i'm christine romans at thesk in new york. >> and i'm john berman. 30 minutes past the hour. i'm at the anchor desk on the las vegas strip outside the wynn las vegas. it has arrived. the first democratic presidential debate is behind me at the resort hotel. only on cnn. frontrunner hillary clinton center stage. bernie sanders leading in new hampshire, but can he convince a wider audience to feel the bern. martin o'malley and lincoln chaffee and jim webb trying to make an impression to break through. we had one surprise here in las vegas. hillary clinton made a cameo appearance at a union rally outside a donald trump hotel. she could bash the gop frontrunner and appeal to organized labor. this is a group she needs here, particularly in nevada, but also across the country. senior political correspondent brianna keilar has the story. >> reporter: good morning, john and christine. hillary clinton arrived in las vegas and went to where? the trump hotel. that's where she joined union workers picketing outside the hote

. >> i'm christine romans. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. the countdown underway to the first democratic debate on cnn tomorrow night. hillary clinton on center stage and bernie sanders and three other democrats. what might the second tier candidates do to grab the spotlight? and what is the chance an extra podium will be added for joe biden? jim acosta has more. >> reporter: two days and counting until the democratic debate on cnn. you can see the stage is just about set. five podiums on the stage. the middle one for former secretary of state hillary clinton. the obvious frontrunner. to her right is bernie sanders. senator sanders has given clinton a run for her money in the polls. the other candidates will have a breakout moment. former governor martin o'malley and lincoln chaffee. the flash points with hillary clinton and bernie sanders, one will be on the iraq war and the last 24 hour, sanders has reminded supporters he voted against the iraq war in 2002. sort of echos of the battle roya royale. that was the vote that cost hillary clinto

i'm christine romans. a setback for stocks. asian markets are lower.data in china. let's relish the best winning streak since last year. >>> happening overnight. the biggest beer merger in history. inbev anheuser-busch buying sab miller. sab miller rejected four earlier bids. regulators still have to approve this. if it goes through, bud miller would be a super brewery with half of the world's top 40 beers. mergers are track for a record yesterday. yesterday, the biggest merger in the tech. dell bought emc for $67 billion. >>> we are just hours away from the cnn democratic presidential debate. "new day" picks it up now. >> it has arrived. the very first democratic presidential debate tonight. >> if you are going to run for president, then you should represent all the people of the united states. >> let's not try to demonize people. >> we have to define. >> i am unbought. >> they feel strongly where we are going as a country. >> it is not about the words. >> i will fight. >> join in the political revolution. let's transform america. >> this is "new day"

i'm christine romans. >> i'm boris sanchez. we are half past the hour.e have breaking news this morning. joaquin now a category three hurricane. as of last night, we had no idea where it was going. it is bearing down on the bahamas right now. another storm produces record rain up and down east coast. >> it has been raining and it is very wet here. separate, but unfortunate before joaquin. in massachusetts, a very, very dry september ending in dramatic fashion. 4 inches of rain. north of boston, a woman had to be rescued from the flood waters. and watch this in worcester, mass. she stalls out and boom. the weather snarling traffic across the region. >> it's bad. it's just gridlock everywhere. there's flooding everywhere. i've been on the road for two hours. >> and in maine, the national weather service says more than 5.5 inches fell on portland. one of the ten all time wettest days in the city's history. rain knocking downpo power line. >>> and west of baltimore, knee deep flash flood water rushing through streets. a local ymca flooded with three feet of

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east.elopments in the escalating feud with donald trump and jeb bush. trump pinning responsibility for

i'm christine romans. let's get an early start on your money this morning.utures pointing higher. earnings reports from mcdonald's, southwest, and others. stock futures higher. company profits expected to fall in the third quarter. >>> new details about how the government can track our phones. law enforcement officials gave long-awaited answers about the use of sting ray machines. these sting rays mimic an actual cell phone tower and trick your phone into connecting. police nationwide have been using them for years. officials say the devices are programmed to track cell phone locations, not gather calls or messages. still unclear how many sting rays exist and how often they're used. pulling the veil back a little bit. >>> your boss is probably putting more money into your 401(k) than ever before. more than 40% of companies match their workers' 401(k) contribution dollar for dollar. the maximum amount people with put away in a 401(k) is $18,000 a year. that number will change next year. >> also not changing next year. social security. >> the social security c

