after the kentucky derby. this morning, the search for his killer. >> look, i am vice president of the united states of america. the president sets the policy. i am absolutely -- >> vice president joe biden giving us a couple of hints that the white house view of same-sex marriage could be evolving just as a key vote on the matter comes up in the battleground state. this is cnn breaking news. up first we begin with breaking news. a chilling video just released by al qaeda. on it, u.s. hostage warren weinstein, begs president obama to agree to his kidnappers' demands or else he will be killed. he was abducted last august in pakistan. the 70-year-old maryland executive has a bunch of health issues, including heart problems. here's part of the video militants posted online. >> i'd like to talk to president obama and ask and beg him that he please accept and respond to the demands of the mujahadin. if you accept the demands, i live. if you don't accept the demands, then i die. it's important you accept the demands and act quickly and don't delay. there will be no benefit in delay. it will just make things more difficult for me. but it is very important that you act quickly and i'm now waiting for your response. >> cnn foreign affairs reporter eli elise joins us. is this the first concrete evidence that he's still alive? >> it's the first proof of life. mr. weinstein was kidnapped in august. al zawahiri said basically if the u.s. meets the demands for mr. weinstein, releasing all al qaeda and taliban prisoners, stopping air strikes in yemen, somalia, afghanistan and pakistan, then he would be released. this is the first actual proof of life as they say of mr. weinstein. >> how do we know how current this video is? >> well, we really don't. we know it was taken sometime between december and now. because some of the demands that he refers to. but we really don't know. a lost times with these al qaeda videos, we really don know when they were taken. presumably if al qaeda wants to get some demands from the united states we would assume he's still alive. the state department, u.s. government is working with the pakistanis. the stack stannys have the lead on the investigation but so far, no other information about where he's being held, presumably somewhere in the tribal areas of pakistan. >> elise, is there any chance the u.s. will meet any of the demands? >> i don't think so, zoraida. basically the u.s. has a no negotiation policy with any kidnappers per se. and certainly not going to negotiate with terrorists. as we said, the pakistanis have the lead in the investigation and they would be trying to use their contacts in the tribal areas to try and see if they could get him released maybe for some kind of nominal fee. we've seen in other cases, for instance, other kidnappings that money has been paid, ransom has been paid but certainly the u.s. thinks that air strikes is a national security imperative and so of these prisoners that are in jail, certainly a threat to the united states. i don't see the u.s. really conceding to those demands. >> elise, labbott live in washington. thank you very much. this morning, authorities are still trying to solve a kentucky derby murder mystery. police in louisville, kentucky say the worker was found dead in a barn on the backside of churchill downs and was murdered. the body was discovered just hours after the derby ended. an autopsy set to be done later today on 48-year-old aden fabian perez, described as a guatemalan immigrant who works so a groomer. he was identified by his son, a 19-year-old who was also a track worker. investigators remain tight lipped about the discovery of two bodies in mississippi. they were found at the home of the man suspected of kidnapping a tennessee woman and her three daughters. joanne bing and the three girls ages 8, 12 and 14 were last seen april 27th. an amber alert has been issued for the missing girls. the fbi says 35-year-old adam maze is armed and dangerous. investigators believe he is -- cut his hair and may have also changed the appearance of the mother and the daughters. coming up later this morning on "early start," we'll talk with the fbi investigation in charge of the investigation into the appearance. we'll speak with aaron t. ford with the fbi's memphis division. france has a new president, socialist francois hollande. this could signal a change in the way france deals with the eurozone debt crisis. voters in greece also weary of austerity and steep cuts. no party coming close to a majority in sunday's election. it looks like a new coalition government will have to be formed in greece once again. the uncertainty has investors heading for the sidelines overseas, markets in france and germany down sharply overnight. it looks like u.s. markets are following suit here. the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 futures all pointing lower this morning, suggesting a sell-off at the opening bell. >> from wall street to your street, main street, everybody seems to be buzzing about facebook finally going public next friday. this morning, the company will kick off the old road show. that's when facebook's top management sets to meet with potential big buyers out there. the price range for the social media company right now is wavering between $28 and $35 a share. that gives facebook a value -- are you sitting down? up to $98 billion. here's just a portion of founder mark zuckerberg's message to the investors. >> i grew up with the internet. and i had -- when i was in middle school i was using search engines like google and yahoo!. i thought they were the most amazing thing. it was this complete symbol of the age in which we live where now you have access to all of this information. the thing that seemed like was missing was always just people. even from very early on when we were building this thing for one school, there was a concept of what it could turn into. we just weren't sure then we'd be the ones who did it. >> they really were. boy were they. they have 901 million users in just about every single country on the planet. the big question is is it the next apple or google or something more than