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
lows. in an interview that aired today on cbs this morning, president obama was asked about the negative ads his campaign was running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive. according to other reports, since the general campaign began, as many as 3 in 4 of president obama s campaign ads have b
states. he says he s staying in. now the questions are can santorum find a path to challenge romney? it would be easier if gingrich gets out. the math, the rules, the history. everything tells you it s still romney over the long hall into may and june. but you know what? our politics have been outside the rules. we elected our first african-american president. the tea party movement came out of nowhere. so let s watch. santorum s going to puerto rico. then we have a big primary in illinois. back to the midwest where if you look at the demographics, should be a romney state. puerto rico is this coming sunday. huge. and then illinois is a week from now on tuesday. i think i need to go to cover it. in fairness to mitt romney, he s still away head in the delegate count. he s got more than all of the other candidates combined so far. and this isn t the way they wanted it to be right now. if they do go across the finish line, they re going to crawl across the finish lin
let me tell you, i believe the republican party has done a good job in reaching out to the hispanic community, however we need to do more. it is not about the faces that actually are going to be seen in our ticket in november. it s about the values that will be behind those faces. the hispanic community share many values with the republican party. we have to stress those rarlz f regardless of who appears on our ticket. do you like the idea of a vice presidential ticket? i love my job and i want to stay here if i can and i enjoy what i m doing. i look forward to another four years continuing to turn a corner here and make our economy grow. i want to work with the president that will be working hand in hand with us to guarantee that the security we need in the region will assist us in creating jobs. very diplomatic answer. good politician. i love puerto rico and i love san juan. stay with us. we will be talking down the road. appreciate you joining us. my pleasure. yo
alabama and hopefully the folks in mississippi did we did? i guess. how happy is he? how happy is his family? back with us right now, our expert cnn team. john, this is a very significant night for rick santorum. just when so many of the so-called experts were saying romney had it all but done, not is fast. could romney lock it up or another revival for newt gingrich. he loses in the two south states. he says he s staying in. now the questions are can santorum find a path to challenge romney? it would be easier if gingrich gets out. the math, the rules, the history. everything tells you it s still romney over the long hall into may and june. but you know what? our politics have been outside the rules. we elected our first african-american president. the tea party movement came out of nowhere. so let s watch. santorum s going to puerto rico. then we have a big primary in illinois. back to the midwest where if you look at the demographics, should be a romney state. puer