let's go live to christine romans backyard. >> let's go live to pedram javaheri. >> john and christine, good morning. yes, the cold air is felt across the country. a stretch of 1,100 miles from mississippi to new england seeing the frost advisories and freeze warnings in place across the region. temperatures about 10 to 13 degrees below normal. boston, 32. 45 is normal. new york city is 32. look how quickly the cold air departs. high pressure establishes itself. we have clear nights, but clear days. warm air developing over the region. we are talking about temperatures getting up quickly from 53 today in new york to 68 eventually. we get up to room temperature on wednesday afternoon. even d.c. out of the 50s into the mid-70s. in the midwest, temperatures warming up. 54 yesterday in milwaukee. should be close to 70 this afternoon. chicago also warming up to 73 by this afternoon with mild air looking to settle from wednesday to the latter portion of the week. guys. >>> pedram, thank you. big news overnight. not that. why are we showing that replay? that's dumb. that was dumb right there.

i'm christine romans.3 >> i'm alison kosik. breaking overnight. an iranian-american businessman identified as siamak namazi arrested in iran. he is the head of strategic companies. he was arrested by iranian security forces visiting family two weeks ago. this is complicating the peace talks under way in austria. let's bring in senior correspondent frederik pleitgen. what is the justification for arresting him and how much is this really complicating the already complicated talks going on about what to do with bashar al assad? >> reporter: so far, alison, it hasn't been a justification for why namazi has been detained. we have heard his passport was taken away before he was detained and taken to the prison which is also where jason rezaian has been sitting for more than 450 days. the washington post reporter apparently convicted of espionage. quite an inn transparent process. that is what we are seeing here. the forces that arrested mr. namazi or detained mr. namazi are part also of the hard line security forces that answer to iran's supreme leader

i'm christine romans. let's get an early start on your money.rt to the week for european stocks. stocks have done the impossible again. s&p 500 back in the black for the year. quietly overcoming the fears about china slowdown and fed rate hike that sent the s&p into the correction. the recent credit goes to strong profit from amazon, google, microsoft. microsoft at a 15-year high. those are the exceptions. third quarter profit and sales still expected to shrink for the first time since the recession. >>> a boom in fantasy sports to come to an end. if casinos and state regulators have their way. draft kings and fan duel were forced to close in nevada. the gaming control rules that the daily sports are sports gambling. illinois, pennsylvania, other states reviewing that as well. these have been called the wild, wild west. >>> "early start" continues right now. >> breaking news. at least five people are dead when a tour boat, a whale watching tour boat, capsizes. >>> donald trump now no longer winning in at least one state. he lashing out at the io

i'm christine romans. we may be days away from learning if joe biden will join the race for president. a senior democratic official telling cnn the word from biden's circle is he will decide by sunday. one says his family is totally on board with a run and he wants to do this. in the wake of the cnn democratic debate and solids performances from bernie sanders and hillary clinton, many are asking if there is room for him in the race. >> have you made your decision yet? >> i can't hear you. >> have you made your decision yet? is there still an opening for you in the race, sir? >> i'm here. i'll talk about that later. >> sources tell cnn that biden has personally been making calls in early primary states asking questions about how, but not whether to launch a 2016 bid. a senior official says those close to biden are giving no indication what his decision may be. with the official says there is growing i mpatience over the drawn out uncertainty. >>> hillary clinton with events in two cities. she was in texas

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. 31 minutes past the hour.n south carolina. the governor deploying 600 members of the national guard. rainfall totals never seen before. the governor calls it a once in a 1,000 year weather event. triggering more than 200 water rescue rescues. roads shutdown all over south carolina. cars and trucking washed away. look at the aerial view. water levels rising so fast. check this out. the coast guard had to air lift a mother and 15-month-old infant to safety. look at these people after being rescued from raging waters. torrential rain and floods leaving some with no choice but to rebuild. >> we lost everything. everybody down that hill there has lost everything. our vehicles, our clothes. everything. the best thing is we still have our lives. we still have our lives. >> columbia is getting the worst of it. parts of the state swamped by 18 inches of rain or more in a single 24-hour period. >> almost hard to imagine. >> catastrophic flash flooding with more rain in the forecast. let's get the forecast from meteorolo

learn more at first5california.com/parents >>> i'm christine romans.early start on your money. macy's will kickoff black friday this thanksgiving at 6:00 p.m. macy's opening on the actual holiday. a trend people call brown thursday now. some workers get upset because they say they feel like they are pressured to work instead of being with their families. rei made a move to keep its doors closed on black friday. that company wants shoppers to get outside instead. some retail workers like the time and a half. >> some people relish the idea of more money. >> sometimes it looks like we are crazy with the shopping extravaganza on the day to give thanks. >>> "early start" continues right now. >> breaking overnight. an american businessman arrested in iran. tensions rising as officials meet win vienna this morning. >>> new information

