walk but a walk across niagara falls on a really, really skinny wire? good gracious. you betcha. got that story and a whole lot more, coming up this hour on cnn. oh, that s a beautiful shot, isn t it? hopefully he ll do it when there s broad daylight. do you think he s awake right now doing one of these? calm the jitters. especially because he will be tethered and he s not used to being tethered. the advice might be lay off the caffeine this morning. good advice. welcome to early start, nice to have you with us, i m ashleigh banfield. and i m zoraida sambolin, bringing you the news from a to z, 5:00 a.m. here in the east. let s get started. this is cnn breaking news. we begin with this this morning. bran new details on the two american men arrested in japan after a nicki minaj concert. police are holding one of them, a 19-year-old on suspicion of murder in the death of a 21-year-old irish exchange student, a woman who disappeared after that conce
understand this financial crisis was the worst since the great depression, but ultimately they say, look, he s the president. we think he has good intentions, but we re impatient and we want to see things move faster. i understand that. i m sympathetic to it. we ll keep on putting forward ideas that will be good for the country. we re going to need a partner from congress. on the other side of the political spectrum, listen to what governor rick perry said in iowa and he s not backing off. you might hear him catch more heat for it today. politicians from president obama to rick santorum thought perry went overboard when he talked about the federal reserve and its chairman ben bernanke. listen. if this guy prints more money between now and the election, i don t know what you all would do to him in iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. i mean printing more money to play politics at this particular time in american history is almost treasonness in my opinio