very good friday morning to you. welcome to early start. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started here. some developments overnight be want to tell you about, very unusual. a shoot-out? a federal building and ice agent killing another and another ice agent injured. how and why this happened. new details on whitney houston s funeral. we know who will sing, who will speak and who will simply witness it all. your car may be getting smarter as you get a little dumber. you see these images all the time, don t you? distracted drivers endangering you and me. the d.o.t. department of transportation is going to crack down on this. no facebook until you park, folks. it s a huge mystery. have you been following this, it s all over twitter. the stephen colbert show mysteriously canceled some shows. we re going to try to dig deep and figure out what happened for you. we want to b
performing her former co-star kevin costner who we haven t heard from so far this week, kevin costner will be speaking during the funeral services for whitney houston. and her former husband, bobby brown, has now officially been invited. susan candiotti is in newark, new jersey, this morning. susan, authorities are also making special arrangements to try to maintain some security, also maintain a perimeter around the new hope baptist church since so many will be in attendance? reporter: that s right. after doing a walk through of the church we re seeing some of the new security measures falling into place. for example, perhaps you ve noticed right away the biggest change, we re no longer allowed to stand in front of the church right across the street from it, but we have been pushed back across the street and behind a parking lot. the parking lot behind me is the one where it is believed that the celebrities and all the invite tees, some 1500 people, it s one of the parking