the next one is from anderson cooper, host of "anderson cooper 360." >> steve: love it. >> jimmy: yeahmay have missed this week. >> in mitt romney's own words i quote, "a david hasselhoff concert should be required for all american children." [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: he's still on tour? >> jimmy: you didn't know that? >> steve: i didn't know that, but now i do because i saw it's boiled down to the essence of what i should see. >> jimmy: yeah. >> steve: so they should call that like "anderson cooper 3-6," because it's not the whole 360. >> jimmy: just 3-6. you take out like, 36 degrees. name your five favorite concerts. >> steve: my five favorite concerts are probably the beatles at shea stadium. maybe the who and jimi hendrix at woodstock. hasselhoff. [ laughter ] can i stop it at three? >> jimmy: it counts for two. it counts for two. thas

>> i was a little bit jealous of anderson cooper and other reporters batting the elements.ust wanted to, you know, show them that i could hack it. i could be cnn's sanjay gupta of storms. you know, storm-jay gupta! (cheers and applause) >> jon: you set up a rain machine inside the cob srepbgs center. >> it's mostly spit and beer. see, these people really don't like "the daily show." or "the last air bender." it was m. night shyamalan, it was a good script! >> jon: all right, thank you. aasif mandvi. i hate to say this but the whole "we built it" chant thing... it's a little call and responsey. maybe it's the crushing humidity or the really rick did hroubg humidity but... (laughter). i'm kind of getting into it. let me address the convention. let me see if i can address the people there and see if i can get into this theme. all right, ready? a convention theme at a political campaign cynically based around something the president never actually said. >> we built it! we built it! we built it! >> yes, you did build that. no one can take it away from you. all right, let me try

down in new orleans, and anderson cooper is live there with hurricane isaac. anderson, back to you. >> piers, thank you very much. i'm here with meteorologist rob marciano and for folks who are not tuned into this carefully what we are looking at for the next couple of hours. >> we are looking at a hurricane that made one looking at a hur one of the southern most spots and it's over water and it's about to make second landfall. new orleans on the north side of this, that's the worst side. that's why we've been hit with these sheets of heavy, heavy rainfall and gusts up to 60 miles per hour. with that, over 2,000 people without power. >> chad, in terms of the big picture, over the next eight hours here in new orleans, until 8:00 a.m., i think you were saying before, what are we looking for? >> on and off, exactly what you are feeling right now. when a rain band comes over your area, whether it's over biloxi or mobile, when the rain stops, the wind literally stops as well. the eye will travel to the north and to the west, probably right over baton rouge, to the w

so, anderson cooper is going to have some tough questions about that.d, muscle-bound man apparently in a new york city park. >> nobody is really sure exactly when the pictures were snapped. but of course, the question becomes, why would anybody care about this guy before it came out that he was anderson cooper's boyfriend. >> the tabloid always care. -- always cares. >> always, always, also. >>> all right. miley cyrus, you know, she was known for the long, long locks a long time ago. well she has gone blond and short. >> wow, check it out. >> yes, this is her new twitter picture. she says -- i never felt more me in my whole life. what do you think about it? >> you know what, the first time i have seen the picture. i wanted to be surprised. expecting to go it looks terrible. looks kind of cool. i don't think she will keep it a long, long time. a good palate cleanser. >> her hair stylist, chris mcmillan, gave the famous rachel haircut to jennifer aniston. the rachel. maybe this will be called the miley. >> what do you think? do you like it? >> i think it'

anderson cooper if you remember some pictures surfaced of his boyfriend and another guy. >> smoochingl park. people were wondering if anderson and his boyfriend have an open relationship. apparently, they don't. because "life & style" reporting that they were vacationing in the adriatic sea when anderson heard about the makeout session. in central park. he reportedly, he threw his boyfriend off the ship, with he's commiserating with andy cohen and kelly ripa. it has got to be humiliating for him. >>> some couples' news -- jennifer aniston and fiance, details about their engagement last friday. >> lay it on me. >> got down on one knee, happened at blue hill in greenwich village, his 41st birthday, and aniston welled up at the sight of the ring. one source telling "people" magazine, they looked like a long-term couple in love. >> how about that? >>> we got another love story. you ready. you done? jimmy kimmel. >> in love. >> in love. he proposed -- his girlfriend, molly mcnierney, co-writer on the show, "jimmy kimmel live" and celebrity news site people.com reporting 44-year-old kimmel

