but we have found anderson cooper's krypton identity. celebrity poop puns. ) well, anderson, if depart-two tickled your funny bone i'm about to slit your joke-ular vein. may i present hosni poobarak. camilla parker bowels. dame doody stench. ll stool j. dr. sanjay poopta. wolf [bleep] ter. fudge napolitan-to-, gretchen hot carlson and of course steve doocy. (applause) lav (laughter) laugh steve doocy. >> anyway, that was very unprofessional, around son pooper. (laughter) munch ma quchi, we'll be right back. >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight was once the world's most wanted hacker. he'll never get my password it's-- (laughter) please welcome kevin mitnick. (applause) >> thanks for coming on. great to meet you. >> great to meet you too. >> you sir were once considered the world's most famous hacker. the most wanted man in computer crime. correct? >> yes. >> okay. you are a consultant now but at one time you were, let's see, you bypassed the security systems of motorola, sun microsystems and pacific bell. >> yes, i did. >> you served jail tim

anderson cooper visited a hospital there to see how patients are faring. >> reporter: it is a place ofd horror. the children's ward of the international rescue committee hospital, extra beds have been brought in for the kids whose lives now hang in the balance. h ax hanad weighs six pounds and should be twice that. >> this child came in with diarrhea and vomiting. was unable to maintain fluids and has been like this for two weeks. >> reporter: this doctor has taught his mother how to feed him milk with vitamins and protein. but so far it is not working. you have to stop the diarrhea. >> we have to stop that. >> reporter: before you can treat the malnutrition. >> we have to stop the diarrhea and vomiting. >> reporter: but that's not easy. ladan is 4 years old and is too wasting away. once kids can maintain fluids, many are able to quickly come back to life. nazro has been here for five days. the fact she can sit up -- >> can sit up and drink on her own is already telling you progress. >> reporter: with severe malnutrition, doctors can never be too sure. even if a child is drinking milk

"anderson cooper 360" starts now. >>> thank you very much. good evening. we begin with breaking news. flood waters still rising from hurricane irene. rivers and streams still cresting as we speak. entire towns submerged or destroyed. this didn't end when the wind died down. this was and continues to be a very big deal and water is the reason why. you are looking at where the town of prattsville, new york used to be. parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely. they don't have much to return to. the correspondent who shot this compared it to joplin, missouri, after the tornado. she was stranded by rising flood waters. she joins us shortly. still stranded there actually tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain on the northeast onto waterlogged ground and full rivers and reservoirs. look at that truck trying to get through the water. the water has to go somewhere. it doesn't care what or who is in the way. this scene in new jersey where big military trucks were even having trouble getting around. from virginia to vermont rivers and streams overfl

anderson cooper is there this week for a firsthand look.is with us now live from a massive refugee camp. you're getting a firsthand look at this devastating crisis. tell us what you're seeing. >> reporter: this has become the largest refugee camp in the entire world. you can actually see it from space. it's extraordinary. there's more than about 500,000 somalis who are living here and in the surrounding areas around this camp desperate for food aid, many displaced people, more than a million of them, more than 100,000 are desperately looking for food. according to the u.n., about 3.2 million somalis are in immediate need of food assistance, immediate need of assistance. and the peer is with the drought continuing for the next couple months before the rains come and with this terrorist organization extremist group in control of the south where the famine really is, that tens of thousands more people will die in the coming months as this drought continues, the worst drought in 60 years. and the famine continues to spread from small pockets in

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anderson cooper, cnn, mogadishu. >> you can help the starving people of somalia. you can impact your world. cnn can show you how. go online now and visit cnn.com/impact. >>> something else we continue to watch, big day in presidential politics. congressman ron paul addressing the crowd in ames, iowa, at the iowa straw poll event. let's listen in. >> -- slightly different from just the cause of liberty because there is something that precedes liberty and that is life. i believe in a very limited role for government, but the prime reason that government exists in a free society is to protect liberty, but also to protect life. and i mean all life. i want to tell a very short story because time is short about how i came to be very strong right to life. when i was in medical school in the 1950s, it was a nonissue. it was assumed everybody was pro life and abortions weren't to be done. in the 1960s, as i was a medical resident studying ob-gyn, the doctors in the medical centers were defying the law and doing abortions. this shook me up. one day i walked into an operatin

