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seemingly in control of the country. we will surprise testimony in the jerry sandusky sex abuse trial, his wife takes the stand. and also a friend of his, a woman who has known him for years and says hes a saint, well actually talk to her. weve got some tough questions for her to answer. we begin though tonight with raw politics. president obama heading home tonight from the g 20 sum et in mexico. where the economy is concerned, this summit could have a serious impact on jobs. heres so...

new developments overnight in the case involving secretary of commerce john bryson. and his two car crashes. he went back to work yesterday but not today. find out why, coming up in this hour of cnn. welcome to "early start," im zoraida sambolin. >> im ashleigh banfield. were bringing you the news from "a" to "z." it is 5:00 on the dot in the east. lets start with this, shall we? victim number one ready to take the stand today in jerry sandusky child abuse sex trial. todays witness was...

if we can get through this, we can get through anything. >> yeah. nine days. thats how long they were trapped by a devastating blizzard in the new zealand wilderness. what they did to survive. youll have to hear it for yourself. senator rand paul claims our own government is using drones to spy on you, and he wants it to stop. the government says it only does it to stop criminal activity, but the senator says it doesnt matter. no warrant, no spying. ill talk to him as he makes his ca...

Shuttle program last year after three decades of missions. other shuttles are going to museums in los angeles and new york. doug mckelway is with us from chantilly, l.a. -- v.a. >> after a flight record like the one you just mentioned it deserves a nice retirement home and there may be none finer than the air and space museum annex here at dulles airport. as "discovery" rolled to a stop inside this hanger this afternoon. the spectators cheered as if to signify a job well done. turns to the orion...

Rick: anything south of the baton rouge area will be at the max level because they are draining the excess. the spillway will leave new orleans at the same level for quite a while. the crest is to the north, north of vicksburg. getting to vicksburg by thursday and natchez after that by saturday. but beyond that, everything is being diverted to the spillway and that will continue to flood the basin. all of this water is taking three to five days to get to morgan city, and it cannot drain out of t...

Weather, isnt that the big issue? hows it looking? >> reporter: it is all about the wind, and right now its borderline had the launch window been right now with these wind speeds, theyre in the 20 and upper 20s as far as knots go. a major issue here not only at the launch pad, but also at the landing strip in case of emergency and the shuttle had to circle back around and land. but at this point its borderline. it all comes down, according to meteorologists, as if wind shift changes instead of c...

That moment. there are so many variables here which is why we have that evacuations on. hopefully it is large enough. we have been talking about the winds. these are surface winds, not upper level that carry things across the pacific. that is not happening and we are not talking about that. current that the surface, a regional situation with any radiation exposure and a wind shift. what we want is an offshore wind, they will be blowing from land to see in this direction here. that is what has be...

That flood will be with us throughout the weekend, especially through the 19th. well watch that closely. now, as jim was talking about, weve been showing you pictures of the snow, cold, and ice while we have a significant pattern change that we had been anticipating. and that is going to be moving in through the weekend here. temperatures that you see here in the low to mid-single digits are going to be replaced by low to mid teens. that celsius, of course, in the 50s for the weekend. and again,...

Florida. but will it be enough to help out this situation, rob? >> i think so. its not going to bring in drastically stronger winds, but itll bring a quick pulse of rain. this may be a helpful thing. i dont think theres a tremendous amount of lightning with this line, so i dont see it spawning more fires. and here it is. the tail end of all of the severe weather that rolled across the eastern corridor of the country yesterday afternoon with tornadoes and snow and ice and flooding, this is whats ...

Going to start any more fires. obviously well get a little rain from this, as well. and on the backside, winds will change more northwesterly. and that will be the biggest obstacle that firefighters have to contend with and that is wind shift. but they can anticipate that through the next couple of hours. out in texas, the winds will blow somewhat today, but not as bad as they were the past couple of days. it will be warm, dry, and well be dealing with the flooding situation across parts of the ...