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0 guessing. look, the warm weather will be here soon enough, but at least one guy in illinois has proven that even in the spring, snow can totally rock on the ridiculist. that does it for us. ridiculist. that s it for us. early start begins now. new this morning, david petraeus breaking his silence. the former cia chief s first public words since the sex scandal cost him his job. history in the making at the highest court in the land. justices now just hours away from hearing a case that could redefine marriage in america. and also new this morning, shaken and scared. the first moments of a deadly earthquake caught on camera. dramatic video this morning. take a look at this. a camera captures a bus driver s close brush with death. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. john berman is hosting later this morning. and i m zoraida sambolin. let s get started. first an apology for former cia director david petraeus. the five-star general making a return to public life after retiring in disgrace over an affair with paula broadwell. casey, petraeus has been laying really low since november. what is the end game behind last night s public appearance and very public apology? clearly, zoraida, petraeus is attempting to rehabilitate his public image. retired general david petraeus picked a receptive audience to launch his comeback from the sex scandal that cost him his job with the cia and his reputation with the military. so please allow me to begin my remarks this evening by reiterating how deeply i regret and apologize for the circumstances that led to my resignation from the cia and caused such pain for my family, friends, and supporters. reporter: supporters once were abundant. petraeus was a four-star general who commanded american forces during the surge in iraq. he also wrote the field manual for how u.s. troops fight insurgents. i join you keenly aware that i am regarded in a different light now than i was a year ago. i m also keenly aware that the reason for my recent journey was my own doing. reporter: his undoing was an affair with paula broadwell, the woman who co-authored his biography. both were married. it came as an investigation into an unrelated matter uncovered his affair with broadwell. he resigned from the cia three days after president obama was reelected and ten days before he testified about the attack on the u.s. embassy in benghazi. now petraeus has reentered the public stage and is reported to be talking to employers. general petraeus is a gifted and talented guy. he had a great career. he can have a great career going forward. he s got to navigate through this the right way. he s starting in the right direction. reporter: i know i can never fully asage the pain inflicted on those closest to me and on a number of others. i can, however, move forward and as best as possible make amends to those i have hurt. chief among them, his wife holly, who did not attend petraeus speech. the event was sponsored by usc, which has a longstanding tradition of close ties to the military and is comfortably located an entire continent away from the pentagon. i should point out reporters were kept far away from general petraeus and were not allowed to ask him any questions. casey, thank you. coming up, cnn military analyst general spider marks will talk about petraeus future plans. game changer for gay rights. in a few hours, a historic legal battle shifts focus. from prop 8, california s same-sex marriage, to doma. doma denies couples rights by defining marriage as between a man and a woman. it s dark this morning. look behind you. you can t see anything behind you, shannon. what happened in that court yesterday. how did the justices respond to prop 8 arguments? reporter: essentially with pointed questions and no clear clues of how this court might decide. for anybody reading the tea leaves, we re going to have to read a little bit further. the justices seemed conflicted. a lot of questions over that california same-sex marriage ban. they asked a lot of questions of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, pointed them, pressed them on the different issues, the different merits of the case. let s play a little bit of a back and forth between different justices not between the justices, but from one justice to another. let s start with samuel alito. he was addressing this whole notion of redefining marriage. you want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is newer than cell phones or the internet? we are not we do not have the ability to see the future. reporter: now, from kind of an alternate line of thinking, anthony kennedy, justice kennedy, he had this to say in terms of the history of traditional versus same-sex marriage. we have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more. on the other hand, there is an immediate legal injury or legal what could be a legal injury, and that s the voice of these children. there s some 40,000 children in california, according to the red brief, that live with same-sex paren parents, and they want their parents to have full recognition and full status. the voice of those children is important in this case, don t you think? reporter: now, obviously, christine, many people are paying very close attention to justice kennedy because he could be a pivotal swing vote when they decide this case. all right. shannon travis, very, very early for us this morning in front of the supreme court. thanks, shannon. in the 7:00 hour, starting point senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin breaks down yesterday s arguments and looks ahead to what we can expect today. this morning north korea says it has cut off an important military hot line to the south. the hot line is key because it allows south koreans to cross the border to work at a jointly run complex in the north. tensions are already high on the korean peninsula, and this shows yet another breakdown of what s left of the inner korean cooperation. and jolting taiwan after a powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake shook the island. this is earlier this morning. this is what it looked and felt like from inside the television station. taiwan is said to be mostly unscathed. no reports of any major damage there. the wall street journal reporting at least eight people are injured, most of them by fallen objects. and the end to a standoff with a gunman in washington state. it began tuesday afternoon when the suspect began shooting at home in the five points neighborhood near tacoma. 60-year-old mike mcphee surrendered after allegedly strolling through his neighborhood firing randomly. police say he pointed a gun at people but didn t shoot them. no one was injured. and north dakota enacting one of the nation s toughest anti-abortion law. the governor signed it yesterday, admitting it s a direct challenge to roe versus wade. the 1973 landmark decision legalizing abortion. he asked the legislature to set aside money for expected legal battles. it bans most abortions about six weeks after conception, about the time experts say a fetal heartbeat can be detected. a navy s.e.a.l. who was part of the team that killed osama bin laden is disputing another account of that raid that appeared recently in esquire magazine. the s.e.a.l. known in esquire at the shooter claims to have fired three shots after a point man intercepted two women in the hallway. now another member of s.e.a.l. team 6 tells cnn s peter bergen that a completely different s.e.a.l. team member fired the fatal shot. the account in esquire was inaccurate. it s not the shooter described in that article who killed bin laden. it was, in fact, the point man that fired the shot at bin laden and hit him in the head. esquire magazine sent a statement to cnn saying the story is well sourced. cnn stands by its reporting. a new director of the secret service. julia pearson is the first female to ever head up that agency. pearson inherits a $1 billion budget, 7,000 employees, and a department with scandal after agents allegedly hired prostitutes in colombia during a visit by the president last year. the dow finishing up 111 points. a record close, 14559. all eyes on the s&p 500. the s&p closing yesterday at 1,563, less than two points from its all time high. it s within shouting distance today. market futures pointing heighter for all three major indexes. we could see records set this afternoon. new this morning, a bus driver in china is being called a hero for somehow stopping his bus after a light pole came smashing through his windshield. take a look at this incredible surveillance video. it will make you want to duck. that is exactly what the driver did with only a split second to spare. he suffered a ruptured spleen but managed to bring the bus to a stop, unbuckle his seat belt and escape. there were 60 people on board. despite his injuries, the driver helped each and every one of them off the bus. no one else was hurt. that is remarkable video. i can t believe you quickly he moved to get out of the way. amanda knox finds her future hanging in the balance again. italy wants her extradited to be tried again for murder. could that really happen? 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