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0 a man here in new york has turned his hobby into his full-time job. now he has fans around the world raising their glasses and toasting his hard work. here's tom foreman with our "american journey" report. >> every day amid the hustle and hum of brooklyn, something is brewing at steve hindi's place. it looks like, tastes like, and goes down like beer, but it smells like success. >> we sell beer now in 25 states and the name brooklyn rings bells in sweden, in britain, in italy, in france, in germany, in japan, in china. >> reporter: hindy was a long-time foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places. he quit the news business back in the 1980s and decided to turn his hobby of making beer into a small business. he started in a part of new york where property values were comparatively reasonable. his small team focused on keeping costs low, quality high, helping community charities instead of buying big ads, and crafting distinctive brews that stood out from mass-produced beers. >> i think the reason why we've been successful is that we've always trusted that people have good taste. rather than trying to dumb things down or do focus groups and try to figure out what does everybody like. >> reporter: the result, even as the recession raged, hindy's place kept going, even as per capita beer consumption plummeted, the brooklyn brewery kept growing. >> well, i think it's just the fundamental fact that people are drinking less beer, but they're drinking more special beers. you know, we offer a whole range, a whole rainbow of flavors of beer. >> reporter: this year he says they will expand their staff of 90 people, open a new shop in stockholm and sell $50 million worth of beer. >> our future is very exciting. >> reporter: for a former reporter and brooklyn, that's a headline. tom foreman, cnn.headline. tom foreman, cnn. that's it for us. thanks for watching. "early start" begins now. caught. osama bin laden's son-in-law, an al qaeda mouthpiece, now in u.s. custody. you will not believe where he was hiding. >> the dow's history-making winning streak continues as the focus flips to jobs now in the key report. is your situation getting any better. sloshing your way to work. a windy, snowy, disgusting mess hanging over the northeast right now. this is the winter storm that will not go away. >> sell it, berman. it's not a right to bear arms. it is a requirement. the town that wants everyone to own a gun. good morning. welcome to "early start." thanks for being with us. i'm zoraida sambolin. >> and i'm john berman. it is friday, march 8th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. we'll start with a major very many in had the war on terror. sending shockwaves from manhattan to capitol hill to the middle east. osama bin laden's son-in-law captured and in u.s. custody and in just hours, abu ghaith will be in new york. more on how we caught him and the controversy surrounding this court appearance. susan candiotti is here. >> he managed to stay beyond the reach of u.s. authorities all these years just like his famous father in law. now that has finally ended. now the question is how will he be prosecuted and where. some people are challenging that. krr thceci rodgerkr krr. >> reporter: this photo but abu ghaith right up there with osama bin laden and others. he was out front as a spokesman for the terror organization, appearing in videos and making ominous statements. quote, we have the right to kill 4 million americans with chemical and biological weapons. abu ghaith is believed to have been in osama bin laden's fine astand in tora bora in 2001 before escaping into pakistan. he lived in iran since 2002, mostly under house arrest and is said to have arrived in the turkish capital ankara, early last month. he checked into a luxury hotel and was detain. iran refused to take him back, according to turkish sources. after several weeks in limbo, turkey decided to deport abu ghaith to kuwait. kuwait didn't want him back either. he was transferred to u.s. custody and secretly flown to new york to face trial. some republicans argue that makes him an enemy combatant who should be tried by a military commission at guantanamo. >> we're putting the administration on notice. we think that sneaking this guy into the country clearly going around the intent of congress when it comes to enemy combatants will be challenged. >> reporter: but the obama administration says it's trying to close gitmo, not add to its prisoners and trying abu ghaith in new york won't jeopardize national security. >> it's a case that would be easy to try in new york. the court in new york has a 100% conviction rate for people accused of al qaeda crimes. >> reporter: abu ghaith stands accused of one count of conspireing to kill americans and allegedly recruiting others to do the same. in court documents, prosecutors quote him saying this after 9/11 -- the storms will not stop, especially the airplane storms. warning americans not to board any aircraft and not to live in high-rises. he is known as the mouthpiece of al qaeda. so it will be interesting to see when he shows up in court this morning, john, whether he says anything. this is a mere formality. the charges will simply be read to him. but you never know. >> we will be watching. susan candiotti. thank you. >> it's 5:04. all eyes on wall street on the jobs report this morning. the anticipation builds as we couldn't the down to the february jobs report. it's due in about 3 1/2 hours. we're watching and wondering how high the dow can go. will it be an all-time high again? it opens up this morning. >> futures are higher. we had a high again yesterday for the dow jones industrial average. the s&p which is more likely what your stock portfolio and 401(k) is. that's 1% and change away from a record high. the jobs report for february comes out. this is what we're expecting. expecting 170,000 jobs created in the month. unemployment rate to dip lower to 7.8%. that's still too high. many people say in fact they look at that number on the right-hand of your screen, stocks are at record highs, you've got u.s. household wealth almost returning to peak levels, erasing the losses of the recession. workers haven't felt that. workers haven't necessarily