like a little like a little girl would like better i mean i go i don't agree with everything anderson cooper says lives kind of refreshing i was kid it was real you know what she was a really it's amazing that i was you know now it's actually a preview from his upcoming talk show. is this still part of that strategy that i do next. is going to be celebrity versus newscaster i have a personality but it was right out here are you thanks for joining us because i think. thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back tomorrow to that sort of quarter for wired's danger of being will be joining us to discuss whether or not pakistan left the chinese see ourself copter and if that even matters now in the meantime go because become a fan of the lower show on facebook always on twitter if you missed any of tonight's or any other night catch telling you to slash the letter sale and coming up next is hot and versus the max. takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event but the planet has time we don't. see spring going on for months twenty twenty five yea

we'll also go to anderson cooper down in lower manhattan. a spokesman for marry bloomberg out with a troubling new assessment. they're expecting the storm surge from irene to flood the area which includes the ground zero construction site with anywhere from six to 12 feet of water. if another low-lying neighborhoods now under mandatory evacuation orders, mayor bloomberg tonight saying the city transportation system will shut down at noon tomorrow. all five local airports in danger of flooding. they're being closed arriving flights starting at noon. now this is what they're concerned about. pictures here of irene hitting the bahamas. new yorkers are used to seeing this on tv, not up close, though. but they might see a version of it in about 36 hours from now. all day today irene was making its way north. and as it did. emergency plans started kicking. in warnings went up. people boarded up, stocked up and either hunkered down or took off. in a moment we'll check in with anderson and our entire team on irene. first chad myers and that late bul

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watching anderson cooper giggle is like watching a unicorn fart rainbows".compliment. whatever. if my meltdown made you smile i'm glad. because really at the end of the day if laughing about a possibly drunk french actor openly relieving himself on a plane is wrong, then i don't want to be right. >> we begin with breaking news. asian markets openingower just hours ago. the nasdaq and s&p hit even harder. a big factor this time brought economic news, morgan stanley, slashing its forecast for global economic growth next year and the philadelphia feds latest index regional manufacturing signalling a strong downturn.

watching anderson cooper giggle is like watching a unicorn fart rainbows".if my meltdown made you smile i'm glad. because really at the end of the day if laughing about a possibly drunk french actor openly relieving himself on a plane is wrong, then i don't want to be right. that's it for "360." "piers morgan" starts now. what will it cost you? >>

bella's anderson cooper on his show last night i was doing a model log about gerard depardieu peeing in the aisle of an airplane and he was grabbing stuff but you want to laugh it kind of makes me awkward but like he actually laughs like a little like a little girl i would like to go i don't agree with everything interesting cooper says becomes kind of refreshing it was cute it was real you know what she writes i believe it's amazing that i was in the united states actually a preview for his upcoming talk show. this is still part of that strategy that i do next to. you know it's going to be celebrity versus newscaster i have a personality that's what we're trying to tell here are you thanks for joining us. today again and make sure you come back tomorrow david at's reporter for wired stranger and begin will be joining us to discuss whether or not to stand left chinese copter and if that even matters now in the meantime don't forget become a fan of a lot of show on facebook follow us on twitter if you missed any of tonight's show or any of the night's catch tell you tube dot com slash

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you can talk about girard or anderson cooper. at this point basically everything has been erased by the giggle. >> surprisingly he goes to somalia and he has the equivalent to an 8-year-old. when you gotta go, you gotta go. i wish i could tell you i might not have an accident during the show. i wish i could tell you that, but i would be lying if i did. >> what do you think of the de part 2 joke? >> if you watch the whole segment, it is all puns and they are all terrible, but that is the worst of them all. that set him off. it is an insight into the mind of addison cooper. >> that laughter is what you give an evil psycho past who is watching you like finger nails. >> it made me love anderson cooper. >> should you go after him. >> oh, i will. i will change him. i will change him from his ways. >> he is single. he lives in my neighborhood. >> i originally thought it was bill's accident and then i found out what it was about. >> that's my point. that's what i love about this story. high -- he is legit myselfing and then we 1r* anders

cnn's anderson cooper takes us inside a hospital in somalia to remind us that they aren't statistics, they are people in pain. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room". after weeks of blatant political flirting, the texas governor rick perry is now ready to commit. cnn has learned he will major a formal campaign announce mementd our new poll, jim, shows he will be very competitive. >> that's right. he comes in the top tier, wolf, you're right, rick perry, according to a source close to the governor has told cnn that the texas governor will be announcing he's running for president on saturday. he will be doing this, not in iowa where most of the republican kaechbts are right now. he will be at a red state.com, conservative blog conference that's occurring in charleston, south carolina. now we understand that the texas governor is going to put aside any doubts. he is running for president. you mentioned that cnn poll, wolf he is as close as the republican parties gets to an un-romney. rudy giuliani, who a lot of people think he will not get into this race, at 12%. sarah palin at

