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Alleged Accomplice In Court Today; Search Focused On Woods Near Prison; Clinton Kicks Off Campaign In New York; North Carolina Shark Attacks; Pushed To His "Breaking Point"; Wild Animals On The Loose; Stocks Lower on Greek Debt Drama. Aired 5:30-6a ET

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[05:30:31] JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: A new investigation launched this morning into how two killers coordinated their stunning prison break and the woman accused of helping them is facing a judge, and right now the search widening for these brutal, dangerous killers on the run. We have new details ahead.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Jeb Bush hours away from officially entering the race for president as Hillary Clinton sets out to define key differences between her and President Obama. We are breaking it all down with the first reporter to actually interview Clinton as a presidential candidate. I can't wait for that.

BERMAN: Shark attack, two children losing limbs in attacks 90 minutes apart. We have dramatic detail of the danger at the beach. That's coming up. Welcome back to EARLY START, everyone. I'm John Berman.

ROMANS: I'm Christine Romans. It's 31 minutes past the hour this Monday morning. Up first, day ten of the search for two cold-blooded killers, who broke out of a maximum security prison in upstate New York.

Governor Andrew Cuomo set to announce a formal state investigation into aspect of the case. In just a few hours, hundreds of police officers acting on hundreds of tips are now looking in a wooded area near the prison where David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped.

Now Joyce Mitchell, the female prison worker, who allegedly helped them break out by supplying power tools, she is pleading not guilty to felony charges. She is due in court later this morning.

Let's get more from CNN's Miguel Marquez.

MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: John, Christine, what you are looking at is the Clinton Correctional Facility that's where these two individuals escaped from. The area just in front of you, in front between me and the facility is the area of the most intense search.

You can see just how dense that forest is and how vast this area is. Despite the vastness of it, that area between here and the commercial facility is the area of greatest interest to law enforcement. Some 800 law enforcement officers following up on some 700 tips and it is intense at times.

Hundreds of law enforcement officers lining the roads here and then moving into that dense forest maybe 15 to 20 feet apart at most looking for anything that maybe out of place.

They are also going back and forth to homes over and over again to see if anything has changed or moved or residents report anything or especially empty homes, if anything appears to be broken into.

Helicopters up at night have been trying to capture a glimpse of these individuals on infrared as well, but because it is so thick out there the forest and the weather have been poor in recent days as well, that has been hard to use.

Authorities concentrating on this area because they really have no other clues and no other sense of where these two individuals may be -- John, Christine.

BERMAN: Miguel Marquez up near that prison. Pretty shocking day in politics, after careful consideration, Jeb Bush has decided that he will run for president, again, shocking the political world.

The former Florida governor will officially join the Republican race today with an announcement at Miami-Dade College. His campaign released a video with testimonials from Floridians about the work that Jeb Bush did as governor.

After the announcement, he heads to New Hampshire and Iowa to officially campaign. Let's see how different it is than yesterday when he was not officially campaigning but actually campaigning.

ROMANS: All right, Hillary Clinton held her first campaign rally in New York. Critics have been criticizing her for not taking a stand on President Obama's Pacific trade deal. The former secretary of state finally weighed in, sort of.

CNN senior Washington correspondent, Jeff Zeleny has the details.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, John and Christine. Hillary Clinton is wrapping up in Iowa tour and heading to New Hampshire after her weekend with the big kickoff rally in New York City.

Secretary Clinton is trying to present herself as a fighter for the middle class taking this populous message out into the voters that she will need in these early voting states.

For the first time, she is also weighing in on an issue that is dividing the Democratic Party. That is the trade agreement. She suggested during a rally in Iowa that she would be a tougher negotiator than President Obama.

She also urged the president to side with Nancy Pelosi and go back to the negotiating table on this Transpacific Partnership. It's really the first time that Secretary Clinton has weighed in on this trade dispute. Senator Bernie Sanders also vying for the Democratic nomination has been calling on her to do so. After her stop in Iowa, she is going to New Hampshire for stops on Monday.

And later in the week, she'll be in South Carolina and Nevada wrapping up campaign stops in the first four early voting states. So the second phase of her campaign is well under way -- John and Christine.

[05:35:07] ROMANS: All right, Jeff Zeleny, thanks for that. Reporters have been complaining for a few weeks because they have not had good access to Hillary Clinton. She has been talking to people. Not to reporters, not that reporters are not people.

But the former secretary of state has given her first interview now as a candidate to Jennifer Jacobs, the chief political reporter for the "Des Moines Register."

Jennifer joins us by phone early this morning. It is 4:35 in Des Moines. Jennifer, nice to see you. Thanks for dropping in this morning. Hillary Clinton told you she hears eagerness for talk of a female presidency?

JENNIFER JACOBS, CHIEF POLITICAL REPORTER, "DES MOINES REGISTER" (via telephone): That is right. Exactly, she said the she sense questions in voters' minds back in 2008 and she said part of her purpose in the campaign is to begin answering that question. She said now she feels that question is answered and the American people want a female president.

