john till now heard is one of the biggest names in american journalism and documentary filmmaking since he worked in the early seventy's he's won fifteen emmys and for columbia to point towards he reported extensively from hot spots around the globe for nature the middle east and latin america he was the first american t.v. reporter to enter coming bodie after the vietnam war and a few years later reported from to her own during the iran hostage crisis after the persian gulf war jon alpert was the only t.v. reporter to get out of the. rock with censored food which helped bring civilian deaths his report was cancelled hours before it was due to be an n.b.c. after john was fired but. johnson welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us today thank you well first of all your latest document sure he is called in times square eighty days egypt's unfinished revolution well first of all why unfinished. you show the revolution isn't finished or are you left the movie unfinished. it takes a long time to make a revolution actually maybe it doesn't take so long to win one and so in eg

john cornyn, chairman of the senate committee personally asked him to step aside but the congressman said he's staying in till the end. he told mike huckabee he's not the first politician to suffer from what he called foot in mouth disease. >>> president obama has issue add direct warning to syria. don't use unconventional weapons are you could be facing the u.s. military. his warning is the first time he has publicly discussed using the american military in the syrian civil war. he says the use of chemical or biological weapons would threaten the entire region and that would be a red line for the united states. >>> at 4:35, here's a look at some other stories making news now. a wildfire in northern california is threatening three small towns. thousands of homes have been evacuated as the pond rosa fire is growing larger. the fire has burned more than 20,000 square miles and is just 30% contained. nearly 1900 firefighters are battling the blaze. >>> phyllis diller is being remembered this morning. the 95-year-old comedian passed away yesterday in her sleep. the mother of five from ohio was in her 30s when her

john kasich. what an applause you got tonight. you were -- >> hey, wait tillat chicago'chris christie's going . he's going to rock this place, take the roof off. >> sean: i got a preview, though. he said you guys did it on the state level, that the american people are ready to hear that we've got problems, that they can handle "the truth." >> we were $8 billion in the hole. we're now balanced. we had 89 cents in a rainy day fund. now we have half a billion dollars. we lost 400,000 jobs when we came in. now we're up 122,000. it works. >> sean: what does that tell us about the mood of the people in wisconsin and ohio? maybe the country. is the mood changed now? are people serious about -- >> sean, they want to know they're going to get work. that's the key for mitt romney and paul ryan. they've got to convince the people in these battleground states that they have a better way of creating jobs, a better history, a better record, than barack obama. and if he does it, he's going to win. >> sean: is that the difference between maybe countering the negative attacks?

till you see this. hey, everyone. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. it's 5:00 a.m.n the east. also coming up, mitt romney defending his controversial culture comments that enraged millions of palestinians. >>> plus, a young woman who pulls a car off of her father saving his life. like a scene out of superman. you have to see this. >> pretty incredible. up first, the golden girls. of course, everyone still talking about the magical night for the u.s. women's gymnastics team. they routed the russians and everyone else on their way to the gold medal in the team competition. take a look, folks. michael phelps cementing his legacy. he is now the most decorated olympian of all time. winning his record breaking 19th medal and adding another gold just for fun to his all-time mark. amanda davies is live in london. amanda, the debate is raging this morning. also here, mr. john berman and i have been debating this. is michael phelps the best olympian ever? >> reporter: morning. i'll tell you, there's no debate about the fact it was stars and stripes all the way here at the oly

john writes call it drink till we sink. that hurts.s carnival should call its new drink package ship-faced. >> what? >> that's right, you heard me. >> that's recommend sichminisce was said yesterday about facebook. >>> the dow is down about 6 points or so. a lot more "squawk on the street" ahead. >>> coming up, are you sailing smoothly through this market or are you sinking? there's one way to stay afloat nowadays, and that's with jim cramer. six stocks in 60 seconds when "squawk on the street" returns. . you do what you do... because it matters. at hp we don't just believe in the power of technology. we believe in the power of people when technology works for you. to dream. to create. to work. if you're going to do something. make it matter. as much advanced technology as the world around it. with the available lexus enform app suite, you can use opentable to make restaurant reservations. during the golden opportunity sales event, get great values on some of our newest models. this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> let's get to simon