that would be one anderson cooper. conan o'brien is number two. sorry, king coco.jump ship. read it and weep, read it and weep. anderson cooper -- wait a minute, 24 votes? fabio, 14 votes? 70 votes total for the entire survey? it isn't some huge gallup poll. is the victory any less sweet from voters on a facebook page? i think not. it's about who wins, and i won fair and square, which is what i like to call my hairstyle, the fair and square. either that or the pee wee herman. you're pretty much paler than i am. >> but not blonder. i considered going white before i came on the show just to match you. >> did you? >> it's a lot of work, though. >> it is a lot of work. i mean, it's working good for you but i don't think it would work as good for me. >> in my mind, i still have brown hair, so i'm still kind of shocked when i look in the mirror. >> i love that story. >> all right, don't worry, conan, it's true that i'm number one, i think we've proven that, but you still have the finest head of hair on the "ridicu-list".

"anderson cooper ""anderson cooper 360" starts right now. >>> good evening, everyone, we begin with texas governor rick perry, a podium in alabama, where he is about to speak as a fund-raiser on the eve of an announcement that he's entering the presidential race, a move that's already shaking up the republican field and could spell trouble for candidate obama. part of governor's perry's pitch to voters is what his supporters call the texas miracle, creating jobs in a recession, balancing the texas budget and standing up to washington but is all of that true? tonight we're keeping them honest. first the jobs. >> we created more jobs than any other state in the nation, as a matter of fact, in the last two years, we created almost half of all the jobs created in america. >> that's governor perry yesterday. you'll hear that a lot in the weeks and months ahead. we checked with the bureau of labor statistics and his numbers, do, in fact add up. texas created about 262,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and now that's out of 524,000 jobs nationwide. but the bureau of labor statistics says many

that would be one anderson cooper. conan o'brien is number two. sorry, king coco., jump ship. read it and weep, read it and weep. anderson cooper -- wait a minute, 24 votes? fabio, 14 votes? 70 votes total for the entire survey? it isn't some huge gallup poll. is the victory any less sweet from voters on a facebook page? i think not. it's about who wins, and i won fair and square, which is what i like to call my hairstyle, the fair and

and i want to tell our viewers that cnn's anderson cooper and cnn's medical correspondent dr. sanjay group that will be reporting from somalia next week. that's an "anderson cooper 360" special report, somalia, on the grounds of familiar minute. >>> you can help with the humanitarian crisis, for ways to help, go to cnn.com/impact. our impact your world website, we'll tell you what aid groups need and how much you can do to get in touch with them, what you can do to get in touch with them. that's all at cnn.com/impact. >>> a public official is under investigation for child porn, you may have heard this one before. but this official definitely has a new excuse. you'll want to hear it straight ahead on cnn. vrrooom...vrrroooomm vroom vrrooom vrrroooomm vrrroooomm vrroom vrrrooomm vrrroooooooommmmmm mmmm mm. what if we designed an electric motorcycle? what if we turned trash into surfboards? whatever your what if is, the new sprint biz 360 has custom solutions to make it happen, including mobile payment processing, instant hot spots, and 4g devices like the motorola photon. so let

anderson cooper, number one. wait a minute. 24 votes. is that right? fabio, 14 votes?l for the entire survey? whatever, so it isn't some huge gallup poll. is the victory any less sweet just because it comes from a view dozen people voting on the pert plus facebook page? i think not. it's not about how large the playing field is but who wins and i won fair and square, which is what i like to call my hairstyle, the fair and square.

gloria borger talked to anderson cooper about it. >> the question i have is is it a good political move to be on this committee because you don't know what the results are going to be and it could be politically bad. there are some, anderson, someone inside the administration who said why not get those gang of six on the committee because they're the only ones who have come up actually with a bipartisan way to approach the deficit. so we'll see if some of those folks get on it. >>> take a look at the cnn-orc international poll. 77% of respondents said lawmakers acted like spoiled children during the debt ceiling debate. i know what you're thinking. that's an offense to spoiled children. only 17% believe they acted like responsible adults. >>> the u.s. escaped a slap from moody's. the nation will keep its aaa credit rating for now. the federal aviation administration got left behind in all this. the senate went on recess without extending the agency's funding. that means, among other things, about 4,000 faa workers on furlough probably won't be back to work for another five weeks until t