felt that gain. that 7.8% number still a problem. you're seeing these two things happen, stocks powering ahead because companies are doing well. but you're seeing the jobless rate still remain stubbornly high, 170,000 is what we're expecting for the jobs report in 3 1/2 hours. >> stay tune to are that. happening right now, anyone else have an awful trip into work this morning? >> it was disgusting and sloshy and snowy and wet and icky. how about that? >> exactly. the northeast feeling the effects from this powerful, persistent storm. at least eight states are under winter weather warnings at this hour, bracing for strong winds, rain, snow, general disgustingness, including coastal flooding. lots of it is on its way to new england, new york, long island, could see 3 to 5 edges today. the boston area, could get up to a foot. the heaviest snow will fall in parts of new hampshire. eastern massachusetts, connecticut and rhode island will also get a bunch of snow. >> good gracious. >> samantha moore is in the severe weather center in atlanta. samantha, this just sounds bad. >> yes, it is. as you look here at the water vapor satellite imagery, john, you can see the moisture still embedded. so the center of circulation is starting to move away from land. we still have moisture that will be wrapping in here. of course, we have that surge, so we have problems with the coastal flood threat and the area of low pressure continues to spin and britain that water into the coastline we still have a coastal flood warning, high tide happening just about now in the new york city area. the areas affected by sandy will likely be affected again today. this morning should be the worst at around 8:00 on the massachusetts coastline. that's what we'll be watching. be very careful if you're going to be out here in the i-59 interstate trying to make your way up the coast. not a good day for travel as you were talking about. the winds out of the north around 20 to 25 miles per hour. so yes, batten down the hatches. it will be a while before this ends. we're thinking tonight. by this evening we should start to see things slack up a bit. >> samantha moore, our thanks to you. >> you're headed to boston or you think you're headed to boston. >> i'd like to be. that's the plan. >> good luck with that. new details on the deadly lion attack. according to the local coroner, 24-year-old dianna hanson died quickly. there was no blood. the lion escaped from his cage and attacked her in a larger enclosure. she had been working at the cat haven sanctuary since jauron. her love for big cats always had him on edge. >> that always got me, her in the cage. that always scared me. i always had a bad premonition that someday those animals could turn on her. she was absolutely fearless, she was no more afraid of the lions and tigers than she was of the house cat. >> his daughter died doing what she loved and that's helping him cope with this major loss. the funeral for the late venezuelan leader hugo chavez happens in a few hours in caracas. m mahmoud ahmadinejad will be there along with castro. chavez died at the eighth of 58 on tuesday following a battle with cancer. venezuelan vice president nicholas madaro will be sworn in as president tonight. the body of chavez will lie in state for seven days before it is enbalmed and placed in a gas case forever. >> north korea facing tough new u.n. sanctions this morning in a unanimous vote. the security council passed a measure that will make it difficult for north korea to funnel cash into its nuclear weapons program. china could have used its veto power to block that plan but voted in favor of the sanctions. the vote came hours after pyongyang threatened a preemptive strike against its enemies, including the united states. senator rand paul said he got what he wanted after the marathon filibuster on wednesday. it delayed a vote on brennan. although he was confirmed eventually. here's what paul had to say about this to cnn's erin burnett. >> i think the response was important. you don't always get a response from the white house when you make an argument but we've been asking for six weeks for this response. the fact that we got it, i feel like it's a victory for us. a new op-ed from former president bill clinton calling for supreme court to overturn the defense of marriage act. he originally signed that into law. the in "the washington post" he writes this, quote, the justices must decide whether it is skin the with the principles of a nation that honors freedom, equality and justice, above all and is, therefore, constitutional. as a president who signed the act into law, i have come to believe that doma is contrary to those principles and in fact incompatible with our constitution. this as a recent cbs news poll shows 54% of americans think same-sex marriage should be legal. 39% oppose it. scientists say another asteroid, this one the size of a football field will whiz past earth this weekend. this is happening just days after a different, much smaller rock made a closer fly-by. the new asteroid is 330 feet wide and will miss earth by 306,000 miles. this is roughly the size of this meteor which exploded last month over russia. that fireball you remember detonated before astronomers knew it existed. more than 1,600 people were injured, mostly by flying glass. it could soon be law to require the head of every household in one georgia town to own a firearm and ammunition. the city council of nelson, georgia, population 1,300 voting unanimously this week to pass what they're calling the family protection act. >> most everybody that lives here that are original residents here have always had firearms. >> i will government at the moment they want to take as much away from us as they can. >> council members admit the measure won't be aggressively enforced if it makes it through a final vote next month. they say they're just trying to send a message to washington about their second amendment rights. one other georgia town, kennysaw has had a similar ordinance, since 1982. jurors are not buying the story from jodi arias, despite a dramatic plea. we'll go inside that courtroom, coming up next. big green brush, curved to crush. 200% more volume. zero clumps. new clump crusher from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl.