country. i was told to keep my mouth shut when showering in subsaharan africa there on a reporting trip yet this is happening here in the united states. for the people of jackson, water problems are not knew and looking to state and federal officials for answers. not acceptable. they need to figure it out and make a plan, because this isn t the first time it s happened and it s going to keep on happening. let bring in nbc s morgan chesky on the ground there in mississippi, and the woman you spoke to, she s living it. right? not new to jackson, mississippi. yet here they are once again, four days in. no clean drinking water. how are folks feeling there? how are they dealing? reporter: it s a date-to-day struggle, yasmin. you re getting a live look at it right now. this is what life looks like, if you live in jackson. people pulling up in their cars, all hours of the day. geez. from dawn until dusk, to try
pete: working on it. rachel: i m betting on you, governor. pete: for sure. we ll do that next year we do the 4th of july from mount rushmore with you. how about that? absolutely. it s a date. pete: the book is not my first road yo, lessons from the heartland on sale tuesday. governor kristi noem. thank you. pete: we have plans for the next 4th. rachel: holy land. pete: holy land, we re doing the holy land for, christmas. christmas of this year. holy land. then mount rushmore. will: making our plans. there is big news taking place across the country specifically in arizona where one of the biggest school choice bills really in decades has passed wherein they have vouchers. rachel did the interview a little earlier with cory deangelis who fought for school choice for a long time in the
captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin in wisconsin where voters have three more hours to cast ballots in an effort to recall their republican governor scott walker and replace him with the democratic mayor tom barrett. both parties see it as a potential weather vane for november s election. the exit polls are fascinating to begin with, number one and number two show a very close race and how polarized and partisan the electorate is. we mentioned governor walker s efforts to limit collective bargaining rights, strongly disapprove of the efforts, 38% of those voting today strongly days prove but let s come to the other end, 37% strongly approve, that tells you why we think this is going to be a close race as we go through, the others in the middle there. that s the defining issue in the race. look at the electorate again today another close divide, 35% of those voting today are democrats, 33% are republicans, we get that to highlight, 32% of the electorate today indepe
good morning everyone. welcome to early start. nice to have you with us. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. we re bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started. this is cnn breaking news. we begin with breaking news this morning. two american tourists kidnapped by gunmen in egypt. it happened in the town of dahab in the region of egypt. the report says that two americans were forced out of a car and taken away. the alleged kidnappers demanding the release of a man who was arrested a day before for drug possession. cnn s ben wedeman is live in cairo. i know these are late-breaking details. what can you tell us? reporter: the embassy is in close contact with the egyptian authorities. they say to resolve this situation. now, it s not unusual, the not the first time that tourists, including americans, have been kidnapped here. since the revolution at the beginning of last year, state authority in that part of egypt has really
happening. and the big jobs report for december is coming out today. christine romans calling it the big granddaddy of them all. it s probably good news for the democrats and she ll share details. and there s this thing that climbers like to do. seven peaks, it s a big deal for anybody. but if you re 15 years old. it s a huge deal. we ll tell you about this kid. who happened to just globe-trot the world and climb the seven highest peaks. and we re going to add in an eighth one. which one s that? you ll see. quite a little wonder that we re going to see this morning i m looking forward to it. learn something every day. we begin this morning with the critical endorsement in the battle for new hampshire. for jon huntsman. the boston globe has it as a banner headline, they say former utah governor offers the republican party an opportunity to renew itself. the boston globe editor spoke to our own erin burnett last night. huntsman is bold anywhere the campaig