ROMANS: Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans, minding your business. Stock futures are up this morning. The Dow dropped below its 14,000 mark. You know, look, it hit that milestone, but then, now, there are concerns about a banking scandal in Italy, some corruption allegations against the Spanish prime minister, and holding on to the level is a little difficult. But futures are up right now. Massive lawsuit over the subprime mortgage mess. Standard & Poor's says the Justice Department plan to sue S&P; over those -- remember those glowing ratings that S&P; gave to the subprime investments in 2007? Oh, those subprime mortgage investments that were all flops. Well, S&P; denied any wrongdoing and said a DOJ lawsuit would not have any merits, that they were just making the same assumptions the rest of the world was, that those were great investments and, of course, they weren't and almost took down the global economy. Boeing hoping to get its Dreamliner off the ground again. The company has asked the FAA to allow begin test flights with the aircraft. Boeing says it wants to evaluate the performance of the plane's lithium batteries, thought to be involved in two electrical fires last month. All 50 Dreamliners have been grounded worldwide since those incidents.</s>SAMBOLIN: Twenty-five minutes past the hour. He is always outspoken. But some are wondering whether former presidential candidate Ron Paul crossed the line with a tweet over the death of a former Navy SEAL. The controversial story is coming up.
Boeing Wants FAA to Allow Dreamliner Test Flights