reporter: after firing bullets, police finally subdued the man with a taser and he was admitted to a hospital as emotionally disturbed. the man in question? police say he s a 35-year-old man and he is facing a string of charges, including drug possession and disorderly conduct. margaret connelly, cnn, new york. 17 minutes past the hour. a man suing aaron hernandez, former nfl star, want his case to go forward despite the charges against the one. time patriots tight end. bradley wants money from hernandez for allegedly shooting him in the face outside a strip club. they say he can t adequately defend himself against the civil charges at the same time he is contesting murder charges in massachusetts. those messages aimed at changing eating habits and exercises may be paying off for children. new study in the journal of pediatrics looked at 11 to 16-year-olds between 2001 and
0 if you care about how you live and how you want your children and grandchildren to live, then conservation is so important. rescuers continue to search by land and air for hundreds of people, maybe thousands, no one has been able to reach. new concerns over the deal to remove chemical weapons from syria hours before a crucial report from the united nations that could change this whole discussion. a new beauty queen has been crowned. introduce the new miss america. we hardly got to know the old one, you know? do you know her name? i couldn t name the last 50 miss america s. i couldn t either. welcome to early start. i m john berman. i m zoraida sambolin. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east so we begin in colorado. new warnings this morning that severe flooding promises to only get worse before hopefully it gets better. days of intense pounding rain have left 15 counties drenched and led to images like this from westminster about 20 miles northwest of denver. 11,000 peopl
with new safety measures in place, according to a statement. there has been a rekindling overnight in the fire that destroyed dozens of shops along new jersey s iconic boardwalk. but the flames have not extinguished the town s heart. they say they will come back. this is the front page of this morning s new jersey star-ledger, an amazing shot of the burnt boardwalk with the headline, we will make new memories. margaret connelly is live for us from seaside height, new jersey. margaret, have officials been able to investigate the area properly, even this, while this overnight flare-up reportedly happened? reporter: fred, you know, the area is still under investigation now. we talked to representatives from the prosecutor s office. they re saying that these kind of recurrentes of flare-ups, that is normal. you can look at the damage behind me. this was a fire raging for about nine hours. firefighters were spraying it down with water as early as this morning.
hundreds of people still missing, and the storm is now growing, threatening towns beyond colorado s borders. we ll have the forecast straight ahead. plus it is a breakthrough agreement, or is it a ploy for more time? after three days of talks, the u.s. and russia have decided on an aggressive plan to rid syria of chemical weapons, but will it translate into action on the ground? and a horrifying story to report from ohio this morning. a greyhound bus with more than 50 people on board careens off an interstate and overturns in the middle of the night. dozens are now in the hospital. cnn newsroom starts right now. first to colorado, where the disaster from historic flooding is turning dire and more dangerous. we re getting some unbelievable new images right now into the newsroom. this is new video just in from above the boulder area. at least four people have been killed, as far as we know, and now 218 people are reported missing from days of unprecedented rainfall
0 voyager i has made history again. the nasa spacecraft that blasted off 36 years ago this month is now the first human-made object to leave the heliosphere. what s a heliosphere? here s the answer. it s the boundary that separates our solar system from the rest of the galaxy. it s the farthest anything from earth has ever travelled. they say it s 11.7 billion, yes, with a b, billion miles away, and is expected to communicate with earth up until 2025. lots to learn still. thank you so much for sharing some of your time with us this morning. it was good to be with you. stay with us, because there s much more ahead in the next hour of cnn newsroom. we turn it over to our colleague, fredricka whitfield. good morning. good morning to you. thank you. we have a whole lot we re talking about extreme weather and we ve got acts of diplomacy overseas. let s begin underwater, overwhelmed, record-setting floods force thousands to flee in colorado. what to grab, where to go, total c