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. they posted pictures to the website showing what's going on inside some of these rooms. in terms of the fundamental challenge facing facebook in the future, it's exactly that. continuing to build services that people like. i want you to listen to silicon valley venture capitalist greg gretsch. >> what they're going to run into the next year, two years as they go public is the quarterly focus that wall street's going to put on them. the question will be in the coming years whether or not that quarterly focus, that quarterly drive to make the numbers, takes them off their focus on the product and the user experience. >> reporter: so the user experience is what made facebook, that $104 billion company, along with the advertising revenue they're getting. can they build on that revenue? can they build their usage base? are they worth the valuation that we're seeing? take a listen. >> there's no way mathematically that you can actually say, yes, it's worth 25 times revenues. i don't believe that. but i don't think argue that it isn't worth it either because this is a company that sort of transcends the traditional metrics. >> well, it's really hard to say whether or not facebook will live up to that valuation until we see the next few earnings reports. in the meantime, the hack a thon is under way. and it will continue until the nasdaq bell rings. here from menlo park with mark zuckerberg ringing that bell at 6:30 a.m. local time. >> sometimes when you use the word hack it's a bad word. for them i understand it's very good. i understand out of the hack a thon that "like" came out of that. when you like on facebook? >> reporter: that's right. some of the most common features we see on facebook came as a result of these hack a thons. that's why they continue to have them. this is the 31st one that they've had. the like button, the timeline that you now see on facebook. what they want to do is hopefully get some of these features rolling along. if, in fact, some of these things take hold, the employees can make that project their full-time position. so it's an interesting approach. >> some of them even may become millionaires. thank you very much for that report. dramatic new details in the trayvon martin shooting revealed as evidence in the cases releases to the public. for the first time we're seeing trayvon just moments before he died. this is surveillance video of the florida teenager taken at a 7-eleven where they bought those now-famous skittles and a drink. the official autopsy on martin shows he had traces of marijuana in his system. the police report reveals two weeks after the tragedy, officers in sanford, florida, concluded martin's death was "ultimately avoidable" if only zimmerman had stayed in his car like 911 dispatchers requested. and these newly released photos of zimmerman clearly showing an injury to his nose, as well as bloody lacerations to his scalp. in the hours after his deadly encounter with the unarmed teen. cnn's john zarrella is live in miami this morning. a lot of evidence to go through, including the reports of traces of thc, which comes with marijuana, in trayvon's system. >> reporter: a couple hundred pages that came out along with the pictures and the videotape. and you know, the attorneys are going to of course spin this, they're going to try to characterize it, to mold it to fit their cases. and ultimately that's when we go to court and why we try to figure out and how they try to figure out who has the advantages here, if anybody, looking at this video and looking at all of this information. you know, we went through a lot of the documentation, a lot of the witness statements. and all of the witness statements that i read all indicated the same thing. they heard the scuffling. they heard the cries for help. but none of them actually saw what happened. the autopsy report, you mention that. with the traces of thc. a lot of experts say, don't read too much into that. because thc can linger in someone's blood for up to a week. but it also indicates that the gunshot entered the left chest, entered the right ventricle. now, on piers morgan last night, both of the attorneys were asked, how did they characterize this evidence? >> whether it's an autopsy report or a medical record or some video or even a picture, it's what becomes the people's focus. but it's only one small sliver. then they make the decision on the sliver and that prejudging the fragments carries through to the next fact and it's just not appropriate. >> again, you have to put it in context, piers. george zimmerman pursued and confronted trayvon martin after he profiled him and initiated an altercation. we believe trayvon martin went to his grave not knowing who this strange man was that was confronting him. >> now a lot had been made early on about the alleged racial slur on the telephone recording that was captured. and after fbi analysis that came out yesterday. they also, the fbi, saying, look, there was just no way, it was very poor quality, they could not discern whether there was any kind of racial slur on that. so again, ali, still a lot more material expected to be forthcoming and still come out as we start to get a broader picture of what happened on that night of february 26th. >> john, with respect to the 911 audiotapes, there was some material here that indicated trayvon's mother thought that the voice crying for help on the tape was his and the father seemed to be less certain. >> yeah, and again, no certainty in those 911 tapes either from analysis. it is still very difficult, impossible is what we're being told, to discern who is saying what. because the quality was just not good enough. >> all right. john, good to see you, john zarrella in miami on this story. there may be a break in the case of two highway murders in mississippi. police are questioning a suspect, there he is, 45-year-old james lucas. he was picked up after allegedly pulling over two drivers, both of which escaped after feeling suspicious. a confederate flag vanity plate led police to that man. police are trying to figure out if the suspect is behind the two deadly highway shootings that occurred 55 miles apart. we'll have a live report from cnn's ed leven der ra just ahead. houston rocked by mass protests after an all-white jury acquits an ex-police officer in the beating of a black teenager. demonstrators rallied outside the harris county courthouse