sandwiches. a delta spokesperson says the needles were found in sandwiches in flights from amsterdam to minneapolis and seattle and two flights to atlanta. two of the needles were found by passengers and one was discovered by an air marshall when delta found out about the needles in the food, the airline said it notified all 18 flights from amsterdam to stop serving the sandwiches. here s what one passenger who got one of contaminated sandwiches said when he spoke to kstp. i bit down on it so i wasn t biting down on the sharp side but the flat side. it could have been, you know, a bad injury orally, but had i taken a big swallow and swallowed that down, i d have a needle inside. that would be very concerning to me. gate gourmet provided the sandwiches to delta. a spokesperson says this is a terribly upsetting situation. first and foremost is the safety of the traveling public. there s nothing more important than the safety of the passenger and crews. gate gourmet says it
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
now. he also attends a private fund-raiser in pittsburgh. president, he s going to be speaking at a fund-raiser in san antonio. we expect to hear from him any minute. we re going to take you there live when he starts his remarks. we re going to have live coverage from the romney rally. that is also happening later this hour. relatives of two missing girls in iowa say they are now bracing for the worst but hoping, hoping for the best. 8-year-old elizabeth collins and 10-year-old lera cook were seen friday riding their bikes near a lake. the girls aunt appeared on hln along with the mom and she says the family is frustrated and confused. it s very baffling to understand how someone got off with a 10-year-old and an 8-year-old at the same time because it s as though they disappeared into thin air in broad daylight. authorities began searching the lake over the weekend and started draining it yesterday. they are also using dog scent dogs to help in this search. there is
attack by government forces on the besieged city. one of the single most horrifying moments in syria occurred late last month. scores of people died in a town called douma as a result of government shelling. nearly three weeks later, we have our hands on video documenting this tragedy. she s live with us. take us back to what happened in douma on june 29th. reporter: the reason why it s taken three weeks to get our hands on that video is because the activists that wanted to shoot it were stuck there for well over a week and it was an ordeal to get the footage from damascus to us here in lebanon. we have to warn that the images are disturbing. the power is out in the streets. the three activists don t dare shine a light. there s a sniper lurking. gunfire in the distance forces them to pick up the pace. the activists are part of the oppositions media operation. they smuggled themselves into the damascus suburb last month and risked their lives to document this. a massacre s
we begin with both presidential campaigns getting down and dirty on the low road as the candidates themselves try to stick to the high road. the latest examples, killer tv ad that the obama campaign is using to welcome so-called welcome mitt romney to pennsylvania. and a top romney s surrogates complaint that the president should learn how to be an american. let s go to our white house correspondent, dan lothian, watching all of this unfold. we ve been saying it s getting ugly. reporter: certainly right. the fireworks today. the president was in texas attending a total of fundraisers trying to camp up in the campaign cash. some of those were with small donors, others with big names like tv star eva longoria. but today was more about money. the president was also going after his opponent, mitt romney, for more details about his personal finances. it won t help create jobs. and it won t ease the pain of homeowners stuck in upside down mortgages, but the obama re-election ca