humanitarian intervention as you john quite rightly said they acted as an air force for the opposition never mind the western countries and also gadhafi weapons up till six weeks before that bombing campaign began and that was then provoked a further civil war in libya the most appalling abuse of human rights of african people who happened to be living in libya and a lot of companies coming in to clean up the oil there what was nato really doing there was it about human rights and protecting lives always it really about oil and influence and i just ask that question i think an awful lot of other people are asking that question and was around the subject of expenditure at the point that was being made in the western countries particularly western europe or all of all of europe for that matter going through problems of maintaining social welfare and health service systems the public don't know and not in a mood to spend more on defense when they see hospitals being closed again usually one of those interesting things is i only want to i was just going to say i mean when you know for ten years of eleven years now most politicians in the west support of

candidate barack obama and candidate john mccain laid out very detailed plans for ramping up and then winding down the wars there are still a few months left of course till november but this is a topic neither candidate seems to want to touch shortly after coming into office president obama announced the need for a surge of thirty thousand troops and that surge was to be followed by this plan we will pursue the following objectives within afghanistan we must deny al qaeda safe . we must reverse the taliban's momentum and deny the ability to overthrow the government and we must strengthen the capacity of afghanistan's security forces and government so that they can take the lead responsibility for afghanistan's future all right so when will that future be upon us by the time the voters head to the booth in november the war will be in its twelfth year well to talk more about that i was joined earlier by david swanson a campaigner for roots action and we first talked about why the war in afghanistan no longer seems to be a hot topic well the media likes to blame the foley after the media goes for the us corporate media the newspapers the new york times face

the way till hopefully, the super bowl in february, particularly as the head coach, there is not a day that you don't have to deal with being the head coach of that football team. >> thom: john harbaugh does not look all that happy tonight. we brought up earlier th that, you know, they have veteran guys and especially on offense and a quarterback who has led his team to the playoffs four years in a row, but even their starters now for a second straight week have not been very impressive. >> brian: remember the first quarter in atlanta did not go well. they felt like they moved the ball well enough but enough mistakes this week and last week that they have a lot of work to do and he knows that. >> thom: painter throws it up into the end zone and it's batted down and that is that. so the lions took up 27-12 victory. and the coaches will shake hands. john, not jim, harbaugh with jim schwartz. a baltimore native. of course, john harbaugh grew up in an arbor, michigan. we hope you've enjoyed it. there is still more to come. next, it's the directv postgame show. you're watching the nfl preseason for a second straight night on fox. wow. you look delicious today. delicious? honestly

till you see this. hey, everyone. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. also coming up, mitt romney defending his controversial culture comments that enraged millions of palestinians. >>> plus, a young woman who pulls a car off of her father saving his life. like a scene out of superman. you have to see this. >> pretty incredible. up first, the golden girls. of course, everyone still talking about the magical night for the u.s. women's gymnastics team. they routed the russians and everyone else on their way to the gold medal in the team competition. take a look, folks. michael phelps cementing his legacy. he is now the most decorated olympian of all time. winning his record breaking 19th medal and adding another gold just for fun to his all-time mark. amanda davies is live in london. amanda, the debate is raging this morning. also here, mr. john berman and i have been debating this. is michael phelps the best olympian ever? >> reporter: morning. i'll tell you, there's no debate about the fact it was stars and stripes all the way here at the o

power workers cannot get out there till these winds reduce to at least 30 miles per hour so they can safely get the power on. in the meantime, i'm joined by state senator johnst. bernard parish. thank you so much for your time. .what is your biggest concern right now? >> the biggest concern, obviously, is the rain event itself. wind is obviously an issue, like said. we can't get power restored till that wind dies down. when you look at st. bernard, most of st. bernard is within the federal levee system. as far as flooding from overflowing from the levees hasn't been an issue but there there is a lot of rain and wind and a lot of people who did not heed warnings and did not evacuate. so the particularly impacts people are like nursing homes, for example, were recommended to leave, a lot of nursing homes did not. now we have a lot of people in our national guard and with our state police and st. bernard sheriff's office having to redirect resources to evacuate vulnerable populations that should have already left. >> if someone's at the nursing home, their ability to leave i would imagine would be limited, correct? so were there buss did provided, was there he

