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danger at 30,000 feet. the fbi wants to know who put needles on the food on four different delta flights. and who will it be and when? anticipation mounts as mitt romney mulls over his choice for vice president. saved from a terrifying plunge. take a look at this. oh, my goodness. a bus driver breaks a young girl s fall here it cops from a third story window. amazing. wait until you see the video of this as it s unfolding. it s really incredible. he says he s not a hero. good morning and welcome to early start. i m john berman. how do you define hero then? that guy right there. thanks for joining us. it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. so let s get started. the midnight deadline for jeremy lin, will the nba sensation decide to stay in new york? we ll talk to sports illustrated s maggie gray about that. also we ll have depack chopra here about exploring your relationship with the universe. he s using the internet. very interesting, i was watch ....
but it s been a very violent day. much more violent, much more furious than the protests yesterday. we have a final death toll we believe of six dead and 30 wounded. perhaps six different protests across the country. so it seems to have escalated significantly today. and president karzai actually put out a statement, right? what did he say? reporter: yeah, he put out a statement this afternoon. a lot of people are waiting to see what he ll say. he said he condemned the burning and he ordered an investigation into what had happened and he appointed committee of senior clerics to find out what was going on. i think the key thing was that he condemned the burning. that s actually our ben farmer in kabul there. we apologize. it s not always easy to link up technically, but we will stay with ben on this story. ben, i apologize. we lost your audio. an american woman who reported on the violence in syria has now become a victim of it. marie colvin worked for the sunday t ....
times. it has been a fascinating year in global politics, but this israeli-iran situation is getting even worse and could be a threat, as we said, right here at home. a developing story to say the least. and could be a really, really big story possibly for our country as well. we ll have the latest on that. also this morning, china s second in command is in the u.s. this morning. what he accomplished in washington and why he s looking forward to, get this, his trip to a pig farm in the state of iowa. fascinating back story on this guy. he s going to be kind of the leader of a billion-plus people. and speaking of the global political stage, he s going to be a big player on it. definitely. later this half hour, what an nba sensation. it s linsanity, everybody. for fans who cannot get enough of the new york knicks jeremy lin, especially after last night. they ve won six in a row. and largely because of him and his last-second heroics there on the court. another double-double. ....