anderson cooper joins us live from oak creek, wisconsin. ly members say that they were not surprised by his act of bravery. what else did you learn from talking with that family? >> reporter: they did say that. they said th was the kind of thing that he was known to do. he cared so much about this temple and about the community and would dedicate so much of his time in order to try to help the community. he actually, they id, grabbed a butter knife. that was the only thing he could get, and tried to use that against the attacker. we're still trying to learn more details about exactly what happened inside that temple. police actually do have surveillance footage from security cameras that they are going over. that obviously has not yet been released to the public. and we now know that the funerals are going to be on friday for all six of the victims and the family is trying to raise money for some of those families because some of the families don't have much in the way of resources, even to pay for those funerals. they set up a website calle

not an ideal situation here in tampa and a terrible situation possibly in new orleans where anderson cooper is. anders anderson. >> thanks very much. i'm here with rob marciano. we're starting to see an increase in the wind and rain in the last minute or two. i'll talk to rob about what that may mean but i'm understanding we have a new update on the storm. so let's go to chad myers at the weather center. what have you learned? >> reporter: every two hours now the hurricane center will update us. and we've just learned that an oil rig in the gulf of mexico at 279 feet, just mad a wihad a wi to 106 miles an hour. you have to understand that's about the top of a 30th floor building. and there are 30 floor buildings in new orleans. there it is right there moving very close to the delta into the southern part. i would say that's just about where the delta comes together with the mississippi. here eat mississippi river all the way down and then into the gulf of mexico. lake bourne and lake pontchartrain, ed lavendera is right on this beach. farther to the north, anderson cooper right along the ri

and mr anderson. cooper arrested mr imus. we will just be there was a decision. that. should be understood by the world. and everybody knew that it was coming the magistrate informed. me. that we were charged with violations of several indian was generally related to the language which mr anderson had been arrested on charges of criminal and constructive negligence offenses carrying a possible two year jail sentence and theoretically no chance of bail even the company's lawyer could see the man as they were confined and resting was a. sign of a problem. representative of the u.s. government to lend any assistance possible trying to determine the union carbide has been arrested since he's here to try and solve a problem for missing a little at the magic pradesh state headquarters a senior official confirmed the government would be seeking compensation for damages and they launched a bitter attack on union carbide this government going after a minute helpless victim of the tragedy. and knows its duty towards thousands of innocent citizens whose lives have been slowed. dr

anderson cooper is there back in 2005. >> he's joining us with the latest waiting for isaac along the gulf coast. anderson? >> wolf and erin, i am at the 17th street canal. the water is held back by one of the levees that broke and failed when hurricane katrina hit the city, since then, $10 billion has been spent on repairing and strengthening new orleans levees. you can see when the floodgates that are behind me and been rebimt. now seven years after, they are going to be tested possibly. isaac is getting stronger. forecasters say it will be a hurricane and very soon. new orleans could be feeling tropical storm force winds tonight. we're starting to feel the wind blowing more than it was two hours ago. the storm is moving slowly and not expected to make landfall until wednesday. mandatory evacuations are ordered for mississippi and louisiana along low-lying areas and thousands are heading inland. a lot more will be hunkering down for the storm. la governor, bobby jindal will be on the republican party's rising stars. he is staying home and not going to the convention. watch. >> i wil

anderson cooper you are a cad and a bounder of highest order and i thank to you fetch my coach. good day, simple burton why are you being coy say it. mitt romney gives wives cancer. >> the point is to tell the impact that mitt romney had on the lives of thousands of people. when he came to town they lost their jobs, health care and pension best -- benefits and that is still felt. >> jon: stop the (bleep). mitt romney is the leading cause of wife cancer. own it. if burton won't stand behind the ad maybe white house spokesman jay carney will. >> i wonder if the president believes mitt romney shares responsibility in the death. >> i haven't seen the ad i can't respond it to. >> carney told me he may look at the ad but if i asked about it he would say my assessment is i have no assessment. >> jon: you are truly as crafty as the circus people who bear your name, jay carney. [ laughter ] don't think you'll escape the wrath of team romney. >> obviously it's unfortunate when anyone loses their job. it was a plant closed years after governor romney left the company. >> jon: who who of co

