secretary john bryson is in the hospital after being cited for a felony hit-and-run. he crashed into a stopped car over the weekend twice and left the scene and hit a second car. they found him unconscious behind his wheel. brianna keeler is live at the white house this morning. what exactly happened? >> reporter: well, this happened in the los angeles area in about the 5:00 local hour on saturday. according to the l.a. sheriff's department, secretary bryson, behind the wheel of a lexus, allegedly hit a car, a buick that was stopped at a railroad crossing. there were three guys in the car. according to this press release, he got out and talked to them and then went on his way. as he did so, hit the buick yet again. at that point the buick tailed him and called 911 and the next time -- when police did find bryson, he was in his car, this pregs release alleged and unconscious and apparently hit another car, a honda accord. the first accident happening in san gabriel and second in rosemead. according to a spokesperson, a preliminary alcohol screening of bryson was negative and the result of the blood test tests are pending. we're just now getting a statement from the commerce department. it doesn't say anything new but it is the first official reaction from the administration saying that the secretary was involved in a traffic accident over the weekend in los angeles and taken to the hospital for examination and according to this he has been released. we understand now that he's been released from the hospital. >> wow, that's so odd. is there any expectation at this point? did he have a stroke? are they still going to see if they can figure out if it's drugs or alcohol in his system? >> reporter: sure, obviously there's more to be done. it sounds like there's initial testing to be done or at least processed when it comes to blood alcohol but at this point we're not hearing anything from the administration or from local authorities about what the cause may be if it could be a medical cause or if maybe it is related ultimately to alcohol or drugs. we don't know. >> that's just weird. brianna keilar, thanks for the update. christine romans has a look at the headlines. >> the manhunt is on for a killer this morning, 22-year-old desmonte leonard, wanted in alabama for allegedly killing three people and wounding three others in a shooting in an off campus party near auburn university. two of those killed were former auburn football players, one of the wounded is a current player. police say they are looking for two people, two persons of interest in that case. no hope of containment, that's the assessment from a colorado fire chief about the high park fire burning near fort collins, it's already forced hundreds of families from their homes. it has grown from 2,000 acres to 20,000 acres since saturday. the rain colorado could use is poundsing parts of florida panhandle and coastal alabama. they are under a flood watch after more than 20 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period over the weekend. >> opening statements begin in over an hour in the child sex abuse trial of former penn state defensive coach jerry sandusky. he could be confronted by the alleged victims today. he's charged with sexually abusing ten boys over a 15-year period, up to eight of his alleged victims could testify during a trial. it's expected to last three weeks. megachurch pastor creflo dollar arrested for battery and child cruelty after deputies say he attacked his 15-year-old daughter. she told deputies dollar slammed her to the ground and choked her and punched her in the face and hit her with a shoe. deputies photographed a scratch on the girl's neck. >> i should have never been arrested. the truth is she was not choked. she was not punched. there were not any scratches on her neck but the only thing on her neck was a prior skin abrasion from eczema. >> dollar claims the incident escalated from an argument but never intended to hurt anyone. the musical "once", was the big winner at the 66th annual tony awards, took home eight tonys, clybourne park won for best play and nichols won for directing "death of a salesman". >> the battle over who is more in touch with the people and economy takes a new turn. president obama made upbeat remarks about the economy. listen. >> the private sector is doing fine. where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government. >> lots of people disagreed with that when the gop piled on, the president backed away from those comments, we'll play them in a moment. we want to introduce you to lee owe gir ard, president of the steel workers union. >> good to be with you. >> i appreciate that. then the president's reversal was almost reversed by david axelrod. i want to play everybody those chunks as well, listen. >> the economy is not doing fine. there are too many people out of work, the housing market is still weak and too many homes under water. >> 4.3 million jobs created in the last 27 months. we need to accelerate that, candy and we agree on that. the question is how we do it. >> do you think the economy is doing fine or not doing fine? >> well, let me say i think the president is doing fine. we've had 27 months of continuous private sector job growth. we've