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good morning everyone. welcome to early start. nice to have you with us. im ashleigh banfield. im zoraida sambolin. were bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. lets get started. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin with breaking news this morning. two american tourists kidnapped by gunmen in egypt. it happened in the town of dahab in the region of egypt. the report says that two americans were forced out of a car and taken away. the alleged kidnappers de...

♪ by menan ♪ lets get to the first reads, four months, texas was going to be mitt romneys alamo, his rivals looked to the lone star state and its mammoth amount of 155 delegates as the place that they were going to turn this race around. >> were going to be able to go compete in south carolina and florida and nevada and obviously in texas and -- >> im very proud that rick perry is campaigning for me and he believes well get 155 delegates in texas at the end of may. governor perry whos supp...

to earle i start. and im zoraida sambolin. >> lets get started. the. the fallout from tropical storm beryl. it is a tropical depression. guess what, building steam again and its expected to be a tropical storm before we know it again. the storm is dumping as much as ten inches of rain in northern florida and southern georgia. its also knocking out power to tens of thousands of people right across that region. now beryl has its eyes on the carolinas. cnns rob marciano has been trackin...

In a dinner date. get ready to brick bread with the donald. go park the car in harvard yard. working on that for hours. the president and romney both spent time at one of the most vend rabl campuses and they have different runs on the same crimson track. good morning from washington and happy memorial day weekend. its friday, may 25th, 2012 and this is "the daily rundown." im in for chuck todd. lets get to the first reads. we are heading to memorial day weekend and it feels like labor day and po...

category 2 hurricane. were going to have the latest track of the storm for you. and for the first time in history, a commercial spacecraft linking up with the international space station. let your geek flag fly, folks. we are going to take you live to outer space in just a moment. hi, everybody. welcome to "early start." im ashleigh banfield. look whos here! >> good morning. >> nice to have you here. >> im alina cho. zoraida has the day off today. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. on this...

why? well, because the authorities are saying that he is now making a claim that he played a direct role in the death of etan patz and allegedly killed the man. they were led to this man, we are told by sources, by law enforcement source, because this is someone who had beeen on ther radar screen and questioning people and as a source who led them to the basement of a man and this is also someone who had been on the radar a long time ago and they started to question him again, because ...

It makes me feel so affirmed. >> let me just -- mr. lipton as we talk about source material, whether its the mormon church, the things one reads, the influences creatively on ones life are things to call upon. mitt romneys reading list, hes a science fiction guy. enders game and battlefield earth by l. ron hubbard. its hard to tap into humanity when you are obsessed with aliens. i dont know, thats my thesis for today. >> you just lost the trekkie vote. >> im a fan. >> science fiction is one thin...

mayor, corey booker speaking out about the bain private equity debate. hear what he had to say about his critics and the president. and a major slide in facebooks stock. a big deal, and a big drop. details, straight ahead. good morning, everyone and welcome to early start. im ashley banfield. >> and im zoraida sambolin. up first, boldly going where no private spacecraft has gone before. >> zero and launch of the spacex falcon 9 rocket as nasa turns to the private secretary tore res...

This morning. >> i think there was good work done by the state department in this instance and the white house, fully supported those efforts. and we are pleased this was able to reach a resolution. >> reporter: reaction from capitol hill, representative chris smith of new jersey put out a statement late today that reads, after years of enduring physical and psychological torture imprisonment and hate the man, cheng guancheng is finally free, america welcomes this extraordinary family with open ...

And u.s. government provided expedited visas. this afternoon, deputy national security advisor, ben rhodes commented on the release of chen guangchen. >> i think there was good work done by the state department in this instance and the white house fully supported those efforts and were pleased that this was able to reach a resolution. >> reaction also coming in from capitol hill. representative chris smith of new jersey issue ago statement late today that reads, quote, after years of enduring ph...