yesterday. one of four officers charged in the 2010 beating of 15-year-old burglary suspect chad holly. the other three officers are awaiting court dates. he says he doesn't think he did anything wrong. houston's mayor and the district attorney say they disagree with the verdict. donna summer died yesterday after a long cattle with cancer at just 63 years old. donna summer had a string of mega-hits in the 1970s and '80s. "hot stuff," "last dance," love to love you, baby" to name a few. fellow artists say she is going to be missed. >> we lost somebody who was great, such an important artist of her time. and of a particular type of music that was so important to america's pop cultural history. >> in a statement, donna summer's family says she was a woman of many gifts. the greatest being her faith. we're going to have more on donna summer's life and legacy at 6:20 eastern. we'll talk with "the wall street journa journal"'s christopher john farley, editor of the paper's cultural website. less than 24 hours away from the launch of the first commercial rocket headed to the international space station with its unmanned dragon speculate craft, set to lift off from the kennedy space center at 4:55 a.m. on saturday. it's a first step, a major step, in nasa's plan to turn over space station missions to commercial enterprises. i'll have another going for the second leg of the triple crown tomorrow at the 137th preakness. bodie meister the favorite going into the race at pimlico even though i'll have another beat him in the final 100 yards at the kentucky derby two weeks ago. can he do it again? >> that's why i don't bet on horses, i can never understand how those odds work. a moment of terror caught on camera, people running for their lives as a gun battle rages on a crowded city street. this is incredible. more video and the story behind it when "early start" returns. we charge everything else... maybe it's time to recharge the human battery. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the comfort of aircool memory foam layered on top of beautyrest pocketed coils to promote proper sleeping posture all night long. the revolutionary recharge sleep system from beautyrest... it's you, fully charged. it's real milk full of calcium and vitamin d. and tastes simply delicious. for those of us with lactose intolerance... lactaid® milk. the original 100% lactose-free milk. 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i guess it's the advertising and the campaigning. >> flat incredible. >> interesting. we're not telling you who won. unbelievable story from our kentucky affiliate wlex. a summer santa. a businessman in clark county buys out a kmart store that's closing down. he bought everything in it. 76-year-old rankin pater purchased everything in the store and donated it all to charity. nice. the estimated cost of all the inventory was about $200,000. pater's paying rent for a building to store the items while a nonprofit makes plans to distribute them. 90% of the merchandise is winter clothing. so it's all going to be relevant to the people who need it. pater says, "i just figured that my family isn't going to go cold or hungry this winter but something i could do to help a lot of people." >> what an incredible gesture. very kind. it's a killing spree that struck fear in the hearts of drivers across mississippi. a gunman impersonating a police officer and murdering two people. this morning there is a possible break in the case. we'll bring you the details on that after the break. born to leap, born to stalk, and born to pounce. to understand why, we journeyed to africa, where their wild ancestor was born. there we discovered that cats, no matter where they are... are born to be cats. and shouldn't your cat be who he was born to be? 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because the company went through bankruptcy, had to be rescued by the american government, came public again november 2010, raised $18 billion. but it's tech. people compare what's happening in facebook to tech ipos. google in 2004, raised $2 billion. this stock is up i think 500% since its ipo. microsoft all the way back in 1986. look at bill gates' glasses. 1986, target price $21 a share, it raised $61 million. take a look at apple. all the way back in 1980. that one went public. $100 million raised there at $22 a share. something to i guess consider about the $38 price tag on facebook. the last trade that i saw on the secondary markets, people have been trading facebook. insiders and employees who have facebook shares of the original facebook shares given to them by executives of the company, it was trading at about $44. there has been some trading on the secondary market as we call it, $44. and on the stock boards. so $38. we'll see how high it goes up today. $44 is what the people, early investors, were valuing this company at. if you're upset we're not getting a piece of the facebook stock, it may be a good thing. we'll tell you why the odds were stacked against you from the start. christine's going to do that on your bottom line on saturday at 9:30 a.m. eastern. two congressmen are going after facebook co-founder eduardo salve have a rin for his efforts to dodge paying tens of millions in taxes. he used his life savings, $30,000, to fund mark zuckerberg's plan for a social networking website. he may be worth close to $3 billion now that facebook is going public. saverin moved to singapore, denouncing his u.s. citizenship, a move that could save him $67 million in taxes. enter new york senator chuck schumer. he believes the decision to leave america was nothing more than a tax dodge. he is introducing new legislation that would impose a big capital gains tax on people like that, forbidding them from entering the country again. >> this tax avoidance scheme is outrageous. savarin wants to defriend the united states of america just to avoid paying taxes and we aren't going to let him get away from it. >> clever, defriend. savarin says his decision to move to singapore was personal and not a tax dodge insisting he plans to meet all tax obligations the u.s. requires. >> there's another side of that, the taxes facebook millionaires are going to pay is going to net the state of california $2 billion. >> yes. >> so everybody wants a piece of the action. a second grader in colorado gets in trouble for wearing blackface to school. 