research lab bore in dubai has started a registry of more than 6,000 camels. they hope that will lead to anecdotes for snake ven mom and lead to a cure for diabetes. the truth of it is, at least we're starting to get over the first hump. on that note, here's piers morgan tonight. tonight, the woman who showed everyone that whats when harry meets sally. >> i'll have what she's having. >> two of the people who knew her best tell her stories. remembering nora effron. plus, sex, cash and politics. she was at the center of the scandal that ended a political career and destroyed a marriage. >> do you really think men cheat for bad sex?

do they? >> rielle hunter answers the most important question of all. is she sorry? and the mayor of new york. this is "piers morgan tonight." >> tonight, rielle hunter tells all. the secrets, the lies, the affair with john edwards. but we begin with "the big story." we begin with a woman who could tell a story like nobody else. "sleepless in seattle," "when harry met sally," nora ephron's classic movies, audiences still laugh and also cry along with

them. she was also a playwright and bestselling author and blogger. her best legacy may be her family and long-time friends who are all paying tribute to her today. welcome to you both. i've been struck, i have to say, about the incredible outpouring of the emotions, tributes, of grief from so many people, from such a broad spectrum. not just of entertainment, but of all almost every part of american culture and around the world. arianna, let me start with you. are you surprised? she was a remarkable woman but it's been an incredible reaction to her passing. >> i'm not at all surprised. she received an enormous amount of devotion from her friends. she loved her friends. as you know, she was nominated for three oscars. but if there was an oscar for friendship, she would have had a shelf full of them. i remember when i was about to launch, she was an amazing sounding board. she's written over 100 blogs and she became kind of an evangelist for the site.

and she did that, whatever her friends next endeavor undertaking was. >> barbara, she excelled in magazines, novels, movies, a remarkable range of talent she had in her multifaceted career. what was she really like away from the public face that we knew? what was she like as a few things? >> let me tell you a few things. we were totally shocked, all of us, except maybe a few people. obviously her husband and sons. because we knew that she was ill. we heard she was ill, but we didn't know how ill. when we heard about it yesterday, i mean, we gasped. this is a woman who died of leukemia at 71. so it's taken us now two days in which we can even get our breath because we just didn't know. and there was just some -- you mentioned some of the things.

she could be romantic, you know, "sleepless in seattle" one of the most romantic films there was. she could be very honest. do you remember the whole orgasm scene in "when harry met sally" the scene in which she faked an orgasm and the woman in the next table said, i'll have what she's having. and she was very honest about her own life. she talked a lot about aging. she wrote a book called "i hate my neck." and if you crossed her, as her first husband did, he cheated on her. what did she do? she said that years earlier her mother said, take everything, the experience, and you'll laugh about it later. there were all these different sides. as a friend, we had a not very distinguished club of sorts.

we would meet every four or five weeks. did you ever come to our harpies? >> once. >> so we called ourselves the harpies. it was a whole bunch of us. liz smith and cynthia mcfadden and peggy siegel. we would discuss everybody else's facelift. at christmas time, we would bring all the presents we didn't want and give them to each other. so in private life, there was also that tremendous wit, but great warmth and love. and i've got to mention her husband of 25 year who was a wonderful author himself. "wise guys" and "casino" and what a sweet and gentle man he was. and what a great marriage that is. was. >> yeah. that was certainly the great -- >> that is so true. and after her two previous

marriages, his first marriage, there they were, they found each other. i just came from their home where so many friends had gathered and where nick is sort of looking at life without her. which is sort of amazing because they were inseparable. most marriages end in divorce. in fact, nora, who as barbara said is an incredible romantic, but also had a wry way of looking at the world famously said to me one morning when she thought we should launch a section in the huffington post said marriages comes and go yet divorce is forever. and there was an amazing relationship with mick and her two sons. above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

it to just play a clip of some of the best moments of the great romantic comedies. she told the story of love and romance that went along with that better than anyone i've seen in hollywood. let's just take a trip down memory lane with nora. >> i was just taking her hand to help her out of a car. and i knew. it was like -- >> magic. >> magic. >> what? >> i just had a break through. >> what is it? >> for the first time, confronted with a horrible and insensitive person i knew exactly what i wanted to say and i said it. >> yes! oh! oh, god. oh. >> i'll have what she's having. >> the list goes on and on and on. barbara, i think one of her

