olympics. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start. i m wendy in for christine romains. great to have you in person. i m laura jarret. we have reports this morning from istanbul, washington, portland, tokyo, sydney, and the middle of the atlantic ocean. we start this morning in surf side, florida with troubling new information suggesting residents of that condo that collapsed last week in florida were told their building was, quote, in very good shape. npr obtained the minutes with the 2018 meeting where assurances were made by the surf side town inspector. cnn learned two days earlier, the same official received an engineering report warning of, quote, major structure damage to the tower. this morning the senicommunis trying to keep hope alive for the families of at least 152 people still missing in draft condo collapse. nine people are new confirmed dead. the cause of the collapse is unknown. the difficult task of searc
president-elect before the official results were made public. let s go straight to cnn s fred pleitgen live in tehran, a landslide victory for the hand picked main candidate, no surprise, i guess, take us through what this means for iran and for relations with the u.s. well, i think there are several factors, first of all, kim, i do have to say this was really a very important and certainly most probably a pivotal election for iran and i think we will see, we will see iranian politics, move much further towards a conservative trajectory, and it has been the past eight years, and of course the past eight years, with the administration, a moderate government here in iran and foreign policy and western capital, with the foreign minister under the administration, it is a well known commodity. what you have in this election here is you have a victory, as you pointed out very much a landslide victory, he won 17.8 million of the votes counted so far. that s about 62%. that is a lo
every day. question is, will congress help address what the president calls an international embarrassment? plus, the end of week two of testimony in the trial of the former-police officer accused of killing george floyd. today, we are expecting to hear from the doctor, who ruled floyd s death a homicide. the question is what will he tell jurors? and talk about masters. golfer, tommy fleetwood lives up to the tournament s name with a hole in one. the question is who is on track to win that green jacket? amazing. it s way too early for this, or is it? i don t think it s ever too early for a hole in one. good morning. and welcome to way too early. the show that, also, always tries to nail it the first time. i am kasie hunt, on this friday, april 9th. we will start with the news, which is, unfortunately, difficult, again, this morning. we begin with a pair of shootings. first, in texas. one person is dead, and five others are hurt, after a gunman opened fire at a cabinet
The Japanese government has designated four prefectures and three cities as special financial and asset management zones, introducing policies that include the creation of new visas for specific foreign investors.