8-year-old shaun king dressed up as martin luther king. i don't know if there's any relation. it was for a school project. he donned blackface, paint, as part of his costume. school officials asked him to wash it off saying it was offending other students and faculty. king refused saying he didn't mean to insult anybody. >> they thought it was inappropriate and disrespectful to black people. but i say that it's not. i like black people. i don't want to be mean to them. it's just a costume. i don't want to unsult anybody. >> his parents didn't want him to remove the makeup either. they pulled him out of school. blackface has historically been used by white performers to portray black people and many people have found that offensive. school officials say wearing face paint goes against school policy. >> why not use this as an opportunity to educate? >> it's what you call a teachable moment. >> i don't understand the oulk outcome of that. i thought he was going to say, i admire this man and i want to look like him. that's what i was expecting when we were going into that story. i think it's a teachable moment. saudi arabia that baron cohen knows how to push the envelope. >> america! the birthplace of aids! >> boy, that was an understatement there. the star of "the dictator," can make you laugh and squirm at the same time. how would you like to be the guy in charge of reining him in from time to time? watch my one-on-one conversation of the director larry charles. in 75% of your mouth, s listerine cleans virtually your entire mouth. so take your oral health to a whole new level. listerine... power to your mouth. 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[ yawning sound ] [ male announcer ] ...forbusiness.com. every communications provider is different but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company. ♪ we link people and fortune 500 companies nationwide and around the world. and we will continue to free you to do more and focus on what matters. you know what's exciting? graduation. when i look up into my students faces, i see pride. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix, that pride, that was on my face. i am jocelyn taylor. i'm committed to making a difference in people's lives, and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you. enroll now. you seem educated. >> yes, i went to amhearst. >> i love it when women go to school. it's like seeing a monkey on roller skates. it means nothing to them but it's so adorable for us. >> wow. all right. that's a clip from sacha baron cohen's new movie "the dictator." the actor is teaming up for a third time with larry charles who's written and directed some of the funniest and most controversial moments on television and film. he was part of the brain trust behind "seinfeld" and "curb your enthusiasm." i had a chance to sit down to talk about their madcap collaboration and find out if sacha baron cohen is as much of a character offscreen as on. this fictitious character he plays, we've seen that he likes to stay in character. >> yes. >> and he appears on the red carpet, perhaps, dressed as his character. >> yes. >> does he do that when you're actually filming, when the cameras are not rolling? >> keep in mind sasha creates a character from scratch, from the ground up, like a robert de niro or brando does. he needs to stay in character so his accent stays consistent, his body language stays consistent. we've had many arguments where less borat and i'm arguing with borat. it's crazy but there's a logic to it. >> i want to talk about that moment on the red carpet. >> okay. >> it's actually -- >> so we hear that he apologized for that moment. do you know anything about that? >> don't know anything about it. >> seriously? he didn't talk to you about it, you have no idea? >> i didn't hear about the apology. i talked to him about it -- >> you knew it was going to happen? >> i had a sense something was going to happen, yes. >> what did you think about that? >> it's interesting. our movies don't exist purely wind the frame of the screen. he's a performance artist, sasha. and he's blurring the lines between what is the movie and what is real life. this is kind of expanding the definition what was a movie really is. >> a lot of your work is viewed as politically incorrect. >> yes. >> the reviews here, also some people are a little upset. there's a particular entity, the arab-american group that is objecting to this particular movie. one of our cnn contributors, dino padella, he is an arab-american, and he likened cohen's performance to the use of blackface. how does that make you feel? >> i would disagree strongly. we've gone out of our way to avoid any specific ethnic group. we're drawing on a composite of dictators around the world. sasha is sasha, he looks a certain way, we need to take advantage of that. we couldn't make him korean, obviously. it's not any religion. >> what's your objective? it's clearly not just to entertain. >> although that is the first priority. if the movie's not funny, entertaining, nothing else will work. that's our priority is to make it as funny as possible -- >> do you find sometimes -- people say to you, i found myself laughing then i felt bad about it. >> yes. i think that's okay. i think it's okay because that's part of the questioning process that we hope goes on during the course of the movie. you're laughing at things but we're wrapping very heavy and very often not funny political messages wind this comedy. hopefully you will laugh very hard and then start to think about what you're laughing about. you're wrapping the message in a nice little pessage that people can enjoy and be entertained by and have an incredible group experience inside a movie theater. >> one scene portraying characters talking about visiting america. clearly some people are going to be offended by that. as a matter of fact, a lot of americans are going to be offended by that. >> i don't think so. i mean, yes, there's certainly a percentage of people that may very well be offended by it. but we're always looking for another level. we want the movies to be dense so that you could laugh at this level of silliness, under the surface there's something being said, a theme being developed that's kind of an important one, a serious one we're trying to find humor in. you never know what people are going to be offended by and aren't. so you can't really let that stop you. >> and there's more of my one-on-one interview with writer and director larry charles. you'll find this web extra