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flattening homes, flooding out the roads, the grim flyover coming up next. a republican language barrier. rick santorum and mitt romney sparring over english in puerto rico. just needs to be a bilingual country and not just spanish-speaking and right now it s overwhelmingly spanish speaking and needs to fully integrate. fallout. will rick santorum s stand cost him delegates and latino votes. ipad fever is gripping the planet. the tablets are flying off the store shelves sending apple s stock price soaring to unprecedented heights. it is one minute now past 5:00. new details about the soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians in cold blood. the new york times is quoting a senior u.s. official saying that that soldier, quote, just snapped suggesting it might have been as a result of a combination of stress and alcohol. the shooting suspect now has a lawyer, john henry brown. brown says the suspect is a highly decorated soldier. he was injured twice duri ....
i m ban ban. zoraida sambolin. it s 5 a.m. in the east. the accused ohio school shooter is due to appear in court today. later on in the program, you ll hear from a student grazed by a bullet in that attack as parents waited outside in desperation. more questions about warning signs. were they missed with this alleged shooter? the. the daytona 500 officially ended in the wee hours of morning. it was delayed ties by rain. then two hours by a horrific fire. you re looking at it there. the flaming wreck at the daytona 500 much the winner crossing the finish line a few hours ago. rick santorum is asking something weird. he s asking democrats to come on out and support him. do him a solid and help defeat mitt romney. we ll explain a little bit more about what s behind that. trouble at sea for the costa concordia s sister ship. it s drifting away after a fire. everyone is safe. we have a lot more details on that for you. it is one minute past 5:00 in the morning ....
early start. and it is very early, i m ashleigh banfield. and i m zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from a to z. we re happy you re joining us this morning. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started. the taliban claiming they poisoned food at a base in afghanistan. we have explosions and car bombs and the u.s. is pulling out more americans working in afghanistan. and it s one of those questions you have when you wake up. did gas prices go up again while you were sleeping? well, guess what? $6 gas is already a reality and is it in the place where you live? we ll let you know. and the political roller coaster continues. first the surge, now the slip. a new poll shows rick santorum falling behind mitt romney again. one day now before michigan and arizona, the primaries there. the candidate says he is tweaking his strategy on the trail now. if you watch any kind of red carpet, this was a moment to behold. oh, my lord, you didn t. the whole ....
how funny is that. and sean pen, what he thinks americans need to ask. what do we stand for as a community and our country and what do i stand for in my family. reporter: his thoughts in the white house. i don t want to see a narrow-minded leadership encourage a narrow-minded congress. his hollywood life. it s my pleasure to sit down exclusively with the second lady, in california. jill biden joins me now. is the such an amazing place. tell me what you ve been doing here? this morning, i went to a place, they took me to a village they had constructed, like an afghan village and did a live fire and showed me what the marines went through or are going through as they went to afghanistan. i went and looked at the place where they teach them how to handle bombs and ieds and talked to all the marines there in. it was a pretty intense morning. when you are that close and they re firing live ammunition, what s the difference between that and everything you ve r ....
we ll get more details on that. also if you ve been looking, there are pictures that are mind boggling. a cruise ship much, much bigger than the titanic on its side. there are reports of six dead now. two americans among the missing and harrowing tales from those who tur vived and the captain has got some explaining to do. he is being asked by authorities there why did you leave that ship? and the first chance for overseas markets to react to the mass downgrade of european nations. will you pay for the mess in europe later this week? will it affect us at all. i always wonder, europe, schmeurope. were you watching, golden glo globes. you go to bed at 6:00, don t you? i try to. it didn t work out that way. if you haven t seen the artist by now, have you seen it. i have not seen it. are you going to see it? if it s not rated pg i m not going to watch it these days. if it s not animation. ricky gervais was not pg at all. i hear the fashion was fantasti ....