new developments overnight in the case involving secretary of commerce john bryson. and his two car crashes. he went back to work yesterday but not today. find out why, coming up in this hour of cnn. welcome to early start, i m zoraida sambolin. i m ashleigh banfield. we re bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 on the dot in the east. let s start with this, shall we? victim number one ready to take the stand today in jerry sandusky child abuse sex trial. today s witness was just 11 or 12 years old when he first met the penn state assistant football coach. it was his accusations that triggered this criminal investigation leading to jerry sandusky s arrest. susan candiotti is live in bellefonte, pennsylvania this morning, she s been covering this case. incredible stories coming out in court. i don t know if it can get any worse. his story is set to come out in court today. what is the story of victim number one following yesterday s story of victim number four?
department s january employment report. 16 to 19-year-olds, 23% unemployment. 20 to 24. 13% unemployment. 25 to 34, 9% unemployment. it s the older age groups that fall below the national unemployment rate. so, yes, the youngest have been hit hardest. feel bad for those kids out of college or in there now. today the dow closed at highest level since 2008. it was up just a little bit. you see there. 6 and a half. nasdaq up 11. s&p up 2. greece was a really big factor today. we got big news out thereof. we did get big news. i would like to be one of the cheerleaders about stocks. tom sullivan said they are making this up as they go. the greeks have agreed to new austerity measures. they have done this in the past. it was buy on the rumor, sell on the news. we are not out of the news. the imf has to sign on the bailout deal. they are not committed to this deal as of yet. we could see some selling tomorrow. it s not a done deal. one of the reasons you did not see the market move that h
pretty steady. we re at ward 1. you step inside where voters started showing up about 6:00 this morning. right now you see a few of the voters here. you haven t seen the long lines, but a steady stream of folks coming in here. this is a very busy ward. we take a look back to 2008, according to official als here, they had to call up the clerk s office and get the ballots. they got the ballots this time. perhaps they won t have to do that. overallstate wide according to the secretary of state s office, they re expecting 250,000 ballots to be cast in this highly contested republican primary compared to last time in 2008, roughly 9,000 more, kyra. romney s had a pretty rough 48 hours. what kind of impact do you think that will have? reporter: i think the real test will come once all the votes are counted. what i can say though is that when he made the mistake yesterday of referring to enjoying firing people he was talking about insurance companies that aren t up to par. you s
a double dip. they see the unemployment rate shrinking to 8.5% from 2012. they see gdp growth in the second half of the year is at 2%, much higher than we are right now. we see weakness coming from consumers, driving 75% of the economy. we re having a hard time getting the economy going, but basically the bottom line is an interesting survey, we may not slip into a double dip recession, but it s not going to feel great for the average person out there. right now we are watching the market move toward a positive open, you can t tell take your eye off the ball because of the wild swings we ve seen lately. thanks, melissa. case closed? one of the world s most powerful men about to be off the hook on sexual assault charges but not if his accuser has anything to say about it. hurricane irene picks up steam. she s making a lot of people nervous, we ll track the gathering storm. don t forget the nbc news
and toothpicks, and then some people saying i don t want to try the cake because my mouth will get hurt. that s what is going on. this is something that we have been seeing over the last few weeks. is this really any different than the turmoil we have been witnessing? i think ali is spot on. you think back to just before the huge selloff and volatility last week, we had our own numbers that showed we had almost no growth. we have a new manufacturing number today, a regional manufacturing number that really hit investors hard. some analysts say it s a reliable number because it s a fresher number. this number is about manufacturing in august. the index was actually at one of the low points, and the drop was what analysts call stunning and saying it never has been this low without leading to a recession. when you hear things like that, especially with manufacturing considered one of the engines of growth in this country, that s also why you see investors sell at this point.