had more jobs created by this president by his policies than we did in the full eight years of president george bush. the economy could be a lot better. it would be a lot better if the republicans were to pull their weight. mitch mcconnell said as soon as the president got elected that mitch mcconnell's biggest job was to make sure this president had one term. i think that the private sector is moving in the right direction with 27 continuous months of job growth. a large measure of that to be honest is because of the economic renewal plan he brought in early on and rebirth of the auto industry that if we had listened to mitt romney, he said let it die. if we would save the auto industry, we would be sorry, i think he was more emphatic. i think the economy and the private sector is moving the right way. and soledad, the state and level of government has had more job destruction, they've destroyed the jobs of teachers, firemen and policeman and snow plow operators. >> mitt romney weighed in trying to get leverage off of what the president had said the first go around and here's what mitt romney said. listen. >> he says we need more firemen and policemen and teachers. did he not get the message of wisconsin? the american people did. it's time to cut back on government and help the american people. >> what was your reaction to those comments? >> i was offended to be honest by those comments when we're talking about cutting back on teachers, we're talking about larger class sizes for a society that needs to make sure their education system responds to the needs of the citizens, that's the wrong way to go. wisconsin wasn't about that. wisconsin was really the hijacking of the system by unbelievable amounts of private money that came in and tried to buy that election. and can you imagine a governor spending almost $40 million in an election? the people of wisconsin maybe made the statement that we shouldn't recall for policy reasons, we should recall for maybe legal reasons and this governor in wisconsin has got everybody around him getting criminally indicted. i'm not sure what's going to happen to him in the next couple of months. >> when you look at the statistics out of that polling in wisconsin, 38% of people who said they were from union families supported governor walker in the recall. how do you explain that? >> i think one of the issues soledad, and we maybe could have thought about it take little bit more, there's only been three recalls of governors in the history and the reality i think what citizens are saying, they don't want to have recalls over policy debates. they are willing to have recalls over legal matters as we have seen in the past but they weren't interested in a recall over policy issues. i think one of the things we have to worry about in this country is the unbelievable amounts of private money and secret money and billionaire money flowing into the electoral system. we can't put this democracy up for sale. when i hear billionaires talking about getting together and raising a billion dollars to campaign against this president, that just puts our democracy in a very, very tenuous position. i think it's wrong. >> do you get a sense in this day and age people are angry and maybe even hate is a strong word but maybe use that, people hate unions are angry at unions? >> no, i get -- none of that feeling at all. i can tell you that as i travel the country, i've had workers from nonunion shops say they wish they could join the union. one of the problems is the law, people may not understand if they are not involved in the labor movement or private sector work or organization, we have the worst labor law in the major advanced democracies on the planet. this is the only place where workers don't have the right to join the union without the boss injecting themselves into the procession. if you think of the billionaires injecting themselves into our electoral process and trying to buy politicians, the same thing goes on in the workplace, where employers are allowed to bring workers in one by one, if you join the union, i'll close the plant. that's a scary proposition. every time you -- 60% say they would join if they could. let me make one -- >> we're running out of time. >> let me one last point about the economy. the private sector economy has been creating jobs for 27 straight months, all of that as a result of this president's position on the auto industry and economic renewal, wanting to rebuild infrastructure and put people back to work. one of the difficulties is people like mitt romney who have destroyed jobs, he closed a number of plants where our workers were there and walked away with hundreds and millions of dollars and members got 2/10 of 1 cent on pension plans, he's not in a position to talk about job creation. he can talk about wealth creation. >> leo gerard, thanks for joining us, we appreciate it. >> thank you very much, enjoy your show. still ahead, big news expected from apple could mean new mac books and hd apple tv and much more. we'll take an inside look at the unveiling live from san francisco coming up next. a popular children's past time has been deemed too offensive for a neighborhood in denver. yes, that's it right there drawing with chalk on the sidewalk. we start with a play list by luther vandross, stop to love. 