november 5th by the people and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here. and i think it s just a disgrace and we ll keep fighting. we will fight until the end and we will win. because our country has gone to hell. and we will fight for our constitution. this is long from over. steve: okay, fox news alert. that is former president donald trump and at 11:00 this morning, is he going to speak out with a press conference after being found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a trial that cost new york city taxpayers about 2 million bucks to hold the whole proceeding. lawrence: trump and his legal team are not backing down. the former president telling fox news digital, quote: we have to think about how something like this could happen in our country. november 5th will be the most important date in the history of our country. we ll be fighting hard. brian: a lot of big dates coming up. so judge juan merchan said trump se
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
every day about 1.5 million americans board airplanes. this morning they have a big question. is it safe to fly? no doubt there s good reason for that concern. this new plot centered around a nonmetallic explosive designed to slip through airport detectors similar to a bomb aboard a flight in 2009. a malfunction may be the only reason those passengers survived. the latest plot also targeted an international flight coming into the united states. that was foiled two weeks ago. the investigation is still unfolding. a short time ago we heard from white house chief adviser or counterterrorism. the big question how worried should we be that this bomb and others like it would not be detected by current safeguards. this i.ed was a threat from the standpoint of the design we ve been able to determine and so now we re trying to make sure that we take the measures that we need to to prevent any other type of ied from getting through security procedures. so will ramped up vigilance m
nations, will peacekeepers be able to make a cease fire happen? kony part two, the wildly popular documentary just out moments ago. dramatic, empowering, worldly, but in this movie, one key element is missing. mohammed ali and the marlins, why people this morning are still talking about the boxing great s first pitch. cosmo, the magazine known for how to please your man in bed. charges they are putting teens on the cover. your future health care is facing new questions and a new deadline. in just a few hours, government lawyers are due to submit a three-page explanation of exactly what authority the obama administration beliefs the federal courts have. it s an odd request. but more than one federal judge is not happy with what republicans call president obama s bullying of the supreme court over its review of obama care. here s brian todd. reporter: a barometer of how high the political stakes are for the president and his opponents on the health care law. a public
significant reduction in the american standard of living. their words, not mine. but when you break it down, the reality gets even more troubling. during the recession, the average income slipped by about 3%. but after the recession when the economy was supposed to be picking up, take a look. the average income dropped by nearly 7%, down to $49,909. incomes fell more after the recession ended than they did during the actual recession. as the senate begins debating president obama s jobs bill, perhaps this explains why so many people are angry. and also explains, in part, why occupy wall street has become a nationwide movement in its fourth week. the protests have now spread far beyond wall street to more than two dozen cities. like it or not, it is a voice the president, lawmakers and the gop presidential candidates can no longer ignore. i don t know where it s going to go but they need to go away, because in my opinion, they re focusing on the wrong thing. seems to me t