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finally, if you thought american debt was worthless, think again. i'll explain. first, here is my take. the american economy seems to have picked up. the dow jones industrial average is hovering around 13,000. the highest since the financial crisis began in may 2008. things do seem to be getting better. this is good news for president obama because there's a strong co-correlation between economic growth and a president's prospects for re-election. the unemployment numbers are still pretty high, but they are also falling. also, many models issing that unemployment is not the crucial s...

you're exposed to sniper positions that are just around the corner on the other side of those buildings. final preparations are under way for a farewell, not to just a pop superstar but a daughter, a mother, a friend. whitney houston's funeral is tomorrow in the church where she sang as a child u the pastor says the service will be personal and dignified. it will also be a gathering of celebrities including houston's god mother, aretha franklin. on the "today" show, she talked about the difficulty of singing at that service tomorrow. >> it is not gonna be easy, i can tell you that....

martin frost is a former texas congressman. and connie rice is a civil rights attorney. nice to have you joining us this morning. lots to get to including conversations about whitney houston and i really want to talk about whether it is religious liberty or are we really talking about contraception. first, though, the headlines. christine romans has that for us. good morning. >> good morning, soledad. workplace dispute between two i'm immigration custom agents went into a shootout. left one dead and one wounded. authorities say one agent opened fire on the other. then a third agent t...

very good friday morning to you. welcome to "early start." i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. >> let's get started here. >> some developments overnight be want to tell you about, very unusual. a shoot-out? a federal building and ice agent killing another and another ice agent injured. how and why this happened. >> new details on whitney houston's funeral. we know who will sing, who will speak and who will simply witness it all. >> your car may be getting smarter as you get a little dumber. you see the...

Terror in december 2000 that ended with an execution-style killing in a soccer field. the one survivor of that attack, a woman the media was calling h.g., told the court a harrowing story in careful, deliberate detail. how the carr brothers robbed her, raped her and terrorized her. then she described their final horrific act. she said it was 2:07 a.m. when the brothers drove the five nearly naked friends to the deserted soccer field. once there, h.g. said, the brothers forced the men from the trunk and ordered them to line up. >> they kneeled in front of the car, at which time i turned to heat...