matthew chance spoke with saif gadhafi and matthew talked about the encounter with anderson cooper a short time ago. >> he seemed very relaxed. he seemed, you know, looking quite good, actually, for a man who was supposed to have been custody for the last 48 hours. he said that was a trick. he made the point that the rebels have come into tripoli. he said that gadhafi forces had broken their backbone and given them a hard time before the door closed and he drove off. but he drove off in a motorcade into tripoli, clearly, into an area which is very much under control of the forces of his father. >> and you say -- he said the opposition had fallen into some sort of trap. what did he mean? the opposition was claiming besides capturing him but that they controlled 90% of tripoli. >> they are saying that. and, you know, i think there are questions tonight about to what extent that's the case. it's very difficult for us here in the hotel to verify how much of tripoli's controlled by the rebels and how much is controlled by gadhafi but i can tell you this, saif gadhafi got into that motorca

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then anderson cooper loses his composure, it's the worse journalistic gaffe since walter cronkite covered the moon landing topless. and my guest is kevin mitnick. i'll ask him how to set up my goddamn wireless printer. it's my last blog cast for two weeks-- broadcast for two weeks but i promise to give you one last great show before i go. this-- just roll it captioning sponsored by comedy central (cheers and applause) welcome to the report, everybody. thank you so much. >> stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you so much, everybody. thank you so much. welcome to the report. thank you so much. i'm going to say i had to all of nerddom that may be watching tonight. nation, i got to tell you, that applause really brings me such, such comfort. because i got to tell you, i'm blue. (laughter) maybe it's end of summer. i don't know. but i'm not the only one with the case of the blahs. america's going through a pretty rough time. we have a dysfunctional government, a frail economy,

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then anderson cooper loses his composure, it's the worse journalistic gaffe since walter cronkite covered the moon landing topless. and my guest is kevin mitnick. i'll ask him how to set up my goddamn wireless printer. it's my last blog cast for two weeks-- broadcast for two weeks but i promise to give you one last great show before i go. this-- just roll it captioning sponsored by comedy central (cheers and applause) welcome to the report, everybody. thank you so much. >> stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you so much, everybody. thank you so much. welcome to the report. thank you so much. i'm going to say i had to all of nerddom that may

now, anderson cooper. >> would you like me to help you? >> you can do it tonight. ou like to do the tease to anderson? >> it's in my rider. >> you say what you want to say to anderson. we have 30 seconds left. >> okay.

cnn's anderson cooper and chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta are on their way to somalia.hey'll join our team of david mckenzie for extensive coverage of the famine and devastation. watch anderson cooper tomorrow night at his new time, 8:00 eastern. >>> more violence in syria today. government forces are seen on the street in this youtube video. an opposition network says 29 people were killed in clashes today, and now a human rights group accuses the syrian government of killing premature infants by cutting power to a hospital in hama. the group says it's part of a renewed crackdown on anti-government protests. >>> in libya, rebel fighters launched a new offensive against moammar gadhafi's forces saturday. less than 100 kilometers from the capital city of tripoli. cnn's michael holmes was there. he and his team captured some incredible images you will only see here on cnn. >> reporter: the rebels were on the move before dawn. hundreds of them sweeping in from the western mountains to the plains below in a well coordinated attack. their target, the town of bir al ghanam, a

. >>> turning now to a country reeling from famine, cnn's anderson cooper is in mogadishu where thousandsave died. he arrived in mogadishu today. give us a sense of the situation on the ground there. >> reporter: john, this is probably one of the strangest cities in the world. i mean, there has been now 21 years of conflict in this city. there is not a street, there is not a building in this city that did not bear the marks of bullet holes in the buildings, destroyed homes and buildings and nothing has been untouched by war. it's an extraordinary situation. somalis have come here to this war-attorn wa war-t war-torn city looking for aid and food, and they may be out of food supplies, food stocks, in about three weeks given the current level of donations, given the current level of international aid promised by countries around the world. that's an extremely serious situation because the drought here is expected to last not just three weeks but several more months, and famine is believed to be spreading in the south of somalia, where you have this group al shabaab, an extremist terrorist g

