colorado, this morning after a mass shooting at a batman movie premiere. so far, 12 dead. and 38 injured. as a community searching for answers. a special edition of cnn newsroom starts right now. hello, everyone. i m in for carol costello. we welcome viewers from around the world watching on cnn international. a night at the movies turned into a night of terror for moviegoers in colorado after a gunman opens up a rampage. and here is the latest of what we know. gunshots erupted just outside of denver in an aurora, colorado, theater during an early morning screening of the dark knight rises. that is the new batman movie. 12 people are dead, 28 more wounded. a 3-month-old baby is among the wounded. police have a suspect in custody, a young man. a witness saw that man burst into the theater. somebody kicked in the emergency exit and started throwing gas grenade sais and started shooting people at random. was it movie theater number nine? number nine, which is the one
accusation that the united states that the obama administration is being hypocrite kal about syria. you re going to want to hear what she has to say. and alarming news about what the drought across much of the midwest may do to the price of milk. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. my interview with john boehner coming up this hour. you re going to want to hear what the speaker of the house has to say on a whole range of issues, the presidential campaign, how he really feels about mitt romney, what he says about the president of the united states, where he agrees with the president and many issues where he strongly, strongly disagrees. what kind of relationship do they have? that interview coming up. but i want to get right to cnn s jim acosta. he s covering mitt romney today delivering some major messages of his own in this race for the white house. jim acosta is joining us from boston right now. what s going on on this day as far as the republican presid
morning in philadelphia for that suspect as we speak. good morning, everyone. welcome to early start. it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. also this morning, george zimmerman in his first on-camera interview since the trayvon martin shooting, he was asked if he has any regrets. you ll want to hear what he has to say. and is there tension in the u.s. supreme court after that health care ruling? you will hear what justice scalia said about any possible bad blood. that s in that cnn exclusive coming right up. up first this morning, breaking news from tanzania where more than 30 people have drowned, over 100 more are feared dead after a ferry with nearly 300 people on board sank. about 150 people were rescued. but officials say there s not much hope for the passengers still missing. there were also 31 children on board. you are looking there at pictures of a little boy being saved. there were tourists on board as well. it s not clear if any of them were americans. rough weat
we begin this hour with tensions ratcheting up between israel and iran. a bomb went off just as israeli tourists boarded a bus in the bulgarian resort city. six people are confirmed dead. some 30 others are wounded. president obama s strongly condemning the attack calling it in his word barbaric. cnn s elise labott is joining us live with the very latest. bulgarians are of course investigating. i m sure the israelis are as well. first of all, what are the bulgarians saying? reporter: well, wolf, forensic investigators on the scene. it s all very preliminary at this point, but they re saying that this was caused by a bus bomb already placed inside the bus. that s really all they know, but they re not ruling anything out. they say it s possibly a terrorist attack. obviously the israelis saying they re sure of it. but bulgarians not ruling anything in, not ruling anything out at this point, wolf. didn t take very long for the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu to d
along with 25 others across the country. look at this map. you can see how widespread the bone dry conditions are. last time it was this bad, 1956. rob marciano is in the middle of the hardest hit area in indiana. the corn crop is hit especially hard. yeah. the corn belt getting hit with not only drought but heat. obviously the heat exacerbates the drought a little bit. you get the string of 100-plus days like they have had in the past month it makes things so much worse. just yesterday, indianapolis hit 101. yet another record. the last 46 days, the driest on record in indianapolis. less than a tenth of an inch. where we are, an hour and a half north of there we got a quick shot of rain two hours ago. but probably less than half an inch. just enough to raise the humidity levels. it s steamy out here today. spring was perfect to sow corn. they started growing well and then the heat and drought hit. boom, you have stalks that are waist and if not chest high that should be up