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state department business. what do you make of her answers? more importantly, what do the political leaders think right now? we'll have that ahead. and isis showing disregard for human life once again. it's not just the new video that is raising concerns. it's the willingness to use children to carry out their crimes. a live report straight ahead. good morning and welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is wednesday, march 11th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. new developments at the university of oklahoma where two fraternity members are apologizing for leading this racist chant. now, these apologies come hours after the two students were expelled. yesterday faculty, students came out in force to cheer the quick action by university president david boren, also to protest against racism in general. our national correspondent, miguel marquez, is at the university with the latest. >> reporter: so john, christine, this is the area outside the sae house at the university of

oklahoma. hundreds of protesters here have come to really rally and show support, more than anything, for what they did not like about that video that made its way around the world. ricocheted around the world. we're also hearing from one of the individuals who has been expelled, saying that he actually withdrew from the school this monday, parker rice from dallas whose house we went to, and they have pulled out of their house. in a statement he says that their family has received death threats. and also in that statement, i want to read part of it to you, he says "i know everyone wants to know how or why this happened. i want you to know that there was alcohol consumed at the house before this bus trip, but it's not an excuse. yes, the song was taught to us, but that, too, doesn't work as an explanation. it's more important to acknowledge what i did and what i didn't do. i didn't say no, and i clearly dismissed an important value i learned at my beloved high school, dallas jesuit. we were taught to be men for

others in quotes, i failed in that regard, and i also completely ignored the core values and ethics i learned from my parents and others." the family also asks that the media leave them alone for now because they are trying to figure out where everything goes from here. the people here at the university of oklahoma, though, are going to stay on this. they want the school to address all of the concerns that they have, saying that this is not the only instance of racism at this school. for its part, the school, which has come down very hard on sae and this incident, says the investigation is continuing. there may be more disciplinary actions and even more expulsions. john? christine? >> thanks, miguel. the family of the other student is apologizing for his role in that racist video. "the oklahoma daily" student newspaper has identified the second expelled student as levi pettitte. his parents issued a statement saying, quote, he made a horrible mistake and will live with the consequences forever. we were as shocked and saddened

by this news as anyone. of course, we are sad for our son, but more importantly, we apologize to the community he has hurt. the last african-american member of the university of oklahoma's sae chapter is speaking out. william bruce james ii. he pledged sae 14 years ago. he says the fraternity that appears in the video is all but unrecognizable from his years there. >> the guys in that video are not my brothers. my first reaction was complete disgust and shock. i was deeply offended as a black man, in general, but i was devastated also having been in that house for four years and put my own blood, sweat and tears in cultivating a culture that would never do that. >> and also shocking new video has emerged from the now shuttered chapter of the sae. "the oklahoma daily" says the video appears to show the

fraternity's house mother laughing and singing the "n" word. she said it was taken out of a context. she was singing along to a rap song. so much has been said about this already, but the fact that all of this happened on the same weekend, that it was the 50th anniversary of selma and there was all of this lookin back about how far we've come and then to see in this instance that there's maybe a handful, i don't know a generation of people young people, who milsssed 50 years of lessons. a lot of class in the wake of what was absolutely classless. five minutes after the hour. new this morning, hillary clinton trying to tamp down the controversy over her use of personal e-mail while secretary of state. she faced reporters for the first time in an awful long time after a united nations event. she struck a pretty defiant tone defending her use of a personal e-mail server also her blackberry saying that it was

for convenience and that it was, she says allowed under federal rules. i want to get the latest now and bring in our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny. >> reporter: good morning, john and christine. now, hillary clinton finally broke her silence, but she did not break the fever of controversy that's clouded her campaign in waiting for the last eight days. she vigorously defended during a news conference at the united nations her use of private e-mail. she said any mistakes were innocent ones and this is how she explained it. >> i have to add, even if i'd have had two devices, which is obviously permitted, many people do that you would still have to put the responsibility where it belongs, which is on the official. so i did it for convenience, and i now, looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning. >> reporter: but it's unclear if that two-device defense is going to wash. some republicans in congress already saying, look, we use two devices ourselves. why would that be such an inconvenience? but secretary clinton was steadfast, saying that she did not break any laws.