michael feped had 16 in his collection before going into this game and showed them to anderson cooper. some of them he keeps wrapped in an old t-shirt. >> that's not one of my normal activities. >> and after the u.s. silver medal in the relay the other night, his cap was up to 17. the stlesh hold of something that had never been done before. only a russian gymnast had ever won more. and she told phelps that she thought he'd surpass her and she still considers herself the greatest o lirp yan ever. phelps was in two races, first, the 200 meter butterfly. he was leading until his last stroke. he was beaten by .05 of a second. still, the silver tied for the all-time olympic record. in the second race, a free style relay, there was no suspension. just domination. phelps swam the anchor leg in a convincing u.s. victory. another gold. his fifth to go with two silvers and two bronzes. 19 medals. american fans knew they had seen something no one had ever seen before and may never see again. phelps almost didn't make it to london after his record 8 golds in beijing, he fell off the training wag

fran townsend told our anderson coop cooper, she believes the u.s. needs to move with more urgency in syria. >> reporter: the longer we wait to act, the more radicalized the syrian population becomes. they've been tortured, abused by their own leader. they will turn to whoever can provide them weapons, food. if that's al qaeda, that's who they'll turn to. >> the state department said yesterday it had set aside $25 million for non-lethal assistance to the syrian rebels with another $64 million in humanitarian assistance going to the syrian people. >> we're going to have a live report from turkey on that coming up shortly. >>> 4 minutes past the hour. extreme weather threatens to ruin a lot of tropical vacation plans. rob marciano is tracking the storm's path. looks really active there. >> finally it's been about a month. we got off to a gang buster start of the season. went through four named storms and we had a month break. now we're into august and things will start ramping up. this is tropical depression number five. it is about 500 miles east of t

i'm anderson cooper at the tampa bay times forum. >> i'm wolf blitzer. we have a lot to report coming up. it's time to take a closer look, first of all, at cnn's documentary, "romney revealed." including some moments from the interview we haven't seen before. we're also following very important developments with tropical storm isaac. look at this. the center of the storm now is expected to move away from the florida keys tonight and spend monday in the eastern gulf of mexico. expected to be hurricane strength by tuesday as it approaches the u.s. gulf coast. forecasters say it could hit new orleans tuesday night or early wednesday. that would be the anniversary of hurricane katrina. officials declared a state of emergency. louisiana governor bobby jindal is asking for voluntary evacuations in low-lying areas. we'll have a complete updated forecast in a little while. anderson, this is very, very worrisome. >> remarkable to think it could hit on the anniversary of hurricane katrina. florida breathing a sigh of relief. now, the focus turned to the gulf coast

fran townsend telling our anderson cooper she believes the u.s. needs to move with more urgency in syria. >> the longer by wait to act, the more radicalized the syrian population becomes. they have been tortured. they have been abused by their own leader. they will turn to whom ever can provide them weapons, food, and if that's al qaeda, that's who they'll turn to if they're on the ground. >> in the meantime syrian president assad is trying to rally his troops. the state run news agency is calling on the forces to restore stability to the country as fighting with rebel troops in aleppo intensifies. six weeks before the aurora movie theater massacre red flags about suspected shooter james holmes may have been missed. according to cnn affiliate kmgh a psychiatrist was so concerned about holmes she contacted the university of colorado's threat assessment team. dr. lynne fenton apparently believed he could be a danger to others. a few days later he dropped out of school and no further action was taken. kmgh's investigative reporter spoke to anderson c