at cnn.com/earlystart. he is a fascinating character. there's not a lot of information out there about him and that beard is very significant. i'm hoping that you're going to learn a little more about that also on that web video. >> i didn't know he had that beard. >> yeah. well, i looked him up online ahead of time to kind of get a feel for him and i thought, boy, this is a really dark person. but when i sat with him, he's funny, he's clever, he's witty, he's a deep thinker, and his goal at the end of the day is to make all of us deep thinkers. >> i'm going to enjoy watching. there's more of it on the web. let's get you up to date on the news. christine romans, good morning. >> in just a few hours, facebook will be a publicly traded company. fb will hit the nasdaq today, initial offering price $38 a share. although you may be paying tries that by the time it hits open market. new evidence made public in the trayvon martin case. it includes police photos of shooter george zimmerman with an injury to his nose and lacerations on the back of his head in the hours after the deadly confrontation with the massachusetts teen. and there's surveillance video of martin in the moments before he died making a purchase at a nearby 7-eleven. and the official autopsy on trayvon martin showed he had traces of marijuana in his system. supreme court justice stephen breyer robbed for the second time this year. this time, no one was home, thankfully. officials say earlier this month the housekeeper discovered breyer's washington home had been broken into and burglarized. in february he was robbed by a man carrying a machete at his vacation home in the caribbean. vermont becomes the first state to ban hydraulic fracturing commonly known as fracking, the controversial natural gas drilling technique. vermont's governor signed the ban into law this week. anti-fracking active uses called it a big deal for their cause. but vermont doesn't have any natural gas, and there never were plans to drill. still the american petroleum institute says they may plan to challenge that law. the faa says they've found no evidence of an unidentified aircraft flying over denver. a jet radioed the tower saying he almost crashed into a remote controlled aircraft. the tower said it didn't show up on aircraft. britain celebrating the diamond jubilee of queen elizabeth to mark 60 years on the throne. the guest list is sparking protests because it includes two controversial figures, the king of swa zil land and king ahmad, overseeing a bloody crackdown on civilian uprising in that country. coors field was buzzing but had nothing to do with baseball. a swarm of bees near the colorado rockies dugout caused their game with the arizona diamondbacks to be delayed yesterday. a beekeeper was eventually called in to vacuum up the bees into a bag. playing the most important position on the field. i know. all right, getting in on an ipo is not the most important part of your personal finances. that's the 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the inside of the hoodie, everybody. take a look. what is it? >> making the world more open and connected. >> can you believe it? isn't that cool? making the world more open and connected. so it's a company-issued hoodie. they all get them, he wears it and inside closest to him all the time is the mission of facebook. that's a little bit about mark zuckerberg. >> i actually like that now, right? i mean, because he needs to do that. >> everyone's got them. >> i'm keeping an eye on facebook and twitter and have a billion questions. let's make one thing clear, the ipo price is not the price that most people will be able to buy that stock at but any human in the world with a trading account, if you want it badly enough, can buy facebook today at whatever the market dictates the price is going to be. >> absolutely. you place your order today. i'm not even sure you might be able to get a trade done today. >> because of volume and all that. >> the first price we're going to see on facebook i'm expecting around 11:00, we really just don't know. there's a lot of demand for this. it was trading the stock privately trading hands with employees, people given shares, the pre-public shares, those were trading around $44 a share before. $38 is what has been priced. ryan mack from optimum capital management thought it would go to 90, twice what it was trading before so keep that in mind. we keep talk about a limit order. if you think the stock is worth 50, this is just a random number, 50, you. you the in a limit order for 50. if you put in a market order for the stock you could pay sky high and it could come down in a few days. >> good advice. >> thank you. we have breaking news at this hour, we're hearing there has been an arrest in connection with two high i would murders in mississippi. ed lavandera is live in dallas. you have been working the story hard. what have you found out? >> reporter: we've been able to clear up all the confusion we had a little while ago. authorities in northwest mississippi are announcing that they have made an arrest in those two deadly shootings that were made last week and later today they will announce the arrest of a man by the james of james willy, 28 years old and state officials and local officials in the town of tunica, mississippi, close to where this happened, say on tuesday afternoon they were called to a disturbance at an apartment complex in mississippi and when they arrived there, a woman was alleging that james willy had raped her while they took him into custody and searched him, they found a .9 millimeter handgun and ballistics tests were done on the handgun and authorities in mississippi say that has tied that gun and this suspect to those murders and shootings that happened last week in mississippi, a great deal, a great number of people in the mississippi area frightened by all this. authorities in mississippi had said the suspect was perhaps impersonating a police officer and that's why they pulled over in the early morning hours in the darkness and that's when the shootings happened, but the big news here and the big development here is that mississippi officials say 28-year-old james willy has been arrested. he will be charged with murder. more information to come throughout the day as officials in mississippi plan a press conference for later today to explain more details on this developing story. zoraida? >> ed lavandera thank you for the