she said the server, that private e-mail server was in their house in new york. it was installed under the watchful eyes of the secret service, which is, of course, her husband and her have secret service attention. but that is not enough for congressional investigators either. look for them to potentially try and subpoena that server. so she did not clear up the full controversy around this. she may have given more openings to answer questions, but it's clear that secretary clinton finally on the offense, for the first time in eight days, on the offense on this. democrats will now surely come rallying to her side. john and christine? >> jeff thank you for that. and welcome to cnn, jeff. congressional investigators may not stop at clinton's e e-mails. the house committee investigating benghazi will seek private e-mails from as many as ten of clinton's top aides at the state department. the committee chairman says he is concerned about e-mails about benghazi and the attack on the u.s. consulate there. they may have been sent between

private accounts. breaking news. an army helicopter has crashed during a nighttime training mission at the egeland air force base on the florida panhandle. the associated press reports that seven marines and four soldiers are now missing. officials say the marines belonged to a special operations group from camp lejeune in north carolina. the soldiers are from a national guard unit based in hammond, louisiana. not many details yet about this. again, seven marines missing. four soldiers. they were in a helicopter mission. we'll get you more details as soon as they come in. the architect of the senate letter warning iran's leaders in a nuclear deal is subject to senate approval doubling down on his efforts. in an op-ed for "usa today," senator tom cotton reiterates a deal would not be binding when president obama leaves office. he even invokes words from the vice president to make his point saying quote, then-senator joe

biden once reflected on this very topic, writing the president and the senate are partners in the process by which the united states enters into and adheres to, international obligations. biden blasted republicans after 47 of them signed this letter to iran. some legal scholars and pundits are suggesting republicans may have been broken a little-applied law when they sent that letter a 200-year-old law, but no one's ever been prosecuted under that statute. i think it shows you the depths of the political disagreements over american dealings the administration's dealings with iran. who how's the drama over the letter being received in iran? fred pleitgen has the latest from tehran. fred? >> reporter: good morning, john and christine. certainly that letter by the gop senators to the iranians is a hot topic here in tehran. there are top-level politicians in iran who questioned the trustworthiness of the united states when it comes to international negotiations like this one. there's one top cleric who came out and said he believes that the whole nuclear negotiations are a pretext to the u.s.

cheating. he also said that the u.s. can't be relied on when it comes to agreements like this one, especially if they're going to be revoked once a new administration is in office. now, of course that's not the opinion of everybody here. the foreign minister of course said he believes that the gop letter will have absolutely no influence on the nuclear negotiations. however, we also have to keep in mind that the nuclear deal is something that's hotly discussed here in iran as well. there are many political hard-liners, religious hard-liners, who say they don't want a deal. they feel that iran should have walked away from the negotiating table a long time ago. and of course right now they're capitalizing on what's going on in washington and saying listen we told you this all the time the u.s. is not serious about these negotiations. however, if you talk to ordinary iranians they'll tell you, of course they want a deal. and of course they want sanctions relief as fast as possible. john and christine? federal officials say the hacking of the state department

e-mail system over the past year is the worst ever against a government agency. according to investigators, russian hackers suspected of breaching state department computers are also behind cyber attacks targeting the white house and other federal agencies. back in november, state department officials shut down the e-mail system over a weekend in an effort to bolster cybersecurity. new this morning, a departure in ferguson, missouri. the city council voted unanimously to accept the resignation of city manager john shaw. he was cited in the scathing justice department that detailed racial bias in the ferguson police department and really the entire town system and the municipal court system. shaw supervised all city agencies including the police. since the report, the ferguson city clerk has been fired and two police officers have quit. time for an early start on your money. european markets are higher thankfully after a u.s. market plunged yesterday. futures here pointing to a rebound today, but it was the worst day of the year for stocks yesterday. the dow tumbled -- speechless --

