Page 6 - 335k News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. it's wednesday, august 14th, 35k a.m. in the east. we're going to begin with a tense 12-hour standoff at a bank in louisiana. it is now over, and this morning with the hostage-taker dead and two of the hostages shot. it happened in st. joseph, that's near louisiana's northeast border near mississippi. alina, what you can tell us? >> reporter: zoraida, this is still a very active scene. we're going to zoom into the bank so you can see the police remain here. investigators continue to comb the bank for vefd. now louisiana st...

Elections. >> what moves do you have left? >> well, there's not much. >> if you're a democrat in wisconsin, this is the time you want to run. >> we're going to go back to wisconsin. this is just the first of many battles. >> clearly the governor has won this battle in the short term. >> i don't really think the governor has been warm and caring here and is probably not making the right decision. >> walker's really putting a -- throwing the gauntlet down here because the pressure's on him now to create all these jobs that he's promised. >> i make 35k a year and having to pay $200 for my family ...

Vegas. apparently he sends a tweet and the tweet says that i was a high-roller, i've been partying at hayes, which is a nightclub at the area hotel and casino city center. so he sends out this tweet, and immediately the world kind of says, wait a minute. you're only 19 years old. >> what's up with that? >> he's obviously too young to be gambling. he basically said that last night was stupid. 35k at hayes, total something like 50k for the whole day. so he's out on twitter bragging about what he'd done. now immediately these posts were removed. but a lot of people are saying, you know, michael, ...

>> his baby boy. >> that's right. his son was out gambling in las vegas. apparently he sends a tweet and the tweet says that i was a high-roller, i've been partying at hayes, which is a nightclub at the area hotel and casino city center. so he sends out this tweet, and immediately the world kind of says, wait a minute. you're only 19 years old. >> what's up with that? >> he's obviously too young to be gambling. he basically said that last night was stupid. 35k at hayes, total something like 50k for the whole day. so he's out on twitter bragging about what he'd done. now immediately these posts...

Earnings reports coming this week and a lot of them will be good. big businesses are doing good. >> and hank paulson's answer to the question. which was, yes. >> doing good? they have cut back on employees and doing more with less so you will see profits up for businesses. so the natural answer is to sell more products. >> terry, you are staying and supposed to ask how your better looking younger brother tom is doing. >> up there in boston. four years older than i am and looks it. >> good. i have two brothers that compete. >> he's had an easy life. i started my first business at 14. he's in th...