Six New Arrests in Phone-Hacking Scandal; "Banana Joe" Wins Best in Show
O'BRIEN: Welcome back, everybody. You're watching EARLY START. We're live in Washington, D.C. for the aftermath of the State of the Union speech last night. Another developing story that we're following as well. Police say charred remains have been found in a cabin in Big Bear, California. That after a massive manhunt for an accused killer, ex-cop Christopher Dorner.</s>BERMAN: For more on this, we're going to bring in Lou Palumbo. He's a former Nassau County, New York, police officer. He now heads up a security agency. And, Lou, we've been saying all morning, the news many people are waking up is they found charred human remains in the cabin. Still waiting for those to be identified. With that and beyond that, how do we reach a conclusion in this case?</s>LOU PALUMBO, RETIRED NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK POLICE OFFICER: Well, continuing investigation and closure. We need to know beyond a shadow of a doubt without chance of mishap. That, in fact, the remains that were recovered or they're going to be recovered in this cabin belong to Dorner. They need to give the public some closure on this incident and then maybe Los Angeles needs to go back and revisit the disconnect that they have in the community that has also brought a whole different dimension to this case, but they've gone an ongoing investigation. They're going to have to run his DNA. They're going to have to continue to identify whether or not at any point he was aided or abetted.</s>O'BRIEN: I was going to say, it's not just about the DNA, right? It's about the actual path. Where has he been over the last ten days? And then, I think ever further back, what happened the five years from when he really was fired, was kicked off the force, and of course, he had appeals up to 2011. There's a gap of time there as well to investigate how much planning if, indeed, this is the body that they think it is. How much planning went into this?</s>PALUMBO: Well, you know, I don't think as much planning as you might suspect, because I think this individual was so well trained. He really invested himself into his training, unlike a law enforcement -- a lot of law enforcement agents. They gloss over firearms. This guy appeared to have taken a real strong interest in learning how to operate firearms. The other thing I wanted to mention, too, is that I listened repeatedly to the gunfire exchange yesterday in Big Bear and someone had a full automatic weapon up there.</s>O'BRIEN: Fully automatic?</s>PALUMBO: I could tell by the number of shots and the succession, the closeness.</s>O'BRIEN: We were talking about that earlier.</s>PALUMBO: So, I'm curious to know if it was the sheriff's office that had it in the patrol carbine (ph), or did he, in fact, have one, which would account for why he was so effective in neutralizing law enforcement --</s>BERMAN: If he did have one, that would be illegal in any state. That's --</s>PALUMBO: Well, that's not true, sir. Actually, John, there are number of states that what we call class three states. I'll give you an example, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, you may own full automatic weapons once you acquire a $200 tax stamp from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, it's registered. So, there are automatic weapons, fully automatic weapons available, but not every state is what we call or refer to as a class three state.</s>O'BRIEN: So much to know about what happened. And first and foremost, whether or not those charred remains that are inside this burned down cabin are, in fact, those of the man they've been looking for. Thanks, Lou. Nice to see you.</s>PALUMBO: My pleasure. Thanks for having me.</s>O'BRIEN: As always, we appreciate it. Lou, of course, is a retired Nassau County, New York, police officer, now runs his own security agency.</s>BERMAN: Lots more going on this morning. A lot of news all around the world. I want to go back to Zoraida now in New York.</s>SAMBOLIN: All right. Good morning, guys. New this morning, six more arrests stemming from a new investigation into alleged phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now shuttered "News of the World" tabloid. Scotland Yard detectives say six former or current journalists have been taken into custody and are of a suspected conspiracy by staffers at the newspaper that took place back in 2005 and 2006. This investigation is separate from an earlier probe that led to the arrest of several top Murdoch's executives. Four members of the University of Alabama's national championship football team have been suspended indefinitely after they were arrested earlier this week. Three of the players are accused of robbing two students on campus a fourth player is charged with fraudulent use of a credit card. "Banana Joe," how adorable, wins Best in Show. The affenpinscher won via 137 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York. This is last night. And Joe is going out on top. Westminster was his final competition. Banana Joe beat out five other dogs who all won their own categories to be the top dog. I wonder how he got his name. So, help has arrived in the Gulf this morning, but not nearly fast enough for the thousands that are still stuck on a disabled cruise ship. No bathrooms. Patience is wearing thin. We have a live update, coming up.