BERMAN: So we are looking at pictures of her right now, Jennifer, and her first official campaign rally in New York on Saturday. Sunday, held her first official campaign rally in Iowa, where you are, I guess, prior to her official campaign interview with you, what is her campaign -- how is it being received in Iowa? I was reading this morning that the crowd size she got is about similar to what Bernie Sanders is getting?

JACOBS: Right. She was very well received at the first Iowa rally. She had been here before right after she announced she was running, but this is the first time that the general public could get in and see her.

She is clearly telegraphing this. She is not taking any chances in Iowa. She will not let Iowa slip away from her again. Not in the Democrat-on-Democrat battle for the Iowa caucuses or in the generals.

She is (inaudible) attention on people of Iowa coming here frequently. Also, you know, she is giving the first news interview to the Iowa reporters. So she is showing that is not taking Iowa for granted that's for sure.

BERMAN: She is also defending the records of her husband and her old boss, the current president, Barack Obama really saying that people forget all the problems in her view that the GOP has left the country with. JACOBS: The volume of her voice rose a little bit as she talks about that. She got calmly indignant talking about the problems that GOP presidents left for Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to deal with. She defended them as she said I'm not running for the third term of anyone. I'm running for my first term. I will have own my policies. I'll have my own ideas.

BERMAN: Jennifer, for the first time, Jeff Zeleny, our colleague was just noting that Hillary Clinton has weighed in on the trade discussion. That is sharpening lines in the Democratic primary discussion early on.

JACOBS: Yes. She said that she does come down on the side of Nancy Pelosi and those Democrats kind of rebelled against President Obama's trade agenda, which in general, you know, corporate America is in general supports an organized labor opposes.

Later in Burlington, Iowa, last night, she said I held my peace because I thought it was important for Congress to have a full debate without the presidential politics and candidates into it.

So even though she is just coming out for the first time and she is really distancing herself from President Obama. She said she wanted to wait until Congress has had its first debate about it.

ROMANS: How is her economic populism playing in Iowa? You know, she is talking raising the minimum wage. She is talking about paid sick leave and a lot of things that actually Bernie Sanders territory. She seems to be pushing this economic populism. How is that playing in Iowa?

JACOBS: She clearly knows she is a little bit vulnerable to her left. People on the base here, the most Democratic caucus goes, those real activists that will show up for Iowa caucuses love that sort of thing.

They really are craving that talk about that economic populism and the minimum wage and those issues. They eat that up for sure. She could not do better with that particular part of the Iowa caucus electorate.

ROMANS: Jennifer Jacobs, the chief political reporter of the "Des Moines Register," the first print reporter to get an interview with her now as a candidate. Thank you for getting up early for us.

JACOBS: You are so welcome.

ROMANS: Thank you, Jennifer.

BERMAN: Campaign milestone. All right, it's 39 minutes after the hour. New fears of shark attacks in North Carolina, two teenagers hospitalized after separate shark encounters 90 minutes apart on the same stretch of beach. Authorities on Oak Island said both victims lost limbs.

A 13-year-old girl lost her left arm and leg when she was bitten by a shark. A short time later, a 16-year-old boy was mauled. A witness spoke to CNN affiliate, WWAY. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JASON HUNTER, WITNESS: (Inaudible) the kid said and estimated six to eight foot, no, seven to eight. Blood in the water, coming over with the whitewash. The kid was in shock. He was still coherent. Took it clean off.

[05:40:10] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You saw that?

HUNTER: I saw what was left of what he had.

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BERMAN: Officials say the beaches in Oak Island will be opened today, but they are urging people not to go in the water.

ROMANS: It is Monday morning and time for an EARLY START on your money for the week. Not a good start for European and Asian stocks. They are much lower. Wall Street futures are down. Talks between Greece and its EU creditors once again collapsed over the weekend. The prospect of a Greek default or an exit from the EU is weighing on the markets.

It is official. Los Angeles is now the largest city in America to guarantee workers $15 an hour. Mayor Eric Garcetti signed the bill into law Saturday. It raises the minimum wage from $9 an hour to $15 over the next five years. The city joins San Francisco and Seattle with the highest minimum wage in the nation. California is considering a bill to raise the minimum to $13 an hour statewide.

BERMAN: All right, new details coming to light on what caused a Dallas man to attack the police headquarters there with bullets, bomb, scary situation. We have new information coming in next.

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ROMANS: New details this morning about what motivated a man to open fire on police headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Family members say James Boulware blamed police for losing custody of his son.

[05:45:03] Authorities say he purchased an armored van on eBay and packed it with explosives and planned to kill as many police officers as he could. We get more this morning from CNN's Sara Sidner.

SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: John and Christine, we are learning more about James Boulware, the man who shot up the Dallas police headquarters as well as had his armored van blown up with explosives inside. He died at the hands of a Dallas sniper.

