In an interview with Time magazine yesterday, Mitt Romney pledged to get the unemployment rate down to 6% after his first term  if he's elected.

Acknowledging that the Congressional Budget Office has already predicted that unemployment will be down to 5.3% by the end of 2017 regardless of who's in office, Christine Romans says that Romney's goal is doable on Early Start today.

Al Qaeda is taking advantage of the unrest in Syria and a senior Jordanian official tells CNN's Barbara Starr that there are nearly 1,500 al Qaeda members and sympathizers in the country.

As a result, Jordan is pumping up its security on the Syrian border with the help of U.S. forces. Barbara Starr reports live from Jordan this morning about this growing security concern.

The New York Stock Exchange is courting Facebook, hoping to convince the social network to leave NASDAQ after a rocky public start.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the NYSE has been emailing with Facebook saying that they are better for trading because they use people, not computers.

The social network is also dealing with investor outrage, with at least three people are suing Facebook and its underwriters and accusing them of withholding information before the IPO launch.

In today's Minding Your Business, Mary Snow explains why the technical issues with NASDAQ are only the start of Facebook’s problems.

In an interview with Time magazine, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama's record, saying that the president hasn't exactly been the superhero America was hoping for.

However, in his new column on CNN.com, political comedian Dean Obeidallah argues that Romney may not be America's economic avenger either.

While Obeidallah thought that President Obama could be America's superhero, he contends that the president's slogan has gone from "yes we can" to "it could be worse." As for Romney, Obeidallah is not impressed with the GOP candidate's record at Bain Capital and as Massachusetts governor.

On Early Start this morning, Obeidallah discusses his column and argues that Americans only have "mere mortals" to choose from for president.

"Siri," Apple's revolutionary voice-controlled iPhone app, is still in it's beta-testing phase, but it's already proven to be a game changer for smart phone technology.

Despite it's popularity, tech giant IBM has recently raised security and privacy issues over the app, choosing to ban "Siri" from its corporate networks. Christine Romans explains the decision on Early Start this morning.

Two jaw dropping videos have gone viral this morning and they're trending all over the web.

The first video shows a massive 18 foot great white shark biting the head off of a blue shark that was was on a fisherman's line off the coast of Bondi beach in Australia.

The second captures daredevil Gary Connery pulling an unprecedented stunt by jumping 2,400 feet from a helicopter without a parachute.

Sixty-four Kenowa Hills high school seniors were suspended Tuesday just before their graduation after they organized a 3-mile bike ride through town in lieu of a "senior prank."

Their school's principal Katie Pennginton was not happy about the bike parade, saying that it caused major traffic problems and that students could’ve been hurt.

Besides being suspended, the students were also banned from the school’s traditional senior walk, when graduating students say goodbye to their teachers and classmates.

Suspended seniors Cody Nicks and Trevor Galandt, and Cody’s mom Rachel, join Early Start this morning to talk about the suspension and to explain why they think that the punishment was unmerited.

Maxim made some interesting choices for its "Hot 100" list this year, which includes accused killer Amanda Knox, cartoon Lois Griffin and funnyman Stephen Colbert.

In the world of comics, Marvel announced that gay X-Man Northstar is marrying his boyfriend Kyle. The news comes one day after DC Comics' announcement that one of its superheroes is coming out as gay.

Did Facebook executives advise underwriters from Morgan Stanley to reduce revenue and earnings forecasts for the company before the IPO launched?

In today’s Minding Your Business, CNN's Felicia Taylor discusses Reuters' new report that Morgan Stanley is being subpoenaed by the Massachusetts Attorney General about the information analysts may have given to certain investors about Facebook’s revenue prospects.

Facebook investors are also facing problems this morning, with shares down about $30/share in pre-market trading . Overall, the social network's stock has dropped 19% since the IPO launched on Friday.

Millions of people are headed to the polls in Egypt this morning for their first chance to cast a free vote in a presidential election in the country's 5,000 year existence.

Ben Wedman reports live from a voting station in Cairo about how election day is going so far.