ashleigh banfield has more for us. ashleigh? >> we're trying to get as many details in as we can. the police commissioner here in new york city is releasing this big nugget of information, that apparently there is a person in custody in relation to this case, someone who has apparently made it clear that he or she has a connection to this case. as you mentioned, man, this is an old case. 33 years old, etan patz went missing in a lower manhattan neighborhood, never to be seen. no one could crack this case. several weeks ago, the investigation reopened into a carpenter, a carpenter who had a carpentry shop just down the street from where etan patz's family lived. they, in fact, broke open the floor and removed a whole bunch of evidence from that lower manhattan building that has since changed into a number of other different kinds of venues and didn't find anything. they removed not only the floor, but dumpsteres near sdumpsters . nothing ever came of it. we are being told that is not the person in custody at this time, just that the nypd has a person in custody who has implicated h

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin.s starts right now. >>> a three-day weekend washout, tropical storm beryl making landfall while you slept, dumping heavy rain and with it dangerous surf in the southeast. >>> unthinkable carnage in syria, dozens of women and children slaughtered, a weekend massacre triggering shock around the world. will that shock lead to military action from the u.s.? >>> plus paying tribute to the nation's fallen warriors memorial day, general martin dempsey joins me live. >>> the catholic church trying to solve vati-leaks, did the pope's butler really do

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm zoraida sambolin.t romney trumped by the donald, after last night's texas primary win, romney now has more than enough delegates to clinch the republican nomination but hardly anyone is talking about that this morning. instead it is with donald trump, about where the president was born. >> a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate. >> how can you say that if the -- >> many people do not think it was authentic, his mother was not in the hospital. there were many other things that came out, and frankly, if you would report it accurately i think you'd probably get better ratings you're getting which are pretty small. >> donald, have you seen the actual newspaper announcements within days of his birth in han lulu, "the honolulu star bulletin" you see the birth announcement back in 1961. >> yes and many people did that. >> excuse me, can i ask the question? >> can i talk without you defending obama? >> donald, you're beginning to sound a little ridiculous. >> no, i think you, wolf. >> cnn

i'm ashleigh banfield. look who's here! >> good morning. >> nice to have you here. >> i'm alina cho. zoraida has the day off today. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. on this friday before memorial, we've got lots of news. >> we do, so let's get right to it. >>> this is a big story. for the first time in 33 years -- in fact, the anniversary today -- new york police may finally have their man in the murder of etan patz 33 years ago. he is 51-year-old pedro hernandez. he is under arrest and is expected to be charged with second-degree murder. he was 19 at the time that 16-year-old the etan patz disappeared while walking on his bus stop in 1969. hernandez was working in a grocy store and living in the neighborhood that patz and his family were living in. new york's police commissioner says hernandez detailed the crime in a confession. >> hernandez described to the detectives how he lured young etan from the school bus stop at west broadway and prince street with the promise of a soda. he then led him into the baseme

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida samb olin.e is making a direct plea for the president. >> it is very important that you act quickly, and i'm now waiting for your response. >>> some big political changes in europe, and they are affecting the financial markets. christine romans and ali velshi will join us to debate what the e elections will mean to the 401(k)s and a murder mystery happening at churchill downs as a man's body is discovered in the barns after the big race. >>> and the big ipo facebook tour begins. we will talk about h

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i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin.d fugitive list. well this morning, it turns out that adam mayes is dead. the dramatic and abrupt end as cops closed in on him in tennessee. that murder/kidnapping suspect, we'll tell you what happened. >>> plus it was the biggest art heist ever, the hunt for $500 million worth of art stolen from a museum 22 years ago. right now, federal agents are all over the home of a reputed

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> happy to have you this morning. i'm zoraida sambolin. let's get started. >>> tropical storm beryl making landfall in northeastern florida near jacksonville beach. it's packing a wallop, 70-mile-per-hour winds, torrential rain, more than 24,000 people without power this morning in the area. take a look at the pictures on your screen. that shows you the wind. the wind warnings, storm warnings all up along the atlantic coast from florida to georgia to the carolinas, putting a severe dent in a lot of the memorial day festivities. rob marciano has been pretty much up all night in the severe weather center watching all of this. things getting better tleels for now? >> well, the wind has died down but the rain is still coming. this event is far from over. at one point winds at 70 miles an hour, almost a hurricane. and some could argue that it was a minimal category 1 hurricane when it made landfall. here it is on the radar scope. just reading the latest from the national hurricane center, their 5:00 a.m. advisory, winds now down to 50 miles an

i'm zoraida sambolin. >> and i'm ashleigh banfield.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,

