danger at 30,000 feet. the fbi wants to know who put needles on the food on four different delta flights. and who will it be and when? anticipation mounts as mitt romney mulls over his choice for vice president. saved from a terrifying plunge. take a look at this. oh, my goodness. a bus driver breaks a young girl s fall here it cops from a third story window. amazing. wait until you see the video of this as it s unfolding. it s really incredible. he says he s not a hero. good morning and welcome to early start. i m john berman. how do you define hero then? that guy right there. thanks for joining us. it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. so let s get started. the midnight deadline for jeremy lin, will the nba sensation decide to stay in new york? we ll talk to sports illustrated s maggie gray about that. also we ll have depack chopra here about exploring your relationship with the universe. he s using the internet. very interesting, i was watching hi
has fallen short. dan joins me from london. appreciate it. so dan, this comes down absolutely, yeah, this is fast turning into sorry, go ahead. this comes down to a private contractor. they were tasked with providing security for the games, so what s the concern now? where did they fall short? well, they basically haven t been able to guarantee the number of guards that they were contracted to provide at various different olympic sites. we re going to turn up on time. we haven t quite drilled down to the bottom of exactly why that is but we re told it s something to do with scheduling problems with software problems, basically that they can t insure that the people they trained will turn up at the right place or that the people have the right accreditation or can get to one place or another. logistical problems bike this private security firm who last wednesday told the government, look, we can t fulfill the contract of supplying 10,000 guards. you re going to help
it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. this is cnn breaking news. we begin this morning with breaking news. we have learned that president obama is holding a big event at the white house rose garden later today to resurrect the battle over the bush tax cuts. he will be surrounded by working class americans while he calls on congress to extend tax cuts for everyone, making $250,000 a year or less. republicans want the tax cuts extended for everyone, the wealthy included. the white house will be very busy framing the tax cut debate this week with events planned in new hampshire, nevada, colorado and florida. republicans as i mentioned want the tax cuts extended for all americans, even the wealthiest. at 7:00 eastern on starting point we ll talk about that position with tennessee republican congresswoman marsha blackburn. we have been warning you and now the time has come. hundreds of thousands of people are going to wake up this morning and computers will be dark. no web service.
health care costs continue to climb. no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. america spends 17%. what is more, we really don t benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy ranked only 29th in the world behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th and it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour and time magazine essay, we will take you around the world to study health care systems it other countries to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we will visit great britain and taiwan and switzerland to find out what they are doing right and wrong. we will show you some interesting innovation going on back here in america in one of the poorest, most crime ridden cities in the nation. but, first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care across the atlantic in great britain. is the nation s health service an evil death panel as some say
the veteran community. i m not going to be a public person. this is a rare interview for me. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening the first ted turner, a tv pioneer. but, also, a very out spoken man and a rare interview for president george w. bush. if anyone knows about keeping america great is a former american president. after 9/11, millions of volunteers and they said i want to serve my country. and i m i don t view it as anything personal. i view that as we were all serving together. we were all part of a great cause. the cause of securing our country. and the cause of liberty. that s good with george w. bush coming later. but, first, someone who, i think on this occasion, literally needs no introduction. he is the man who created cnn. the reason that i am here and others are here working here. ted turner. welcome back, ted. good to be here. how does it feel to be back? good. does it? yeah. are you still proud of cnn? absolutely. do you