i'm anderson cooper in new orleans. politics is taking a back seat to personal safety.rm is on the way. >> i want to give you the latest on hurricane isaac. what will be hurricane isaac right now, it is a tropical storm. the national hurricane center says it will be a hurricane very soon. the storm's maximum sustained winds are 70 miles an hour. just four miles an hour under hurricane strength. a hurricane warning stretch from east of morgan city, louisiana, right now, to the alabama, florida border. isaac's forward speed is only about ten miles an hour. and is expected to slow down. that means a lot of rain here. because of that and the normal high tide, a significant storm surge is expected along the northern gulf coast. manner to evacuations have been ordered along the coast of alabama, mississippi and alabama. low lying areas, thousands of people headed inland today. there is a lot to talk about. wolf will be covering it over the next hour and a half. let's go back to you in tampa. >> we also got a remarkable look at mitt and ann romney's faith, their struggles, the

i'm anderson cooper. i'm anderson cooper. >> saying i'm is just so weird. you look at number 13, steve? >> oh, number 13. >> that sounds bad. >> yeah. >> that sounds bad. >> couldn't you have picked 7 or something like that? [ chanting ] >> it is overwhelming when you go there. all of a sudden you see this monastery rising up into the heavens. you're looking at backs of birds because you're so high up. it's all designed to remind the monks about being as close to god as one can get on this earth. >> there's no question that filming polo is a challenge. >> we shot polo from the air from a helicopter. we put cameras on the ground and had the horses run over them. we shot from the back of a four-wheel motorbike with the camera on the end of a pole. john lee ran around like a maniac with a steady cam among is the horses during the cam. >> they put a camera at the end of the mallet which was a fabulous shot. >> in your opinion is the f-22 safe to fly? >> i am not comfortable flying in the f-22 right now. >> they were worried that the air force would come after t

"anderson cooper" starts now. >>> we begin tonight keeping them honest.arity, yet another charity that does a good job raising money and a great job paying the people who run it. as for actually helping the people they're claiming to help, america's wounded warriors, that's another question. it's a familiar question to any of our viewers who have been watching us and especially our correspondent drew griffin confront charities that take in millions while giving develops nearly nothing. in some cases, just some old shoes or bags of coconut m m &a& ms. trying to get people to explain how your donations, the money that you give, tens of millions of dollars in some cases, end up paying for candies and other useless knickknacks instead of making a difference in the lives of people who have made incredible sacrifices for us all. tonight they have found another one of these organizations. >> i got to ask you about the money though. i mean, that doesn't answer any of the questions about the money that they're -- that's it? that's all you're -- you're going to say

to say such a thing anderson cooper i do declare you are a cad and a bouncer of the had highest orderthink you ought to fetch my petticoat and coachman. good day, sir. >> good morning. it is friday, it is friday, august 10th. welcome to "morning joe." with us on set, we have the former governor of pennsylvania, and nbc news political analyst ed rendell, ed, good to see you. the chairman of deutsch incorporated, donny deutsch is here. hello, donny. >> hello. >> i'm surprised he's not vacationing somewhere. >> he is. >> yeah. >> every day is a vacation. >> every day is a vacation for donny. >> msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu and former democratic congressman harold ford jr. >> they're going to the same place this weekend. >> good morning. >> you both -- >> such gumption saying where we go -- >> going to the hamptons. >> you're in the most expensive enclave. >> that's not true. >> richest zip code. >> and makes up where i go. >> listen, you know what i do there. >> help kids in nantucket and garden. >> seriously, this is the story of my life. on romney's ledger a co

anderson cooper starts now. >> erin, thanks very much. we begin tonight keeping them honest with missouri congressman todd akin. tonight we're tracing the source of the medically absurd notion that landed him in hot water, that it's rare for rape victims, or as he said, victims of legitimate rape, to be pregnant. sex causes pregnancy, whether it's consensual sex or rape. as for congressman akin, he's not bowing out of the race against missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill, despite growing calls from fellow republicans. before going any further, though, here's what he said that started this controversy when asked if he thought abortion should be legal in cases of rape. >> from what i understand from doctors, that's really rare. if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. but l'sassume thatbe that didn work or something you know, thi there shod be some punish. but the punhmt to on theapistndot ch >>ll congressman akin yesterday went on some radio shows and said he used the, quote, wrong w