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. it's 5:00 a.m. >> hard to talk at this hour. >> we start with this. new details about how the cia stopped an al qaeda plot to blow a passenger jet out of the sky. all of this right around the anniversary of osama bin laden's death. we've got new fears about whether that bomb just might have been undetectible. senior administration officials telling cnn that the intended user of the bomb is, quote, not a threat anymore. u.s. counterterrorism official says the explosive device is similar to the one that was used by the so-called underwear bomber back on christmas day of 2009. only this time, more sophisticated and harder to detect. barbara starr is live at the pentagon this morning. what do we know about the bomb itself and about how this all unfolded? >> well, very little detail being made public at this point, ashleigh because officials say operations intelligence operations are still ongoing. clearly, pointing to the fact they still feel there are elements of

i'm zoraida sambolin, i'm ashleigh banfield.alling for all gays and lesbians to be locked up behind an electric fence. he was greeted by a standing ovation. >> outside the providence road baptist church a different kind of standing ovation. there it is on your screen. hundreds of people from across north carolina and the country gathering to protest pastor charles worley's message. so far the pastor has refused to speak to reporters. cnn's gary tuchman went to north carolina to ask him if he still stands behind that sermon. >> reporter: ever since pastor charles worley made his infamous speech and it went viral, we wanted to get a chance to talk to him to see if he was sorry for what he said and the tone. he dodged the press. we made an effort to find 4i78 and we did. we haven't seen nor heard from pastor worley since his antigay sermon went viral until now. pastor, would you like to take back anything you said? pastor, i want to give you a chance to take anything back if you care to. pastor worley had plenty of opportunity to a

i'm ashleigh banfield.yzing a new bomb threat from al qaeda after the cia stopped a plot to blow up a passenger jet that was bound for the united states. that device is similar to the one the underwear bomber used to try to ignite on christmas day in 2009. officials say it also came from the same lab of al qaeda's chief bombmaker who is still on the loose this morning. >>> and north carolina voters are heading to the polls today to decide whether they are in favor of a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. it's called amendment one and it would change the state's constitution to read, quote, marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized. >>> also, remember rick santorum? he's finally endorsed mitt romney. what do you know except it wasn't like this. no clapping and cheering. a month after dropping out of the race, the former pennsylvania senator just sent an e-mail to the supporters. the endorsement was in paragraph 13 and he said also, quote, a

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. cory booker, a rising star in the democratic party is really mad this morning and firing back after an ad from the mitt romney campaign used his own words against him about the obama campaign's attacks on mitt romney the businessman. here's what he said on "meet the press"" sunday. >> this is nauseating on both sides, nauz waiting to the american public. enough is enough. stop attacking private equity. >> so here's the ad that mitt romney camp came out with after booker made those comments. >> look at the total ate of bain capital's record, they've done a lot to support businesses and grow businesses. even obama's own supporters have it. enough is enough. >> i'm upset, taken out of context, used to report a cynicism. if there was any honor mitt romney would have said like obama did, citizens united decision is going to hurt our democracy, he would have said the negativity on our side, i'm going to talk about us has got to stop. he was going to say i stand with cory booker, stop the su

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm christine romans for you this morning. zoraida is off again today. 5:00 a.m. in the east. let's get started. al qaeda's attack plans found hidden in porn. police uncovering embedded files on a memory card meant only for senior leadership to see. we have exclusive details of future plots, including taking over a cruise ship. >>> may day protests all around the world. occupy wall street trying to regroup and calling for a day without the 99%. no work, no shopping, no banking. hoping for a nationwide disruption. >>> and rescue 411. a 4'11" firefighter just the right size to save a little baby who fell 20 feet down a drain pipe. we'll be talking to the hero. >>> up first this morning, pure gold. it's how intelligence officials are describing over 100 internal al qaeda documents that detailed past attacks and future terror targets. here is something incredible. the information was embedded in a porn movie. it was uncovered by german authorities after they arrested an al qaeda operative last year and that operative was searched.

