Photos. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. We start with breaking news. Rescuers scrambleing to save survivors after the boat capsized in the storm. Crews report hearing sounds through the hull and trying to reach passengers they believe could be trapped inside. Chinese state media reports just 14 survivors have been rescued. More than 400 people on board. Among the rescued, the captain and chief engineer in police custody. Lets get the latest from ana coren. Reporter crews are desperate to save 450 people when the boat Julian Assange on the on the Yangtze River. The cruise ship was traveling to chongqing. It was hit by a cyclone and capsized in less than a minute. It took authorities just hours to raise the alarm. The captain and chief engineer who survived have been taken into police custody. Premier lee on the scene said the rescuers have every resource at their disposal and ordered an investigation. John and christine. Thank you, ana. Breaking overnight, the active head of the tsa losing his job after tests found that airport screeners failed to defect weapons and explosives 95 of the time. That would be an a in missing the dangerous stuff. Homeland security secretary jeh johnson announced that the chief is being reassigned. The test results are deeply alarming. Correspondent rene marsh has the latest from Reagan International airport. Reporter christine and john the agent was the department of Homeland Security with the office of Inspector General tested the system at Airport Security check points. They tried to smuggle weapons and fake explosives. They performed 70 tests and they were successful 67 times. This operation has been done for years. The goal is to test the vulnerabilities and strengthen the system. By design the test is very difficult, but as one former tsa official puts it theres no way, absolutely not, the failure rate should be as high as it was. It was 95 . We are hearing from the department of Homeland Security jeh johnson has called for six actions. He wants revised screening procedures. He wants the results of the testing to be shared with airports across the country. He wants more training for tsa officers. He also wants tsa screening equipment to be retested and reevaluated. He wants the covert operations to continue and lastly secretary johnson says he is appointing a team to make sure this happens in a timely fashion. Christine. Rene marsh, thank you. 95 is almost always. Four minutes after the hour. Expected later today, the vote in the senate to restore the nsa programs that lapsed the other night. On monday rand paul once again thwarted Mitch Mcconnells efforts to get a speedy vote on the act. Senator paul wants to tweak the bill adding more restrictions on Data Collection. Any measure would send the bill back to the house and the nsa goes without the bulk collection of the records or ability to access the bulk collection of records. Michelle kosinski is at the white house with the latest. Reporter john and christine, we saw Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell try to get the votes to move forward and take a vote on the issue last night. Once again, he was blocked by rand paul. Meanwhile, the white House Keeping urging the senate to act in the name of National Security calling this an unnecessary risk. The white house still wont go so far as to say the American Public is now less safe since these four patriot act programs have expired. They refer us to intelligence official officials. They still wont give examples of how any of the programs helped in the past. They say National Security concerns prevent them from giving away that information calling them important tools that have generated information in the past that wasnt generated through other means. What the white house will do freely is criticize the senate. Heres this. What we have seen is a lot of posturing within the republican party. Theres a lot of politics played on this and it is coming at the experience of the National Security and civil liberties. Reporter you have rand paul doing a victory lap, but the price he said was a verbal beating from key members of his own party. Calling his tactics political posturing and fund raising. The reality is the bipartisan bill that already passed the house that puts the bulk Data Collection out of the hands of the government and into the hands of the phone companies will likely pass but with amendments. Some senators want to make sure the phone companies do it in a way that is useful to the government. Bottom line it will take time but we could see a real vote on this as early as today. John and christine. Michelle kosinski at the white house. Developing overnight, secretary of state john kerry arrived in boston for surgery on his broken leg. Kerry broke his femur sunday during a bike accident in the french alps. Nuclear talk was iran have reeled a stalemate. His staffers are saying he is working the phones and he is working. The injury will not affect the talks. Meanwhile, International Inspectors report that irans stockpile of nuclear fuel increased 20 in the last 18 months. The white house has been claiming Nuclear Production has been frozen. Secretary kerry will miss a meeting in paris today. The officials will be holding a strategy discussion and discuss how to defeat isis. The fall of ramadi and the 2,000 antitank weapons to defend against suicide bombers are reported as failures. The group is in syria. That latest push brings isis closer and closer again to the turkish border. According to a cnn poll americans believe the campaign against isis is going badly. 