i'm christine romans. >> welcome to "early start." i'm john berman.ve cell phone video taken from the classroom in south carolina. it shows a school resource officer body slamming a female student after she refused to get up from her chair and he dragged her across the room. >> we don't really know what led up to the incident. the officer is richland county officer darren field. he has been placed on administerirative leave. >> the student was asked to leave the class several times by the instructor of the school and assistant principal. the officer was called on scene to have the student removed from the location. the student refused. the officer acted that you see on the video. again, what we saw was just a tid bit of what that video showed. we will look at what happened and then what happened afterwards. all of that will take part in what the sheriff decides. >> we are learning the officer in question, ben field, has been the subject of two lawsuits in the past decade. >>> a potential budget deal to bring peace and calm to washington. democrats and

i'm john berman. >> and i'm christine romans.11-hour grilling by the benghazi committee. republicans pressed the former secretary of state about her response to security concerns at the u.s. diplomatic compound in libya. these members grilled into actions on the night of the 2012 attack on the compound. an attack that killed chris stevens and three others. at times the aggressive questioning provoked an emotional response from clinton. >> i wonder if you would like to comment on what it's like to be the subject of allegation that you deliberately interfered with security that cost the life of a friend. >> congressman, it's a very personally painful accusation. it has been rejected and disproven by dispassionate investigators, but nevertheless, having it continued to be bandied around is deeply distressing to me. i would imagine i thought more about what happened than all of you put together. i have lost more sleep than all of you put together. i have been racking my brain about what more could have been done or should have been d

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. the breaking news this morning, new information about the 26-year-old gunman who killed ten people, injured seven others in the bloody campus massacre in oregon. the police showed up at umpqua community college with body armor. according to a father of a wounded student, he entered the classroom and asked victims if they were christian during the killing spree as he opened fire. >> he came in and there was gunfire immediately and scattered the room and got everyone's attention. what she said is he shot the professor point blank. one shot. killed him. took him right out. others had been injured. this man had enough time -- i don't know how much time elapsed before he was able to stand there and start asking people one by one what their religion was. are you a christian, he would ask them. if you're christian, they would stand up. he said because you're christian, you will see god in one second. he kept going down the lining doing this. >> let's get the latest from john vause on the gro

i'm christine romans. 30 minutes past the hour.untdown is under way for the democratic debate here on cnn. hillary clinton along with bernie sanders and three other democrats. what might the second tier candidates do to grab the spotlight? and what are the chances that joe biden will show up? jim acosta has the latest. >> reporter: we are here at the wynn hotel two days before the democratic debate. you can see the stage is just about set. five podiums on the stage. middle one for hillary clinton. she is the obvious frontrunner at this point. to her right is bernie sanders. senator sanders is giving hillary clinton a run for her money in the polls. it will be interesting to watch those it would go head-to-head. the other candidates will try to have a breakout moment. martin o'malley and lincoln chaffee and jim webb. between hillary clinton and sanders is on the iraq pwar. sanders reminding supporters he voted against the iraq war and hillary clinton voted for it in 2002. meanwhile, the x factor in all this is vice president joe bid

i'm boris sanchez. >> i'm christine romans. breaking news this morning.uin a category three hurricane bearing down on the bahamas as another separate storm system produces record rainfall up and down the east coast. >> is causing problems in massachusetts. a dry september ending in dramatic fashion with 4 inches of rain. a woman in boston had to be rescued in her car after being stuck in the flood waters. look at this car in worcester, massachusetts. the driver gets to dry land. opens the car door and gallons pouring out of the car. the weather is snarling traffic as you can imagine across the region. >> it's bad. gridlock everywhere. flooded everywhere. i've been on the road for two hours. >> in maine, the national weather service says more than 5.5 inches fell on portland. one of the ten all time wettest days in the city's history. the rains knocked down power lines. >> and west of baltimore, knee deep flash flood water rushing through the streets. a local ymca flooded out with three feet of water and stuff everywhere. check out the car in this photo. i

. >> i'm christine romans. it is october 5th, 5:00 a.m. in the east. deadly unprecedented flooding in south carolina. the governor deploying 600 members of the national guard with the state experiencing rainfall totals never seen before. the governor calls this a once in a 1,000 year weather event. it has triggered more than 200 water rescues. roads all over the state shutdown by flooding. cars and trucks washed away. look at the aerial view where water levels rising so fast that the coast guard had to air lift this mother and 15-month-old infant to safety. look at the folks in columbia. >> i can't get over the water. >> raging waist deep waters. holding on to a stop sign. rescue operations set to begin in the state capital today. the torrential rain and floods leaving some with no choice but to completely rebuild. >> we have lost everything. what i got on my body is everything. pretty much everybody down that hill has lost everything. vehicles, clothes, everything. the best thing is we still have our lives. >> more than 18 inches to 24 inches of rain