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin.d fugitive list. well this morning, it turns out that adam mayes is dead. the dramatic and abrupt end as cops closed in on him in tennessee. that murder/kidnapping suspect, we'll tell you what happened. >>> plus it was the biggest art heist ever, the hunt for $500 million worth of art stolen from a museum 22 years ago. right now, federal agents are all over the home of a reputed connecticut mobster. we'll tell you what they found so far. >>> also was presidential candidate mitt romney a bully? he's now responding to allegations he harassed a prep school classmate who later came out as gay. his adviser from the campaign will join us live. it's friday, may 11th and "starting point" begins right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome, everybody. our starting point is with headlines. zoraida sambolin has an update on what's happening in that manhunt, the two sisters have been found alive and unharmed. zoraida, good morning. >> absolutely that

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm criminhristine romans.hours away from the release of thetoday. >>> documents and digital files and recordings found the night terror leader osama bin laden was shot dead. coming up, we are going to get a sneak peek of what they say. >>> junior seau, another nfl great, gone too soon. this time from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> he never say nothing to me. junior! >> the fans asking if the game he loved contributed to his death. we'll talk to a friend and former player, jamal anderson. >>> left handcuffed in a federal holding cell for five days. no food, no water. forgotten. a college student saying he was sure at one point he was going to die. >> i had to do what i had to do to survive, you know. >> he even says he started carving a good-bye note to his mom into his arm with his own broken glasses. how he ended up there and more of this unbelievable tail tale just ahead. >>> dissident chen guancheng is now pleading with president obama to get him out of china. he says he doesn't feel safe ther

i'm ashleigh banfield. >>> i'm zoraida sambolin. we're bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. let's get started. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin with breaking news this morning. two american tourists kidnapped by gunmen in egypt. it happened in the town of dahab in the region of egypt. the report says that two americans were forced out of a car and taken away. the alleged kidnappers demanding the release of a man who was arrested a day before for drug possession. cnn's ben wedeman is live in cairo. i know these are late-breaking details. what can you tell us? >> reporter: the embassy is in close contact with the egyptian authorities. they say to resolve this situation. now, it's not unusual, the not the first time that tourists, including americans, have been kidnapped here. since the revolution at the beginning of last year, state authority in that part of egypt has really sort of crumbled and there are parts of the sinai that simply are out of government control. that particular area going up the eastern coast of the peninsula in the di

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida samb olin.e is making a direct plea for the president. >> it is very important that you act quickly, and i'm now waiting for your response. >>> some big political changes in europe, and they are affecting the financial markets. christine romans and ali velshi will join us to debate what the e elections will mean to the 401(k)s and a murder mystery happening at churchill downs as a man's body is discovered in the barns after the big race. >>> and the big ipo facebook tour begins. we will talk about how going public changes your facebook experience. it is monday may 7th, and "starting point" begins right now. now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> we begin with the breaking news this morning on "starting point" and chilling tape from warren weinstein who is an american hostage held by al qaeda. you can see the 70-year-old man pleading to president obama to agree to the kidnappers' demands or he says he will be killed. he was abducted last august in

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. it's 5:00 a.m. >> president obama hopping off the fence, folks, and right into the political frying pan. all of this with the historic endorsement of same-sex marriage. no sitting president has ever done what barack obama did yesterday during an interview with abc news. here are the words that touched off millions of lives across the country and may have just redefined the race for the white house. >> i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> pretty strong words. pretty clear, too. dan lothian is live in washington, d.c. with us this morning. it took a long time for the president to evolve to this position. but why now? and why this way? >> that's right. well, the president had been under a lot of pressure to really state his position on this. and some top members of his administration over the last few days had come out and made their positions clear. and so the president finally came around on this after almost two years. he said after talki

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm christine romans in for zoraida sambolin. >> we start with breaking news. >> cheng guangcheng has left the chinese embassy. he's been holed up in beijing for six days after escaping house arrest. chen has been taken to a medical facility and will be reunited with his family. these developments coming while secretary of state hillary clinton and treasury secretary timothy geithner are in beijing preparing for economic and strategic meetings with chinese leaders beginning on thursday. it's not clear how the chen case might influence those talks, but this was starting to become a sticky situation between the u.s. and china. china now reportedly demanding an apology from the u.s. for sheltering the activist. we'll have a live report from beijing in the next half hour. >>> our other big story of the morning. new questions about america's longest war, this after a trip to afghanistan by the president that was supposed to sum it all up. president obama saying one year after the death

i'm zoraida sambolin. >> and i'm ali velshi in for ashleigh banfield.ne day after the shooting george zimmerman had a closed fracture of his nose. two black eye, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury. now, that is according to a medical report compiled by zimmerman's family physician. the mother of a mentally ill homeless man who died after a police beating has accepted a $1 million settlement from the city of fullerton, california. two of the officers who were soon repeatedly hitting 37-year-old kelly thomas face charges ranging from second degree murder to involuntary manslaughter. >>> a rapid at-home test for hiv is a step closer to reality. an fda add viz advisory commiss giving a recommendation for this oral hiv test. it's safe, effective and that the benefits outweigh the risks, they say. >>> a federal report shedding light on security breaches at airports. it shows almost half go unreported. so today the house homeland security committee is holding a hearing to find out why that happens. our aviation and regulation corre