sanjay, you're going to be heading there, anderson cooper heading there, you're going to be reporting out of somalia. tell us a little bit about your journey, how you're going to get there, and where you're going to be, which camps you're going to be looking in? >> yeah. well you know, some of this is obviously as you know being reported in the field. a little bit fluid, but we're going to probably fly into kenya, nairobi and either about a ten-hour drive, you know, through kenya to the somalia border or a small plane, you know, that's -- those details are still being worked out. there are a lot of camps on the border for all the reasons i mentioned earlier being right there on the border can allow these aid organizations to sort of give the camp supplies and reduce the amount of potential problems they may have with security. so that's sort of what's going on there. a lot of those camps right along the kenya/somalia border. and i'll just say again, deb, i mean you cited some of the numbers but i'm hearing as well, 600,000 children children potentially over the next several months in

you can catch more on "anderson cooper 360 at its new time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. ac 360" will be live from somalia tonight only on cnn, 8:00 p.m. eastern. also to find out more about how you can help the victims of this crisis, you can go to cnn.com/impact. you'll have a chance to impact your world. president obama personally honoring the navy seals and the other u.s. troops killed over the weekend in afghanistan. the somber details of that ceremony just ahead. and new jut rage outrage over t of republican presidential candidate michele bachmann. introducing the schwab mobile app. it's schwab at your fingertips wherever, whenever you want. one log in lets you monitor all of your balances and transfer between accounts, so your money can move as fast as you do. check out your portfolio, track the market with live updates. and execute trades anywhere and anytime the inspiration hits you. even deposit checks right from your phone. just take a picture, hit deposit and you're done. open an account today and put schwab mobile to work for you. [ martin luther king jr. ] i

. >> cnn's anderson cooper and chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta are on their way to somalia.n our team for extensive coverage of the famine and devastation. watch anderson cooper tomorrow night at his new time, 8:00 eastern. >>> a jury already found him guilty. now how to punish warren jeffs. that story is next. ♪ let me do a few tricks ♪ some old and then some new tricks ♪ ♪ i'm very versatile ♪ so let me entertain you ♪ and we'll have a real good time ♪ [ male announcer ] the new hp touchpad. get it now for $100 off, starting at $399.99. ♪ [ male announcer ] time to check your air conditioning? come to meineke now and get a free ac system check and a free cooler with paid ac service. meineke. we have the coolest customers. >>> a texas jury is deciding how much jail time polygamist warren jeffs should serve. jeffs was convicted last week on two counts of having sex with a child. in a special saturday session, one of jeffs' nephews told jurors his uncle raped him when he was five years old. yesterday i talked with our legal guides about the jeffs case, asked them if they were

now "anderson cooper 360." >>>. it's 10:00 here on the east coast. we begin tonight with breaking news. libya's muammar gadhafi on the brink of defeat which is good to hear but possibly will go planning a big final offensive against libyan civilians. the prospect of an unpredictable, perhaps even mentally unstable dictator lashing out. cnn's barbara starr broke the story. one u.s. official telling her "he could be planning for a last stand". another saying it could put civilians in the cross hairs. both officials say they don't know what form a final offensive might take. recent nato air strikes are clearly upping the ante. our people there telling us they are under way again tonight, loud explosions being heard in tripoli within the past hour. opposition forces telling us they're making use of the air attacks to try to make progress on the ground. those forces now in the middle of a major push on zawhi, the keyport city on tripoli's doorstep. fierce artillery fire could be heard today. opposition fighters telling our sara sidener they could become m

now anderson cooper with "ac now anderson cooper with "ac 360" and he's in somalia. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm coming to you from kenya's refugee camp across the border from somalia. fighting and famine have driven nearly half a million somalis to this camp in this area and the areas surrounding it. giving it the terrible distinction of being the largest refugee camp right now on the entire planet. as is almost always the case, this is by and large a manmade disaster. a bad drought, the worst drought in 60 years made worst by extremist muslim terrorists who control much of southern somalia where the worst famine is. as is also the kargs it is the children who are dying. 29,000 children under the age of 5 have died in somalia in the last 90 days. none of them had to die. tonight we'll take you inside this human catastrophe and show you the people trying to end it. we begin elsewhere the breaking news. >>> today's market meltdown in the united states. and we're watching what happens to markets coming up. we're looking live at the tokyo stock exchange just now, open for tuesd

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. >>> "anderson cooper 360" coming up at the top of the hour. anderson with us for a preview.us about the shocking series "ungodly discipline" an amazing story out of california. tell us more. >> there's a little girl 7 years old, she didn't have to die, she was beaten to death by her parents in california. all the other family members are in foster care. the parents have been arrested. a book found in her parents' home taught that god wants parents to spank their kids and the spanking wasn't just spanking with your hand. it should involve a belt or a rod and be hard enough to cause real physical pain. and what's interesting is that many people are now preaching this kind of message from the pulpit. i want you to listen to an audio recording of a sermon given just last month from a man named roger voglin the leader of the fair haven baptist church in indiana. >> the writings and scriptures never carefully define but it's obviously some kind of switch or stick. and this is it. it's designed to give a sharp, unpleasant pain. if that isn't the result of your spanking, then you're