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[ male announcer ] new bengay zero degrees. freeze and move on. apple's new ceo tim cook is going to try to shoes of the late steve jobs, apple's annual developers conference. dan simon, how is it looking so far? >> reporter: well, the lines are pretty intense, kind of looks like a scene outside of an apple store for an iphone sold. this is the annual worldwide developers conference and brings in 5,000 people from all over the world. people who design apps for both the mac and for iphones and ipads. let me tell you a little bit about what we're expecting today. we're expecting that apple will preview the newest operating system that powers the iphone and ipad and release a bunch of new products, mainly new computers and whole new slate of mcintosh computers. the question is could there be something else? there's been a lot of buzz about that. we're not expecting to see it but this is a economy that is of course very secretive, you never know. there will be a lot of eyeballs on tim cook, the first time he delivers the key note address at the worldwide developer conference and this was the last time we saw steve jobs in public at this time last year. of course, a lot of attention on tim cook today. >> i have to imagine it would be a tremendous amount of pressure, as much as he has been meeting the company, the walking around the stage that people associate the most with steve jobs. >> reporter: no question about it. and we expect him to really talk about the company and its financial health then he'll start of pass the batonto the other apple employees to deliver the product announcements, that's what he's done in the past and we expect to see that again today. also, it's pretty interesting, 5,000 people are here and it paid $1600 a pop to get in. it will be pretty intense week. there will be a lot of different sessions to learn more about the apple products. and we'll have more coming up as the hours progress. back to you. >> thanks, dan, appreciate it. there is a new twist to tell you about in florida's plan to purge the voter rolls. will they be blocked for good? the man who have been investigating voter purges for a decade will join us. a showdown, believe it or not, over sidewalk chalk. we'll tell you why one neighborhood wants to ban children from drawing on the sidewalks. our starting point team heading on. >> you like boxing. >> he'll be here. >> welcome, everybody, have a nice weekend? tap... pinch... and zoom... in your car. introducing the all-new cadillac xts with cue. ♪ don't worry. we haven't forgotten. you still like things to push. [ engine revs ] the all-new cadillac xts has arrived, and it's bringing the future forward. ♪ >> chaka khan, love what you do and feel. i shaw chaka khan this weekend at this sort of event -- >> you went to dallas? >> i did. >> everything good back home. >> beautiful, beautiful weather and people. >> chaka khan, what a rock star, she looks amazing. i just love her. i like following her around. >> that makes two celebrity stalkers for you. >> guilty as charged. we'll introduce -- i always call your panel but our team. margaret hoover is with us and will kain. i'll start with you in the get real. from hop scotch to four square, sidewalk chalk, everybody loves that. what's not to love about sidewalk chalk? could you pick a more inknock uous things it washes off anyway, right? a woman moved into her neighborhood in stapleton colorado and has a 3-year-old and it seemed like a nice place, like her daughter could color on the sidewalks for fun, wouldn't be watching video games all of the time or videos. the homeowners association in stapleton says chalk art is offensive and distracting. >> fascists. >> they claim since the sidewalks are a shared space, anything that offends or interferes with peaceful enjoy. is not allowed. homeowners association say they've gotten complaints about the chalk and they let it go to a vote and let the neighbors decide. >> i'm from denver -- >> this is her neighborhood. >> i know this neighborhood because -- >> is chalk art a problem? >> we didn't get enough of it. this used to be an airport and it was redeveloped into a family community and turns out my daughter is looking at buying there because he has small young children, and now you clearly have bureaucratic busy bodies on a power trip. if they don't want children drawing -- it's nuts. >> you start with children's nuts -- . >> it's a little crazy. i'll have my brother look into it before he buys there. >> you do that. >> i'm glad you brought like to that. >> it sounds crazy. first the 16-ounce sodas now sidewalk chalk. still ahead this morning on "starting point", we'll go back to talking about purging of voters because we kind of got into it. the florida's governor wants voters in the state checked out before they go to the polls in november. is it legal and what are the obstacles to that? also, government official caught on camera whipping his stepson. did you see this? it is so hard to watch. literally whipping the kid over a baseball game. you're watching "starting point." kage... oahhh! 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