332 points erasing all of its gains for the year. the s&p 500 also now negative. it sank about 2% yesterday. the surging dollar is what spooked investors here. the greenback at a 12-year high against the euro. the euro slipping even more this morning. it's great news if you're traveling to europe. it is terrible news for u.s. companies that sell their goods overseas. it makes their products more expensive there. slashes the value of their overseas earnings. when earnings are slashed, then stocks don't perform as well and that's what is driving the stock market. >> can't have it all ways is the problem. >> you can't. it looks like there's going to be a rebound here today. every time there's been a big selloff, it's been met with buyers. even yesterday a number of people said to me finally a 2% pullback. i can buy more stocks. seriously. so you'll see those people stepping in today and buying stocks. >> excellent news. more rain set to start in the gulf coast that could spoil our weekend here in the northeast. i want to go to the dapper pedram javaheri for a look at the weather. pedram. >> good wednesday morning to you. we do have a weekend storm headed our way. it is going to bring in rain

showers. maybe a wintry mix friday night into saturday morning. but let's try to enjoy today. we make it up to 60. recall the last time it was this warm back on christmas day, it was 62 across central park at least. look at this. 63% of the u.s. with snow on the ground as of the 1st of march. all of that depleted. about 19% coverage. a lot of this melting quickly with the mild temperatures in place. and unfortunately when you melt that rapidly, you introduce a lot of water vapor in the atmosphere. so we have plenty of fog to go around. nearly 90 million people this morning from chicago towards new york underneath a dense fog advisory. generally through the late morning hours. wet weather still prevalent across the southern states. generally an inch from mississippi into alabama. minimal amounts across interior portions of the country as you work your way towards the northeast. but the temps into the 70s down in the south. the 60s around new york city. upper 60s around d.c. here comes our weekend storm system. timing, friday night into saturday, a wintry mix possible but nothing as bad as what we've seen in recent months, guys. >> thanks, pedram.

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>> well we've seen this before in some other isis videos. it's meant to draw an emotional response and it certainly did from the family of 19-year-old muhammed musallam. musallam's brother trying to keep his parents from seeing the video. at the center of it is this israeli spy story, this apparent confession that 19-year-old muhammed musallam gives about how he was recruited by the israeli spy agency and what he did for them. we've now spoken with the israeli defense minister and they say he had no connection to israeli intelligence or not to any other security agency and that's something we heard from musallam's mother as well. here she is. >> translator: muhammed is not an agent. muhammed is not an agent. if he was an agent, he would have lived a beautiful life. we could have been living a different life, and we wouldn't be living this life. if my son was a spy, i wouldn't

be cleaning houses so we can live. >> reporter: so what do we know about 19-year-old muhammed musallam? we know he lived in east jerusalem, palestinian descent. his family says he was a funny guy, a fun-loving guy who was a volunteer fireman. they say 3 1/2 months ago he vanished. they found out he traveled to syria to fight for isis. they say he was duped into believing that he would be living the good life that he was promised women, money, cash and cars. of course that turned out not to be the case. they say when they spoke with their son via skype, he looked like a different point. he had grown a beard and was carrying a rifle. at this point his father tried to help him get home. he sent him money. he tried to get the red cross to help, but unfortunately to no avail. unfortunately that trip home was unsuccessful. >> oren thank you for that. a lot of developments in the isis story. i mean that is a real setback there. that particular story, but the fact that the iraqi military is making advances on tikrit. >> a senate hearing on the

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they apologized. two students thrown out of the university of oklahoma for their racist chant. one is speaking out. the other's family is doing the same. we'll tell you what they said. the secretary speaks. hillary clinton tries explaining away her e-mail controversy, but some of those explanations aren't satisfying the masses. how much trouble could this spell for a likely presidential run? a new isis video shows the execution of a man that isis claims was a spy in this video it was a teenager who pulled the trigger. more ahead. welcome back to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. 30 minutes past the hour this

wednesday morning. breaking news right now. a search and rescue mission under way in the florida panhandle after an army helicopter crashed during a night training mission in egeland air force base. seven marines and four soldiers on one of two blackhawk helicopters are missing this morning. no word yet on the cause of the crash, but there are weather issues around the region which likely hampering the search for survivors. we'll keep you up to date on this breaking story as details come in. >> 11 service members there. new developments this morning at the university of oklahoma where two fraternity members are apologizing now for leading a racist chant. these apologies come hours after the two students were expelled from the university. yesterday students faculty, locals, they came out in force to cheer the quick action by university president david boren, also to protest racism. our national correspondent, miguel marquez, is at the university with the very latest.

