torrential rains leave parts of the gulf coast flooded with more wet weather expected later on today. good morning, everybody. welcome to the monday edition of "early start," i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from "a" to "z." it's 5:00 a.m. here in the east. let's get started. >> the united states secretary of commerce, john bryson cited for felony hit and run after a series of crashes this weekend. christine romans has been working this story. she joins us with the live latest. this is shocking news. >> it's not very often you hear the commerce secretary involved in a felony hit and run investigation. according to the police and the "l.a. times" and the "pasadena star" this all happened in california, around 5:00 p.m. he rear-ended a car that was stopped waiting for a crossing train. bryson in his lexus pulled over, told the driver the other car something to the effect of let's exchange our information, but then instead, according to the people whose car he hit, he got back into his own car and left the scene and he hit the same car again as he was leaving the scene as he drove away. the people in the first car was two men and a 17-year-old young man, they followed him. as they followed him, he went and hit another car. police later found him unconscious behind the wheel of his car. bryson right now is in the hospital. police say preliminary alcohol tests came back negative but blood alcohol test results have not come back yet. this was in california. this was at 5:00 on saturday and he has been charged with felony hit and run. that happening in the hospital where we're told by police in san gabriel where he still is, guys. >> he was cited in the hospital. >> yes. >> at this point they don't think -- at this preliminary investigation they don't think drugs or alcohol are an issue. >> the preliminary investigation, early indications is that there were no drugs or alcohol involved here. they're trying to figure out what exactly happened. he has been charged with felony hit and run. this is very unusual. someone who is the united states secretary of commerce. he's a long-time ceo. he was a ceo of etterson international. he's been hitting on boards of well known companies, a seasoned manager who helped push or pull california through its energy crisis in october 2011 became the commerce secretary of the unite and now a series of car accidents, along about five miles on saturday, still under investigation. >> unbelievable. all right. we'll continue to watch. christine, thank you. >> you're welcome. up first, campus in shock and an all-out manhunt for a killer in alabama. two of those killed were former auburn football players. one of the wounded is a current player. the suspect, 22-year-old desmonte leonard has been charged with three counts of capital murder. auburn police say people are still trying to process the tragedy. >> this is a trying time because it's -- not only university students and athletes but it's young people. it's six young people that have been shot. we're, as you can tell, the community is shaken by this and grieving today. >> cnn's david mattingly is following all the developments for us. he's live in atlanta. anything new on the suspected killer? >> reporter: only thing that is new this morning is that that manhunt continues. you heard the auburn police chief talking about how senseless all of this was. everyone can't understand how an altercation at a party ended up in gunfire with so much tragedy following behind it. it started at an off-campus party saturday night. there was an argument over a woman. that argument turned into a fight, gunshots were fired. when it was over, three people were dead and three wounded. among the dead are two former auburn football players, edward christian. he left the team with a back injury and ladaris phillips, a fullback. he had also left atlanta recent plans to play somewhere else. edward mack was treated and released after being shot in the hip. police are quick to point out this entire incident really was not precipitated by or had nothing to do with the fact that these three young men were part of the auburn football team, that they are all victims of just a senseless act of violence. of course, everyone at this hour, just as they were all day yesterday, are looking for 22-year-old desmonte leonard. there's a $15,000 reward out for him. they want to find this guy pretty fast. they've been putting out word that they would like him to turn himself in. they know that there's a lot of witnesses to this. they feel pretty confident that this is exactly the guy they want. they're also looking for two other persons of interest in this. >> all right, david mattingly, live in atlanta for us. thank you. also happening right now, we're tracking extreme weather in the form of fire and rain. in colorado. an out-of-control wildfire near ft. collins is really growing. officials say there's no hope of containment for this. it's called the high park fire, growing from 2,000 acres to 20,000 acres just over the weekend. the firefighters are attacking it from the ground, from the air as well. you can see the overhead spraying. one official says this fire is just running crazy. it's forced runs of evacuations already. meanti meantime, more rain is expected in parts of the florida panhandle and coastal alabama. areas already under water after torrential rains over the weekend. more than 20 inches of rain falling into the gulf coast and flash floods forcing people in pensacola, florida, to improvise. >> after we helped a couple guys in the front yard, we saw five or six cars in a trail culting through the gulf course. figure that's probably the safest way out of the neighborhood right now. >> there are warnings of dangerous rip currents today as well. we go to the weather center. so touch first if you would, alexandra on the hot, dry, windy conditions causing problems in colorado. >> fire and rain, a classic james taylor song. >> that's right. >> extreme weather. we'll show you pictures of the fire and what we've seen. it's really colorado and new mexico and some of the smoke making its way into denver, colorado. winds exacerbating these fires. yesterday gusting to about 40 miles per hour. today coming down a bit, between 10 and 20 miles per hour. humidity is low. at one point we were watching these fires spread about 11.5 miles an hour. so certainly rough to contain and also the terrain has really been very difficult and because of those strong winds, some of those aircraft had been forced actually to be grounded. that's story number one. here's story number two. just an inunizatidationinundati flooding. 