here is anderson cooper with more. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: this is the aftermath of a gunman openingfire in a crowded street in america. police say they fired at this man identified at 58-year-old jeffrey johnson after he shot at them. at this point, he still appears to be alive. minutes before johnson, dressed in a business suit and carrying a briefcase navigated the crowds and pulled out a .45 caliber pistol. >> at 9:03 rks a disgruntled former employee at a company shot and killed a former co-worker, striking him three times. >> reporter: johnson was laid off as a women os accessory designer. his victim was a vice president there. police say johnson and him had a long standing dispute of allegations of harassment. they filed complaints against one another. a co-worker was walking next to him when they saw johnson lurking. she says i saw him pull a gun from his jacket and i thought oh my god, he's going to shoot him. steve screamed, jeff shot him and i ran. >> he flet with a .45 caliber handgun secreted in a black bag under his arm. a construction worker followed johnson from west

former speaker of the house is very much so supportive here of mitt romney and he spoke with anderson cooper last night. listen to this. >> you do think the actual wording under obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work, you wouldn't have to train for a job, they just send you a welfare check and that is not factually correct. >> we have no proof today, but i would say to you under obama's ideology is absolutely true. >> two words i want to point out, no proof. newt gingrich doing fact checking. how do you defend that? >> i think what you look at the executive order that came out. why did president obama ask the question? why did he feel like it was necessary to get rid of the work mandate and diminish that. >> the question i have is how do you defend that when you have newt gingrich saying no proof? >> i think that what i am doing is looking at the reason for this executive order and when you tell those states that you do not have to have this in place, then the states, and i was a state legislator. i was a state senator in tennessee. one of the things that helped with us our families first p

achael phelps had 16 in his nullection before going into these games, and showed them to anderson cooper "60 minutes." some of them he keeps wrapped in ilverd t-shirt. hed after the u.s. silver medal in the relay the other night, to count was up to 17. the threshold of something that had never been done before. only a russian gymnast from the 1950s and 60s, larisa latynina had ever won more and she told phelps the only time they met that she thought he'd surpass her, but still considers her not herself the greatest olympian ever. l t any more. phelps was leading in the about butterfly until the last stroke, but his face showed he was beaten by five 100th's of a second by chad le clos. still, it tied him for are the all time olympic silver record. co the second race a freestyle relay there was no suspense, just domination, phelps same the with t leg in a convincing u.s. twoory, another gold, his 15th to go with two silvers and two bronzes, 19 medals. neerican fans knew they had seen something no one had ever seen before, and may never see again. shelps almost didn't make it to indon, afte

eighteen percent down in total the orders for piers morgan tonight and thirty four percent down for anderson cooper three sixty well you may wonder why fewer people are tuning in well first of all there's this justices have just got it all the centerpiece provisions of the obama health care law if you know it's exact that's the final word on the individual mandate they could be a little bit more complicated as they say there's going to be some kids use it as there are conflicting reports coming in from inside this supreme court so let's let's i'm drawing any final conclusions i was reading through this again we are reading now that the entire law has been held and that is not all. their opinion is apparently hungry for chicken and controversy it's about a dialogue that's broader than the sick community it's about how we look at these issues as a country together well said are interesting thank you so much for joining us by the way appreciate it it's a. little thing going on the back story that is billy joel only be good die young. i guess they can't all be heads i suppose so what is the rating star

eighteen percent down and total viewers for piers morgan tonight and thirty four percent down for anderson cooper three sixty you might be wondering why they are seeing this drastic drop in ratings let's take a look at their coverage of the conflict in syria that's been raging on for fourteen months since then journalists from dozens of media outlets have often risk their lives to bring us pictures and firsthand accounts of the fighting that's led to what is now a full fledged civil war one of the latest accounts we've seen made breaking news on c.n.n. just this morning it was from c.n.n. journalist ben wedeman reporting from alabama. we are now going in the direction of the law dean where of course all of the fighting taking place with. the scene at the intersection that's right you're the second we're going through the intersection where he says to drive fast. so what i gather from this report is that it's a frightening scene outside the car and seems very concerned the first six minutes of this report are ben riding in the back of a van he eventually gets out there's a few quick interviews hav