tonight a conversation with barry manilow. next week he is out with his first album of original music in a decade. later on, a special performance from the new project and some great music throughout our conversation. we are glad you joined us. barry manilow coming up right now. >> all i know is his name is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference, you help us all lived better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. nationwide insurance is proud to join have this in working to improve financial literacy and working to remove obstacles one at a time. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> what an honor to have barry manilow and his piano on the set to night. it is hard to believe we have not seen a project of new music in 10 years, but that is about to change. it is an honor to have you in this pro

barry manilow sings his favorite hits and a song from his new album. this is "piers morgan tonight." >> barry manilow has had 35 consecutive top 40 hits and five albums on the charts at the same time. a record rivalled only by frank sinatra and johnny mathis. he's back with his first album of original songs in more than a decade called "15 minutes." he's also a headliner in vegas. what a career. you talk about careers in music. >> that's amazing. just listening to it. i'm feeling tired. >> and you must have the most die hard fans. >> i do! [ cheers and applause ] >> some of them are here. >> they're great people, too. >> we have people in the audience here who have seen you over 300 times in concert. why do you think you have been able to inspire that kind of loyalty? >> i'm the wrong person to ask. i come at it from the other side. not from what the impact is. i come at it from the other part which is trying to do the best work i can and trying to make them feel good. i have to ask them. >> when you see other entertainers whose careers come and go who

. >>> if you don't think barry manilow is cool i have one word for you -- copacabana. it would be the same with "mandy," "i write the songs" or any of his hits. >> you know, piers, music and passion are always in fashion. that's a clever line. >> barry manilow has been writing, performing and touring nearly 40 years. wait until you hear what he says about britney spears, lady gaga and the price of fame. barry man lilow sings his favore hits and a song from his new album. this is "piers morgan tonight." >> barry manilow has had 35 consecutive top 40 hits and five albums on the charts at the same time. a record rivalled only by frank sinatra and johnny mathis. he's back with his first album of original songs in more than a decade called "15 minutes." he's also a headliner in vegas. what a career. you talk about careers in music. >> that's amazing. just listening to it. i'm feeling tired. >> and you must have the most die hard fans. >> i do! [ cheers and applause ] >> some of them are here. >> they're great people, too. >> we have people in the audience here who have seen

. >> so but outside for barry manilow, a big crowd because it's barry's what?this morning when i saw him. george, back inside. >> happy birthday, barry, too. >>> now we're going to turn to the troubled star of the mtv reality show "teen mom." amber portwood has been hospitalized after an apparent suicide attempt. juju is back with us and i guess amber was found unconscious thanks to a tip from the baby's dad. >> yes, and this is the boyfriend that she's been in trouble with for beating up on. she'd reportedly been fighting on the phone with her baby daddy gary shirley. after threatening to kill herself, he called a relative to ask if they'd check this on her and that's when someone dialed 911. >> get the [ bleep ] out. >> i am leaving. i'm keeping her. >> get out. >> i'm keeping her. >> reporter: the latest twist for teen mom wild child amber portwood now reportedly includes attempted suicide. >> if there were a checklist for a tabloid celebrity, amber portwood has made her way through it pretty quickly. >> reporter: according to police she was taken to the hos

a little hip hop and barry manilow today. just been one of those days. appreciate it.at as well. a heart-shaped meteorite falls from the sky. >> finding a heart-shaped rock in your backyard, kind of cool. finding a rock that is a meteor that is heart-shaped? okay, that's something you've got to see. a man and his son were playing kick ball in their backyard when they noticed this funny looking rock. turns out the rock was shae heart-shaped and it's actually a meteor. meteors don't usually travel this far, get this far. they usually burn up while entering the earth's atmosphere. so there you have it. and now to this. this is video were showing around the news room earlier. this may be the cutest/, scariest thing ever. >> hello, mr. lion. usually people go to the zoo to watch the animals but in this case the animals were people watching. in this case baby watching. 1-year-old trent in if colorado springs. obviously the kid caught the attention of one of the zoo's larger animals. did you see how she opened her mouth a little too wide? now a situation, wolf joins me as alw

join me next time for a conversation with barry manilow on his first new material in a decade.eading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> -- you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to support tavis and remove obstacles by economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

something else we both did as kids, barry manilow, but inspired by britney spears, really?es the songs that make the whole world sing. he needs to look somewhere for inspiration. manilow told the "l.a. times" that he was working on his new album at the time brittny was being hounded by the paparazzi. he looked at everything that happened at spears p in that horrible time and all of that attention was what is responsible for her memorable outbursts. here's what manilow said, it seems like a thing to write an album about. every artist has their news and for barry it's brittny. >> can't wait to hear the cd. >>> reese witherspoon trashing the idea you need a sex tape to get famous. >> i think she has the gravitas to do something like this. reese was on stage and tried to inject a little common sense into the up and coming starlets. she told the audience while it may be cool to be a bad girl, you don't need a reality show to make it in hollywood. not to mention a sex tape. watch what reese said. >> when i came up in this business, you made a sex tape, you were embarrassed and yo

. >>> before there was lady gaga and britney spears, there was barry manilow.bout the high cost of fame. >> jufs just being famous, it's a dangerous thing to do if you're not grounded. >> it's a drug, isn't it? >> it's a drug. i know that feeling that you are -- the audience applauds you, people applause you, they will tell you you're doing great, they send you back to your hotel room and you're alowe loan and you look at your computer and you take out your [ bleep ] and you show everybody. >> and you can hear more of what barry manilow says tonight at 9:00 eastern here on cnn. >>> coming in the next hour of ne newsroom, he was the talk of boston's public and the inspiration for more than one movie. now after 16 years on the run, "whitey" bulger is finally in custody. >>> also coming up, if a read zacharie, he sits down with afghan's president what please karzai. we'll get his reaction to what the president of the united states had to say about drawing down in afghanistan. was an archer drawing his bow. ♪ could that have also inspired its 556 horsepower superch

she will be an artist in residence the way shania has done and barry manilow. this song. their brother -- they're brothers and one sister. they are so cool. >> look how cute she looks. >> we love them. a lot of fun. >> oh, to be so young. >> should we move on to the weiner update? i think we have to. how could we not? >> a new day and new update. >> "new york times" is reporting that anthony weiner's wife is pregnant. >> about ten weeks along. >> it sounded like if everything we are reading is true, he sent the text messages after he knew she was pregnant. that was all going on. >> just when you think it can't get worse. happy for them as a couple expecting a child, but you wonder if it was leaked to get a little compassion forrthe couple, compassion for him. i don't know. all it's done is a whole lot more jokes in the new york press. he is a hard guy to like right now. hoda and i remember that every year we go to the new york mission has a beautiful pre-thanksgiving banquet i serve at every year. hoda has been going with me. we serve the homeless and hungry ev