. >> i'm christine romans. it is tuesday, october 27th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. let's start with the video taken by a cell phone. video violence in a high school classroom in south carolina. this video shows a school resource officer body slamming a female student after she apparently refused to get up from her chair. the resource officer dragging her across the room. the officer in the video is richland county officer ben fields. he has been placed on administrative leave. police are trying to piece together what led to the violent incident. >> the student was asked to leave the class several times by the instructor at the school. assistant principal was there as well. the officer was called on scene to actually have the student removed from the location. the student refused. the officer acted that you see on the video. now, again, what we saw was just a tid-bit of what the video showed. we will look at what happened that led up to the incident that took place and what happened afterwards. all of that will take part in what the sheriff decides. >> and big discus

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. breaking news.ald trump fires back over whether or not his claims of george w. bush kept america's safe during 9/11. jeb bush says this proves that trump doesn't understand the claims or threats around the world. >> his view of the history is wrong. my brother created an environment where 2,600 days, no one attacked us again. he changed the laws and united the country and kept us safe. a tip of the hat to that and moving on to what our threats are today is what we should focus on. donald trump is not a serious candidate when it comes to foreign policy. >> bush said he would not support trump win the republican nomination. trump tweeted jeb is fighting to defend a catastrophic event. i'm fighting to make sure it doesn't happen again. jeb is too soft. we need tougher and sharper. the new poll suggests whether trump needs to pick fights with bush. trump led the highest share at 26%. this is what trump talked about on the trail in south carolina. cnn's sara murray was there. >> reporter: good morning. i

invest with confidence. >>> i'm christine romans.ng. u.s. stock futures pointing higher. it is earnings season. reports from mcdonald's, soest, united continental. stocks fell yesterday, the dow down about 50. investors are caution as company profits come in, they're expected to fall in the third quarter. >>> new details about just how the government can secretly track our phones. in testimony on capitol hill, law enforcement officials gave some long-awaited answers about the use of stingray machines, have you heard of these? they're devices that mimic an actual cell phone tower and trick your phone into connecting. police nationwide have been using them for years. officials said the devices are programmed to track cell phone locations, not gather calls or messages. t and how often they are ingrays used. that testimony pulliack the curtain a le bit on one of those lnforcement tactics. >> all right, today, a huge day, hillary clinton set to appear before the house select committee on benghazi, eight hours of testimony. you will want t

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman b.31 minutes past the hour., hillary clinton she is back on the campaign trail in virginia with her friend terry mcauliffe, the governor of virginia, this after an exhausting and exhaustive 11-hour session before the house select committee investigating benghazi. over and over republicans pressed the former secretary of state about her response to security concerns or they would say lack of response to security concerns at the u.s. diplomatic compound in benghazi. they drilled into clinton's actions the night of the 2012 attack. that attack that killed u.s. ambassador chris stevens and foreign officer sean smith and glen doherty and tyrone woods. there were moments of emotion. >> i wonder if you would like to comment on what it's like to be the subject of an allegation that you deliberately interfered with security that cost the life of a friend. >> congressman, it's a very personally painful accusation. it has been rejected and disproven by non-partisan, dispassionate investigators but nevertheless having it co

than you, christine romans. that interview tonight on "the lead with jake tapper." >> and that is all for us and time to leave las vegas. ashleigh banfield starts right now. >> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield and i want to begin with the breaking news, and there is a chaotic situation in the west bank right now on the heels of yet another attack in jerusalem. this is a live picture for you as nightfall in jerusalem and it turned 7:00 p.m. on the mark. palestinian protesters in the far background clashing with israeli police who

i'm john berman. >> i'm michelle kosinski in for christine romans.ary clinton is splitting with the white house over a trade deal she once pushed for as secretary of state. clinton has come out against the trans-pacific partnership. a 12-nation deal known as tpp for short. clinton did much the same as secretary of state, but that was before it had actually been negotiated. now the agreement has been finalized. clinton tells pbs that it doesn't meet the high bar it once sought. >> we learned a lot about trade agreements in the past years. sometimes they look great on paper. i know when president obama came in to office, he inherited a trade agreement with south korea. i along with other members of the cabinet pushed hard to get a better agreement. now looking back on it, it doesn't have the results we thought it would have in terms of access to the markets. >> you are saying you could not support this as of today? >> what i know about it as of today i am not in favor of what i have learned about it. >> clinton is in washington for a hispanic caucus ev