>> reporter: john, christine, this is the area outside the sae house at the university of oklahoma. hundreds of protesters here have come to really rally and show support, more than anything, for what they did not like about that video that made its way around the world, ricocheted around the world. we're also hearing from one of the individuals who has been expelled, saying that he actually withdrew from the school this monday, parker rice from dallas whose house we went to, and they have pulled out of their house. in a statement he says that their family has received death threats. and also in that statement, i want to read part of it to you, he said i know everyone wants to know why or how this happened. it's likely alcohol was consumed at the house before this bus trip, but it's not an excuse. yes, the song was taught to us, but that, too, doesn't work as an explanation. it's more important to acknowledge what i did and what i didn't do. i didn't say no, and i clearly dismissed an important value i learned at my beloved high school, dallas jesuit.

we were taught to be men for others in quotes, i failed in that regard, and in these moments, i also completely ignored the core values and ethics i learned from my parents and others. the family also asks that the media leave them alone for now because they are trying to figure out where everything goes from here. the people here at the university of oklahoma, though, are going to stay on this. they want the school to address all of the concerns that they have, saying that this is not the only instance of racism at this school. for its part, the school, which has come down very hard on sae and this incident, says the investigation is continuing. there may be more disciplinary actions and even more expulsions. john? christine? >> our thanks to miguel for that. the family of another student is apologizing for his role in the racist video. "the oklahoma daily" student newspaper has identified the second expelled student as levi pettit. his parents issued a statement saying, quote, he made a horrible mistake and will live

with the consequences forever. we were as shocked and saddened by this news as anyone. of course, we are sad for our son, but more importantly, we apologize to the community he has hurt. the last african-american member of the university of oklahoma's sae chapter is speaking out. i spoke to william bruce james ii yesterday. he was a pledge at sae 14 years ago. he says the fraternity that appears in the video is all but unrecognizable from his years there. >> the guys in that video are not my brothers. my first reaction was complete disgust and shock. i was deeply offended as a black man, in general, but i was devastated also having been in that house for four years and put my own blood, sweat and tears in cultivating a culture that would never do that. >> shocking new video has

emerged from the now shuttered chapter of sae. "the oklahoma daily" says the video seems to show the fraternity's house mother beauton gilbow laughing and singing the "n" word. she says it was taken out of context and that she was singing along to a rap song though she repeated the "n" word several times. hillary clinton trying to quell a raging controversy over using personal e-mail. mrs. clinton faced reporters for the first time in five months at the u.n. monday. she struck a defiant note defending her use of a special use of a blackberry for convenience and that it was allowed under federal rules. for the latest let's bring in washington national correspondent jeff zeleny. >> reporter: good morning, john and christine. hillary clinton finally broke her silence, but she did not break the fever of controversy that's clouded her campaign in waiting for during the last eight days. she vigorously defended during a news conference at the united nations her use of private e-mail.

she said any mistakes were innocent ones. and this is how she explained it. >> and i have to add, even if i'd had two devices, which is obviously permitted, many people do that, you would still have to put the responsibility where it belongs, which is on the official. so i did it for convenience, and i now, looking back, think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning. >> reporter: but it's unclear if that two-device defense is going to wash. some republicans in congress already saying, look, we use two devices ourselves. why would that be such an inconvenience? but secretary clinton was steadfast, saying that she did not break any laws. she said the server, that private e-mail server, was in their house in chappequa, new york. it was installed under the watchful eyes of the secret service, which is, of course, her husband and her have secret service attention. but that is not enough for congressional investigators either. look for them to potentially try and subpoena that server. so she did not clear up the full controversy around this.

she may have given more openings to answer questions, but it's clear that secretary clinton finally on the offense, for the first time in eight days, on the offense on this. democrats will now surely come rallying to her side. john and christine? >> jeff, thanks for that. the architect of the senate letter warning iran's leaders any nuclear deal is subject to approval doubling down. in an op-ed for "usa today," arkansas senator tom cotton saying any deal would not be binding when president obama leaves office. he even invokes words from the vice president to make his point, saying quote, then-senator joe biden once reflected on this very topic writing, quote, the president and the senate are partners in the process by which the united states enters view and adheres to, international obligations. of course, biden blasted senate republicans after 47 of them signed a letter to iran. some legal scholars and pundits also suggesting republicans may have broken a little-applied 200-year-old law when they sent