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>> ashleigh banfield did an excellent job and did an excellent television anchorwoman.t. >> excellent. i agree. what's coming up on the show? >> you are excellent as well. mike rodgers, the chairman of the house intelligence committee has new information about what's going on with the improvised explosive device that was discovered apparently in yemen. it was bound for some sort of suicide bomber that was going try to get on a plane headed toward the united states. new information on that. that story broke, as you know, about 24 hours or so ago. we're all over that. also, new information coming in on allen gross, the american citizen being held in a cuban jail. he's been there for almost two and a half years. the secretary of state hillary clinton is now weighing in to cnn. she spoke about it with our own jill dougherty. patrick leahy met with him for about two and a half hours with the senate of the judiciary commity. the embassy is now weighing in giving me their perspective. we're getting a statement from the lawyers, and we're all over this story and a lot more comi

ashleigh banfield. i said lighting really changes a place. it looks yellow. >> it was painted. >> i had no idea it was painted. it's all new. that's our beautiful new studio. what a pleasure to work with you. >> i'm so excited to have you here. you are wired, dude, you are wired. >> that's okay because there's lots of news this morning. >> up first this morning, heads about to roll. at jp morgan chase. according to bloomberg, the firm's entire london staff could be dismissed. the banking giant also expected to accept the resignation of this woman, ina drew. pulling down a salary of over $15 million a year. drew and two other company executives being held accountable for a stunning $2 billion loss. ceo jamie dimon doing damage control on sunday talk shows is. >> it was a stupid thing that, you know, we should never have done but we're still going to earn a lot of money this quarter. it isn't like this company is jeopardized. we hurt ourselves and credibility, yes, that we have to fully expect and pay the price for that. >> christine romans is

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm zoraida sam blin. nice to have you. killed yesterday at the adams county correctional facility in natchez. five prison workers and an inmate were injured there. things were finally brought under control but it was really late last night. the prison houses over 2,000 illegal immigrants. most charged with low security crimes. officials say none of the inmates escaped. >>> also making news the queen the disco era donna summer will be buried today during a private funeral in nashville. five-time grammy winner lost her ten-month battle with cancer on thursday. she was just 63 years old. >>> it was a cheese catastrophe. the deadly magnitude 6.0 earthquake, i don't mean to make light of it folks. it shook several towns in northern italy, crumbled a clock tower and destroyed centuries old buildings, also destroyed $65 million worth of cheese. the region is known for making parmesan cheese. an italian farm official says some 200,000 huge round cheese wheels were damaged. >>> all right. this story out of miami has a lot of people

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm christine romans. zoraida is off. zoraida sambolin is off.bizarre story, hard way to die and a strange twist in the case, a woman plunges 1,000 feet in a hang gliding evidence and evidence in the instructor's stomach. >>> a widow who unleash eed wil animals on the town. >> a human rights hero in the diplomatic firestorm between the united states and china. secretary hillary clinton and officials say he's free to study abroad. he says he wants to come to the u.s. and interrupted a capitol hill hearing yesterday to request a meeting with our secretary of state. >> translator: i want to meet with the secretary clinton. i hope i can get more help from her. the thing i'm most concerned right now is the safety of my mother, my brothers, and i really want to know what's going on with them. >> secretary clinton is going to wrap up her visit to china this morning. we'll monitor that news conference and bring you her comments later on in the broadcast. >>> new details in the death of future nfl hall of famer junior seau and his painful, final moments a

ashleigh banfield is on assignment. did you sleep well last night? >> i slept wonderful. >> at least one of us did. >> we certainly hope you slept well. frenzy over the facebook ipo. exactly how much it will cost you to get a piece of the social network when it goes public. there's so much interest that facebook is boosting the amount of shares it will offer to the public. the eight-year-old company could be worth more than mcdonald's by happy hour tomorrow night. we'll keep you here as well, ali. let's bring in christine romans. >> of course. >> it's very interesting. let's get to it. >> institutional investors, windows has closed for them to say they want to get in. those are the big guys. the little guys are waiting to find out what the ipo price will be and put in your limit orders. that's what i keep advocating. what price do you think you want to pay for facebook stock when it starts trading under the ticker symbol fb? one reason there's so much hype around this initial offering is this is a company that everyone knows, right? 900 million peopl

