pulling this graduation stunt on stage. >> wait until you hear the whole thing. i have a mixed reaction. >> good morning, everyone, welcome to "early start,". >> we're bringing you the news from a to z, it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. so let's get started. we're following breaking news out of maine. firefighters battling a fire on a nuclear submarine for close to 12 hours. the uss "miami" was in dry dock when a fire broke out in the forward compartment. six people suffered minor injuries. the attack sub is capable of carrying tomahawk cruise missiles but no weapons were on board at the time and the ship's reactor is not affected by the fire. we'll bring you developments as warranted. making top news, a promise from mitt romney. the former massachusetts governor has been hammering president obama for months over the high unemployment rate. right now it stands at 8.1%. mr. romney is pledging if he's elected president, eel bring that number way down. >> i can tell you that over a period of four years by virtue of the policies that we put in place, we get the unemployment rate down to 6% or perhaps a little lower. >> christine roamens is here with us this morning and is romney really going out on a ledge here? >> he's not going out on a limb and here's why. he'd have to add 155,000 jobs every month between now and what he says would be the end of his first term to get there. the budget office is forecasting that the unemployment rate is going to keep coming down. the nonpartisan advising arm to congress that tells them what's hikely to happen in the economy so they can plan. mitt romney says 6%. the cbo says 5.3% by the fourth quarter of 20016. mitt romney telling "time" magazine that it's his policies that will bring it down. this is so political, i'm going to give you the numbers. we've already seen job creation. we've already seen the unemployment rate coming down. during the obama presidency, a total number of jobs lost of 4.6 million. but four million of those have been gained back. you've got a net jobs loss during this administration of 572,000. the president needs to add 95,000 jobs every month between here and the election to be able to say all of the jobs lost during the recession have been recovered. >> how many? >> about 95,000 a month. here's the other side of the talking points on that number. you still have the lowest participation rate, labor market participation rate since 198 1. that means a lot of people have dropped out. a lot of people feel like this economy isn't workinging for them. so you've got this trend under way wrr we are seeing jobs created. but we still have a labor market that's not up to snuff quite frankly. i'm going to tell you one more thing about making presidents and candidates making promises about the unemployment rate. i don't remember really in the clinton and the bush administrations people making so many claims about what the unemployment rate is going to be. it's hard to be able to make a claim -- remember during the stimulus, the whole stimulus debate about what would the unemployment rate be, it's just very difficult, it's a campaign promise, basically. >> and to be very clear, the cbo, when it made this prediction, back a year and a half ago, was not making this president-specific. it doesn't matter who was in office, they made this prediction. >> right, because the economy is starting to recover, slowly, slowly. what mitt romney is saying is his policies will cement this. and he gives a little bit of leeway, depending on what happens in the global environment. depending on this. but look, we're already moving in that direction. >> you know what confuses me, is the congressional budget office put out this information, mitt romney has to know that. how can he claim what he claims. it seems odd to me. >> there's a lot of pressure on both candidates to say ha is the jobless rate going to be? where are we going to get to. he says, we put my policies in place, we're going to get down to 6%. >> thank you very much. new video and audio of george zimmerman this morning showing the evolution of the relationship between the accused murderer and the sanford police department. cnn has obtained an audio recording of zimmerman at a sanford city hall public forum meeting from january of 2011. in the recording, zimmerman describe as ride-along that he took with a sanford police officer. >> i also had the opportunity to take ride-alongs with the city of sanford police department. and what i saw was disgusting. the officers showed me his favorite hiding spots for taking naps. and explained to me that he doesn't carry a long gun in his vehicle because in his words, anything that requires a long gun require as lot of paperwork and you're going to find me as far away from it. he took two lunch breaks and attended a going-away party for one of his fellow officers. >> sanford police say they have no documentation showing the specific date that zimmerman went on a ride-along, or if he ever did. according to documents that he did fill out an application to ride with officers and he was approved in march of 2010. zimmerman fast forward eight months later. an email sent by zimmerman to sanford police show a new friendly relationship with the department. in an email obtained by cnn to the then-chief, bill lee, who resigned in the aftermath of the trayvon martin shooting. zimmerman says i have high hopes for and restored faith in your administration and the sanford police department in its entirety. he goes on to praise the department's efforts to launch a neighborhood watch program in his community. from the start, attorneys for trayvon martin's family have said that zimmer mn's relationship with the police department raises red flags for them. this new video released by the state attorney prosecuting the case shows zimmerman walking unescorted at the police station three days after he fatally shot trayvon martin. the recording raises new questions about whether zimmerman received preferential treatment that night