text, get back. i appreciate the technology, but i try to use it in the right way. you don t see me abusing twitter or these things or crazy stuff, crazy pictures. as much as we all hope you would. despite the demands. you see a number of people, particularly millennials, sit down and write a letter? that whole art, we re gathered arth with people together, when they can gather in chat rooms. have you ever tried to write a check and you forgot to write letters. the art of cursive writing has disappeared. and spelling. spell check is everything. grammar check, you really don t have to be too smart to write a letter. you can go to google, even i can do that. it s the g. you should put your social security number in there, and they get all the stuff. your birthday. i don t want to do that. coming up, yesterday he was on death row for more than a century for a murder he didn t commit. now glen ford is a free man and
i hope that people out there, you know, have the courage to go out there and chase their dream, whatever it is. he is completely stable in every way. would you like him to babysit your kids? are you kidding me? what is it about people like that do things like that? ? early start continues right now. countdown to shutdown. definitely not a hoe down. the u.s. government just hours from shutting down. congress grid locked as both political parties wait to see who will blink first. a record setting storm slamming the northwest. roads are flooded and trees are all knocked down and thousands are left in the dark. dozens of tourists jumping into the water when their boat suddenly erupts in flames. crazy pictures. really crazy story to tell you about. good morning, everyone. welcome to early start. i m john berman.
look at the arsenal that holmes he massed. he was a very tense weekend in the middle east with the u.s. stepping up its presence around syria providing more help to the rebels. how far will our government go? we ll have a live report from the middle east. but first, of course, our top story here. the man accused of one of the worst shooting massacres in u.s. history will make his first court appearance in a few hours. police say it could take months before we know why he carried out this senseless act of violence during a midnight movie premier. 24-year-old james holmes accused of killing 12 people, wounding 58 people including mothers, fathers, members of the military, even a 6-year-old girl. eight are still in critical condition this morning. we are learning that budding scientist allegedly was planning this for months. his apartment was rigged with trip wires, gas canisters that a gun range owner was so scared by him that he rejected him a month ago. and it could hav
researchers believe you may be doing yourself more harm than good. it is tuesday, october 11th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello joining you live from new york. president obama s $447 billion jobs bill faces its first vote in the senate later today. in a warning to republican critics, the president s senior campaign strategist says that voting against the measure could cost them the election. next year in a member row release the by the obama campaign david axelrod wrote the more people know about the american jobs act, the more they want congress to pass the plan. axelrod also takes aim at critics of the bill s millionaires tax quoting while republicans claim it is class warfare, the american people are seeing right through their opposition to asking the wealthiest to do their part. some democrats have doubts and while they control the senate there is no guarantee the bill will get the 60 votes needed to clear tonight s procedural hurdle. the occupy
british parliament hearing today in london but they were upstaged momentarily by an intruder who somehow managed to get very, very close to the murdochs, too close as you re about to see. watch. so no official word yet as to who exactly that guy in the plaid shirt was. we know he was shouting you greedy billionaire, but he pushed a plateful of shaving cream into rupert murdoch s face before he was grabbed, first by his wife, if you watch it, not in this shot but you can see she was wearing that bright pink jacket, and then by authorities. they did take a quick break. he then continued jacket off to answer questions before parliament s committee on media, culture and sports. so the members wanted to know this, how much did rupert murdoch and his top executives know about the phone hacking by reporters on his payroll, how closely he followed day-to-day operations. the newspaper closed because of this whole thing. and how responsible he feels about this entire affair. do you a