details. we appreciate it. the music world is mourning the loss of disco's original queen, donna summer, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. she was 63 years old, just 63. summer had a string of mega hits in the '70s and '80s. can't believe i have to say them. they're just so familiar to us, "last dance," "love to love you baby." fellow artists say she'll be missed. >> we really lost somebody who was great and such an important artist of her time and of a particular type of music that was so important of america's pop cultural history. >> donna summer's family say she was a woman of many gifts, the greatest one being her faith. we'll have more on her life and legacy, 6:20 a.m. eastern time. "the wall street journal's" christopher farley will be joining us. less than 24 hours away from the launch from the first commercial rocket headed to the international space station, it's set to lift off from the kennedy space center in florida at 4:55 a.m. saturday, a major first step in nasa's plan to turn over space station missions to commercial enterprises. a team that barely made it into the playoffs is one win away from a stanley cup final, the l.a. kings -- >> you can believe that? >> i can't. the l.a. kings beat the phoenix coyotes 2-1 to take a 3-0 lead in the western conference final, the kings trying to make the stanley cup final since wayne gretzky led the team in 1993. i'm from toronto so we just always hope that 1967 won't be the last year that we win the stanley cup. >> ahead on "early start" we have new evidence in the trayvon martin case. we will show you what george zimmerman's head looked like right after he shot martin. surveillance video of a florida teen's final moments alive. and moments of terror caught on tape, listen to the gunfire in the background, people running for their lives. this isn't a movie set, it is real. gun battle rages on a crowded city street. more video and the story behind it when we return with "early start." - ♪ ai, ai, ai - ♪ bum-bum - ♪ bum-bum, bum-bum - ♪ [ ice rattles rhythmically ] ♪ bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum ♪ ♪ [ imitates guitar noise ] ♪ [ vocalizing up-tempo heavy metal song ] ♪ [ vocalizing continues ] ♪ [ all singing ] the redesigned, 8-passenger pilot. smarter thinking. from honda. mine hurt more! mine stopped hurting faster... 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[ female announcer ] new ensure clear. nine grams protein. zero fat. twenty-one vitamins and minerals. in blueberry/pomegranate and peach. refreshing nutrition in charge! i tell you what i can spend. i do my best to make it work. i'm back on the road safely. and i saved you money on brakes. that's personal pricing. dramatic developments in the trayvon martin case, now that the state of florida released new evidence to the public, like this surveillance video of the florida teenager just moments before he died, buying skittles and a drink at a nearby 7-eleven and the official autopsy on martin showing he had drugs in his system. police reports reveal two weeks after the tragedy, officers in sanford, florida, concluded that martin's death was ultimately avoidable. only zimmerman, if he had stayed in his car like 9/11 dispatchers requested. these police photos of george zimmerman showing an injury to his nose, as well as bloody lacerations to his scalp in the hours after his deadly encounter with trayvon martin, who was unarmed. cnn's john zarrella is live from miami, poring over the evidence that's come out. any game changers so far? >> ali, ultimately the attorneys are going to spin it, put their own mold to it, and mold it the way they want it and that's why you go to trial and ultimately it's going to be up to a jury to decide what game changers there were or weren't. one of the things that's interesting, and i looked over about 200 pages that came out and looking at some of the witness statements, they're all pretty consistent, that they heard the yells for help. they heard the gunshots but none of them actually saw what actually transpired. now, one of the witnesses says that they saw someone on top of the other punching the man on the ground, call police, run upstairs, hear the gunshot. when they get upstairs, look out the window upstairs, the man who was on top doing the punching according to this witness is now the person who is lying dead on the ground. you have that in the witness statement. you have the autopsy report that says that the gunshot entered the left chest and then hit the right ventricle. there was no exit wound. you referenced the marijuana, the thc, in the blood. experts say don't read too much into that, because in the blood, the thc can linger for up to a week after its use, but in some states that allow medical marijuana to be used, they're saying that the level that was in his blood is equivalent to what would be considered somewhat impaired for driving. now, we talked on the piers morgan last night, who spoke with the attorneys representing both sides to get their take on the evidence. >> whether it's an autopsy report or a medical record or some video or even a picture, it's what becomes the people's focus, but it's only one small sliver and then they make the decision on the sliver, and that pre-judging the facts carries through to the next fact and it's just not appropriate. >> again, you have to put it in context, pierce. george zimmerman pursued and confronted trayvon martin, after he profiled him, and initiated an altercation. we believe trayvon martin went to his grave not knowing who this strange man was, that was confronting him. >> a lot had been made of the 911 recording where george zimmerman had supposedly uttering some racial epithet, you know, a slur, but the fbi analysis that was released also yesterday said that it was inconclusive, that the poor quality of the recording made it impossible to determine exactly what was being said on that recording. >> and john, while you're talking about not knowing what was being said on the recording there was a 911 recording that trayvon's mother said sounded like him calling for help. trayvon's father heard the recording and was less certain it was trayvon? >> the same thing there from the fbi, that could not determine who it was, and neither could the witnesses that were quoted in all of the witness statements could not determine exactly who was calling for help. >> john zarrella thanks very much. i know you'll continue to pore