great talents was that she was a brilliant writer and could write very high brow stuff if she put her mind to it. and yet she was able to appeal to a really huge mainstream audience at the same time. that's quite a rare gift, isn't it? >> yeah. she was so honest about things. and you know, arianna and i were just talking. we're very close friends. we go back many years. we're kind of grieving together here, and she had known evidently she had this disease for five or six years and she wrote in a funny way, but a touching way about death. and we were just saying that some of the things that she did were so touching and funny. for example, she wrote about the things -- she said, these are the things i won't miss. dry skin, clarence thomas, the sound of a vacuum cleaner and

panels on women in film. and then she said, these are the things that i will miss. thinking about coming over the bridge on the way to manhattan. pie. my kids. and dick. so it's almost that she was telling us how to think and how to feel about her even now. >> you're right, she did write a lot about death for somebody who was so funny and so full of life. and part of it is that her sense that you should live every day as if it's your last day. she said you should eat your last meal every day. when the time comes to eat your last meal you'll probably not be feeling like it. >> and by the way, she was a great cook. one of the joys of going to their house where -- was that wonderful kitchen. she cooked comfort food. we had mashed sweet potatoes, root beer floats. all the things we swore we wouldn't eat.

meatloaf. she was a wonderful cook herself. even when she wrote the book about "heartburn" about the marriage to carl bernstein, she gave recipes. there were so many different sides of her. the sardonic, the cynical, the funny, the loving. i mean, you name the adjective, and it fit her. and she was a great talent. you know, she had -- she was about to, i guess, have a broadway show produced this fall. i don't know whether it will happen or not. >> she said this about women as well, which i love. she said, i try to write parts for women that are as complicated as women actually are. i thought that was great in all her films. women could really relate to her because she really understood women. >> yes, and she was a champion

of women. she really believed that women could do anything and at anytime. when rita wilson decided to take up singing, which was by then, you know, she wasn't well. it was like in may. and rita was performing -- >> married to tom hanks, yeah. >> she said, let's all gather afterwards in a chinese restaurant. that was the last time i saw her. and soon after that she was taken to the hospital where basically she never left. and that incredible decision to, like, keep it from her friends for six years that she had leukemia. it was only nick and her sisters and sons who knew the full extent of what she was going through. because she didn't want it to color the life she was living and the interactions with friends and how everybody related to her. it's an amazing decision.

i can't imagine taking it. but it was, again, part of who she was. >> she also was a -- she -- she was very -- she changed the way people thought about women and the way women could write. years ago, she was part of the whole feminist movement. she wrote for "esquire" and she said at the beginning, it had nothing to do with me. but she said, i knew it could make a difference and she did all kinds of essays about different things that women could do and couldn't do. she did them funny. she didn't lecture. that's what's so great about nora, among other things. she said what we all felt or wanted to say, but she said it tongue and cheek or straight out. and funny. so we could accept it. >> barbara, what were your lasting memories be of nora as your friend?

>> i think of nora now after front page of the new york times announcing her death and a whole page inside. and what you said piers of the outpouring of friends. and she would say enough already. so many memories. but mostly of the friendship and also of nick. and the two sons. you know, they have to go on without her. and so do we. and fortunately we have the most wonderful, funny, happy memories, don't we? >> for me, it's the way she literally glittered. and there's this joy about her. this sense of celebration, even though she also had that dry, sardonic side as barbara said.

including the things she loved the most. i loved her line about if your children are teenagers, make sure you get a dog so somebody's happy when you get home. >> i think what we all felt yesterday and today, from my pal here, cherish each other. cherish each other, because this was such a shock and it all made us realize, if we hadn't before, how important friendship is. >> that is so true. the gratitude that she left behind. not taking anything for granted. and living every day, as she said, as though it's your last day. >> ladies, i can't think of a better way to end. thank you very much. coming up, one of the dirtiest political scandals for years. i'll ask the woman at the center of it all, rielle hunter, if she's sorry. [ manager 1 ] out here in the winds,

