that. a packed show ahead. take a look at the photo, we have joe lieberman and christine todd whitman, olympic gold medalist dan o'brien and the infamous, is that the appropriate word? honey boo boo from toddlers and tiaras. >> "starting point" begins right now. good morning, happy tuesday to you and thank you so much for being with us. >> in our "starting point," disturbing revelations about the man police say is behind the deadly wisconsin sikh temple shooting, including word that an organization that tracks hate groups had been monitoring him for 12 years. police looking into the 40-year-old's ties to white supremacists, these photos of a page in front of a swastika are from facebook and myspace page that has since been taken down. he was the front man for a white power rock band. neighbors say he was antisocial. >> like a recluse almost. didn't talk to us. i would say hi and he would go -- >> she was nice and when he moved in, she just changed. you could tell he was running the show. she wasn't as friendly anymore. she wasn't -- it was kind of like she wasn't allowed to like talk to anybody anymore. >> our david mattingly has been covering this story. he is live in oak creek, wisconsin this morning. david, the southern poverty law center has been tracking page since 2000. that's a long time. was law enforcement involved at all? >> reporter: well, law enforcement wasn't involved because he wasn't showing up on the radar, not breaking the law. so he wasn't showing up in to raise any sort of interest for law enforcement. what we're learning about him now is that he held a belief of white supremacy for at least a couple of decades, dating back to when we know of, when he was in the u.s. army. we heard from an army buddy who talked about how he would talk about a coming race war and when they would challenge him on where the beliefs were coming from, they said he would duck the question. after he was discharged from the military, that's when he started showing up getting involved with rock and roll bands that are called white power bands with white power themes behind their music. that's when he sort of started being watched by the southern poverty law center with the hate watch organization. they were keeping tabs on him just through his involvement with these bands. how these beliefs suddenly turned violent here in milwaukee though, is something that law enforcement is now trying to delve into. they are looking at this as a possible case of domestic terrorism, which does imply they are looking at the possibility that his beliefs did lead to this attack. but how that happened, they can't answer that question right now. what is clear though, completely clear, is the history of the gun that he used in the shooting rampage. he purchased it at the end of july. there was the typical and legal 48-hour waiting period. it was all done legally. that was a 9 millimeter hand gun he used to carry out this deadly attack. >> some of the people wounded in this attack, including brian murphy, shot on the scene, they are recovering this morning in the hospital. any update on their condition? >> reporter: the last update was late yesterday directly from the doctors at the hospital. they say all three are in critical condition. but that police officer, a remarkable story, shot eight to nine times, gone through a couple of surgeries already. he's said to be resting comfortably on the mend. everyone hoping that today when we get another update we might see some improvement in the condition of the three that are still in the hospital. everyone pulling for them naturally as we move forward here. this community still trying to come together and to come to grips with what happened here. >> david mattingly on the scene in oak creek, wisconsin. thanks very much. the six victims of the oak creek shooting continue to be remembered this morning. the family of the temple president, kaleka said he died a hero. his son said the fbi told his father tried to stab wade page before he was gunned down and may have given others just the time to run and possibly hide, including his own wife. she spoke about the terrifying ordeal just last night on "ac 360". >> i start closing my kitchen door, meantime he came in the kitchen and shot over there. then two ladies got shot in the leg, in the feet. then i grabbed everybody, run run run, to the pantry. >> his father was proud to live in america and hung a large american flag in his yard to show he thought u.s. was truly a land of opportunity. the fbi is investigating a fire that burned in a mosque in joplin, missouri. it burned it to the ground. just over a month after an arson attempt caused minor damage to the very same facility. the fire broke out early monday morning at the islamic society of joplin. they say it is a total loss. it is the second time in more than a month the mosque was attacked. surveillance footage from july shows a suspect approaching the mosque and throwing in kind of ignited object on the roof. attorneys for jared lee loughner changing their strategy. they are expected to enter at least one guilty plea this morning for the tucson massacre suspect if a federal judge finds him competent to stand trial. loughner had already pleaded not guilty to all of the charges against him. who could forget that january 2011 attack killing six people, wounded 13 others, including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. and coming up in over an hour here, 8:30 eastern time, we'll be joined by mavy stoddard, her husband was killed in the shooting. back to back roundtable fundraisers at the exclusive w hotel this afternoon, right near the white house. at a campaign stop in connecticut last night the president rolled out a new attack line against rival, mitt romney. >> asked the middle class to pay more in taxes so he could give another $250,000 tax cut to people making more than $3 million a year. it's like robin hood in reverse. it's romney hood. >> you can tell he was practicing that one. the president claims romney's tax plan will cost middle class families additional taxes and romney team of course says those claims are false. mitt romney will be on the president's home turf in chicago, pulling in $2 million to three fundraisers this coming