over any of that stuff and if anything develops from it. one crime scene, two separate deadly shootings during a bloody afternoon in louisville. this is incredible video. police responding to a shooting that left two men dead. about 90 minutes after that incident, more shots rang out. [ gunfire ] that's incredible. you hear that in the background all the shots. it was a terrifying outside university hospital. here is a look at it from a different angle. [ bleep ] [ screaming ] get on the ground, just get on the ground. >> look at all the people around and officers with their guns pulled, in the crowd of witnesses one woman pulled out a gun and fatally shot another woman and a police officer shot and wounded her. in all three people were killed and three others wounded. police are piecing together possible motives here. 15 minutes after the hour. here's christine romans. >> good morning you two. in a few hours facebook will be a publicly traded company, ticker symbol fb. initial offering price $38 a share although who knows what you'll pay by the time it hits the open market when you can buy shares today. breaking news in the deadly highway shootings in mississippi. police made an arrest in the past hour, cnn learning 28-year-old james willy has been charged. this is a mug shot of him. police linked his gun to the two separate shootings that left a man and a woman dead and terrified people driving in that state. willy was caught tuesday after allegedly raping a woman. that's where people were able to find the gun, test it and link it to the murders. john edwards' fate is in the hands of a jury. they'll debate whether he's guilty of six counts of campaign fraud. lawy his lawyers are urging them to separate sin from criminal behavior. i'll have another, going for the second leg of the triple crown at the 137th breakness, bodemeister the favorite, even though i'll have another ran him down and beat him 500 yards at the kentucky derby two weeks ago. watch us any time on your desktop or mobile phone, just go to cnn.com/tv. >> i don't get the horse names. you like them. >> i love them. that's how i pick my horses. i'll have another. >> i keep listening to you guys say this, what are you talking about? oh, it's horse racing. >> bodemeister, you didn't watch it in. >> bodemeister sounds like something. "i'll have another" sounds like stuff i'll say at the bar. >> indeed. >> indeed. moving on. it's not easy to forget how much donna summer influenced us, paved the way for madonna to rihanna. more on her life and legacy coming up. 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>> reportedly she had been fighting cancer for some time so i think to her close friends this didn't come to a surprise but to her fans it did come as a surprise. she hadn't been around since 2008, her first studio album in years. she hadn't been front and center but now she is, people remember her music and what made her so fame to us begin with. >> we were listening to her first hit "love to love you baby" launched her as an artist and as a sex symbol and she went through a lot of different phases. what do you think her legacy will be? >> i think her legacy really will be helping to create the whole disco era and the disco sound but more than that bringing in electronic music field to dance music and showing that innovation and dance music don't have to be incompatible. she helped create the electronic music dance craze. >> was it a particular song she did? >> yes "i feel love" 1977 hit, it was a first main stream song with a synthesized backing track. it was a game danger. david bowie wrote how it affected him, britney spears sampled it, madonna performed it, beyonce sampled it on her first solo album. this song changed the game for a lot of female singers showing you can make music in a different, creative way, make futuristic sounds and we hear echoes of it with people like rihanna. >> i grew one donna summer and trying to figure out which is my favorite song of hers. lot of people saw her as a sex symbol. was she comfortable with that? >> that first song sounds like she's reaching climax again and again and again in that song. >> tell me how that song was recorded because i thought that was interesting. >> what's fascinating is see co-wrote the song. lot of the disco divas receive songs, people give them songs but she was a collaborator and the way she envisioned the song thought of herself as marilyn monroe in a play acting a part and wasn't just trying to do something dirty on record. >> and which song in that was particular? >> "love to love you baby." >> the first one for you here. let's listen to one of her 1977 hits "i feel love" for a minute. ♪ you and me, you and me, you and me, you and me ♪ ♪ i, i feel love, i feel love, i feel love ♪ >> makes you want to dance right now. >> i just want to end here with the rock 'n' roll hall of fame yesterday came out with a statement, john landau believes "there is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary donna summer belongs in the rock and roll hall of fame. regrettably despite being nominated on a number of occasions, our voting group has failed to recognize her, an error i can only hope is finally and permanently rectified next year." >> she's an innovator, took three double albums to number one in a row, somebody with a series of concept albums, one is all about music of the past and the future, another album is all about love, another album all about the seasons. she always tried to push the boundaries of the art and stood out among the disposable disco queens of her age. we're still talking about her today, being covered on shows on "american idol." it's strange, and maybe as john landau says they'll change that in the future. >> thank you for join us with your perspective. we love her music. >> i loved the fact he referred to double albums, that alone takes me back to another day. >> back in the day. here is an interesting story, second grader raises a raucous at school. he has black face on, brings back memories. he says there's a good reason for it. judge if he should have gotten in trouble when you hear him in his own words when we come back. stay with us. mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. welcome back to "early start." i'm ali velshi in for ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. here is what is happening at half last the hour. in just a few hours you can own a share of facebook. the social network