on cnn. good monday morning to you, everyone. it s good to have you with us, welcome to early start. i m ashley banfield. we re bringing you the news from a to z. big developments in greece that are sure to have a ripple effect. winning yesterday s parliamentary election in a vote seen by many as an endorsement for the survival of the euro. i will make sure that the sacrifices of the greek people will bring the country back to prosperity. so now it s up to samaras to form a coalition government to quickly keep greece afloat. something that other euro nations are hopes that we can do. christine romans is monitoring markets. as we started, we said, ah, good news here. features have turned lower. and i saw this described as a stay of execution for greece. others have called it the status quo. what is the status quo? relying on other monies from other countries to stay afloat, to basically not go broke and it still has an awful lot of work to do here. but voters dec
days, but this is all simply a precautionary measure, they say. an arrest in a gruesome international murder mystery. german police have captured luca rocco magnotta, a self-described porn star accused of killing and dismembering a student in canada. body parts were mailed to canadian police and to politicians. canadian authorities confirmed the arrest a short time ago. george zimmerman s lawyer says he will file for a new bond hearing. the man accused of murdering trayvon martin had his bail revoked by the judge in the case and was sent back to jail over the weekend. the judge said zimmerman lied about his finances in order to get a lower bond. so right now let s bring in christiane amanpour, host of cnn s international. she has scored a rare interview. that visit by maria castro outraged people. was she trying to make inroads and does she speak at all for her father s regime? reporter: well, two interesting questions. i don t think she was trying to make inroads exc
of himself online. that s when someone in the cafe noticed him, recognized him, bolted out of the cafe and called the police. detectives in montreal say they think that he s the one who stabbed and mutilated and mailed out body parts of his boyfriend, lin jun, seen here in this photo, from ctv. oh, and there s more as well. you re going to hear from magnotta himself. cnn has uncovered a 2007 interview of magnotta talking about being a stripper, about being an escort and about why the men the french press calls the butcher of montreal says he is so popular and well-liked in the video he called himself jimmy. first we want to take you live to the scene in berlin where the arrest went down today. that s where cnn s diana magnet is standing by live. i know you ve been able to get there in the last hour and a half and collect some of the more recent details. last we spoke in the last hour, you were getting the full story of how the arrest went down literally in the seats behind yo
on that note, good morning to you. welcome to early start. i m zoraida sambolin. just hate when that happens. just ruins your morning, doesn t it? good morning, everybody. zoraida and i are here to bring you the news from a to z. it s 5:00 in the a.m. let s get started. first, donald trump sucking the air out of the whole evening, stealing mitt romney s thunder after last night s texas primary victory. romney now has more than enough delegates to clinch the republican nomination, but not everyone is talking about that this morning. instead, it seems to be all about the trump and barack obama s birth certificate again. the donald campaigning with romney in las vegas yesterday, reviving that old debate over whether the president has born in this country. let s just say he was. it s been proven. but it s triggered this spirited exchange with wolf blitzer in the situation room yesterday. a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate. how can you say t
the age of 63. apparently dying from cancer. something that she had kept under wraps. it was not well-known at all that she was suffering from an illness. she had reportedly been in the studio very recently working on an album that she was hoping to finish. we did release a statement from her manager this morning saying, early this morning we lost donna summer, a woman of many gifts, the greatest gift being her faith. while we grieve her passing, we re at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy. words truly cannot express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time. donna rose to fame in the 70s disco era. she was born in boston, la donna adrienne gains was her birth name. her career fired up when she was an international when she was cast in the international tour of hair. she met and married actor helmuth sommer. she kept his last name, did a little tweak, and that s when she officially game donna summer, a