weekend romney kicks off a bus tour of crucial swing states in virginia and heads south to north carolina, florida and then ohio next week. some analysts wondering whether he might announce his running mate during this trip. in the world of weather, tropical storm ernesto could become a hurricane by tonight. let's go to karen maginnis tracking the storm. where exactly is he headed? >> brooke, we'll be receiving another update from the national hurricane center in one hour. this is a compact system, however, there are plenty of feeder bans that will impact the yucatan peninsula. as a system approaches the coast there, there's speculation already that this could reach hurricane intensity sometime later on this afternoon. and should make the impact greater felt all the way from cancun down towards belize city. it interacts with the land and doesn't have that sustaining moisture coming in from the water. as it emerges over the bay of campeche, it will regain its strength before impact vera cruz, as we go into the next several days. so this is going to have its greatest impact in that it's going to be a very heavy rain maker, 6 to 12 inches of rain could cause mud and landslides, brooke and john? >> no good. we have amazing video to show you right now. take a look at this. the first color pictures from the nasa rover curiosity's first full day on mars. we're all space geeks today. earlier photos showed the wheels on the ground and mount sharp in the distance. it is the vul destination on this trip. the rover is set to sent weather data back to nasa today. we're looking forward to that. >> i love the fist pumps from nasa, 1:30 in the morning, not that i was up but did see the video. >> most excited scientists in the history of the world, no doubt. ahead on "starting point," wrong place, wrong time. f-15 fighter jets scrambling in the sky over long island. what triggered this frightening commotion. also, time to separate the athletes from the warriors in london. olympic decathlon and an american is favored for the gold. dan o'brien will join us next from london. you're watching "starting point." this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there's a new new york state. one that's working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination... and businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. the lines, the cost, the hassle. ♪ express yourself [ female announcer ] why not try coffee-mate? with over 25 delicious flavors for a fraction of the cost of the coffee house. add your flavor, with coffee-mate, from nestle. welcome back, it is one of highlights of the olympics, one of the grueling endurance testing competition. tomorrow the men's decathlon begins, including the 100 meter dash, long jump, diskus, they've got everything. >> you say that no big deal. >> no biggy. >> american ashton eaton broke the world record earning 9,039 points. until then dan o'brien held the american record for two decades. he also of course, won the gold medal in atlanta at the '96 olympic games. and dan, it is so wonderful to be with us. in the commercial break, you outed the fact you've never been to london before. hopefully you're enjoying it. it's a lovely city. let's get straight to the decathlon. all eyes are on ashton eaton, sets this new world record as we mentioned. you walked up to him afterwards and give him this big hug. bring us inside that exchange. what did you say? >> you know, after ashton broke the world record i happened to be standing by and it was one of those moments i had been waiting a long time for somebody to score high and break my american record and he was the man to do it. i knew it was a matter of time and what do you say to a guy who just did somebody nobody else in the world has done. everybody -- everybody needs support, not just in track and field but in all olympic sports. i'm proud to be part -- i'm proud to be part of team usa and proud to be part of devry university, where people can go and set their own goals and get the support they need to achieve the things they want in life. i'm glad i was down there at the right time in the right place when ashton broke the world record. >> i hear your support. come on, did it sting a little bit, just a little bit that he took the record? >> you know, when i was younger, the records were very important to me, especially in the first five or six years after i stopped competing, i liked having the records. here we are 20 years later since i had that american record from bruce jenner and i thought it's about time somebody scored high enough to get that record. i knew it was going to be him. ashton was young enough and he didn't just beat it, he blew it out of the water. so it's gone now and i told my wife at the beginning of that morning, at the end of the day you'll be married to just a former american and world record holder. is that okay with you? >> we have politicians coming in and you gave a more astoout answer thaen they can. how do you pace yourself over the next few days to get through the final event, which is the 1500? how can you make sure you have the energy to do that by the time you get to the end? >> incredible. it's all in the long-term training and ashton eaton has a fantastic coach. it's about work and recover. you train your body to go 100% then recover from it. what gets guys off track is they get all excited in the first five or second hours and then they got five or six hours to go. these are going to be extremely long days, 9:00 a.m. starts and 10:00 p.m. finishes, not getting too up or down and turning it on when you have to and turning it off in the down time. there's a lot of down time. sometimes you have to wait 15, 16 competitors in between the long jump and shot put. i kind of -- dave johnson, my rival back in the day used to say it was like a 24-hour driving marathon, you have to pay attention and be ready for anything. >> you mentioned dave there. what is the toughest event? what's the biggest pit fall. you had problems with the pole vault before the 1992 olympics. what event do you have to watch out for the most? >> for some reason it's the second day event the discus, you only get three attempts, is the first is poor, you worry a little bit and hold back, but