Suicide Bomber Injures 12 in Germany.
ROMANS: Welcome back to EARLY START. New attack overnight in Germany. The third in a week. Last night in the city of Ansbach about 120 miles north of Munich, a suicide bomber blew himself up after being refused entry to a music festival. Authorities described this man as a 27-year-old Syrian refugee. Want to get the very latest from CNN's Fred Pleitgen. He's joining us this morning from Ansbach, Germany. And authorities say, Fred, that he had a backpack full of nails and screws and sharp objects. They think the damage here could have been much, much worse.</s>FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, they certainly do. They say it could have been much worse if in fact he would have gotten into the place that he wanted to get into. What he tried to do is he -- there was a music festival going on here in the small town of Ansbach. And he went into one of the checkpoints at the entry point to that music festival. And they didn't let him in because he didn't have a ticket. And they also said that he was acting suspiciously. He then loitered around the area for a while and then this explosion went off. And as you mentioned there were 12 people who were wounded in the vicinity. But he was the only person to get killed. And they believe that the main reason for that is because he was not let into that venue because as you say, the bomb that he had on him was laced with sharp metal objects including screws and nails. And so therefore it was definitely meant to cause a lot more carnage than it actually did. The people here of course very concerned after you had an attack in the town of Wurzburg just at the beginning of last week. You then had one in Munich where of course nine people were killed. And then shooter of that attack killed himself. And one of the things about this town in Ansbach here is that this is also a very, very big U.S. military contingent that is here in this town. There's about 5,000 U.S. military personnel that are stationed here -- Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right. Frederik Pleitgen for us this morning. Thanks, Fred.</s>BERMAN: All right. Back here in Philadelphia, the sight of the Democratic convention. The Democrats pushing for unity, but they're pushing out a top party official. In fact the top party official hours before the convention begins. Can they get their act together before they gavel in later today? EARLY START live from Philadelphia returns in just a moment.