that? the person with the answers, christine romans. you were talking about this for the last couple of weeks. >> it is the next facebook. facebook is facebook. it's a unique tech giant. that's what people who want to get into this ipo are buying into, this hype about a unique and game-changing tech company. facebook. as unique and game changing as it is, this weekend at its annual confab in omaha, the oracle of omaha, warren buffett. he said, no, i'm not going to buy facebook and here's why. >> we never buy a new offering. i can't recall in my life buying a new offering. the idea that something coming out on a monday that's being offered with significant commissions, all kinds of publicity, the seller electing the time to sell will be the best single investment i can make in the world among thousands of choices, that's mathematically impossible. we are not a buyer. >> his investment co-pilot he said not only would he buy it, he's not on it and they're not going to get on it. he has a problem with 15-year-olds putting their whole life online. he's not saying they're going to short it or move against it but they don't really get it and they don't want it. this is my advice to you. if these guys aren't going to buy the hype, you shouldn't buy the hype either. a lost you are e-mailing me or tweeting me and asking how do i set up a brokerage account so i can buy this on open? if it's the only stock you've ever bought you need to do more home work. we talk about the road show. this company is going around and talking to big investors and hedge funds and trying to get them to buy in at the ipo price. you're never going to get the ipo price at 28 to 35. you'll be buying it with the hype and the hoopla. you're going to be buying it higher than the big, rich and smart investors. >> how much higher. that's the big question. >> we don know. >> anywhere up it $150 a share or 10, 20, 30 more? >> it's irrelevant. the smart people, the people who are in and have the ins, the investment banks and people who have relationships with facebook, they're going to get that ipo price. regular people will get whatever it trades for. my advice to regular investors is just wait for a second. like warren buffett says, buying the ipo can be treacherous. the big investors, the big money play the ipo. >> next time around i'm going to ask you if the oracle said anything about not buying into apple. >> he doesn't buy things he doesn't understand. i'll find out where he stands on that one. >> that is brilliant. that is why he's the oracle. ten minutes past 5:00 on the east coast. vice president biden coming out in favorite of same-sex marriage. up next, why that has the white house scrambling this morning. a star football recruit causing a firestorm after he announced he was pulling out of ohio state because of a sex offender. he's reportedly now reconsidering that decision. are the buckeyes back in the picture? 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ohio, ohio, ohio. then mitt romney goes to michigan on tuesday. another state where he would like to put in play another state that obama won four years ago. as for the president himself, what's he doing this week? guess what, he'll be out west in washington state on thursday, including the one with george clooney. it will be at clooney's house. it could raise up to 10 million, maybe more. >> wow. all right. it sure is getting fun, paul. we're looking forward to chatting some more. thank you. >> thank you. 17 minutes past 5:00 in the morning. time to have a look at early reads, shall we? let's go with this one. it's being called a super viral story at this point. a star football recruit, now reconsidering his decision to pull out of ohio state university because of a sex offender. all right. the paper is called "the reading eagle." it's got the story. anzalone said he had no idea of the firestorm that would erupt when his son, alex decommited from ohio state. all of this when he appeared with a known sex offender. he says he didn't know. he was convicted on child pornography in 2008. he's not associated with the university. anzalone's father says the buckeyes are now back in the picture. when i said there was something wrong with ohio state, i was talking about the recruiting visit, the visit. there's no reason we wouldn't consider the buckeyes. we love ohio state. i guess all is better or well in that world now? they didn't expect it to get so crazy but it got crazy. >> a bit confusing. >> yes. a 14-year-old busted for allegedly robbing more than 100 homes and making his getaway on a go-cart. >> a go-cart? >> yes, the new york daily news reporting on the so-called go-cart bandit. he trolled back allies, kicked down doors and took off with television sets and other items. >> he looks like a toddler. >> he's a little tight. >> the child didn't have a member of any kind of guidance in his life. it's what led him to the life of crime on the streets. apparently he lost both of his parents. he's facing a bunch of charges, including burglary and theft. >> is this photo him or a stock photo? >> it's a file photo. while it looks adorable we don't have the surveillance. >> they didn't catch him. >> there's nothing on there. where do you put the stuff that you steal on a go-cart? >> keep your eye on another kid, the new kid on the block. he can speak three languages. >> so cute. >> he's not even poti trained. he is the youngest member of mensah. his name is anthony -- this is a tough one to pronounce. he's 2 years old. this canadian toddler can write his own name, couldn't the to 1,000 and he can read zenss out of books he's never even seen before. he has an iq apparently of 154. >> oh, my goodness. >> that's just a few points shoe of albert einstein. 2 years old. >> and he's a cutie pie to boot. >> adorable. imagine speaking three languages. i wonder if he has a multilingual family or if they decided to enroll him in swahili and mandarin and french. look at the play toy he's sitting on. >> i'll expect we will hear a lot more about this. >> clearly he has parents that are expanding him to the world. get it, the world? 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