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
meanwhile, at the state level, republicans are waging health care battles that could mean ending health coverage for tens of thousands of women. joining the panel now is president of planned parenthood and the planned parenthood action fund, cecile, a pleasure. nice to be here. pleasure to have you. let s talk about what s happening at the state level. i want to focus on texas first. in terms of there is an appeals court in new orleans that on thursday, heard arguments over the ban, the state s planned ban to end funding for planned parenthood which would affect i think 103,000 or half of the 103,000 texas women who are receiving health care using planned parenthood. it s more dramatic than that. governor perry is trying to end the entire women s health program in texas that affects women who come to planned parenthood and other places.
morning of sister wives star janelle. going to hear from that family. that big, crazy chaotic family later on this hour. barry white. hello. no, i get it. thank you, roland martin. roland is back on our panel. i can see how this morning is going to go. thank you for pointing out the obvious. also with us, good morning, will. good morning. margaret hooper is with us, as well, a former campaign staffer for president bush and former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. and she is the great granddaughter of president herbert hoover. how about that? i m the great granddaughter of let s get to our starting point this morning. senator 36 years ousted by a tea party candidate who says we need less cooperation in congress and more confrontation. richard lugar lost to richard mourdock. nice to see you as always. there are many, many iterations, james. tea party, he was out of touch. he was a victim of his own sort of failures to navigate his own campaign. there s an anti-
college and the need to head off a spike in student loan interest rates. we ll take the president as soon as he steps up to the mike. we are watching an animal preserve in ohio. two leopards, two monkeys and a bear will be returned to the widow of the man who turned his pets loose before taking his own life. sanford, florida has a new police chief. we re watching the live pictures from there. richard meyers is being introduced at a news conference, all three stories happening right now, we have them covered we ll bring you the latest as they happen. we re also hearing from the escort who exposed a big fat secret at the secret service. dania gives an interview about her infamously ly iason. my friends nor i we didn t know they were agents, you know, obama s agents for, you know, and then we left and we went to this place to buy condoms. and then we went to the hotel. who went? well, my friend, well, wait, she is not a friend, acquaintance, and the agent who was with me a
attention. he wants to set a record and jump out of space, what? trace: and he wants to go 120,000 to do it. that is 23 miles up. he is known as fearless phoenix and could go 760 miles per hour and would free fall for five minutes and 23 seconds before pulling his chute. in the test run, 71,000 he fell for 3 1/2 minutes. here he is. free fall took forever. i have never been in free fall for so long, and you still have a couple of minutes. trace: at 120,000 feet up it is 75 below zero. this is a practice picture. the record sky dive is from 103,000 set in the 1960 s by a man named joe who is on the team of red bull to help break the