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very good friday morning to you. welcome to "early start." i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. >> let's get started here. >> some developments overnight be want to tell you about, very unusual. a shoot-out? a federal building and ice agent killing another and another ice agent injured. how and why this happened. >> new details on whitney houston's funeral. we know who will sing, who will speak and who will simply witness it all. >> your car may be getting smarter as you get a little dumber. you see these images all the time, don't you? distracted drivers endangering you and me. the d.o.t. department of transportation is going to crack down on this. no facebook until you park, folks. >> it's a huge mystery. have you been following this, it's all over twitter. the stephen colbert show mysteriously canceled some shows. we're going to try to dig deep and figure out what happened for you. >> we want to begin with a developing story out of southern california. a really bizarre workplace shoot-out. this involving ice agents. immigration and customs officials. in long beach. here are the external pictures. you can see obviously responders there as two immigration agents apparently engaged in a fight and then it rose to gun battle. one of them is dead. the other one has been stabilized. a third agent was the one who ended up shooting the shooter. fbi agents were also involved. they say it was some kind of a workplace dispute and one of them just began to fire. >> this situation began with what we can characterize as an incident of workplace violence involving two federal agents in their office space. when it escalated one agent fired several rounds at the other agent wounding him. the victim is hospitalized in stable condition. at that time when ha incident occurred, another agent working nearby intervened and fired his weapon to prevent additional rounds being fired at the victim. this resulted in the death of the shooter. >> clearly there is so much more to investigate here. the fbi is calling this an isolated incident and saying that the shooter acted alone. switching gears here, her life and voice touched so many including in of the biggest names in entertainment and many will be in church tomorrow to say farewell to whitney houston. the final plans are now in place for her funeral, which will happen tomorrow at her childhood church in newark, new jersey. >> lot of celebrities will be on hand, many invited and confirming ait ten dance and many of them going to perform as well at the service. here's a bit of a list so far. we know kevin costner, who was her costar in the movie "the bodyguard" is going to speak, alicia keys set to perform as well, stevie wonder is going to sing apparently and aretha franklin, who is whitney houston's godmother is set to perform as well. the big rumor put to rest was bobby brown not invited, not going to attend. it is confirmed not only was he invited but he will be there. and then sort of an unusual but perhaps not so unusual move, he's going to perform later on actually out of state, saying that getting back with his band on tour, new edition, is therapeutic for him. >> hopefully a sdar-studded celebration of her life. >> yeah. susan candiotti is live for us. this will be something a lot of people wanted to take part in, it's on tv, yes, which helps people to see it, but the police there have gone to great lengths to keep people as far away from that church as possible. >> they sure have. in fact, some of those measures are already under way. we're noticing ha overnight and this morning, some of the streets around the church have already been blocked off. and probably with good reason because of security concerns and privacy reasons as well. you know, arguably, fewer people love her, most people from her own town may love her more than anyone else and why they keep coming by the church here to leave behind mementos and balloons and flowers, but they might not be able to do that much longer because of the perimeter, two to four blocks around the church, that will be put into place very soon. that's why police are saying this to any fans who want to get close to the church. >> the best thing to do would be to stay home and watch the service on television. it is going to be aired over all the network channels and that would be the best place to see it. the funeral is not going to be a traditional procession as would -- we would normally have. there's really going to be nothing to see. >> so looks like about the closest anyone will be able to get is about two blocks away from here. but for now, fans have also been going over to the funeral home where they've set up a large, beautiful photograph of whitney houston in the front window. there are balloons, people coming by and leaving other messages. we see police tape up there and large white drapes around some of the entrances presumably for security reasons. so all this while everyone is getting ready to watch the funeral on television. certainly cnn and cnn.com as you know will be broadcasting that. people hoping to get a glimpse of some of the big names that you were mentioning, including oprah winfrey who was also coming. >> oh, man. that's going to be hard to keep people away despite what the police are doing there. susan candiotti live this morning, thanks very much. new jersey's governor made a decision to fly the flags at half staff and now he has to defend that decision. he was just attempting to honor his hometown girl whitney houston. he's under fire now for his decision. this all started on twitter. one twitterer saying she's not a fallen hero, i am not alone in taking offense to this. she's no role model. she's a dead junky. >> ouch. >> another person tweeted, shame on you for ordering our flag to be flown half mass for a singer who o.d.ed. what about our soldiers and real heros. listen to this, christie fired back, first on twitter, saying every new jersey soldier who has been killed in action during my administration had the flags lowered in their memory. learn your facts before accusing. he also had this to say. >> i understand there will be some who disagree, but you know what, luke, every