it is all about movement and trust and staying in the ring. the discus seems to throw people off. he doesn't worry along those lines at the 300 meter. weather could be a concern as well. we'll see. we'll look for ashton to be a little concerned in the shot put and discus, we're looking at each other, like really? that's interesting. a lot of us have been following, you're a superstar, michael phelps a superstar, broke the medal count in terms of number of medals for any american. he says he's finished with swimming, do you think he should keep going? >> well, he's been to so many olympic games and i'm not sure you get better as you get older. he seems to continue to win gold medals but it's probably about time that he wrap it up. it's so intense training all those years and years. and the interest being thing about it, he's doing it at the right time. going out on top, why not go out on top? this is all about -- and i think he's done a great job and been a great role model for o young olympic athletes, it's a matter of time. i think it's a great time for him to go out. >> dan o'brien, thank you so much. >> advice from one superstar to another. >> we were talking to dan, dave ads. >> the u.s. is right behind with 63 and russia moved into third place with 42. some of the big events today, the final day of gymnastics, gabby douglas trying for their third gold medal in the balance beam finals. we also have the finals of the men's high jump and women's 100 meter hurdles and the men's triathlon. >> quickly, the women's soccer game, i flew in, you were telling me on the phone. >> screaming all by myself watching the game. so exciting. >> still to come, you have a facebook account, you may want to make sure you do if you want to get a job? we're going to explain that. forget the long waits at baggage claim, the airline that's about to start a special suitcase delivery service at a price of course. you're watching "starting point." fore! no matter what small business you are in, managing expenses seems to... get in the way. not anymore. ink, the small business card from chase introduces jot an on-the-go expense app made exclusively for ink customers. custom categorize your expenses anywhere. save time and get back to what you love. the latest innovation. only for ink customers. learn more at chase.com/ink a couple of today's top stories, the mississippi church that barred a black couple from getting married is apologizing. the hendersons and wilsons never should have been asked to relocate their wedding, but the wilsons call the statement an insult and misleading. if you opted out of facebook or twitter, you could be hurting in terms of your job prospects. forbes said many employers are suspicious of job candidates who do not use social media. they worry the person could be hiding something or the account was deleted because of red flags. >> you're told to be careful if you post on facebook, if you erase it, they are suspicious too? >> doesn't seem fair. >> apple stock near an all-time high even after missing earnings estimates last month. >> alison kosik joins us now. it's skyrocketing. some people think it's a good value. >> it is. the ratio shows that apple is trading at 14 times its expected earnings for this year. but then you look at stocks on the nasdaq, they trade at 18 times when they are expected to earn. apple at 624 bucks is still considered cheap. you know when it's not considered cheap, $775 a share. that's when it not considered a bargain anymore. you look at shares in the premarket. you never think that apple misses its estimates, it's trading $624 right before the opening bell today. just shy of $644 all-time high, look at it since the beginning of the year, it's up more than 300% in the past five years. why didn't i own this think way back when? now, of course, the exciting is building over the iphone 5. rumor is is goes on sale in november. if you can't afford the new one coming out, there are great deals for older versions, sprint over the weekend announced its offering a two-year contract for the iphone 4s for $150 and verizon offering the iphone 4 for $99. if you're an investor, it's good for you too, dividend payments to shareholders within the next week and there's chatter apple may decide to split its stock and that means the company shares will be cheaper, more accessible to the average investor and makes it likely it could be a member of dow industrials, it has a better chance of showing up in your 401(k). right now before apple is so expensive, it would single handedly sway the index on a daily basis. and split before -- >> and my iphone 5, does that mean i hold out for the iphone 5? >> you do get a bargain for the old iphone. >> i'm so embarrassed by this. we all get frustrated because we're paying more for x, y and z and now we're talking off the plane pay more. >> this is at the premium rate. american airlines is offering this. it starts this week and what you can do is pay for the service, either when you're making your ticket flight or just two hours before your flight, pay the top dollar there. that is the menu. if you don't have the time -- or inclination to wait five minutes, they'll deliver it for you. that's kind of expensive, but you pay for convenience. if you've got a lot of kids or a million bags. >> i guess if you have a bunch of little ones hanging on you, i might pay the $30. >> ultimate in laziness, come on. >> if you're that family. >> you can't wait five minutes for bags to come and pay that much money? >> i would be worried about the fact it would give the airlines another chance to lose your bags. >> that could make even more money -- >> ahead on "starting point," forget robin hood, it's now romney hood, that's how the president describes mitt romney's tax plan and you'll hear how republicans are firing back. it is, it is now lie, how honesty can make you healthier. pay attention. you're watching "starting point." >> we want you to join the conversation, tell us what you think about today's hot topic, send us a video of your end point and you could see it on the show later this morning. upload your videos at cnn.com/starting point. do it now, we're coming back in a moment. 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