10 inches in the last two days alone. between last saturday and next saturday, 20 to 30 inches expected. thus far, look at west pensacola, over 21 inches. mobile over 15.5 inches. you get the perspective. what we have, this tropical moisture coming up from the gulf, coupled with an upper level disturbance in the atmosphere. it's bringing this inundation of moisture. this is the next 48 hours. we watch the axis of the rain move further north and northeast. this area not out of the woods and won't be until wednesday or thursday. >> thank you for that. i also want to note that the supreme court is in full swing this morning, orders and opinions are expected at about 10:00 eastern this morning. that means that we could finally got the rulings in the pivotal cases like obama care if you're against them, health care if you're not. and arizona's controversial new immigration law could be answered to today as well. >> the los angeles kings hoping the third time is the charm. they'll be trying to win the stanley cup for the first time ever when they take on the new jersey devils in game six tonight. well, they had a 3-0 lead in the series but the devils stormed back with two straight wins. who was that cheering on the kings in the studio? 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>> well, you know, he's one of just a few, maybe two or three witnesses, that we expect to take the stand and accuse jerry sandusky of prolonged amount of abuse. so almost like a relationship kind of abuse. he has said that jerry sandusky was like a surrogate father to him, who was also abusing him. there's really only one or two others, maybe three others like that. the rest of them allege one or two incidents of like grabbing a leg or a group shower with a hug. and really, these are the situations that -- victim four who we expect to take the stand first alleges much more severe abuse. that's the impact he would have if he takes the stand first. >> just quickly, something peculiar in pennsylvania state law, you can't have expert testimony. these expert witnesses that we usually see paraded in to try to mitigate somehow some of the alleged behavior, that's not going to happen here. that's a pretty big deal. >> right. they can't talk about, for example, why an alleged victim of abuse would wait many years to come forward. there's no experts can take the stan and talk about that or why they might continue having a relationship with someone who is abusing them. that's an issue that advocates have been talking a lot about for years but especially with the high-profile nature of this case, they're bringing that up again, hoping to get some change in pennsylvania and there is actually a state commission now, a group of people are meeting, including judges, prosecutors, advocates and defense attorneys talking about possibly recommendations for changing laws. >> sarah ganim, interesting day ahead of you. thanks for that. appreciate it. 17 minutes past hour. let's get you up to date. here's christine romans. good morning, ladies. u.s. secretary of commerce, john bryson, has been cited for a felony hit and run after a series of crashes saturday. police in san gabriel, california, say bryson hit a parked car twice, left the scene and hit a second car. the cops later found bryson unconscious behind the wheel of his own car. he's in the hospital. a preliminary alcohol test has come back negative. a police manhundred in the alabama for the suspect accused of fatally shooting three people and wounding three others at a poot pool party near the auburn university this weekend. the alleged shooter, 22-year-old desmonte leonard is charged with three counts of capital murder. a violent weekend in chalk, six people killed, more than three dozen others wounded in weekend shootings across the city. the youngest victim, a 16-year-old boy shot on his front porch. police say they believe that shooting was gang related. jurors will resume their deliberations this afternoon when william lynn is accused of covering up sex offenses. check this out. you can see a singer, lady gaga during a concert in new zealand getting hit in the head with a pole. ouch. the superstar was clocked by a backup performer before leaving the stage. we wish her a speedy recovery. >> it looks like she was picking up a prop that appeared to be a gun. >> oh, my. >> i can't tell but look at that. didn't it look like it? 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[ yawning sound ] welcome back. 5:23 on the east coast, u.s. markets ready to kick off the week with a strong smart this morning, the stock futures up about 1% right now. u.s. stocks closing higher on friday, too. the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 gained more than 0.75% or more. christine romans is here. the question why are the markets up worldwide? we were reading about spain on friday. >> yes, eu, eurozone finance ministers have agreed to $125 billion, that's a 100 billion euro bailout infusion into the spanish banks. that has investors around the world excited overnight. spain is a very important country. it's the fourth largest economy in europe. it's a country that, its banks have been healthy quite frankly. it has a big real estate bubble that burst there. this isn't a case of spain spending beyond its means, which is what greece's problem was, this is a banking problem because of bad real estate loans. you have spanish stocks up 4%, european stocks up 2% and futures in this country up 1%. we should see a pretty good -- we'll see a rally probably. >> why was spain freaking out so much about not wanting it could be called an infusion or bailout. >> it's money into the spanish banks. everyone, like me, who's been covering this kind of stuff for a long time say -- >> take it. >> it's a bailout. there are 12 countries, all those in yellow are countries that are in recession. >> wow. >> the eurozone is the largest destination for american exports. when 12 european countries are in recession, that's why all of us are watching so carefully what's happening with the banks and the governments of these countries, spain is one of those countries that is in recession. so is belgium, cypress, denmark, greece, italy, the netherlands, et cetera, et cetera. greek elections are next weekend. we start the week with spain and end the week with greece. i want to talk about facebook quickly. even as the company has been reeling from its botched ipo. it is still expanding globally. this is a company globally that is doing quite well. i want to show you where some of the biggest customers are. look at this. this sun believable. these are countries where -- wow. >> you can see the map there. >> the biggest customer is europe, 232 million users, asia, 219 million users. facebook is by far the leader around the world. not in russia, china. facebook is in blue. not in china, iran, because of censorship, really. >> don't you think they're underground in china and russia? >> no. >> the censorship is very strong. i'm sure there is some sort of a -- in china in particular, there's a couple of different ones that are very -- qzone has 560 million users. it has more users than america has people. >> in one country. >> i'll be back in the next hour to tell you more about what we're expecting for u.s. stocks and your 401(k). >> good morning to you. 26 minutes past the hour. the news broke overnight of what could be big legal trouble for a member of president obama's cabinet. commerce secretary john bryson accused of hit and run. more details coming up. copd makes it hard to breathe, so i wasn't playing much of a role in my own life, but with advair, i'm breathing better so now i can take the lead on a science adventure. advair is clinically