may day protests all around the world. occupy wall street trying to regroup and calling for a day without the 99%. no work, no shopping, no banking. hoping for a nationwide disruption. and rescue 411. a 4'11" firefighter just the right size to save a little baby who fell 20 feet down a drain pipe. we'll be talking to the hero. up first this morning, pure gold. it's how intelligence officials are describing over 100 internal al qaeda documents that detailed past attacks and future terror targets. here is something incredible. the information was embedded in a porn movie. it was uncovered by german authorities after they arrested an al qaeda operative last year and that operative was searched. and that's when police found his underwear and inside, a memory card. the microchip had a pornographic video on it. when the authorities went further and dug deeper with be they found a treasure trove of information embedded in the film. nic robertson is live in london this morning. you had so many exclusive breaks because of this trove of information, talk to me first, if you will, about this frightening situation detailing how cruise ships could end up being targets. >> there were 141 secret al qaeda documents and some of those documents, according to u.s. and german counterterrorism officials, they believe, were written by very senior al qaeda members. one of those documents was al qaeda's future plans. and part of the future plans, according to a journalist who has also seen and had direct information about those documents, indicate that al qaeda want to start targeting cruise ships.ç >> it says that we could hijack a passenger ship on the sea. and then use it to pressure -- to pressurize the public. what he most likely means is that they would then start executing passengers. >> and that they would dress these passengers in orange jump suits, similar to the prisons in gitmo and upload those executions to the internet. that is just one type of attack al qaeda wants to move to. they want to move to mumbai, shoot 'em up style attacks like we saw in india, 2008, 164 people killed by ten gunmen. a twin track strategy to have big operations like 9/11 if they can but because they can't pull those off, have lots smaller, low-cost operations as well, actually. >> nic, these are the things they may want to do but we all know that many of the missions that this country has been involved in in the last decade has made things difficult for al qaeda, so do they have the capability anymore? >> even they are concerned about that. in the range of 141 documents, there are documents who detail some of the past attacked, a plot that happened here in london. they provide a valuable insight. what al qaeda is saying in the future works document is they are concerned that morale is slipping because they are losing key operators to drone strikes. they recognize the counterterrorism officials are able to spy on them better, know better what they are doing. even, they say, some of their own operatives are not even plotting or planning to do anything because they're so concerned about being caught. but what we have seen is, laid out in these future plans documents, over the past couple of years, al qaeda continues to try to achieve those same goals. >> nic robertson, live in london. thank you for that. just a reminder to our viewers, over the next two hours we'll bring a lot more information to you. remarkable stuff from the treasure trove of intelligence. >> it sure is. one year ago today, president obama made a heart-stopping announcement that changed the world. >> tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> fast forward one year and osama bin laden is still influencing u.s. politics. in fact, the raid that killed him is fast becoming the number one topic on the campaign trail. the president touting his role in the operation and questioning whether his rival mitt romney would have achieved the same result. >> you would have given the order, governor? >> is there criticism -- >> even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> i said i'll go after bin laden if we had a clear shot at him and i did. if there are others two have said one thing and now suggest they'd do somethingç else, the i'd go ahead and let them explain it. >> romney may get a chance to do just that when he visits a new york city firehouse to mark the one-year anniversary of bin laden's death. he'll be joined by former new york mayor rudy giuliani. may day protests kicking off right now all over the world. today is international workers day. labor groups are protesting for better working conditions, more jobs and higher wages. several thousand workers marched in japan earlier this morning and tens of thousands in russia. president-elect vladimir putin and dmitry medvedev are taking parts in demonstrations there. here in the united states, mass protests are expected in more than 100 cities. the golden gate ferry will shut down because of a strike. occupy activists called off a plan to take over the golden gate bridge. the groups are planning other demonstrations and calling for a nationwide strike, a day without the 99%. remember the night when lions, tigers and cheetahs ran wild in ohio? now a widow is get back five of the exotic animals her husband set free before he allegedly committed suicide on that night. husband terry thompson released more than 50 animals back in october. most of them were killed by authorities. but five survived. two leopards, two monkeys and a bear. they had been kept in quarantine but now, state officials have cleared the animals of dangerous or contagious disease. thompson's widow plans to keep them on her farm. ahead at 6:30, we're talking to the man who took care of those animals while in quarantine. find out why he says it's not a good idea for them to return to their old conditions. chris christie is insisting that he is not exactly vice presidential material. yet he is not ruling it out, either. the new jersey governor was speaking to a group of high school students yesterday when one of them, very brave, asked if he would consider being mitt romney's running mate? >> what i said before, i have no interest in being vice president but if governor romney calls and asks me to sit down and talk to him about it, i owe the party that level of respect. he might be able to convince me. he's a convincing guy. >> that cameraman knew to zoom in on that answer. chris christie has consistently been