. >>> anderson cooper 360 coming up at the top of the hour. who is here with a preview. >> keeping them honest. michele bachmann appears to be running from her past statements on gays and lesbians. how she's dodging the questions all the while insisting she's not judging anyone, but is that what her past statements actually show? keeping them honest. >>> also tonight president obama on a three-day swing through three midwest states, but are these campaign stops or presidential bus tour? the white house saying it's a listening tour to hear americans about the economy. republicans say it is pure politics, not policy. and guess who's paying for it. so the commander in chief or campaigner in chief on the road? raw politics tonight. up close tonight, sheer terror. the indiana state fair. you've probably seen the video. concert goers running for their lives. officials knew bad weather was on the way. how did this happen? investigation is under way. we'll bring you the late details. those stories and the ridiculous at the top of the hour. >> see you

a bit earlier anderson cooper asked matthew about the absolute lowest point in the ordeal. >> reporter: it is difficult, anderson, to say which was the worst time. i think it was probably -- because there were so many of them. we were lying on our bellies at one point, hoping the shells that were coming into the compound weren't going to hit us. there were snipers firing into the hotel at various points during the fight, basically we were kept there against our will. but i think the worst time was when we realized quite early on in the situation we found ourselves in that we'd lost control of the situation, that all these scenarios started playing out in our heads. we started getting paranoid that we could be used as human shields if gadhafi's remnants of his army decided to use the hotel to make their last stand. maybe we were going to be taken prisoner properly. maybe we were going to be executed. we didn't know. all these things were ticking through our heads. and it's when we realized that this could end really badly for us. when that sank into us, i think that was the sort of turn

"ac 360" with anderson cooper starts right now. breaking news right now on hurricane irene. north carolina will be next to encounter it. the warnings went up this afternoon, then after that more than 50 million people, the entire northeast seaboard right in the storm's projected path. chad myers joins us with the latest. >> the pressure is going down, anderson. and that's bad. the lower the pressure, the higher the wind speed. now, there's hurricane hunter aircraft in there right now. it did not find any increased wind speed yet. so sometimes the pressure goes down and then the winds build. but there's the eye right there from the miami radar site. so it's not all that far away. we've had outer bands coming onshore in florida for most of the day. there's another outer band offshore right now if you're standing on the beach you may be able to see the lightning in the distance. i hope you're not on the beach at this point, though, because the waves are getting much larger. you get that 115-mile-per-hour wind out there, the waves are being generated and there's going to be a lo

it is now been 21 years and it is just extraordinary to see what is left of this city. >> anderson cooperhe ground live in mogadishu, "ac 360" coming up at the top of the hour. then again at 10:00 p.m. in the east. anderson doing fabulous reporting. >>> the president is back at the white house today after one of his most sober, somber duties as commander in chief, traveling to dover air force base in delaware to welcome home the remains of 30 americans -- 30 americans -- killed in the deadliest day in the ten-year afghan war, that's next. [ vending man ] hi there! that's not going to satisfy you. come on. it's time for a better snack. try this. it's yoplait greek. it has two times the protein of regular yogurt. you'll feel satisfied. [ female announcer ] yoplait greek. it is so good. oh, and there's a smile. [ martin luther king jr. ] i still have a dream that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream today! [ male announcer ] chevrolet is honored to celeb

anderson cooper 360 starts right now. >> good evening, everyone. major news on two front tonight. breaking news at home. aftershocks from the totally unexpected east coast earthquake, and a massive hurricane headed our way. moammar gadhafi speaking out. he hasn't been seen since this video taken two months ago. a local tripoli radio station broadcast a taped message in it, he vowed march tir dom or victory. he said the retreat from his compound was a tactical move. just breaking right now over the computer wires, we're seeing from reuters, mousi ibrahim, the government spokesperson, who was in the hotel with other journalists, but fled yesterday. he is saying to reuters, now the mission is to just liberate tripoli gradually, our men are assuring me, it will only get easier them are trying to turn libya into the next iraq. central tripoli under the influence of gangs. they have been using them to describe the opposition fighters. clashes this morning in tripoli. some of our men died, but for the rebel side, tens died. 65 just from this morning. our armed forces will regain control