meaning, wholehearted americans thinking they're helping disabled vets when, in fact, it is going to this other outfit, fund-raising operation and none of the money is going to the vets. >> watchdog group charity watch gives the disabled veteran's national foundation an f grade since 2010. they estimate only 2% of the money raised by the charity is actually going to help disabled veterans. america loves a good superhero, right, if "the ave e aveng avengers" is any indication. what if our presidential

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thor slugging it out from a scene from "the avengers." there's another battle playing out. mitt romney attacked president obama's record, saying the president hasn't exactly been the superhero america was hoping for. >> what has he done as president of the united states over the last four years? has he established the revitalization he promised he would bring to us? did he hold unemployment below 8%? it's been, what, 39 months now? that's not happened. >> my next guest says mitt romney may not be america's economic avenger either. matter of fact, no avenger in site for america, dean. >> that's the issue. you look at polls, 70% of america americans think the economy is bad, 61% think we're on the wrong track. we need a superhero, but we don't have that. at one point, frankly, i thought that president obama would be a

superhero with that "yes we can" attitude. now it's more like it could be worse. i just want some evidence or support. show me the money, to quote cuba gooding jr., where it will actually result in job growth. that's the zblish you're not taking sides and comparing the two? >> i don't think president obama can become that superhero. he has been honest about the challenges of creating jobs. it's very hard. there are many issues that affect us. it's not just america. europe has problems, banks giving loans. mitt romney said if elected i'll bring unemployment down to 6%. >> he had said 4% back in may. >> he is changing because he realizes the reality. i want more honesty from mitt romney about this an austerity plan will work, i would like to see evidence of where that is working. the american people want to see

it. it's not democrat or republican. uk has done an austerity plan for a year. it's not worked. they're back in a recession. japan had a new stimulus plan this year and they've grown by 4.1% this year. the question is, what will work? >> you weren't the only one who believed that obama with his a superhero. he has fallen from grace now. do you think he could get reelected, given the fact that he is no longer in that superhero standing? >> i don't think he ever billed himself as a superhero. i think we viewed him as a figure that would solve the nation's problems and the reality is that not one person can do this. mitt romney said something yesterday. there's no easy answer to the economy. he still promises unemployment back down to 6%. >> there is an organization that says, yes, indeed, we can get down to 6% or 5.3%. >> five years ago we were at

6.4%, just five years ago. look how much our expectations have changed. it's not easy -- there's no switch you can throw. if there were, democrats, republicans would flip that switch and bingo, the economy is working. that's what he's saying on his website, campaigning about. show us where that's worked in america's industry or other nations similar to our economy. i want it to work. >> examples of how he can get more jobs? >> that's right. he was 47th in job creation when he was governor. now he's saying i can create more jobs. i want to see that. 100,000 jobs over years is not enough to keep our unemployment rate going down in a month. we need 100,000 jobs in a month to keep our unemployment rate from going down. i wish the media would call out all politicians that say i can fix the economy. don't just tell us, i'll do this, this and that. where have those ideas worked before or if they haven't worked before, why have they not?

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breaking news coming from the new york police department. they say they have a suspect in custody in connection with a decade's old case recently making news, the 1979 disappearance of a young boy who went missing in soho, etan patz.

the investigation was reopened as police began interviewing and reinterviewing a carpenter who was connected to this neighborhood and lived just down the street from the patz family. the nypd has a man in custody who has implicated himself in the disappearance of this little boy, etan patz. this, coming to us from the police commissioner, ray kelly. apparently we're going to get more details made public a little bit later on today, but so far that is a very big headline in a case mystifying. one of the police officers committed suicide, frustrated with all the work done on the case and not being able to solve it. nypd has a man in custody, who says he implicated himself. >> wouldn't that be something

for that family to get answers after all these years? we'll be all over that story. siri, apple's revolutionary voice control iphone app is in its beta stage but seems to be a game changer already. >> how many cups are in 12 ounces? >> let me think. here you go. >> set my timer for 30 minutes. >> okay. 30 minutes and counting. >> so creepy and so cool. all at the same time, right? users have certainly found hundreds and hundreds of uses for siri. the tech giant ibm has raised some security and privacy issues, going so far to ban this thing from the corporate networks. let's bring in christine romans. why the ban? >> it's interesting, right? it stems from how the program works, user speaks a command into the phone and it's zapped to the data center in north carolina where the words are

interpreted and sent back. apple doesn't specify how long the information is kept or who has access to it along the way which is why ibm won't allow employees to use it on its bring your own device policy. all of this data is used to help siri and dictation understand you better, not linked to other data that apple may have from your use of other apple services. ibm isn't taking any chances with company information. technology review magazine was told, quote, we're just extraordinarily conservative. it's the nature of our business. there you go. really interesting, to think about how much of our information is out there, where it's going and the different ways we're accessing it, who could possibly see it. >> google has come under fire for, you know, harboring all of our information as well. we readily throw in everything under the sun when we look up our searches. >> that's right.

>> there's a difference between siri and google. >> if you're ibm, allowing your customers -- sorry, your employees to byod, bring your own device, you want to make sure that whatever device you're using that might not be company approved. >> between google and siri, we're dictating our e-mails, full of information. a lot more personal information than a google search may be. there's a lot more information process thud siri than just a google search. >> tells you about a new word we live in. >> siri or siri? >> i say siri. >> suri is the one who -- >> tom cruise, right? >> she's good. high school football player flagged by the principal for this, tebow'ing on stage during graduation. mom wasn't happy about this one either. how she pull aid fast one on the teenager. i got that wrong didn't i?

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56 minutes past the hour. tebow'ing teen getting in trouble at his graduation ceremony. from ft. myers, florida, we bring you this. football player, private catholic high school dropped to one neon stage and tebow d, right in front of his principal. >> a football player. >> and it's a catholic school. he was then told he wouldn't be getting his diploma. turns out he was the one on the receiving end of a high school prank. his mother, who was upset with the stunt, had his diploma the whole time but didn't let him know until he cleaned up the high school gym as part of his punishment. from this video, it is awesome. from the beaches down under. just watch. >> look at that!

oh, look at this. get a shot of that. >> you hear the guy saying look at the size of that? the fisherman who posted the video is individual crow taping an 18-foot great white shark who had just bitten the head of a blue shark that was on the fishing line. australian authorities are assuring swimmers there and here -- because we're watching, too. and the surfers that -- >> you're safe. go into the water. >> the lifeguards are patroling for sharks and the water is safe. how do the life guards actually patrol for sharks? do they just look? >> yes. >> or swim? me thinks i would be out of the water for a little while, seeing that. wow! "starting point" less than a minute away. here is christine romans. >> best advice this morning from documentary film maker morgan spurloch. >> best advice i probably ever

received was from my father, who when i was growing up told me there's two kinds of people in this world. those who do what they say they're going to do and everybody else. so, you're going to go out into the world, find your place, mean what you say and say what you mean. >> be the first kind of person, right? >> morgan spurlock. absolutely love "mansome." do love that. that is the news from a to z. that's "early start." i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. "starting point" starts right now. etan patz, the 6-year-old boy who vanished more than 30 years ago. a person is being held in custody. we'll bring you the latest on this case. shareholders are suing facebook and its bankers, saying they were deceived. congress wants to know, is that true? outrage after a man who led the u.s.