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New information on the attack as the u.s. targets four key isis leaders. team coverage breaking down our big story starts right now. welcome back to "early start" i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. 30 minutes past the hour. developing this morning, new information about the two gunmen shot dead by police on sunday as they tried to attack a contest in texas a contest to draw cartoons of the prophet mohammed. the white house says the fbi is investigating and it is too soon to link isis directly to the attack. but counterterrorism officials are probing the online activity of the gunmen. na...

Plot. cnn justice correspondent pamela brown has the latest for us this morning from phoenix. >> john and christine, officials we've been speaking with say it appears isis is being opportunistic and claiming responsibility for this attack. what is clear here according to officials is that this was more than just aspirational. that this is really reflective of the concern among law enforcement of isis fighters reaching into the u.s. through social media. identifying targets. and finding people to recruit. in fact we know one of the gunmen elton simpson, had been in touch with terrorists oversea...

Trying were the gunmen simply trying to obtain approval or were they working with that operative to launch an attack? this morning investigators on the hunt for any possible accomplices in the garland, texas terror attack. the fbi scrubbing through the two deceased gunmen's electronics found in their phoenix apartment searching for any clues that may connect elton simpson and nadir soofi to other terrorists in phoenix and across the country. but one law enforcement official says investigators did know simpson was openly communicating online with members of isis overseas and even opened a new i...

To the texas cartoon contest attack. isis claiming responsibility for the shootings that left the two gunmen dead but did isis actually order the attack? or just inspire it? we have new information this morning as the united states puts a new bounty on four isis fighters. our team coverage begins now. good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start" i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is wednesday, may 6th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. new information about the two gunmen shot dead by police sunday as they tried to attack a contest in texas. a contest to draw a cartoon of the prophet moha...

On a very well coordinated attack, jake, it was done exactly after the event was over. so people would be funneling out in a small area and if you opened fire on close to 300 people, imagine the carnage. so kudos to the garland police. they were superb and, of course we had to come with our own priority security team because that's now the price of freedom of speech in the united states in 2015. >> i want to get to the event in a second but i do want to ask about security. a source tells me that a joint intelligence bulletin titled "mohammed art exhibit and contest in texas on 3 may likely to ...