secretary john bryson is in the hospital after being cited for a felony hit-and-run. he crashed into a stopped car over the weekend twice and left the scene and hit a second car. they found him unconscious behind his wheel. brianna keeler is live at the white house this morning. what exactly happened? reporter: well, this happened in the los angeles area in about the 5:00 local hour on saturday. according to the l.a. sheriff s department, secretary bryson, behind the wheel of a lexus, allegedly hit a car, a buick that was stopped at a railroad crossing. there were three guys in the car. according to this press release, he got out and talked to them and then went on his way. as he did so, hit the buick yet again. at that point the buick tailed him and called 911 and the next time when police did find bryson, he was in his car, this pregs release alleged and unconscious and apparently hit another car, a honda accord. the first accident happening in san gabriel and second in
torrential rains leave parts of the gulf coast flooded with more wet weather expected later on today. good morning, everybody. welcome to the monday edition of early start, i m ashleigh banfield. and i m zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from a to z. it s 5:00 a.m. here in the east. let s get started. the united states secretary of commerce, john bryson cited for felony hit and run after a series of crashes this weekend. christine romans has been working this story. she joins us with the live latest. this is shocking news. it s not very often you hear the commerce secretary involved in a felony hit and run investigation. according to the police and the l.a. times and the pasadena star this all happened in california, around 5:00 p.m. he rear-ended a car that was stopped waiting for a crossing train. bryson in his lexus pulled over, told the driver the other car something to the effect of let s exchange our information, but then instead, accordin
is keeping low profile on facebook because i don t like showing my privacy. privacy has been one of the biggest issues dogging facebook from the start. peter barnes with the news live from d.c. seems like facebook can t catch a break. well, harris, the stock was down another 65 cents a share today closing at about $28. that s $10 a share below it s offering price on may 18th as you mentioned. that is a 25% decline that has cut more than $25 billion off the company s market value. but at this price facebook is starting to get a few more friends. i think at 28 or 2 dollars you are getting a nice discount from the $38 ipo price and i think this company does have an extraordinary opportunity to become the place for display ads on the web over the next couple of years there will be an army of software developers that will help them get that right. facebook came at a very high price. it s unsupported by the fund
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let s get straight to the news. we have a busy hour ahead. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the government says another 227,000 jobs were added to the u.s. economy in february and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.3%. that s largely due to almost half a million discouraged job seekers returning to the search. is the third straight month of job growth, above 200,000. chief business correspondent ali velshi is taking notice, of course. he s in austin, texas, at the music oh, boy. he s at the music, movie, festival, technology, all that stuff, south by southwest, kind of threw me off with the cowboy hat, but i should have expected that because he s in austin. do you have your rope and boots on and your wranglers also? could you please give me a full shot? kyra, i want you to think back to g-8, and i don t remember when it was when i was in the south of france. and i put on a i had blue speedos on tv for you so don t ask me what i m wearing below here. it s not view