we ll share that with you. in the meantime, good morning, welcome to early start. happy friday. we had some crazy weather here in new york overnight. maybe some tornadoes upstate. we ll have the latest in just a few minutes. plus dr. conrad murray is reaching out to the late king of pop s mother now. you ll find out why coming up. but first, we ll talk about politics and mitt romney s rocky start in london. this was a trip intended to charm the brits, to show off romney s statesmanship and raise some cash along the way. plus he s facing some tough headlines across the pond. one in the sun this morning said mitt the twit. romney s been forced to explain a rogue comment by someone claiming to be an adviser, that he questioned security and british enthusiasm for the 2012 summer games which officially begin in a few hours. romney and also first lady michelle obama will both be on hand when the olympic torch is lit tonight. the first lady is leading the presidential delegati
summer olympics. that s not what you want to see just before the games start. a bizarre one i never heard about either. the name. plus, a day of reckonning for facebook. we look ahead to the first earnings report as a public company later today with our christine romans. interesting. up first, the latest on the aftermath and investigation in aurora, colorado. law enforcement sources say the shooting suspect james holmes mailed a package to the university of colorado campus in aurora which was received on monday and forced the evacuation of a building. it was holmes himself who told police where to find it. cbs news says the package was addressed to a psychologist and contained a letter talking about shooting people along with scribbling showing the gunman shooting victims. we re going to have a full report from aurora in a few minutes. six days after the mssacre in aurora, colorado, gun control is a very hot topic on the campaign trail. he waited five days to enter the
early saturdtart. you know, you come back from vacation, you have a new anchor. thanks for joining us, everyone. i m zoraida sambo will i n. up first, authorities in egypt trying to negotiate the release of two kidnapped victims. one of the victims is diabetic. and his family is not here he has his medication with him. mohammed sami joins us on the phone in sinai, egypt, right now. where do the negotiations stand right now with the kidnapper? they are trying to negotiate with the hostages. the kidnapper insists that his uncle be released from prison and he s saying his uncle is not guilty. but the authorities are keen on making sure that they do not switch their arms. so this is a complicated situation. we know in fact past that six attempts have been kidnapped attempts in sinai d none of the hostages were ever harmed. so we are positive that the situation might be resolved soon. let s talk about that. as you mentioned, this is the third time that we ve had american
good morning and welcome to this friday edition of early start nice to have you with us. we re bringing you the news, 5:00 a.m. in the east. so let s get started. up first, renewing the war with just about four months until election day, republicans with a rallying point. they are promise to go do what the supreme court did not do, toss in the trash the health care reform law. sarah palin with a bit of sar kachl even thanked the supreme court in a facebook post. here it is. thank you, scotus. this obama care ruling fires up the troops as america s eyes are opened. thank god. joe johns will join us so that we can chat about this a little bit. joe, are you there? we ll get him a little later and talk about what this this means politically moving forward. and in the meantime, let s do this, shall we, because what a day it was. if you had your tv news set on, it was a whiplash because another war has been renewed with just four months until election day. republicans are reall
i am. i don t use it very often. did you change your password? a lot of people did overnight. drives me bananas. with all the things that are password protected, i hate having a lot of passwords. they say you have to make it super complicated. you re a mom of two kids, working full-time, hard to remember those details. it s 5:00 in the morning, welcome to early start, i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. i m 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started for you. this is cnn breaking news. we do begin with breaking news this morning. defense secretary leon panetta making a surprise visit to afghanistan. panetta arriving after a deadly wednesday in afghanistan. a twin suicide bombing on a market in kandahar killed 22 people and injured 50 others. nato also under scrutiny after an air strike killed 18 people, including women and children believed to be civilians. the u.s. also saying one of its armed helicopters was shot down by enemy fire, killing two crew