Lea Michele Remembers Cory Montieth at Teen Choice Awards; Life on Mars
BERMAN: Welcome back to EARLY START, everyone. A heartfelt remembrance of a TV star gone too soon. Accepting the Teen Choice Award for TV, actress and "Glee's" Lea Michele decided -- dedicated it, rather, to 31-year-old Cory Monteith, her boyfriend and co-star who died last month.</s>LEA MICHELE, "GLEE" STAR: For all of you out there who loved and admired Cory as much as I did, I promise that with your love, we're going to get through this together. He was very special to me and also to the world. And we were very lucky to witness his incredible talent, his handsome smile, and his beautiful, beautiful heart.</s>BERMAN: The "Glee" cast returned to the set last week to begin shooting its next season. Producers say they will deal with Monteith's death during the show. It was ruled an accident result of a combination of drugs and alcohol.</s>SAMBOLIN: Forty-three minutes past the hour. Going vegetarian? Humans do it. So, why not the fishies? Researchers at the University of Maryland say they've gotten the carnivorous cobia to eat a vegetarian diet. Cobia usually eats squid, crab and smaller marine life, but the scientists were actually able to show the fish gobbling down a mixture of plant-based proteins and amino acids. Why? So, the goal is to help make fish farming more sustainable. Many smaller fish are harvested to feed cobia and other farm-raise sea life, and that's depleting the world fishing stuff.</s>BERMAN: There were life of garden burgers and tofu.</s>SAMBOLIN: Apparently, yum, yum, yum.</s>BERMAN: For --</s>BERMAN: Next up, jail for three New York men convicted of trying to rob a check cashing store. The wrinkle, they were wearing Hollywood style masks, really expensive ones. So, no one would know their identity. Police say the three spent nearly $3,000 for these masks. These are the real thing, folks. They made off with some $200,000 in the heist. They were caught in part because one of the robbers e-mailed the mask maker to tell them how realistic the products were. That was dumb. The three face up to life in prison when they are sentenced.</s>SAMBOLIN: Dumb robbers.</s>BERMAN: Congratulations for your idiotic bet and your dumb reaction --</s>SAMBOLIN: Yes. All right. So, would you want to spend the rest of your life on another planet, Mr. Berman? We can send you up there. Some 100,000 people have said yes, I do. So, they have applied or in the process of applying for a spot on the Mars 1 mission. That's a one-way trip to the Red Planet to help colonize it, starting about 10 years from now. That project plans to announce its first 40 astronauts this year, and they will travel to Mars in groups of four starting in 2022. They're not going to return to Earth.</s>BERMAN: This is like a reality show. This whole thing is really part of a reality show that's going to fund the trip which allegedly starts very, very soon. Good luck to all you people. Let's take look at two contestants who will be, you know, flying coming up on "NEW DAY." Chris Cuomo and Kate Bolduan, what's going on, guys?</s>CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR, "NEW DAY": The last line like Z's reading the story and it's like that was pretty interesting. Mars, oh yes, colonize it. That's cool. 2022. That's cool yes. And they will not return --</s>CUOMO: Also known as a death sentence.</s>SAMBOLIN: Yes, indeed. Indeed. A potential death sentence.</s>KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR, "NEW DAY": But it's sure exciting.</s>CUOMO: No, thanks. Although I heard they're already raising money to send me here on "</s>NEW DAY." BOLDUAN: That was a kick starter fun for that.</s>CUOMO: Anyway, there's a lot of mirth (ph) here on the set because we're happy. We have good news. This incredible ending to this multistate manhunt we've been following it here. You've been watching. There she is, 16-year-old Hannah Anderson. Everybody feared the worst when this good family friend, Jim DiMaggio, wound up doing the worst thing imaginable to people he supposedly loved. The mother was killed. Her baby brother killed, eight-year-old Ethan. The house burned down and then they disappeared. The father was disconsolate. He was on TV here. We talked to him, but it turns out as we'll tell you this morning, an amazing discovery by a group of horseback riders, one of whom was retired sheriff, they start seeing things. The Idaho police start seeing things, putting together clues. Turns out that they're right. They're on the trail. The FBI comes in. All these details of how it went down saving Hannah. She's back home safe. Bring it to you this morning. And we have interviews with the people who are on horseback who saw them and the police.</s>BOLDUAN: Amazing. The little things they saw that they said just raised some red flags. And that was the reason why we are where we are today. Another story that we've been following very closely, not just this, but also this story. A pretrial hearing today for a young man that we told you a lot about. He made a very unfunny joke online about shooting up a school, but they say he says it was absolutely a joke. But that joke costs Justin Carter months in prison and he's facing a felony terrorism charge. We're going to bring you the latest on his case and what this pretrial hearing could mean. We've been following it closely.</s>CUOMO: So, in that case, it's just getting started. And we have one that is just being closed. A 15-year mystery finally solved. We're going talk with a performance artist who bought the plot next to Lee Harvey Oswald. You ever heard this guy? It goes by the name Nick Beef. We're going to tell you the story right after he comes on. He's going to come on and talk to us. It'd be very interesting. First time he talks.</s>BERMAN: Ask him about that name, too, because beef, you know, not a common name. Nonetheless.</s>CUOMO: No. And he has whole story. It's a whole story,</s>J.B. BERMAN: Mr. Beef, I have a question for you. All right. Chris, Kate, thank you so much. So, coming up, Dufner is no duffer. His amazing performance to take the PGA Championship. It's all part of this morning's "Bleacher Report," next.