that letter but no one's ever been prosecuted under that statute. later this morning a senate committee takes up the president's request to authorize the force against isis. the terror group released a chilling new video showing a child shooting an alleged israeli spy. the defense minister said he had no connection to israeli intelligence. isis does appear to be losing grip on territory in iraq. iraqi forces have taken back large parts of the city of tikrit in iraq. that happened overnight. the terrorists reportedly are retreating after a week there of heavy fighting. i want to go live right now to cairo to bring in cnn's ian lee for the very latest on this battle. ian. >> reporter: good morning, john. the iraqi government says that they are in the final pushes for taking the city of tikrit. a shiite militia announced that they've taken the main hospital there that's just blocks away from the presidential palace and the heart of the city. the government says that they

will -- they expect to take the city in the next few days. this is a size -- a 30,000-large force that is taking this city. and there really are two major tests we're witnessing here. first is how the iraqi army does. they melted away in the face of isis when they took large swaths of the territory last summer of the country last summer. we'll see how they're doing now with their new training from the u.s. advisers as well as their new weaponry. but also very -- we're watching very closely as when they do if they do take the city how the shiite militias treat the local inhabitants. they have a poor track record when they go -- when they went into previous sunni-held areas. there have been claims of rights abuses. so we'll be watching to see how these militias treat the local inhabitants. and this will be crucial for the future of iraq as we saw isis exploit the rift the sectarian rift between sunnis and shiites. that's what helped them gain

much of that territory. we'll be seeing when they go into tikrit if they treat the locals benevolently or try to seek revenge, john. >> that's important for the country's future. ian lee, thank you so much. the hacking of the state department e-mail system over the past year is the worst ever against a government agency. according to investigators, russian hackers suspected of breaching state department computers are also behind cyber attacks targeting the white house and other federal agencies. back in november state department officials shut down the e-mail system over a weekend in an effort to bolster cybersecurity. new this morning, a departure in ferguson, missouri. the city council voting unanimously to accept the resignation of city manager john shaw. he was cited in the scathing justice report that detailed racial bias in ferguson including the police department and the municipal court system. shaw supervised all city agencies including the police. since that report, the ferguson city clerk has been fired and two police officers have quit.

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now, the judge did give the jurors an afternoon off, and that's because the judge, along with lawyers for both the defense and the prosecution, went to go see the boat. there's a question as to whether the jurors will actually be able to look at the note itself. bullet holes, blood and all. so right now that's under consideration. the trial expected to continue today. john? christine? >> such an emotional trial. even the jurors shedding tears in the jury box. 47 minutes past the hour. chris cuomo joins us this morning. >> how you doing? we're going to have the latest on the army helicopter crash in florida, what was going on. we know that marines and soldiers were missing. we'll give you the latest status on that search and rescue. it's good news that it's being called that by the way. we also have the news about the apologies of the two members of the fraternity seen chanting that awful racist video. is too little too late in terms of what it will mean for healing on that campus? also are they allowed to expel

these kids? i know it sounds like the right thing to do to many people but the first amendment, the 1964 civil rights act, ironically may both be legal barriers. we'll tell you why. we'll talk with a former member of the sae chapter who happens to be black about the cull tear as he understood it at that school. what may have changed and what should happen now. we'll also give you a couple more layers on the hillary clinton defense of private e-mails. didn't she just say not too long ago that she did use two devices? the big defense yesterday was that she went to one device for convenience. what does that mean? she won't turn over her server. what does that mean? what is the way forward here? we'll give you that guys. that's what we've got, john and christine, everything else that happens. >> thanks so much for that. 47 minutes past the hour. we'll be right back.

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american company trying to sell there. president obama wants to make it easier for college graduates to pay back their student loans. he ordered the education department to develop a new system that allows students to file a complaint when they're a problem. last year students with loans graduated with $33,000 in debt, on average. now, i talked to a student loan debt guru about how students can keep the debt down from the beginning. >> if you're expected to have add graduation going to exceed your annual starting salary maybe you need to borrow lessor go to a less expensive school. >> borrow less go to a less expensive school. that means liberal arts majors shouldn't borrow as much as say, engineering majors. millennials are scared to invest. that's according to a new capital one sharebuilders survey released exclusively to cnn money. it finds 90% of adults 18 to 34 say distrust of markets and lack of investing knowledge make them less confident about investing.

that could hurt their long-term retirement plans. 57 minutes past the hour. a military chopper goes down during a training mission in florida. breaking news this morning. at the time this didn't seem

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