to the poles as iraqis choose a new leader. they will be tasked with rebuilding everything from the economy to tackling corruption and stopping isis interest making a return. we ll be watching that closely. the photographer here for the associated press. we d love to hear your thoughts as always on facebook, twitter, snapchat and insta. for now, i turn over to my capable colleagues, ali velshi and stephanie ruhle. what a great thing to do for voting, using fingerprints. these are people showing their fingers to say i have participated, no matter what the world thinks how good a chance or bad a chance we have i ve done my job. thank you for doing that, hall. i thanks, guys. good morning, i m ali velshi. and i m stephanie ruhle. it s friday, may 11th, let s get started. a top white house communications aide mocked senator john mccain s brain cancer diagnosis. three sources with direct knowledge telling nbc news white
for the nuts and bolts on this fias fiasco, it s the impact on the markets and your own investments. alison kosik joins us now. just what was this massive trading bet all about? before it went south? reporter: fredricka, what jpmorgan essentially did was made a big game am. they made risky bets and lost. the bets they made were to protect against possible losses on jpmorgan s other investments, but clearly they backfired and the bets produced losses of their own. how did this come out? it came out in a surprise conference call that ceo jamie diamond called for lamon called. shares are down almost 8% right now. shares of others are getting hit hard right now. wall veit is worried about other banks wondering, you know what, if jpmorgan can do this and it s considered the stronger of the banks or the strongest of the banks, what kind of bets are the other banks making especially, once again, that aren t as strong as jpmorgan? fredricka? so the ceo, jamie dimon, had quite the
older sister, 14-year-old adrienne. mayes was a family friend of the bain s and a relative says he believed he was the girl s biological father. cnn s george haul is live in atlanta with more details for us. okay we re going to mind your business instead this morning. u.s. stock futures are down right now, indicating markets here are expected to open lower this morning. lots of uncertainty in the markets this week over instability in greece and overall concerns about growth of the economy. one stock taking a beating overnight, morgan chase, did you hear about that? it s down about 6% in pre-market trading right now and last night, the bank s ceo announced a $2 billion loss in april over some badly hedged bets. in an apology to the boss from the vice president, senior administration officials say joe biden has apologized to president obama for painting him into a corner on the same-sex marriage issue. cnn s jessica yellin broke that story for us. biden came out in support of
neighbor and your shoulder is nearly touching his or her shoulder but you don t really look at this person. you don t say hi because you are scared. this is a tension i feel everywhere. it s not about religion. everybody has a right to exercise their own believes or their own ritual in the way they want. we need to respect that. and to respect other people s difference. i feel that way about willy. i m taking away sort of a universal message here about strife between human beings in the world and about men being idiots. where do we go now? opens in theaters in new york city and los angeles on friday, may 11th. can i ask quick one thing, a lot of us were very excited about what we saw in 2005 when
israeli strikes inside syria. the strikes followed rockets launched into israel from the north. we are live with the latest. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. good morning. i m dave briggs. friday, may 11th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with breaking news. federal investigation after a texas church damaged by a package bomb. the second explosive device to target the area in two weeks. the police called to the church which caused minor damage to the church. the atf is assisting the local police. two weeks ago, a suspicious package was found at the starbucks in the facility. beaumont is 200 miles east of dallas. now to politics. senator john mccain s opposition