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Give me another 50. one morning my youngest daughter said -- ashley, said to me, dad, why are you so fat? all of the cartoons and caricatures never bothered me. that bothered me. thats when i started dieting. i think what mikas done is a real service. because public figures never usually want to admit anything. >> right. >> especially their vulnerability. by her doing this book i think it gives all of us room to say, you know what, we did have insecurities and we had to deal with it. now im down...

Be released just this year based on comic book characters. with their powers combined, you can rest assured theyll conquer the box office. but its not just movies. last year, san diegos annual comic-con gathering reached record attendance, 130,000. thats up just from 145 attendees in 1970. >> i think some of it has to do with just the fact that the characters and stories have been around so long, so the generations who grew up reading our comics as kids are now in positions of authority at movie...

State senate. and who is in the house? billionaire investor, the oracle of omaha, warren buffet, first tweet, warren is in the house, leading to more than 115,000 follow increase two hours. its way past that morning. >> gretchen: more on that fox business alert. the unemployment rate fell to 7.5%. the numbers out just moments ago. joining us from the stock exchange to analyze is nicole petallides from the "fox business" network. good morning to you. what do you make of the numbers? >> good fri...

Our state constitution, which has been in place 145 years. a majority does not give you the authority to violate the constitution. so what theyre doing is they are passing unconstitutional and uncivil laws. thats why theres so much passion, black and white and latino and young people, a woman in wheelchair, preachers who have been the first wave of our continuing strategy. this is not a beginning of mobilization for us. we brought 20,000 people to the legislature in february, 500 activists on th...

>> what we see in this group of legislators, theyre acting like the george wallace -- are they engaging with a strategy with 21st century twist. you gave the policies in passing, 500,000 people lose their medicaid january 1st, 2014. 165,000 unemployed workers lose unemployment benefits july 1st, this year. then a slew of voting rights, which not only violate 15th amendment, 24th amendment, violate the state constitution which has been in place 145 years. majority doesnt give you the authority to...

>> is there a big regional difference in terms of the way the laws are going? >> thats not the kind of difference that we see. what we do see is where there are places on the ground where people have been able to be successful in terms of using the courts. one thing that i think we should all remember comes under the voting rights act. it would be very difficult for a number of these laws to be able to demonstrate its not going to make minority voters worse off. i wonder if cynically perhaps som...

Boylston street seems to be back to normal. the investigation does continue. i want to thank you for joining me this hour. i will be back with more on the investigation and what life is like in boston today in just an hour, 3 p.m. eastern. your money starts now. the boston bombings, letters containing ricin, a foiled plot to attack a train bound for new york. i am christine romans. this is your money. online we face a different terror, the terror of seeing your wang account fall to zero or you...

Welcome back to "early start." it is 21 minutes past the hour. this morning somebody on facebook asked for some happy news. i said maybe christine can deliver. >> i can give you a lot of happy news. stock prices are liar. the market closed higher yesterday. rallies in asia and europe are helping this morning and theres a bullish report from goldman sachs creating some optimism overall. but it follows a big drop in the middle of trading yesterday after that fake tweet. i dont know if you saw this...

This morning. twitter almost ruins a rally. unbelievable, the power of twitter. >> and the power of the market, how quickly it responded. you might remember the flash crash in 2010. it was 700 points. the market just fell for no reason. something happened yesterday that wasnt as big but also as con founding, and it already has a fun name. some calling it the tweet retreat. the associated press says its twitter feed was hacked, and it posted a tweet there was an explosion near the white house. im...

Security threats related to benghazi were handled by others. more trouble for disgraced cyclist lance armstrong this morning. millions more. the justice department now suing him trying to collect some of the $17 million the u.s. postal service paid him during their endorsement. the suit claims armstrong violated his contract when he admitted using performance enhancing drugs while winning seven tour de france titles. "minding your business" this morning stock futures pointing higher. yesterd...