decision i make, someone disagrees with. i believe that drug addiction is a disease and i think that she struggled mightily with that disease and i don't believe that diminishes the cultural contributions she made to the state. >> and you know, it's not the first time that he's done this for a homegrown musician. christie called for flags to be lowered to honor the saxophonist clearance clem mons who died last june. >> kind of that reaction that have so many that want him to run for president. >> stands by his convictions. >> saying that's the way it is. >> cnn is airing special coverage of the funeral, hosted by soledad o'brien, piers morgan and don lemon. it is beginning saturday at 11:00 eastern. we have sad news to report to you of one of our colleagues, pulitzer prize honored and courageous "new york times" reporter anthony shadid, a friend of the cnn family has died in syria at 43 years old. he reportedly suffered a fatal asthma attack. his photographer carried his body over the border to turkey. you might remember his image because he did several interviews with anderson cooper here. he and his photographer were both kidnapped in libya last year. >> cnn's anderson cooper discussed that experience with shadid back in april and told cooper that telling these stories are are absolutely worth the risk. >> i think there are some stories that are worth taking risks for. it is a cliche, but endures some meaning to it, millions you're there covering -- unless you're there covering it nobody is going to know about it, unless you're there trying to bring meaning to it, a certain depth to it, it won't be done otherwise. >> shadid was reporting on the military resistance in syria. he won two pulitzer prizes for his coverage in iraq. situation in nearby syria out of control, nonstop shelling this morning again. it is repetitive, but it is awful. the city of homs once again. look at the images. reportedly this is at the hands of government forces on their own people. united nations stepping in and condemning this for human rights violations. how did they do it? it was the u.n. general assembly overwhelming approving a nonbinding resolution that calls for an end to the bloodshed. >> the strongest u.n. statement so far condemning president bashar al assad's regime. the opposition pleading for stronger intervention. this guy is a syrian activist, danny, who was shot in homs, spoke exclusively to cnn's nick patton walsh. walsh traveled to an undisclosed location, for danny's safety we are not disclosing where that was. danny has since moved. >> it's possible barack obama will hear what you're saying. if you could appeal directly to him, what would you say? >> well, i beg him to help us. military forces or by weapons or by no-fly zone. we want help. we can't stay like this. bashar al assad will kill millions. he has no problem. this can't be solved peacefully. we're asking anyone for any kind of help stew even the israelis. >> even the israelis. it doesn't matter if the israelis come in. one of the guys said i want bashar [ inaudible ]. >> nick paton walsh is live in beirut, lebanon with the latest. really great to see you. you have been in northern syria. we talked to you yesterday. we mentioned this nonbinding resolution. china and russia are on board with it. but will it have an impact? >> at this point, it's very hard to see exactly how it will change things on the ground certainly. as you point out this u.n. resolution is nonbinding. as not a security council resolution which would have some kind of legal impact. it's effectively just a big piece of people in which people say officially together through the u.n. what they've been saying beforehand together at the same time after this lengthy diplomatic car fufle over the past week or so. on the ground we hear from arwa damon that's in homs that shelling began at 7:00 a.m. and it's continuing intensely. as i think you just heard from danny early on, that diplomacy of the past few months, specifically the veto by russia and china which prevented the last security council resolution from getting through, that will be judged very harshly by history. let's hear what he had to say. >> how do you think history will judge the diplomacy of the past few months? >> for the last few months it's crime against humanity. russia and china will be guilty of that. they have syrian blood on their hands. this is all their fault. last time the u.n. did nothing. they gave the green light and the okay to bashar al assad to kill more. it was the first time that he had used rocket launchers after the u.n. he felt safe. they gave him the okay. >> just more news emerging from homs this morning, specifically relating to what danny had said. according to activists, nine bodies have been found in ha particular city killed this morning. >> nick patton walsh live in beirut for us, thank you very much. we are mindi ining your buss this morning. how you ask? by looking at stocks. new highs and you won't believe the numbers if you haven't been following it day to day. kind of paints the picture of the u.s. economy on the verge of a, wait for it, wait for it, a comeback. yeah. i said it. the dow hit its highest level in nearly four years up 123 points. that's more than 1%. close to -- closing at 12,904. >> i know. >> 12,000? >> from 13,000. >> where was i for the last 2,000 points? >> over the last ten years the nasdaq had a ten-year high. >> i feel like i was asleep. >> the dow has gone more than seven weeks without a triple digit loss. that is true. we're going to break the 13,000 at some point. will it be today? >> the s&p 500 gained just over a percent. the nasdaq is back in dotcom territory, hitting a peak it hasn't seen since december 2000. shall we go on? the nasdaq soared to end at 2,559 logging its best close. your response? >> this is the reason -- >> that would be her response over there. >> this is the reason you have to watch the trend in the markets. all of a sudden you wake up one day, now i feel better about stocks, too late. there's been a nice move. you can't decide today you feel better about things because the market has been telling us for a long time things were turning. we've been concerned about greece and that's been