because he was friendly with officers in the department. wildfires are burning out of control this morning, winds of up to 70 miles per hour are threatening to push a fire in nevada to new extremes. later today. the fire has destroyed two homes and consumed more than 7,000 acres. more than 500 firefighters are on the scene trying to fight this one. just 15% of the wildfire is contained. and there's another story, too. in arizona, there's a fire scorching nearly 16,000 acres. much of the damage has been on rural federal lands, but the town of crown king has been evacuated as a precaution. arizona governor jan brewer is declaring a state of emergency in that area. the obama administration reveal secret information about the raid on osama bin laden to hollywood filmmakers. new documents show the pentagon offered access to a screen writers who are making a movie on the bin laden raid. the access included a planner from s.e.a.l. team 6. new york congressman peter king accuses the white house of jeopardizing national security. administration officials say the filmmakers never had information on the operation, that journalists didn't have. facebook is facing a shareholder lawsuit over its ipo fiasco. the suit filed in u.s. district court in manhattan targets the social network, its ceo, mark zuckerberg along with several banks. alleging that full details of the company's revenue was shared with only a select group of investors right before it went public, but not with everybody else. facebook says the lawsuit is without merit. eight minutes past the hour. a high school football player flagged by the principal for this. tebowing on stage during graduation. apparently mom wasn't happy, either. hear how she pulled a fast one on the teenager, coming up. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? 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>> yes, good news is that the northeast should be okay. >> well, thank you. >> but your friends in chicago and especially to the west are going to have a little threat for seeing some severe weather. we saw it yesterday, video out of north dakota, here's a shot of a storm that dropped a tornado that eventually crossed the border into canada. we're getting into the time of year where the severe weather threat begins to migrate further north. that's as early, may, it still should be in the nebraska/kansas/oklahoma area. it's been a fairly quiet may, relatively speaking. look at that stuff. very little damage and those storm chasers getting extremely close. here's your threatite now for the next couple of hours. severe thunderstorm watch in effect for parts of nebraska and the rain right now heading up towards minneapolis. we also have the fire weather threat, the winds continue to blow, low levels of humidity. the two fires are more than two fires, the big ones in nevada and arizona continue to burn. and here's your threat for severe weather pushing further east. into western parts of wisconsin. and eventually tomorrow will get to chicago. the heat is building ahead of it. 92 in memphis, 87 degrees in chicago. 73 degrees in new york city. tropical storm bud is now a hurricane with winds of 85 miles per hour will drift towards mexico, hopefully weakening over the next few days, but the forecast than ever-changing. back to you guys in new york. >> thank you, rob, appreciate it. 15 minutes past 5:00. a 17-year-old boy collapses because he can't breathe and guess what happened? a school nurse stood over top of him and refused to give him his inhaler because of a technicality. this is no joke this is coming to us by wkmg channel 6 news in orlando. the woman refused to give michael rudy his inhaler because school officials said -- are you ready? they had no record of a parent's signature on file. he can't breathe, he's on the ground, he can't breathe and they're looking for the files. they called home, his mother rushed to the school. found her son suffering from a full-blown asthma attack on the floor. >> it's like something out of a horror film. the person sits there and watches you die. she sat there, looked a at me and did nothing. >> the mom is baffled that no one called 911. >> shocking. you can't breathe. that's -- >> an ambulance could help him. >> look, give him the inhaler. anyway, the school says it's standing by the nurse's decision at the time. more on this as it develops. you know, i have, when i transferred my kids here, my daughter has asthma and the rule and regs were so strict and they said to me, you have to have a signature on file, you have to have the medications here, they have to be up to date. i did not mess around with it. >> that part i get, but when you can't breathe? you're down to minutes, so the technicality would go out the window. >> what they say, if not, we'll call an ambulance, is that what you want? yeah. >> let's hope the person you call at 911 is not snoring, like yesterday's story. tebowing teen getting in trouble at his graduation ceremony in fort myers, florida. chuck shriner, a football player, dropped to one knee on stage and tebowed right in front of his principal. so he was then told that he wouldn't be getting a diploma. it turns out, he was the one on the receiving end of a high school prank. his mother, who was upset with his stunt, had the diploma the entire time, but didn't let him know until he cleaned up the entire high school gym after the ceremony as punishment. >> that's pretty harsh. >> which is kind of a prayer in a catholic school. >> maybe things changed. p.s., how did she know in advance so she had his diploma the whole time? >> maybe he was threatening to tebow. >> maybe it leaked. he got his diploma in the end. >>s did 18 minutes past the hour. for an expanded look at all of our top stories, head to our blog. the botched facebook ipo still has wall street talking up a storm. and now we're hearing that facebook might unfriend the nasdaq itself. we'll give you that story in a moment. oh, come on! ♪ ugh, again! 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