begins trading on the nasdaq after the opening bell this morning. while it is listed at $38 we're talking with christine romans about what price it will really land on when it hits the worboa. just released evidence in the trayvon martin case, includes police photos of shooter george zimmerman's injuries and 7-eleven surveillance video of trayvon taken moments before he was killed. an arrest in mississippi in connection to two fatal highway shootings last week. police say they will charge 28-year-old james willy with the murders. they expect the shooter was impersonating a police officer. facebook is going public in a few hours from now, an historic ipo. alison kosik is at the nasdaq market site this morning which is where all of the action will be. >> this is the bowl of market events happening here at the nasdaq. although facebook executives aren't going to be here in person to ring the opening bell they'll be ringing it remotely fromm menlo park where facebook is located. you'll see the numbers behind me where the unchanged is, is where you'll see the difference in price from $38, whether it drops, whether it goes up, it will be traded under the ticker symbol fb. ali? >> alison, bottom line, is anybody can buy it but you may not see that $38 changed right at 9:30, may not see it at 10:30, might be 11:00 before you see a price. >> exactly. what often happens is the ipos want to have their own sort of coming out, they want to have their own time to sort of start trading. also, there's a practical factor in this. last night, after the market closed a lot of buy orders have been going in. it takes time for all that to come in for those institutional investors for the underwriters to get their first shot at that $38 price, so when the market opens, which could be around 11:00 eastern time, even 11:30 it will start at $38 but we're in an age of electronic trading and you know what will happen? the buyers and sellers in nanoseconds will be trading the stock so before the average person can get in, chances are the stock will be bid higher. >> everybody can get in. there's rumors you can't trade but you can. i'll be at the nasdaq with alison later. once you see it trading, get onto your online online account. see you in an hour and a half. >> see you soon. z>> 32 minutes past the hour. two congressmen are going after eduardo savran. he may be worth now close to $3 billion knew facebook is going public but savran moved to singapore denouncing u.s. citizenship a move that could save him $67 million in taxes. enter new york senator chuck schumer. he believes savran's decision to leave america is nothing more than a tax dodge. he would impose a big tax on savran and ban them from the country. >> he wants to defriend the united states of america to avoid paying taxes and we aren't going to let him get away with it. >> savran says his decision to move to singapore was personal and insisting he plans to meet all non-citizen tax obligations that the u.s. requires. the wall street surgeon is saying in an op. ed piece the way to continue to be a magnet for the best and brightest is not to impose soviet style exit taxes to punish people who want to leave the country. that is what oppressive and demagoguic -- sorry, demagoguic regimes -- sorry for that. >> perhaps people quoting shouldn't have to use that language. the one thing is interesting is what he said was that he will obey any u.s. laws while he was a u.s. citizen so he put this little thing at the end of the sentence which basically said, since i'm not going to be a u.s. citizen i don't have to do it. >> he denounced it. >> therein lies the rub i'll obey all the tax laws while i was a citizen. that's going to be tricky. everybody's looking for a piece of the action. >> can they retro that? >> i think that's what schumer wants to imply. reforming the tax code is a whole different matter. a second grader in colorado, 8-year-old sean king dressed up as martin luther king jr. for a school project and donned black face paint as part of his costume. school officials asked him to wash it off and king refused saying he didn't mean to insult anybody. >> they thought it was inappropriate and it would be disrespectful to black people but i say that it's not. i like black people. i don't want to be mean to them. it's just a costume. i don't want to insult anybody. >> his parents didn't want him to remove the makeup either. they pulled him out of school instead. you know black face has historic ailly been used by white performers to mock black people in offensive ways. school officials say wearing the face paint goes against school policy. it's a complex issue particularly since what's the opportunity to teach the kid something about history and context? the issue is context. >> we were having a really good conversation about this off camera and it's a matter of what you understand versus what you don't understand. you are hearing perhaps the family doesn't know this could be offensive. >> a whole historical context behind black face that isn't dressing up by someone. >> at the end of the day, even my 13-year-old is studying this in school so i don't think it's that far removed from people's memories. >> this is the opportunity to bring the students together? >> yes. >> look maybe the kid was trying to do something to on why ahono martin luther king but some people see it as mocking. 36 minutes past the hour. killer's mom starts a website to raise money, claiming racism at the workplace led her son to commit the worst mass shooting ever in one state, co-workers are fuming. we will be speaking to them coming up next. first a quick check on your travel forecast with our man, rob marciano. >> good morning, guys. if you're traveling out west to see these solar eclipse this sunday, looking good. to reno, up towards reading, california, as well. here's the weather forecast map. looking good across the northeast, down across the southeast looking at showers, warm conditions in through the midwest and the northern plains, the fire threat continues out west, 85 degrees expected in denver, 72 degrees, good looking day in new york city, and weather should hold in maryland as well, down the stretch they come for the preaks, temperatures in the 70s and a dry, fast track expected. now's the time to move from to where you want to go. look up. with u.s. bank let's get the wheels turning. use our strength & stability to open new opportunities. to lend, and lift ...every business...every dream... to new heights of prosperity. good things are happening. just look up. with u.s. bank. 