been recovered from the downed lion air in indonesia. will it help figure out what brought down the plane? and the university of maryland fires coach d.j. durkin. defying the recommendation to let durkin stay after a player died on his watch. >> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. it is thursday, november 1st. 5:00 a.m. in the east. hope you had a great halloween. >> hide the candy. one rally down. ten to go. president trump in florida at the first event in the week-long 11th hour push to the midterms. it is the web ad he tweeted out before the rally drawing attention and called out for portraying hispanics as criminals. the ad echos the 1988 willie horton ad. >> the trump ad features a california cop killer in the u.s. illegally bragging about his crimes.