i'm christine romans, u.s. stock futures barely moving.appening on the street today, earnings from boeing, coca-cola and others before the bell. one stock falling, chipotle 12%. chipotle's worst growth in two years t. chain just isn't growing at the rapid speed it once was. that's because it already has a big foot print, almost doubling the number of restaurants in the last few years. also big loss yesterday, ibm had a tough day. that's why you had the dow close a little early. >> "early start" whatever show we have scheduled next continues right now. >> yes. ♪ breaking overnight, paul ryan announcing he is opened to serving as the next speaker of the house with a whom bunch of contention? what on earth is joe biden? is he about to announce he is

i'm alison kosik. >> i'm christine romans. it is 30 minutes past the hour.et's start with hillary clinton capitalizing on her debate performance. she has a series of events in las vegas. another long night. her first large rally in months. clinton basked in debate afterglow. >> i'm thrilled people finally got a chance to compare the democrats to the republicans. and i think we came out of that pretty well. >> with more on the resurging clinton campaign, we have cnn's brianna keilar. >> reporter: good morning. hillary clinton making post debate stops in nevada and courting key constituents. union members and hispanic voters. she stopped by a trade union trading facility and picked up i endorsement. she also stopped at a mexican ice cream chain. she spoke about joe biden as he contemplates a run for the white house after the first debate is over. >> i'm going to continue to run my campaign and make my case for my candidacy. everyone else, whether they are in or not in, will have to make whatever judgment is best for them. i will repeat what i have said to you

christine romans has the morning off. >> i'm john berman. good to have you here. it is tuesday, october 6th. the rains are tapering off, but the flood dangers in some cases, rising in south carolina. 11 storm-related deaths in south carolina so far. two in north carolina. those numbers could rise this morning. president obama has declared a major disaster ordering federal aid. the mayor of columbia expects things to get worse before they get better with damage in the billions of dollars. the problem now is flooded streams flowing into swollen rivers. officials say 18 dams have breached or failed in the state. near columbia, a mandatory evacuation has been ordered downstream of the overcreek river. >> helicopter crews and dozens more from the air in rescue operations. some guard troops ordered to help state troopers. this man risked his safety to get caskets out of a grave site. >> this is somebody's family. we have to respect the dead. that's family suffering. family popped up out of the ground. it is the human thing to do. >> with the latest on the flooding, cnn'

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. 4:31 in the east. a squirm in your seat republican debate. republicans sharpened attacks in boulder, colorado. candidates trained their sights on the media. >> just resign and let someone else take the job. >> the only reason you are doing this now is because we are running for the same position. >> he was so nice. he was such a nice guy. he said i'll never attack. then his poll numbers tanked. that's why he's on the end. >> leading republican candidate is donald trump. when you look at him, do you see someone with the moral authority to unite the country? >> you know, with the few questions i got, the last thing i need to do is give him more time. i'm wearing a trump tie tonight. >> you were on the home page with their logo over your shoulder. >> if someone put me on their home page, they did it without my permission. >> does that speak to your judgment or vetting process? >> we have people out of work. we have isis and al qaeda attacking us and we're talking about fantasy football? >> for the latest,

i'm christine romans. >> i'm alison kosik. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. this morning, we may be just days away from learning whether joe biden will join the race for president. as senior democratic official tells cnn the world from biden's inner circle is he will likely decide by sunday. one top official says quote his family is totally on board with a run and that he wants to do this, but in the wake of the cnn democratic debate and solid performances from hillary clinton and bernie sanders, many are asking if there is room for biden in the race. >> have you made your decision yet? >> i can't hear you. >> have you made your decision yet? is there an opening for you in the race, sir? >> i'm here to brief the president. i'll talk to you about that later. >> i'll use that i can't hear you excuse when someone asks me a question. sources tell cnn that biden has personally been making calls to strategists in early primary states asking questions about how, but not whether to launch a 2016 bid. those close to biden are giving no indication what his decision cou