mentioned as a top candidate for the number two job along with ohio senator rob portman, marco rubio and paul ryan. >> he's heard that question before. he'll hear it again. >> yes. a gut-wrenching day on the witness stand for sherri young. she broke down in tears as she testified how the former senator asked her family to hide his affair for the good of the country. after taking a break, the judge then dismissed the jury early. she's expected back on the stand this morning. >> in georgia, a 1-year-old boy falls 20 feet down this storm drain. >> wow. >> firefighters are called into the scene. but they're just too darn big to fit down that drain. so they called in their special weapon. that's çher. in the middle. look at the size of her. she's 4'11", she's a firefighter. she just got rid of her gear and squeezed down into that one-foot opening and rescued the boy. >> it was kind of hard to manipulate him. he was afraid and just grabbing. i couldn't bring him up. i to push him up over my head. i have boys. so it's kind of personal and it just makes it all worth coming to work and being dropped down a hole to hand them their baby back. >> ms. tulles, you are a hero. darnell brown is take today. look at that 1-year-old. he escaped with minor scrapes an a couple of bruises and one heck of a story to tell. we should let you know, too, lucky us, firefighter rosa tulles will be one of our guests. she'll tell us what it was like to squeeze down into a one-foot opening and rescue that 1-year-old baby boy. gas prices, they keep going down. the new national average stands at $3.81 a gallon. down about 10 cents over the past couple of weeks. gas prices affect everything, particularly airlines. we'll have a good story for you in 15 minutes about delta airlines and what it's doing to make sure it keeps its jet fuel flowing, no matter what happens to prices or supplies in the northeast. >> and here's a hint. this one on her way home from work just doesn't go pick up milk, she stops by a refinery to see what's going on. >> i was hearing something could happen. ahead on "early start," the white house is defending drone strikes to take out suspected terrorists. get this. even if they're u.s. citizens. >> andhorrified concertgoers thinking they witnessed a fatal fall. you're watching "early start." 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he went right back to the music festival. that's hard core, folks. hard core. >> all right. i see here falling man. look, honey, i raise you a bear. look, honey, there's a bear in the backyard. it was spotted in suburban denver wandering down a sidewalk. it hopped a five-foot fence and chilled in the owner's backyard. the owners say they have children who play out there. everyone was inside at the time. officers tranquilized the bear and it went to bed in the backyard before they took it back to the wild. >> what's with you and bear stories. >> noio. . >> i don't know. >> da bears. >> i grew up in a rural area. this was a normal scene. we used to see bears in our backyard often. again, very rural, not denver. let's get a quick check of the day's weather. that means it's time for rob marciano. good morning, sunshine. >> good morning, guys. spring is here. the bears are out. that's for sure. temperatures are record breaking, sometimes 15 to 20 degrees above average. that warmth will be making its way up toward the north as well. a beautiful, couple days across new york city area. that's the warm front. temperatures bounce northward. temps into the 70s. in some cases close to 80 degrees. some thunderstorms rolling through the midwest last night. in most cases it was severe in the form of hail. check out this video out of northern texas. baseball size hail. it was coming down pretty good, damaging stuff there. six reports of tornadoes out of this cluster of thunderstorms that is now making its way across parts of arkansas. and southwest missouri. with this also came not only that big hail but some big rainfall. some radar estimates of 10 plus inches across northern oklahoma and southern kansas, because of that, there are flash flood warnings and flash flood watches out right now because of swollen rivers, 2 to 4 inches of additional rainfall on top of what they've already seen. another batch of severe weather further to the north later on. large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornados from kansas city up toç omaha through minneapolis as well. here's your heat. temperatures in d.c. could get to 85 degrees. 74 degrees in new york city. the early spring continues, actually. i guess we'd call this early summer. stay cool up there. >> thanks, rob marciano. get a look at your papers with be water cooler stories that are talk worthy. this one comes from the cleveland plane dealer. it is a shocking revelation in that amish beard cutting case. the leader of the group, who's accused of cutting the beards of other religious enemies is now being represented by a taxpayer funded public defender. but it's been discovered that he has millions in the bank. particularly from oil on his farm. >> what? >> yeah! >> his name is samuel mullet. he got more than $2 million in march for leasing pat of his farm to oil and gas companies. the judge is ruling that he can keep the public defender but has to pay twice the hourly rate. he's been ordered to pay $125 an hour for legal work performed before the ruling was made, too. sorry, buddy. >> that's an interesting twist. the orlando sentinel reporting on ofs to change florida's stand your ground law in the wake of the trayvon martin case. chris smith has released some documents. the panel stopped short of recommending a full repeal of the law although a majority felt a repeal was in order. that panel says the law has been inconsistently applied by law enforcement and the courts. it urged a repeal of the part of the law thatten grats a person in unity from arrest. it urged use of a grand jury to review these cases and better record-keeping to see how often and why this law is invoked, so kind of track it statistically. florida governor rick scott put his own task force together. >> i think a lot of people will watch that, florida or not. >> oh, yes. >> so many states involved. it will be telling. for an expanded look at our stories, head on over to our blog, cnn.com/early start. easy place to go. lots of stuff there. it is a bold idea, brash really but will it work? 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