44 of americans blame bush for the unfolding issue in iraq . Lets go live to the middle east and ian lee. What are the discussions in paris . Reporter john Foreign Ministers from 24 countries are arriving at the meeting right now. They are going to be talking about an array of issues. Before this meeting takes place, we heard from iraqs Prime Minister abadi who gave scathing remarks about the International Coalition saying the partners are not providing iraqi forces with the sufficient support. He pointed out that isis moves in small groups and they are not getting enough intelligence to track these movements. What this meeting will take place will be talking about is really twofold. You have the military operation on the ground. How they can provide enough support and coordinate better to defeat isis and stop advances. On the other side, you have the political developments. You may remember this started with the divide between the sunnis and shiites. A lot of talk is how to bridge that divide to get them to come together and build trust between the two sides. Only that way will they be able to ultimately be able to defeat isis and really have a united iraq if they are able to defeat the organization. You talked about what abadi wants in the coalition. What does iraq want from the United States right now . Reporter what iraq wants is first more air surveillance to follow isis. We know the United States is providing weapons. This is a deadly tactic for isis. Drive the vehicles and detonate them and killing dozens of people and creating chaos. That is one thing they want. They want training to help get their soldiers get the fighters up to a level to push back against isis. And sunni fighters are asking for the weapons to fight back and retake their homeland. Ian lee, thanks. The pentagon says live anthrax were sent to three more labs in canada. That means live anthrax has been mistakenly sent to Washington State and three countries. The scientists intended to ship inactive strains for research. Defense Officials Say no one has been sickened by the samples. Health insurance premiums could increase as much as 30 for people who purchase through obamacare. According to the Obama Administration u. S. Carriers are seeking major rate hikes for 2016. Among the large proposed, blue cross and blue shield of illinois looking to increase by 20 or more for plans. Last year, premiums increased 5. 4 . I do not think they will brag about the 30 increases. Time for an early start on your money. U. S. Stock futures barely moving. Yesterday, the dow climbed 30 points thanks to positive sciences for the economy. You can expect that to continue today. We get auto sales this morning. Auto sales in the United States on pace for the best year since 2001. That says a lot about how consumers are feeling. A judge ordered canadas Tobacco Companies to pay 12 billion in damages. Plaintiffs say the companies did not do enough to warn of the dangers of smoking. Those who started smoking before 1976 will get 80,000. Company will pay tens of thousands of dollars in moral damages to people with emphysema. The companies will appeal. Interesting. Also interesting, hello caitlyn jen jenner. The former bruce jenner is talking gender transition and living freely. The new Caitlyn Jenner twitter handle drew more than 1 million followers in a matter of hours. That beat the record set by president obama who responded by tweeting it takes courage to share your story. Caitlyn has sent three tweets so far. The pictures are lovely. It is an interesting thing how her family is coming around and learning and introduced to a new person. The family is complicated to begin with. You add this and this is a difficult transition for any family. It is a really great article. 13 minutes after the hour. Severe storms pounding the east coast this morning. It is raining hard and has been for days now. Flash flood fears up and down the coast. We will show you the damage and talk about what is coming this morning. As texas and oklahoma finally start drying out, the east coast is getting its turn for Severe Weather. From florida to jersey with high winds and funnel clouds and flash flooding. With more now in todays forecast. In atlanta, heavy rain triggered flash floods that swamped streets and backed up traffic. The sudden cloud burst flooded homes and totalled cars in the parking lot. Everyone on the bottom floor was trying to move their cars but a few minutes later, there was nothing anybody could do. In washington, d. C. High winds toppled trees. Look at that tree hitting that bus there. Flash flooding from mondays thunderstorms flooded Union Station. Wow also city streets. The flooding turned the stairs at the metro capital south station looks like a waterfall. There is potentially more dangerous weather in todays forecast. Meteorologist ivan cabrera is tracking the weather for us. John and christine, the weather we have seen across texas is shifting to the east. All of the shower and thunderstorm activity will be there. We have been talking about significant rainfall. Look at this. 2. 