i'm christine romans. >> i'm alison kosik. we start with hillary clinton capitalizing on the momentum from the debate. we start at first large rally in months. clinton basked in debate afterglow. >> i'm thrilled that people finally got a chance to compare the democrats to the republicans. >> we learn about about hillary clinton's campaign with cnn's brianna keilar. >> reporter: she is courting key constituencies in the state. she picked up an endorsement of a key union and a shop which specializes in mexican ice cream. she spoke about joe biden as he contemplates a run for the white house as this first debate is over. >> i'm going to continue to run my campaign and make my case for my candidacy and everyone else whether they are in or not in will have to make whatever judgment is best for them. i will repeat what i have said to you many times. i have the greatest respect and affection for the vice president. he and i are friends. we were former colleagues in the senate. i think he needs to decide what is best for him and his f

i'm christine romans. >> about 29 minutes past the hour.ernight, russia launching new airstrikes in syria, hitting targets in the western part of that countries. this appears to be a coordinated assault in conjunction with force loyal to bashar al-assad a. human rights group said the clashes are the heaviest in the last month. the comes after nato incurred a second incursion into turkish airspace, turkey, a nato member, has long ties to russia, is warning it risks quote losing a friend. secretary of state john kerry now apparently entertaining the notion of a no-fly zone in civilians caught in a civil war. this is interesting. it goes against a lot of what president obama has said about that idea in the last several months and years. joining us now with the latest from moscow. cnn's plath through chance t. russians not letting up one bit on their air assault and perhaps more in syria. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely, john, it seems like they're actually intensifying their air campaign against various targets inside syria. they say they're foc

. >> i'm christine romans. let's begin with breaking news overnight. jeb bush firing back in the feud with donald trump over whether george w. bush kept us safe or bears responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. in the interview, bush says this proves trump doesn't understand the threats that face america around the world. >> his view of history is wrong. when we were attacked, my brother created an environment we were safe. no one attacked us again. he changed the laws. he united the country and kept us safe. just a tip of the hat to that and moving on to the threats today is what we should focus on. donald trump is not a serious candidate as it relates to foreign policy. >> earlier in the day, trump fired off the taunts, including a tweet, jeb is fighting to defend a catastrophic event. i'm fighting to make sure it doesn't happen again. jeb is too soft. >>> a new poll showing a high water mark for trump. trump led with the highest share of the nbc/wall street journal poll at 25%. bush at 8%. this is what trump talked about on the trail in south carolina.

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans.after a while watching tour boat capsized near the town of tofino. officials say 21 people were rescued. one remains missing. they say a search and rescue efforts have finished. the investigation is now a missing persons case. no word on the cause of the disaster. >>> this morning, donald trump on the attack. he is now running second to ben carson in iowa. over the weekend, trump raised carson's faith as an issue and raised stance on immigration and trade and super low energy level. as for ben carson, he spent the weekend ducking these punches. cnn's ryan noble has the latest from washington. >> reporter: trump will be in new hampshire after a weekend of tweaking his rival, ben carson. trump tout his presbyterian faith and said he did not know what a seventh day adventist is. carson is a seventh day adventist is. trump said that polls show him leading with evangelical voters, but a quinnipiac poll shows donald trump leading nationally. >> i think carson is a low energy person. i think

good morning, welcome to "early start" christine romans. >> it is wednesday, october 7th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. breaking overnight, russia has launched new airstrikes, hitting targets in the western part of that country. this appears to be a coordinated assault in conjunction with bashar al-assad. all this is according to a human rights group. who says the clashes are the heaviest they have seen there in the last month. this himselfco after nato's secretary general confirmed a second incursion by russian fighter jets into turkish airspace, turkey, a member of nato, also had a close relationship with russia now. they risk losing a friend. secretary of state john kerry is entertaining the motion of a no-fly zone in syria now to protect civilians caught in the civil war. this is interesting, the last several months, not to mention years, president obama seemed to reject this idea. let's get the latest, though, on the conflict. on the new action extended russia involvement. matthew the russians seattle to be escalating their involvement even more this morning. >> that's right. >> that

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. breaking news.ew information about the shooter who opened fire on the college campus in oregon leaving ten people dead. police say he showed up at umpqua community college heavily armed with body armor. according to the father of a wounded student, the gunman opened fire as soon as he entered the classroom. he asked some victims about their religion during the killing spree. >> he came in and there were gunfire immediately and scattered the room. got everyone's attention. he from what i understood what she said is he shot the professor point blank. one shot and killed him. took him right out of it. others had been injured and then this man had enough time -- i don't think how many time elapsed before he was able to stand there and ask people one by one what their religion was. are you a christian, he asked them. if you're christian, stand up. they would stand up. good, because you're christian, you will see god in just about one second and shot and killed them. he kept going down the line doing this