." >> i'm ali velshi, ashleigh banfield is on assignment. it's 5:00 a.m. in new york city. >> today is the day. in just a few hours, ticker symbol fb will appear on nasdaq, and facebook will be a publicly traded company. $38 a share which would value facebook at $100 billion. the most valuable company ever at the time of its initial public offering. and more valuable than citi or mcdonald's. millions hoping it will help them boost their bottom lines this morning. dan simon is live at the facebook mothership in menlo park, california, where workers are marking the occasion by working all night long. seriously, dan, what's up with that? >> it's 2:00 in the morning here and we're wide awake. they're having a hack a thon, an opportunity for facebook employees to basically do what they do best -- build, design, create. they do this periodically, an interesting public relations move as we're about to begin the trading of the stock. what they want to do is send a message to the world that they built this company on building stuff. so that's what they're doing. th

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm zoraida sambolin.rd to talk at this hour. >> we start with

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin.o "z." >>> up first, the longest serving republican in the united states senate, probably out looking for another job this morning. he is indiana's richard lugar. you recognize him. he was recognize him. he was sent straight into retirement after losing a republican primary battle last night against a backer of the tea party. lugar served six terms in the senate. and if you do the math, that is 36 years. cnn's political editor paul steinhauser is live in washington. this is one everyone was watching. it's not like it wasn't expected. polls going in show he was in big, big trouble, but does it speak bigger volumes about where this electorate is at right now? >> yes, especially the republican electorate. this party has become more conservative over the last couple of years and this is a sign of it. and richard lugar, i guess, didn't change with the times. tea party groups in indiana have been targeting him for two years now and got a lot of support over the last year or two from the larg

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> christine romans.ignment today. >>> a brand new poll of polls, cnn poll of polls. it shows the race for the white house is as tight as it gets, folks. the poll of polls averages the three major national polls all released within the last 24 hours. it's got president obama really cling to going to a two-point m over mitt romney. cnn political editor paul steinhauser joins us. it's got president obama doing pretty well when it comes to foreign policy, not so much when it comes to the economy. what have you got? >> let's talk about the economy, and let's talk about what's been going on the last week and a half. and that is bain capital. mitt romney runs for president and says, i can do a better job at creating jobs than president obama. he points to his time at bain capital, his time at the private equity firm. you've seen president obama and the campaign attacking romney over bain, saying bain destroyed a lot of businesses, not just creating them. you've seen commercials. you've seen ads. you've seen the

i'm ashleigh banfield.a.m. in the east. let's get started here for you. up first, the fallout from what could be the biggest gamble of the obama presidency. no sitting president has ever done what barack obama did yesterday. in an interview with abc news, he publicly came out in support of same-sex marriage. here are the words that may have redefined the race for the white house. >> what may redefine the white house. >> i believe same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> dan lothian, the president said it took years to evolve to this point. some feel that vice president joe biden actually forced his hand. why declare his support for same-sex marriage now? >> reporter: the president had been under a lot of pressure and as you point out there were key members of his administration who had over the last few days stated their position in support of same-sex marriage and so the president decided to go public with this after hearing from his friends, his daughters and his wife. >> for me personally it is

i'm ashleigh banfield. the countdown is on to the closing of the bell and closing of facebook. we are awaiting to find out where that will end up. president obama and world leaders are meeting at camp david. one of america's cities is bracing for big-time trouble. it is time to play reporter rule yet. let's begin with this. ali velshi is in new york on the first day of facebook's big trading. it seems like it started with a whimper. will it end with a whimper? >> looks like it. stock trading $39. first trade was $42.05. people thought that wasn't as big as expected. it went down from there and hit the price almost that it opened at. i suspect the underwriters morgan stanley, they and others got involved in buying. $39.02. barely a cent higher than where it opened up. a couple of problems here. one is what's the problem, why aren't more people buying facebook? what's the concern? the second is there seems to be trading problems across the board at the nasdaq. volume of shares traded on this stock is over 450 million. typically apple will trade 25 million a day, microsoft under 5

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> this is zoraida sambolin. we're bringing you the news "a" to "z." 5:00 in the east.

ashleigh banfield is on assignment. did you sleep well last