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good morning. i'm here in new orleans in the ninth ward of new orleans to announce i'm a candidate for the presidency of the united states. >> it began in 2006 with so much promise for then senator john edwards. we know how it ended. his affair with rielle hunter ruined his career, his marriage and left his life in a shamble. rielle edwards wrote a book "what really happened." how are you? you're shaking your head already. what are you shaking your head for? >> i've had an interesting few days. >> you've been beaten up, mainly by women who have taken against stuff in the book. i guess, taken against you and trying to paint you as the scarlet woman in all this. really to blame. how do you feel about that? >> i feel that is it is an

unfair judgment and usually made from assumptions and from people who haven't read the book. >> the chapters in the book each have a quote at the start. an interesting way of doing it. they tell a little story of their own. introduction has fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. do we have the wrong idea about who you are? and f., if so, who is the real rielle hunter? >> i believe most people have the wrong idea about me, yes. >> what do you think your public perception is right now? >> destroyer, villain, evil, barber. all of that. >> and how much of that is fair and how much of it is unfair? >> i think all of it is unfair. >> you take no responsibility for any of it? >> for the public perception? >> well, the perception is based on a series of assumptions that

you broke up john edwards' marriage, you ruined his political career, and you left his life in a bit of a shambles. that's why people have the visceral view of you that they do. if that isn't fair or accurate and -- >> i didn't do that, john edwards did that. >> all of it? >> he is responsible for his career and his marriage. well, he's 50% responsible for his marriage. elizabeth was 50% responsible for it as well. >> what are you responsible for? >> i'm responsible for my part in that, being the third party. >> knowing what you know now about how this all played out, when you had that first encounter with him, would you do something different? >> absolutely. >> would you? >> i would. i mean, the whole thing would be different. the hardest thing about that is because i have quinn. it's hard to have any regrets at all going down that road because i ended up with quinn.

any parent knows that, any parent who has a child, it's hard to regret a relationship because it produced your child. >> you' broken up, you've announced this week, with john. do you think it's irreparable, do you think this is it now? >> i have no idea. i really don't. we have such a great relationship in communicating and a lot of love for each other. so it wouldn't surprise me if we were able to work things out, and it wouldn't surprise -- whatever happens between us, we will continue being loving, great parents. >> there's a lot of conjecture about why you split up. what is the truth? >> it felt like the right thing at the time. that's the truth. we're in very different places right this second. >> the media has been running

riot with the theory that john's oldest child kate, who is i think 30, in her 30s, has taken against you and blames you for the breakup of her parents' marriage and that is the big problem. there's another theory, and you feel free to confirm or deny this -- that it's more to do with the fact that in the book you revealed a number of other affairs that her father had that was news to her and the other kids, and that that was a real problem. what is the truth? >> the truth is, we've had problems for a very long time that we haven't addressed because we put the children first. so it came to a head. everything came to a head with the media scrutiny and bashing is very hot right now, obviously. >> are you surprised? >> what surprises me most is how mean people are and how much they judge based on things that

they don't know anything about. that always surprises me. >> what is the biggest misconception about you? >> about me? >> yeah. >> that i'm an evil person, a destroyer. >> how would you characterize what happened at its essence between you and john, if it wasn't the destruction? >> from that destruction, from the loss of everything, came a great gift of growth for him. it's changed him incredibly and came the great gift of our child. >> do you think if it wasn't for his other children, you have such strong feelings, particularly his oldest daughter who is a fully fledged adult now and can make her own decisions. do you think if it wasn't for

that you would still be together? >> i have no idea. >> does your gut feeling tell you that? >> i have no idea. you could say if this, if that all day long. >> no. people have tritely said it's because of the book. it's the book -- it's the book that has caused you to break up? >> how can you say one event has broken up your relationship? >> because you broke up the week that the book came out. people do simple path. two plus two equals four. did he read the book? >> in my life, things happen all at once. that happens to be a pattern in my life. >> did he read the book before? >> before what? >> before publication. >> not before publication. >> did you offer it to him? >> many times. >> why did he say no? >> you'd have to ask him that. >> what did he say to you? >> he lived it. he didn't want to read it. >> did he try to get you from

not writing it? >> no, not at all. >> when did he read it? >> you just talk to him about this. >> i'd love to. >> maybe you will one day. >> but i'm talking to you. >> i don't want to talk about him. >> so he has read the book? >> i don't want to talk about that. >> you don't want to talk about your book? >> yes, i do. but you can -- >> it's called, what really happened, my daughter and me. it's a bit ridiculous given that he's on the title of the book. what's really happened? >> those are things you should be asking him. >> when you behave like this, people get irritated. because they are like, come on. you've written a book about, what really happened? >> but you have to have boundaries, in your life. the media -- >> what are the boundaries? >> the media is not entitled to everything in your life. they just come at you as if they are entitled to everything.

