mr. piers morgan. cathy lee has a few days off this week.ice to have you. >> i'm disappointed she is not here. i thought by now we would have this going. what is this? >> this is a mardi gras cake sent from new orleans. the whole deal is this seems early for mardi gras, but this is the official sort of kick off to the mardi gras season. >> hoda, you do not get a body like this eating cake. sitting in for kathy lee. i loved my time with hoda. and the reason was i think you and your cakes gave me the perfect preparation for interviewing people like mahmoud ahmadinejad. >> can i say how fun it was? you have a weird way, i have to point out, when we had a guest, it started off fun and somehow you found a way to curve in and go right for it. i remember taking note when i watched you do it. >> what i loved about you on there, it's interesting about the premise of your book, really smart, underpinning it is a love of news and journalism. that's really what you're about. >> i spent my whole career traveling the world and covering great stories and i

. >> cnn host piers morgan calls gun owners of america's larry pratt unbelievably stupid, a representative of mr us in a few minutes. 10:45 this program, this day. >>> my generation, we the baby bomber -- baby boomers have changed social behavior not all for the good. here's my take on marriage and having children. first some really startling numbers. 51% of adults are married, that's it, just half. a generation ago, it was 72%. clearly there's been a huge decline in the numbers getting and staying married. and by the way, the less you are educated, the less likely you are to be married. as for having children, another shock, 41% of births are to unmarried women. a total reversal of what used to be the norm. and the result is that more than a third of our children are being raised in single parent homes. look, i'm making no moral judgment here. but the shift in our morality has had a big impact. our economy, our financial expectations, and especially our politics have been affected. how do you pay the bills in a single parent family? how do you accumulate wealth? why not ask for help from the go

mr. clean." he made nike commercials with a halo on his head. it's all about the bike. it wasn't about the bike. it was about the drugs and the cheating. >> piers morgan.m. eastern later tonight. "piers morgan tonight." dr. gail saltz, thanks to you as well. >>> we're going to have a lot more on this story later this hour. we'll talk with judy smith, an expert in crisis public relations. she actually inspired the tv drama "scandal". >>> and also up next, they've been compared to a virtual scrip search. now the tsa makes a major announcement about this airport body scanner. >>> two reporters are killed while covering syria's civil war. kate's here. she has that and the other day's top stories. >> french officials confirm the death of a veteran war reporter described as a battlefield junkie. syrian opposition groups say he was killed by government troops in aleppo. and al jazeera's reporter says its reporter was killed by a sniper in daraa province. >>> also philadelphia police have a suspect in custody after a brutal attack on a subway platform. this video is disturbing. the woman in the surveillance video only suffered minor scrapes and bruises after

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mr. ross. >>> all day long here we've been focusing on the psychology of why we cheat and not entirely unrelated to cheating you have former governor mark sanford sitting down with piers morgan tonight. he's just announced he's running for congress. don't miss it tonight. that's it for me. be back here at the same time tomorrow. i'm brooke baldwin. let's go to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> breaking news the fate of american captives in an engineer yeah clouded in chaos. an operation to free the foreign hostages has reportedly ended amid word that some were forced to wear explosive vests. >>> a star football player says he's the victim of a sick joke but some taken in by the joke say manti te'o has some explaining to do about his dead girlfriend who never existed. >>> and president obama will take the oath of office on the same bible that abraham lincoln used. we'll give you a close look at this extraordinary piece of american history. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> let's begin this hour with the breaking news. algeria's official news agency has just announced the end of a rescue operation aimed at freeing hostages including americans held by