inspectors general for five different government security agencies. we ve been digging into one of their most serious claims. they point finger, at this woman, huma abedin, secretary of state hillary clinton s deputy chief of staff. implying she may somehow be working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood. and questioning how she got a security clearance. now, you would think to make a charge like that for sitting members of congress to make a charge like that, that they would have some actual evidence, right? you would think that. but the truth is they don t have any direct evidence. what they have are allegations of past connections of relatives of hers that are tenuous best. keith has called for bachmann to produce credible evidence. so bachmann produced a 16 page letter she sent to the stay with me now, because we re going to walk you through the logic she lays out in this particular case. she says the mother, brother and late father are connected to the muslim brotherhood.
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
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
impossible to try to achieve at this stage. and then there was a mass funeral in syria. what took place there? that happened in the southern province. if you remember, this is the prove convince where the uprising all began. there were pretty intense shelling that killed at least 19, 20 people, and another funeral going out for them that was streamed live by activists. this is where one really must admire the opposition. even though they re in the process of burying someone, who was killed at hands of government forces, for voicing their desire for regime change, they still, while the fine rals take place, capitalize on that to make it opportunity to call out against the government. this is the kind of determination we ve been seeing from the onset of this uprising, but it it s also the kind of determination that has polarized the syrian uprising to a point where getting both sides to any sort of negotiating table that would result in a peaceful resolution are again, incr
certainly about fair punishment. nick valencia has more now. nick? a local official in california is free on bond this weekend after being charged with felony child abuse. video of imperial valley official anthony sanchez allegedly shows him repeatedly hitting his 10-year-old stepson with a belt during a game of catch in their backyard. a neighbor who shot the video alerted police and after they viewed the pictures, charged sanchez with a felony. sanchez s attorney told cnn his client posted a $100,000 bond on friday, shortly after turning himself in, he was released from imperial county jail. the attorney ryan childers tells cnn that the video is hard to watch , but he says he does not agree his client s actions warranted the felony charge, which is the most serious child abuse charge available to law enforcement. he called sanchez a model citizen who has served nearly two terms as the elected director of the influential agency that regulates irrigation in california s i