>> rielle -- >> they are not. >> there's every spitting cough. >> that's not true. >> it is true. >> it starts on the day that i'm at john edwards' book. i have lived 43 years before i met john edwards. >> okay. we're going to come back and talk about this night. obviously you want me to respect your privacy and somewhere in the midst of our talk, long after i realize how off the rails his marriage is, i let go of my resistance to him and let him lead, and lead he did. he led me to the most extraordinary night of my life and it was just the beginning. let's find out what that was all about after the break. [ male announcer ] every day, the world gets more complex.

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it's a great speech. >> can you read it? >> yes, i can read it. >> you can? >> yes. >> that is a great speech. >> i'm so glad you like it. >> i like it. >> wait till you hear it live. >> campaign plane. that's john edwards in front of

the camera. rielle hunter is back with me to talk about their affair. it was all so innocent and happy there. if you look back innocently, think god if only it stayed like that? >> no, i don't have those thoughts but i do look at it and it makes me smile. >> why were you smiling? >> because it was fun. funny. i like -- he was very happy. i got a lot of heat for that, you know, because he was so flirty and as a film maker i kept that in because he was flirty with everyone. he's changed a lot. he's not like that now. >> you talk in graphic detail, i know you don't want to talk about john -- >> i want to talk about the book. >> the detail of the bed hopping. you do.

>> it is not -- you are making it -- why don't the media make everything so sa labor shous? >> because you put salacious stuff in your book. >> your spin on it is salacious. >> you write about the most incredible night in your life. the best sex in your life. >> i did not say that. >> oh, my god. walked right into that, didn't i? >> you make no secret of it. >> do you really think men cheat for bad sex. do they? >> i never thought about it like that. >> the book -- see, whether you like it or not, the problem is, you have opened yourself up a lot in the book, i think, to criticisms.

there's no doubt about that. >> i have. >> and the main criticism has come from the way you describe elizabeth. and, you know, you use phrases about her, venomous, witch on wheels -- >> that is not about elizabeth. these things are taken out of context. and when you read the story, just like you take the little tid bit about the extraordinary night and use it out of context. >> who was on wheels? >> i was talking about passive aggressive relationships. when a man doesn't stand up, in general, relationships in general, when a man doesn't stand up, the woman is often seen as a witch on wheels, often ville lee fied, which is exactly what has happened to me. >> but you were talking about elizabeth? >> no. i'm talking about a relationship. >> who else did he have in his life who could possibly be seen as a witch on wheels? >> i'm seen as a witch on wheels. i'm talking about a relationship

in general. >> a lot of the flack that you've been getting is because of the descriptive phrases that you've been using about elizabeth. do you regret now putting this stuff in, given the way the media has latched on to it? do you accept that when someone is dead and can't answer back it looks graceless? >> i accept it looks graceless. my intention is not to bash elizabeth edwards. it was never my intention. my intention was to tell the truth of the story for the six years that i saw it, through my eyes. i saw elizabeth through the eyes of john edwards. he would tell me things. other people would tell me things. i only met elizabeth once. >> so you base everything in the book that you say about her on what john edwards told you? >> well, when you're in a relationship with a married man, that's how you're going to receive the information about his marriage. >> right. but do you now believe everything that he told you about her was right? >> do i believe everything he told -- >> given that's how you base your relationship on elizabeth. >> i don't have any -- i don't

know the answer to that. >> the reason i ask you, in the book, tells you multiple lies. he was in four affairs. turns out he made the whole thing up. >> i don't know the answer to that. >> you don't know if you can trust him? >> i don't know if i trust him about everything that he said. i don't know. >> if it's possible, and from that answer it clearly is, that he exaggerated how bad elizabeth was, probably to please you, no woman would say, i'm madly in love with my wife and that's why i'm with you? most people say, my wife isn't great and that's why i'm with you. if he exaggerated that and he spun a line to you about how bad she was, then you must be regretful, aren't you, about your impression of her? >> am i regretful of my impression of her? um --