the thing that has kept pulling things down whenever you got, you know, nice and effervescent in the market. but it is basically -- it is basically because of the u.s. economy is getting better. we had jobless claims yesterday that were good and housing starts that perked up. >> i'm wondering if it's an asid due was assault on the bad economy. >> i had to get it in. >> there was another asid was assault on capitol hill. did you see this, fireworks. >> off the rails. >> our treasury secretary, tim geithner, it testifying before the house budget hearing and he was sort of pushed on by the republicans saying hey, what about tax reform. remember tax reform, did you bring it? and he said no, actually, not really, but here's how it went down. have a listen. >> that you would be coming to us not today but prior to this with a simpler tax system today and not waiting until the end of your term. >> even in tax reform that raises the revenues that, for example, simpson bowls suggested we need or suggest in that context, the effective tax rate on somebody is going to go up. that's why we spent so much time with your leadership discussing in the summer. >> in other words -- okay. >> so you wait -- >> i yield. >> yield. >> yield, yield, yield. it was kind of fiery. we missed a bunch of the fire. >> he looks irritated the treasury secretary. >> arms crossed, mark on his face. >> congress irritated to because you have a stock market that's going up, a jobless rate going down, and so you've got opponents of this candidate and president who are trying to say look, you haven't done all of this stuff, you haven't lowered the corporate tax rate, haven't made the tax system in this country more simple, we're still -- you're laying out guidelines for some time in the future by why aren't you doing it now and it got a little testy there. good stuff. >> if you read the transcript, takes a long time to play, almost the hour of this program, so we can't play it all, but half of me thinks was that a lot of politics or a lot of meat and potatoes to what they were talking about some. >> those things are always a lot of politics. those congressional hearings. i mean it's -- this is what congress people do, they want to get a sound bite played the next day of them being tough against the administration and that's what they did there. >> got a little bit from both sides. >> come back in an hour and talk about stocks. it's really -- i mean you're less than 100 points on the dow jones. >> i blinked and we're over 12,000. maybe be christmas i took my eye of the prize. >> this is the highest stock market, since this has been the president. the highest stock market. >> thank you. have you ever done a white house tour? >> no. >> it's great. exotic and fun thing to do and american experience but for some people -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> i think it's terrific. one of those things, not disneyland. going to take your kids on a vacation this what is you want to do. if you were one of the folks on the white house tour yesterday, bit of a shock. look who showed up. this is not normal. don't expect if you're going to sign up for the tour you get to meet the first lady and shake her hand. she surprised the tourists and got hugs, handshakes and photos. first dog bo also making an appearance. this wasn't just a little drive-by either. michele obama was there for more than an hour. more than an hour. fourth time that mrs. obama has done this as a nice treat to her fellow americans. >> look at that, walk in and get a hug. 17 minutes past the hour. we're going to head to atlanta. check in with rob marciano. >> good morning. i do that from time to time when the tours come through cnn. >> really? >> signing up. >> i get a hug. >> what do you do here? >> and your name is and i know you from? >> exactly. good morning. listen we have rain heading across the gulf coast. look at the flood watches up for new orleans and houston. these are areas or at least houston and parts of southeast texas that desperately need the rain. really a couple weeks ago, but they've had a pretty good replenishment of it as of late. dallas and houston in dolla particular. the amount of rain since december, 13 inches. that's above normal, above average and galveston as well. austin and san antonio, two places where we need it and we still need it there. we'll start to get it over the next 24 to 36 hours. this radar will fill in as we go through time. the actual storm system that's going to affect this area and folks along the east coast, especially the mid-atlantic is still across the four corners region and desert southwest and parts of mexico. that's got time to go eastward. houston traveling through that city, heavy thunderstorms will be building and cause delays. rain showers across new york city and the northeast will be moving out but low clouds will linger so that will kind of create some travel delays as well. not a ton of cold air. most of the cold air remains in canada. temperatures will again be above average today and here's your storm across parts of texas. that will evict eastward and bring not only the threat, but tornadoes and damaging winds through the gulf states and panhandle of florida. this gets up into the mid-atlantic states where a little bit of snow mixing in maybe around d.c. as we go through sunday. doesn't look like a blockbuster storm for the northeast. one of the reasons is temperatures still mild. 49 degrees for the high temperature in new york city. >> i never liked to see that tornadoes in the gulf area. i don't like to see them anywhere. whenever it's gulf i get a little upset. >> we'll try to keep them in the gulf. >> thank you, rob. still ahead, if you like to just get on your airplane and fly around, don't fly near the president, where the president is, and you might not want to have dope on your aircraft. we'll explain this one. >> it's a cookie story. so is this one, the colbert report suspended out of nowhere. it's exploding on social media. there's a lot of speculation about what happened. we're going to try to add to it. you are watching "early start." are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. 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