His mother and father have spoken to us about him talking about how they were worried about him. Talking about how they were worried about him, how he was extremely angry with police, but also at his own family members, his mother in particular because of a custody battle.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JANINE HAMMOND, MOTHER OF JAMES BOULWARE: The charges were totally dropped in January 7th or 8th, 2013. So, he got his guns back from the Paris Police Department and that's when I really began to be afraid.

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SIDNER: His father talked to us about the fact that James was actually at his house just three hours before he carried out the attack on Dallas police. He said that his son was very, very angry. He knew that. He also said that his son told him he would be back a few days from now. That never happened.

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JIM BOULWARE, FATHER OF JAMES BOULWARE: He left them here. He mowed my yard yesterday, edged it. Told me he would be back ten days to mow it again.

SIDNER: Did you have idea?

BOULWARE: No. No. I knew he was angry at police. He blamed them for taking his son. I tried to tell him the police didn't do it. The police were doing their job. They enforce the laws.

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SIDNER: We know that the ATF and FBI and police did show up at his father's home because that was his last whereabouts. They did check to see if anything was in the home and the father did allow them to search the home.

We also know that police have given new information saying that 14 of the officers have been put on routine administrative leave after the incident. They are saying they do not believe there was anyone else involved in the particular attack -- John and Christine.

ROMANS: All right, Sara Sidner, thanks for that.

BERMAN: Chaos on the streets. This story is bonkers. That's a hippo on the street of a major city. Animals escape following torrential rain and deadly flooding. This is a serious situation. We will go live next.

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BERMAN: Let's show you some of the craziest pictures you will ever see. Intense flooding turned deadly and literally wild in the nation of Georgia. The raging flood waters killed at least 12 people in the capital with incredible pictures.

Wolves and bears and cats and a hippo fled the zoo wandering the streets and floods damaged the city zoo. Our senior international correspondent, Matthew Chance, is tracking the latest for us from Moscow. Good morning, Matthew. MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, John. It is an incredible scene in the capital in the former state of Georgia. The flood waters affected the city. The zoo has been the focus of the reporting because there were 600 animals inside the zoo.

The zoo officials say half of them are still there. The other half, some 300 animals, are not accounted for. Some of them have been killed. A lot of them have been killed. Others are still out there roaming the streets of the city.

They are in the high ground outside of the city. We are talking lions and tigers and hyenas and crocodiles swimming in the flooded streets, amazing picture of a hippo tranquilized by zookeepers and taken back into to the enclosure.

And this poses an enormous threat to the public. Georgia has deployed its army to track down the animals and to kill them if necessary. People have taken matters into their hands.

The authorities saying that people have their own hunting rifles and they are going out and shooting animals that they see. It is pretty chaotic, very dangerous and absolutely astonishing scenes on the streets.

BERMAN: All right, Matthew Chance for us. I cannot believe the scene. Matthew, I appreciate it.

ROMANS: All right, "Jurassic World" stomping all over box office records. Just how much does nostalgia pay? That's next.

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ROMANS: I'm Christine Romans. Let's get an EARLY START on your money to start the week. Not a good start, European and Asian shares are lower so are Wall Street futures. Talks between Greece and its creditors once again collapsing over the weekend.

In merger news, two major homeowners are coming together in a $5 billion deal. Standard Pacific and Riland Group will form the fourth largest American home builder sparking more consolidation in the industry. We will get a lot of housing news this week by the way.

"Jurassic World" rampaged through the box office this weekend. It was the first film to make more than $500 million worldwide in a single weekend beating out "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows Part Two" for the best global debut.

"Jurassic World" also made more than $204 million. That is a lot of money. You know, what it tells us is that nostalgia pays. That movie pulled in twice as much as expected.

For a long time, John, people have been saying all of the new way we consume media would be the death of the movie industry. No way. People still go to a movie theater. BERMAN: You are the velociraptor of the early morning news.

ROMANS: Is that offensive? Claw your eyes out?

BERMAN: Exactly.

It's 15 minutes after the hour, two children in shark attacks in North Carolina, a deadly weekend at the beach. "NEW DAY" picks up right now.

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BERMAN: Two teenagers mauled in separate shark attacks.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just came up and took his arm.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Blood in the water coming over with the whitewash. Kid was in shock.

ROMANS: Day ten of the search for two cold blooded killers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mitchell gave the men hacksaws and drill bits and special eyeglasses with lights.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She told investigators that Matt made her feel special.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Rigged with explosives.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We believe this suspect meant to kill officers.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did you have any idea?

BOULWARE: No. No.

CLINTON: You know by now that I've been called many things by many people. Quitter is not one of them.

JEB BUSH (R), FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: Jeb is different than George and Jeb is who is. My life story is different.

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ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY.

[06:00:00] It is Monday, June 15th, 6:00 in the east. Chris is off this morning. And we do begin with breaking news.

Ttwo teenagers attacked by sharks just 90 minutes apart on the same stretch of beach in North Carolina.