winner this hour on cnn. good morning and welcome to early start, i m sor ride da sam lynn. i m ashley banfield. we re bringing you the news from a to z. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. we begin this morning with breaking news. we re just learning brand new information on that nigerian plane that crashed into a residential neighborhood in lagos. the airline s director of flight operations confirming the pilot was american. we have no idea how long that pilot worked for the airline. nigeria s president declaring three days of national mourning and ordering a full investigation. all 153 people on board were killed in yesterday s disaster, and at least ten people on the ground died as well. firefighters and police struggled to put out all of the flames. there wasn t any water left more than three hours after that crash. residents helped carry fire hoses and plastic buckets of water to the burning wreckage. into s going to be a rough day pretty much in the financial markets a
the recent movies or tv episodes so they have a plan to counter that, going to have more exclusive content. like their first series house of cards and working to access older episodes of very, very popular shows like glee working with the companies who make these shows to say listen, we are garnering more viewers for you by showing these old episodes and trying to counter this. it s a heated and competitive market. interesting. and this was until the fact the fact they started streaming two years ago it was a mailing a dvd company. even in our household sometimes we wouldn t get switch out, but now that i can do it on this, through our wii, we use it much more often. all these devices. i have three different devices that can stream netflix and on the i pda. market opens in an hour and ten minutes. our morning market check and yesterday on the dow, was down 26 points and nasdaq up about six. and s&p down two. and the futures are looking good. that was mixed on earnin
being checked because you have to pay for it. right. which is smart, though. i mean, it s forcing people to rethink, i don t need seven sweaters maybe i can get away with two. you know. says kiran. do you ever check a bag? i rarely do. see i do. i don t want to deal with it. it takes a lot longer to load planes because everybody is trying to squeeze it in. the reason i have to check a bag for hair spray. you don t have that problem. i m with you. same thing. and the morning market check, dow up 57 points. yesterday nasdaq up friday almost up nine, s&p down 6.5 and we re looking a little mixed on the futures but overall positive. and we re not prepared for this next story. we should have carmen bring us in four pillows. thousands of people around the world connect with their inner child over the weekend. i love this. beating the stuffing out of each other. more than 100 cities taking part in international pillow fight day. organizers used social networking
processing. in washington this week, douglas shulman, commissioner of the irs said this in testimony. we ve never had a shutdown in the middle of the filing season before. and the closer we get to april 15th, the more consideration and factors are at play. now, what would happen? well, government agencies have been instructed not to talk about contingency plans, but under previous plans for potential shutdowns, payments to the irs, of course, your payments, of course, are processed. but tax returns would not be processed. and no tax refunds would be issued. this is very interesting. of. all of a sudden, carmen, now there are millions of more people who are interested in whether or not there s a government shutdown. all of a sudden, which is why we re doing this story because, yes, you should be paying attention. morning market check here. we have mixed, mixed market yesterday. dow down 31 points, nasdaq up 4, and s&p down 2.4%.
parts from the toyota plant. gm has temporarily laid off workers at its buffalo, new york, facility which makes the engine for those models. with so much competition on the auto market, things went go higher on the list there are going to be tight supplies in cars like the prius and gm as well. this is an important thing to note, where are the shortages most likely to be seen? if priuses, are other hybrids available? absolutely. even ford has hybrids. the prius is the first to hit the market. it s its own brand. it s the ipad of the car market. it really is. there is a backlog here. toyota was going to open a prius plants here in the u.s. but the recession hit so they weren t able to do that. now, to a morning market check. the dow up 67 points. the nasdaq up yesterday 14 points. the s&p also up 4.6.