>> are you sorry for what you did to her? >> i am sorry. i am absolutely sorry for my part in the relationship, being -- having an affair and any pain it caused anyone, including elizabeth. absolutely. >> if she was still alive, would you say to her, i'm sorry? >> absolutely. in my book i regret not being able to speak to elizabeth. >> that's removed, from looking so the one in the eye and saying, i'm sorry for what i did to you. >> absolute if she was alive i would say that to her. >> the fact that she was dying of cancer made this all ten times worse, made the public's perception of john and thereforeyou ten times worse. you were in the middle of this malestrom of attention and then all of a sudden there was a baby and then a coverup with his aide and he was going to pretend to be the father of it and all the rest of it. oh, what a tangle web we weave

at first when we deceive. going back to that moment, what would you have done differently? >> oh, i never would have gone along with that. >> why did you? >> out of fear. i was afraid that my daughter wouldn't have a relationship with him. that's the only thing i can come up with and it was hard to even to get there. but once i said yes, it's -- it was stupid. really. >> i get the feeling, from your book, the worst moment for you came when he denied that it was even remotely possible that the baby could be his. let's watch a clip of this. >> a report has been published that the baby of miss hunter is your baby. true? >> not true. not true. published in a supermarket tabloid. no, that is absolutely not true. >> i mean, a point blank lie from a guy who wanted to be

president. pretty extraordinary. not unheard of. but still extraordinary. when you heard him and saw him do that, what went through your mind? >> i was devastated. it was devastating. i knew he was going to do it as well. but it -- even knowing that he was going to do it did not prepare me for how it felt. >> how did he think he could get away with it? he's a bright guy, smart politician. many people thought he had all of the credentials to be president. and yet it was this incredibly reckless gamble. not just having the affair but the baby, the coverup, all of it was just an exacerbation of the previous reckless gamble, wasn't it? it got bigger and worse with every twist and turn. >> and your question is, how did he think he was going to get away with it? >> why did he think he could get away with it, yeah. >> i don't think he was in his

right mind. once he got caught at the beverly hills hilton in 2008, he was very strange for about a month because his double life had been exposed. it was difficult. he was all over the place. he was temporarily insane. he was strange. it's not the best time to invite a camera crew into your house and give an interview. >> talking to camera crews, there was also the infamous sex trip. let's take a break and when we come back we'll talk about that. 3w4r57 the postal service is critical to our economy,

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how did you find out, really know the truth in. >> john told me. he told me briefly after -- he told me after he had done his announcement to run for president. it was the first time i had ever seen her. i didn't honestly know that the videographer was a female. i was completely in the dark. >> and naive? >> and naive. >> elizabeth edwards in 2009 talking to larry king about the moment that john admitted to cheating on her with rielle hunter. that must be weird watching that clip. >> yeah. i feel sad. >> what goes through your mind? >> nothing went through my mind. i just felt sad. >> you began working as this

videographer. on the trip to uganda, you made a sex tape together. what were you both thinking? apart from that, you weren't even using birth control. how did you all think this was going to end? sex tapes, no birth control -- >> how did i think it was going to end? >> a catastrophic manner if a guy wants to be president. >> that was a mistake. i'm not saying -- you asked two things there. >> the sex tape, whose idea was that. >> it was a mistake. >> whose idea was it. >> what does it matter? >> i'm curious. >> it doesn't matter. >> people try to portray you as the evil looking in john edwards and this was part of your plot, you know, get a sex tape, get it leaked, turn yourself into the kim kardashian of politics. >> that's not his idea?

>> that's not true. we were in love, sleep deprived, and it was a stupid thing to do. >> whose idea was it to not use birth control? >> we were both adults. we didn't use birth control. >> why? >> we were in love. >> what does that got to do with it? a guy's going to be president. he wants to be. this seems extraordinary. these little details. what were you both thinking? >> we weren't. >> at all? >> clearly. >> you've been married before. >> i have been married before. >> so when people say you don't understand marriage, what do you say to them? >> that i don't understand marriage? >> that you don't understand the damage -- you're a marriage wrecker. >> no. i understand marriage very well. i was with my husband -- we were married for 9 years. we were married for 12. we did a lot of couples therapy. i know the dynamics that go on. >> why did the marriage end?