. >> with two hours sleep, i'm christine romans. the accusations are flying after the prickly squirm in your seat debate. going after the media and going after each other. >> just resign and let someone else take the job. >> the only reason you are doing this now is because we are running for the same position. >> he was so nice. he was such a nice guy. he said i will never attack. then his poll numbers tanked. that's why he's on the end. >> the leading republican candidate when you look at the average polls is donald trump. when you look at him, do you see someone with the moral authority to unite the country? >> you know, the few questions i got, the last thing i need is to give him more time. i'm wearing a trump tie tonight. get over that one. >> to be fair, were you on the home page with the logo over your shoulder. >> if somebody put me on their home page, they did it without my permission. it speaks to the fact i don't know. >> we had $19 trillion in debt. we had people out of work. we have isis and al qaeda attacking us and w

christine romans has been looking at the numbers.zy how much money is out there. >> let's look inside the bank accounts because we have the third quarter figures. and we can show you year to date. 42 million for the republicans. 121 million for the democrats. this does not include super pacs. this is the money the candidates are raising the money they will use to pay the rent and chart ter jets and pay the campaign people on the ground. let's talk about the number one republican here. it is ben carson. 20.8 million in the quarter. and look at the momentum from the second to the third quarter here for dr. carson. here is jeb bush. 1 million. that is a number that is making a lot of his supporters breathe a sigh of relief. he's only got 10 million in the bank. he's paying out a lot every day for his infrastructure. he's still bringing in big money. don't forget he has the biggest super pac money of everybody. that is money that will come in handy for tv buys and later on in the game. ted cruz, number three here in the republicans. $12

i'm christine romans, u.s. stock futures are up a bit right now.g news will come from the federal reserve. no interest rate hike is expected. look for any clues about the fed's read of the u.s. economy this fall him any clues about whether there could be a december increase in interest rates only about 30% of market participants think the feds will raise rates, janet yellen said all year it will be appropriate to raise rates. big merger news driving stocks, walgreens wants to buy rite aid for $17.2 billion and three chinese firms want to buy starwood hotels. apple still booming with start-up like growth. look at this. profits jumped 31% last quarter. sales soared. apple sol 48 million iphones, a record 5.7 million max. the company also posted big growth in services like apple music in its other category that includes apple tv and watches. ipads, the biggest stocks here, apple sales doubled as the economy faces hurdles. a lot of folks watching apple in china. sales there doubled. it's not all rosie, twitter shares tanking before the bell jack dorsey

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman, great to see you.reaking overnighting paul ryan says he will do it after saying no, no thanks, no way. the republican congressman from wisconsin who was the party's last nominee, he now says he is willing to be speaker of the house. he says it is my way or go have it imploding on your own. ryan is demanding unanimity, including law makers that forced out the current speaker, the heir apparent kevin mccarthy, once more, ryan set a deadline friday for everyone to see things his way. if life were only like this for me. let's go to cnn washington correspondent jeff zeleney. >> reporter: good morning, john, christine, congressman paul ryan the republican from wisconsin who served as mitt romney's running mate in 2012 has now agreed to serve as the next house speaker but only under the condition that fractured congressional republicans work together and present a unified front. now ryan met last night with republicans on capitol hill and issued what could be described a political pre nupttial agreement. he s

. >> i'm michelle kosinski in for christine romans. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. hillary clinton is splitting with the white house over a trade deal she once pushed for and voiced support for dozens of times as secretary of state. she has come out against the trans-pacific partnership. a 12-nation deal known as tpp for short. clinton did much the same as secretary of state, but it was before it was negotiated. the agreement has been finalized and clinton tells pbs it doesn't meet the high bar it once sought. that is lifting wages and advancing anythinational securi. >> sometimes they look great on paper. i know when president obama came in to office, he inherited a trade agreement with south korea. i, along with other members of the cabinet, pushed hard to get a better agreement. now looking back on it, it doesn't have the results we thought it would have in terms of access to the markets and more exports, et cetera. what i know about it today, i'm not in favor of what i learned about it. >> the white house says the opposite. clinton is in washington for a hispani

let's head to christine romans on what you need to know. >> this is just the beginning, frankly. is going to drive a lot of the debate. let's talk about what they're talking about. inequality, wages are stagnant while corporate profits are a bigger part of the economy. and they say almost everybody on that stage say the first thing to do is raise minimum wage. they also talk about wall street regulations. bernie sanders saying break up the big banks right thousand. they're bigger today than they were when we bailed them out. hillary clinton wants to prosecute bad bankers, tax high-frequency traders but not as many as sanders. she wants to keep the dodd/frank regulations but give them more teeth. here's something really interesting. i think you'll be hearing more about this, carol. that chart should make every parent in this country cry. that is tuition since 1978. up 1200%. bernie sanders has an interesting proposal. he would like to tax wall street, a wall street tax where he says because the american people bailed out the banks, it's now time for the banks to turn around and ba