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>> the pain of missing my son, also i'm waiting for, i haven't seen any evidence of anything that they found that happened. i know something went wrong. >> but you accept that he did kill his co-workers. >> i accept the fact that he did that. i accept the fact that that happened, but i believe that he was stressed. i saw a change in him before this happened, and he went through a lot of different changes on the job, and i believe at the end, that's what pushed him over. >> he said -- why did you come to believe this might have been caused by racism? >> because he would, i believe it was racism, bullying, disrespe disrespect, just a combination of different things from what he would say when he was complaining, we would tell me, he said to me a man hit him in the back of his leg with a crane is what you call it and we to get treatments for it, he reported it and then they came in, he said that he reported it and they had a conversation about it and the next day he came in, the man laughed at him, and that they didn't do anything to discipline the man, and then you know, we would tell me things from time to time that was going on with him. >> you couldn't, from what i've seen that you've written and said, you just could never envision your son killing anyone. you said he was just a kind, generous man. >> yes, he was a very kind person, generous, always wanted to help people, and just a nice person, and intelligent person. >> what do you think happened? could have been racism that did this, but that doesn't generally cause somebody to kill people. >> i believe that it was constantly things that they did. he went there, they hired him as a truck driver, and they put him in the shipping and receiving or something department and they kept him there for a year and a half. he started writing letters, him and his girlfriend, to them, to try to get them to give him the driving position. well, one day, they got him out to drive for the first time, to my understanding, according to what he told me, and it was a snowstorm and he drove the truck and the deliveries and after that they put him back into the shipping or basement or whatever it is that they do there, and they didn't allow him to drive, so he started writing and kept writing letters to them to get the driving position that they originally hired him for, so it took them a year and a half to actually give him the driving position. >> so you started up the website and you have a statement says what it's for, it says the omar thorton memorial fund is a means to provide continuing educational programs that bring awareness to the evils of racism. your financial contribution will assist in shaping a safer environment for our families and loved ones. you have raised any money? >> i haven't yet. there are certain papers i haven't turned in. today i would do that. i found out people were able to make donations to the account, but i was telling people that they couldn't make donations to the account because i hadn't turned in the papers to the secretary of state. >> you've been at the center of controversy. the connecticut department of consumer protection said they've been receiving complaints or they've received a complaint and they're investigating the site. have you heard that? >> i heard that just yesterday, that's the first time i heard anything about it. >> do you know what it's about? have they contacted you? >> no, they haven't contacted me. >> what would they find out if they asked you, what are you going to use the money for? >> i would tell them the money will be used to bring awareness to unfair treatment in the workplace, and i would tell them that i want to do my own investigation to find out what happened leading up to 8/3/2010. >> how do you as a grieving mother respond to the families of the other victims who say you're kind of making this about your son and not about remembering them. they didn't deserve to die. >> i didn't do this to try to open any wounds or hurt anyone. i'm trying to find out what happened, what led up to 8/3/2010 and i would hope that the families would want to know, too, so that we can prevent this from happening to any other family. we're all hurting, we're all going through pain. >> and i know you're trying to deal with that pain. if you found out this was causing a lot of pain to those families and they asked you to take it down, what would you say? >> i would hope that they would not ask me to take it down. i would hope that they would want to find out what really happened also, because it's not something that we need to fight to take it down. i'm not trying to hurt anybody. we need to fight to work together to make this not happen again. my son was bullied, unfairly treated and went through a lot of different changes and he went through a lot of pain. >> lillie holliday, thank you for joining us. >> brooke baldwin is in for soledad o'brien for "starting point." the ipo, initial public offering when it comes to facebook. big day obviously for the menlo park folks in california. we'll take you live to the nasdaq as trading begins. facebook's wall street debut attracting the government's attention as well. co-founder eduardo savran is alleged to cheat the u.s. out of $67 million to $100 million in taxes? what is this ex-patriot bill? also, aheads inside the actors studio, james lipton will be in studio offering acting advice or as he phrases it, how to act human, to mitt romney, we'll get his two cents on president obama as well and i'm curious how he gets to all of the blue cards, hours and hours of interviewing and work on his show. we'll get the back story. teen idol david cassidy you know the song -- ♪ i think i love you >> she sings, too. >> i don't sing so well. please don't turn the channel. we'll also get his thoughts on the passing of donna summer and he's a voice for alzheimer's because his mother suffered severe dementia. she's 88 years old. we'll get his thoughts on that. watch us, ali velshi, i see you. watch us, cnn live on his computer, peeking out, mobile phone, cnn.com/live, the evil velshi lurking around the corner. be right back. sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. dave, i've downloaded a virus. yeah. ♪ dave, where are we on the new laptop? 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