>> it ended because we didn't work. and we both realized it. and i never cheated on my husband. i'm not a big believe in infidelity. i went to my husband and said, this doesn't work. i need out. we need to talk about it. >> there's got to be a level of responsibility, self-awareness, isn't there? >> there is. >> you went to a man's hotel room and you know he's a very famous guy. >> he's responsible for that. i said yes. i am not married. >> you're not responsible at all? >> i was not married when i said yes to him. i did not go there under that intention. i didn't go there for that. that's not why i went. >> right. but you knew he was married? >> i did. but that's not why i went to his hotel room. >> let's take a break. i want to talk to you about the future, about quinn, your daughter, and about your biggest regret. by herself, and so college was a dream when i was a kid.

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especially -- and i really do want to say that i -- i am responsible for my part in this and i do take responsibility for my part and i am not a home wrecker. >> here's the thing, i'm not entirely sure when you say that what you think you are responsible for, given thaw think you had responsibility for the affair starting, et cetera. what are you responsible for? >> i'm responsible for the continuing on of the coverup in a big way and the continuation and the hurt and pain that came out of that. >> but you don't regret going to his hotel that night? >> i don't regret loving him. i really don't. >> a couple days later. >> but you don't regret that action of yours, as a woman who knows he's a famous guy who's married going to his hotel room for the night which precipitated everything else, you don't

regret that? >> i do regret. i actually regret having an affair with a married man. i do. it's an awful thing. but i don't regret loving him, once again, because of quinn. >> why did you do the book? what did you hope to gain? all you've been getting is just a low-ball flack. >> because there's so much distortion about this story and i feel that it's unfair for my daughter and really for all of the kids to have to grow up under the umbrella of negativity and distortion. because what happens, though, is there's all this judgment based upon things that are not true. and that judgment actually affects the kids. you know, they go to school, the kids at school, their parents have judgments and there is all of this judgment made that john edwards is a demon, that i'm a home wrecker, and that elizabeth was a saint. and it's not true. and i think that my daughter

deserves the truth. >> given all of the publicity that the book has attracted, would you have written it a different way? >> i think that i would have edited a little differently. because what happens when you give the media these little juicy things to take out of context and spin and create all this negativity, people can't hear anymore. they get so wrapped up in the tsunami of negativity, they can't hear what you're saying. so if you can find a way to communicate, if i can find a way to communicate better that is more neutral so people can hear, i think that would help. >> john's kids may be watching this, and they might be, his daughter in particular, what would you say to her? >> that i'm sorry for any pain that they've gone through. >> genuinely sorry? >> oh, absolutely. >> and now you have your own

child. are you more acutely aware as she gets older what you put them through? >> yeah. absolutely. adults do stupid things. >> rielle, thank you for coming on. >> thanks for having me, piers. >> rielle hunter. , a bizarre way of staying cool in the summertime. [ male announcer ] this is anna, her long day teaching the perfect swing begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye.

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for tonight only in america, the coolest mayor in the country. new york's michael bloomberg is all about conserving energy but he also likes to travel in style. so how could he do both? well, here's his unique that is bloomberg's ultra sleek suv and your standard own air conditioning unit. big and boxie to control climate control for the mayor. this is his brilliant scheme to deflect the flack. the problem is that the contraption from the man who prides himself on being green is ridiculous as you could possibly get. the ac unit is propped up and powered by extension cords to an

outlet. it's that simple and that insane. we asked new yorkers what they thought about the bloomberg mow beel amobile and here's what he said. >> he wants to be a role model and he's saying this is how we can save energy, the average person can't do that. it makes no sense. >> he should maybe get one of those handheld fans. >> this is an experiment to be used on extremely hot days like the types we saw last week. there is far less emissions corresponding to the power of a single air conditioner on the grid than idling a v-8 engine. incredibly, it's true. we spoke to a professor to check all of this and he applauded the mayor. he said that the emins