than you, christine romans. and you can see more on that interview tonight on "the lead with jake tapper." >> and that is all for us and time to leave las vegas. ashleigh banfield starts right now. >> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield and i want to begin with the breaking news, and there is a chaotic situation in the west bank right now on the heels of yet another attack in jerusalem. this is a live picture for you as nightfall in jerusalem and it turned 7:00 p.m. on the mark. palestinian protesters in the far background clashing with israeli police who are on your side of those barricades and that fire. hard to see in the darkness, but bethlehem has often seen these pictures. it is yet another flair up in what could possibly lead to anoth another intefadeh. and there are three main religions there, but it seems that a man who was seeming nervous lunged at them with a knife, and the police shot and killed that attacker wearing combat fatigue, and if this story is repetitive, it is. it is the latest attack o

with me now, errol lewis and christine romans. i can see why he's saying these things. father at a young age. >> that's right. and as you were describing what his demand was, i saw a lot of heads nodding here in the newsroom. we all have young kids. i have a young kid. and you know, and you really have to -- i mean, literally i'm thinking gee, i want to go to iowa to see what's going on but my kid has music lessons. paul ryan is not immune to that. he's asked to travel not just for fund-raising purposes to help some of the members of his caucus, and he would be asked to do that as speaker. but also to sort of see their districts and to learn about it. what he's saying is i'm not really ready for that. i don't really want to do that. i didn't take this job expecting to do all that, and it's a pretty reasonable demand from an employee level sort of perspective. on the other hand, you know, the people who are the bosses of the speaker, meaning the members who elect the speaker, they're saying to, you're going to have to work a little harder than about. >> but he was going

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is thursday, october 29th. the umbrage still taken.our seat republican debate. wow! yes, the candidates went after each other. some in boulder, colorado. the main target, by far,

. >> i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is monday, october 19th. 4:00 a.m. in the east.

. >> i'm christine romans. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. the countdown underway to the first

christine romans is with me now to talk about dto, which sounds fantastic. >> it is, if you take it,other companies have done this, too, the point here is this is about your results at work, not about how many hours or days you're putting at work. the idea here is you sit down with your manager, i'm going to take some sometime off, you go and another six weeks you take a week off. not counting the days, and instead, taking the time off you think you need. now, they'll no longer offer the set number of days, you know. that bothers some people because they want to, have five years service, get another week's vacation. they want to feel like they earned it and they want to feel like they can do it. managers will work with managers. what linkedin says there's a growing movement to show what you accomplish not how many hours you sit in the chair. it's important to keep employees recharged and engaged. some companies have done this and turned around quickly and undone it -- undid it because is causes confusion at work. some people like to bank their vacation time. they like to carry it ove

our chief business correspondent christine romans is here. >> reporter: those shares of amazon, googleyou probably do, they're widely held stocks, they're doing well. microsoft, 15-year high, amazon, google, at record highs right now. the bigger picture is this worry about an industrial slowdown in growth. this worry about maybe earnings being a little more difficult to achieve for the rest of the marketplace into the end of the year. that was one reason you saw that correction in stocks this summer. can i show you the stock market since then? carol, the stock market has done very well. have you the s&p 500, the 500 stocks most likely representative of the stocks in your 401(k). they're up just slightly for the year. they bounced 8% in october. this has turned out to be a pretty good month for investors. other consumers, people buying homes, interest rates are low. the housing market remains pretty strong. gas prices are low. anything the consumer touches, still doing well. i think tomorrow you'll hear very good news from car companies about their sales and earnings. so, you kind of ha

. >> with me now is financial expert monica meta and christine romans. welcome both of you.t exactly is that ceo saying? he's saying they are making an investment now so shoppers come and keep spending more money they are getting brisk competition from amazon. target gearing towards m millennial. so you are seeing walmart spending a lot of money to pay workers more but also to focus on workers at the front end of the store that the customer is going to be close to and interact with so you will want to keep going back. >> let's simplify for a moment. so are higher wages for employees effecting walmart's bottom line horribly? >> yes. but that is not the key part of the story here. the key part for walmart is they are having an identity crisis. they don't know who they are almost. the brand is a little stale. i think of britney spears in a parking lot. and they are short of ideas. you have a company saying we're paying our employees too much. hurting the bottom line but at the same time they are doing a $20 million stock buy back. when you have enough to do that you are short o