mayor, corey booker speaking out about the bain private equity debate. hear what he had to say about his critics and the president. and a major slide in facebook s stock. a big deal, and a big drop. details, straight ahead. good morning, everyone and welcome to early start. i m ashley banfield. and i m zoraida sambolin. up first, boldly going where no private spacecraft has gone before. zero and launch of the spacex falcon 9 rocket as nasa turns to the private secretary tore resupply the international space station. what a sight, huh? it happened not too long ago, a rocket built by the commercial space flight company, spacex blasted off an hour ago from cape canaveral, launched the unmanned dragon capsule to the international space station. the world s first commercial space station supply flight. nasa hanging its hopes on the mission now that the retired space shuttles are museum exhibits. john zerella is live in miami. i was watching you as it went into space. no
time to do a little math. news by the numbers. first $3.2 billion. that s how much the u.s. postal service is down in its second quarter. it blames congress for blocking the cost-cutting efforts of ditching saturday mail delivery and reducing health benefits for retirees. next, $6 million. that s how much a man in glendale, arizona won after picking the same winning lotto numbers six different times. he s asked to remain anonymous. find him. he knows what he s doing. finally, 8%. that s how much mother s day spending is expected to go up this year. the national retail federation saying more people are celebrating the holiday. happy mother s day. steve? meanwhile, it was one of the winter s biggest hits. act of valor the movie action packed film starring real life active duty u.s. navy seals. take a look. whoa!
his life today. and the first secret service agents being forced out over a prostitution scandal in colombia. now one of the escorts is talking about a fight over her cash money. that s what she called it. the reason this whole story left the hotel. and rocker ted nugent has a date with the secret service to explain inflammatory comments he made about the president. and airport naked guy is now speaking. why he says that he doesn t regret taking off all his clothes at a security checkpoint. more on that one to come. new details on what happened in the secret service prostitution scandal in colombia. three of the 11 implicated agents are now out. one of them, a supervisor is being allowed to retire. another is being forced to leave the agency. and cnn has learned he plans to fight his dismissal. a third agent has resigned now. eight others remain on administrative leave with their security clearance revoked. they are accused of bringing prostitutes to their hotel in co
phone call. an nfl player is fined by the league, but when you hear who he called, you might think it was well worth it. welcome to this cnn saturday morning for october 22nd. 6:00 a.m. in atlanta, georgia. 5:00 a.m. in fayetteville, arkansas. 4:00 a.m. salt lake city. u.s. troops will be home for the holidays and the war in iraq will be over. that s the promise made by president obama who said troops are coming home by the end of the year. chris lawrence has more on what this move really means for the future of u.s. involvement in iraq. reporter: there are some important reasons why the president had to make this announcement but there are real risks with the announcement as well. some 30,000 troops are still spread out across bases in iraq and they have ten weeks to get out. today i can say our troops in iraq will definitely be home for the holidays. reporter: the u.s. military is running up to 400 transportation convoys a week and has moved out 1.5 million pieces
that s super bowl 49. the site, university of phoenix stadium in glendale. the last super bowl there was in 2008 when the new york football giants upset the unbeaten new england patriots. here s the breakdown for the next four super bowls. indianapolis will hold next year s host host next year s game. new orleans will follow in 2013. then the new york/new jersey area in 2014 and then it s back to the desert and arizona. updating some of our top stories tonight, the feds say they have disrupted an iranian-based terror plot aimed at killing saudi arabia s ambassador to the united states. official sources say israel s ambassador to the u.s. may also have been a target as well as the saudi and israeli embassies in d.c. investigators say a u.s. citizen who also holds an iranian passport has admitted his role in the plot. officials say another suspect, a member of iran s revolutionary guard is still at large.