5 inches in baltimore. That was a record yesterday. These are the rains we could see today. Parts of new jersey with 4 inches of rainfall. This is radar estimated. I think that will continue for today as our frontal boundary is in place. Flood watches he ses remain in effect. Forecast radar, you see the showers and storms continue to bubble up here. Not expecting Severe Weather outbreak but heavy rainfall. Rivers and streams are high. We could talk about flash flooding this afternoon. As far as the forecast rainfall what we are expecting, anywhere from 2 to 4 additional inches in the next couple of days. Guys. Thank you. Later this morning, a House Committee investigates the deadly amtrak Train Derailment in philadelphia. The president is expected to testify. Lawmakers want to know why the railroad had not installed technology on the track where the derailment took place. They will explore the need for twoman crews and inward facing cameras. Amtrak says those are coming. We could learn more about brandon bostian. The House Committee will look into the takata air bag mess today. 34 million cars have been recalled because of air bags that could explode with so much force, they spew metal fragments throughout the car. Six deaths linked to the defect. The takata Vice President is expected to testify this afternoon. The Supreme Court tossing out the conviction of a pennsylvania man who wrote threatening statements on facebook to exwife. He posted long tirades in the form on facebook of rap lyrics. The chief Justice John Roberts called them crude and degrading, but said he failed to prove his intent which was directed at his wife. In another case the justices ruled in favor of a muslim woman who sued abercrombie and fitch because she wore a head scarf to the interview. Samantha claimed that the look policy violated her religious freedom. The ruling seen as landmark significance and religious liberty. New information this morning on americans being held against their will in yemen. Torn by civil war. We will discuss the battle to bring these people back to safety next. Thanks for the ride around norfolk and i just wanted to say geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years roger that. Captains waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. Couldve parked a little bit closer. Its gonna be dark by the time i get there. Geico. Proudly serving the military for over 75 years. The white house and yemens iranian backed Houthi Rebels meeting last month and discussing three nationals being held with one released. We get more from barbara starr. Reporter john and christine, an american man casey coombs said to be a freelance journalist in yemen was said to be released by the rebels. He was sent to oman. A close u. S. Ally to get the americans held by the houthis out of yemen. Coombs was met by diplomatic personnel. He is said to be in stable condition. It is believed that there are perhaps three or four additional americans being held by the houthis. One said to be a dual national u. S. yemeni citizen. The u. S. May not be entirely clear how Many Americans are being held because of the chaos in yemen at this time. Its believed the americans were detained or in some way arrested by the houthis earlier this year and in the last several weeks when they did not leave yemen as the u. S. So strongly advised americans to do earlier this year. Right now, there is a diplomatic effort to get any americans out of there and out of any houthi detention. This is not expected to turn into a military situation. This is all about diplomacy to get americans freed. John christine. Barbara, thank you for that. You see that destruction and see the urgency to get people out. Breaking news it this morning. A frantic search and rescue mission. Hundreds missing after the cruise ship sank. We are live with new developments next. Misstep, to tripping over a rug, to just losing their balance. And not being able to get up from a fall can have serious lifetime consequences. Being prepared is important. Philips lifeline with autoalert is more than just a medical alert button. Its an advanced falldetection system, designed to get you help quickly. If you fall and youre unable to push your button, the Fall Detection Technology within autoalert can trigger the button to automatically place a call for help. 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Welcome back to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is 30 minutes past the hour. A frantic search is under way on the Yangtze River. The rescuers are scrambling to save people after the cruise ship sank there. They are desperately trying to reach passengers they believe are still alive an