the way till hopefully, the super bowl in february, particularly as the head coach, there is not a day that you don't have to deal with being the head coach of that football team. >> thom: johnarbaugh does not look all that happy tonight. we brought up earlier th that, you know, they have veteran guys and especially on offense and a quarterback who has led his team to the playoffs four years in a row, but even their starters now for a second straight week have not been very impressive. >> brian: remember the first quarter in atlanta did not go well. they felt like they moved the ball well enough but enough mistakes this week and last week that they have a lot of work to do and he knows that. >> thom: painter throws it up into the end zone and it's batted down and that is that. so the lions took up 27-12 victory. and the coaches will shake hands. john, not jim, harbaugh with jim schwartz. jim, a baltimore native. of course, john harbaugh grew up in an arbor, michigan. we hope you've enjoyed it. there is still more to come. next, it's the directv postgame show. you're watching the nfl preseason for a second straight night on fox. wow. you look delicious today. delicious? hones

thomas jefferson, john adam supporters once said his election would result in murder, rain, rape, adultery and insist. so, tillmaybe this will have to wait. >> the president is taking things to a new low. >> reporter: they might be mean, cruel and cynical, but negative campaigns are not blights on history. they are our history. if there is one thing that seems different this year, it's not that the negative campaigning has started earlier, it's the complaining about negative campaigning has started earlier. >> quick programming note, you can also watch john every weekday morning from 5:00 to 7:00 a.m., only on cnn. >>> up next, the late chef julia child like you've never heard her before. jeanne moos coming up. introducing share everything, only from verizon. a shareable pool of data to power up to 10 different devices. add multiple smartphones to your plan, so everyone in your family can enjoy unlimited talk and text. the first plan of its kind. share everything. get your student a samsung galaxy nexus for $99.99. and sounds vying for your attention. so we invented a warning you can feel. introducing the all-

till 4:00. down less than 0.2, andrew. >> the chinese economy is close to if not at the bottom. it reflects a different story of economic conditions. johnf investment firm saf -- is that how you say it? >> it's a word that means an arabian stallion. >> i remember seeing the movie "the black stallion" as a child. that's about as far as it goes. are we a at a bottom? >> i think rumors of china's death are not correct. they're going along. >> play it out two, three, four years from now. were we going to stay at this type of pace. is it going to get better? is it going to get worse? how should we think about that? >> i think china grows slower and slower over time until it gets to be an adult high consuming country like the western countries but the fact that they're starting from such a low level means in a takes quite a long time. they do have some ways of smoothing it out that we don't have but they also have policies that's a pretty blunt instrument. they can make mistakes as well. i wouldn't rule out mistakes. the big drop earlier this year that everyone was worrying about was due to a drop in infrastructure spending from the end of th

till his death. what did you find that surprised you? two or three important things that you learned. >> guest: one i didn't finish, the connection between johnglenn and walter cronkite. douglas edwards was ahead of cbs news and 62 and it is because cronkite did a great job with lines preset orbit to 62 that by april 63 because the anchorman and that connection between tom kite -- cronkite and nasa in general. second, the power of that 15 minute broadcast you couldn't do this back in feature stories. the power that 30 minute newstead. bright co. who went first? >> guest: walter cronkite. hotly brinkley tried to catch up with it, but that changed a lot of things and then it became this culture of the anchor getting the big interview. it used to be white house correspondent. he was livid that cronkite's first news brought past, he got cronkhite a footed and got to do that they kennedy interview. when he was covering as a correspondent on the time, there became a kind of celebrity status accorded to these journalists. but the thing about cronkite that interest me the most as i knew it, but just how he liked talking to everybody, but his real gen

till among other things, they lose 80 million a year. >> dave: a year, 60% labor adds 60% to every food and beverage item. so, johng issue, holding up an mcdonald's hamburger, reporting out that the 9.50 hamburger on the train cost taxpayers, $16. $2 soda costs taxpayers 3.40. and they want to privatize food and beverage service, makes sense. >> alisyn: he says in this time of belt tightening why are taxpayers around the country subsidizing amtrak for their food service? it doesn't stand to reason. >> clayton: yeah, then you could think about it on an amtrak, get like mcdonald's to open up an mcdonald's on the train. or-- >> why not. >> clayton: i heard a groan. an egg mcmuffin instead of some weird thing in the bag. >> dave: i'm getting hungry. >> alisyn: even for mystery-- >> coming up, unemployment jumped to 8.3%, so what does this mean for the candidates going into the conventions? could it push mitt romney to the top? there's our political panel. we'll ask him next. >> alisyn: a good looking panel indeed. then, you know about companies sending jobs overseas, now, one city is outsourcing the education departme