let's go back to sam in lower manhattan. saying the sun could come out later today in manhattan as well, sam. >> we might actually get a little sunshine before the day is over, robin and george. let show you where the heaviest rain is, as we talk about the flooding that's about to happen over the next couple of dace. we know 37 river gauges in the northeast are expected to go to major flood stage by the time we get into just the next 48 hours or so. we're looking by tuesday to see all of this heavy rain collecting in the rivers and streams and really bringing those river levels up. that's northern new jersey on into pennsylvania. kind of that northern corner of pennsylvania. western new york state, central new york state and take a look at the dry edge that's coming in up underneath this storm. look how dry it is in southern new jersey right now, even though some of those rain bands. that's the story for the southeast today. from wilmington, beautiful weather all of the way up into new jersey. as we look at the big board we'

>> okay, sam. thank you. >>> let's go to where it's going to hit first, to outer banks of north carolina. matt gutman is there in the water. matt. >> reporter: hey, george. good morning. we're already starting to feel the awesome power of hurricane irene. the waves have been coming in higher and faster all morning. you can feel the power of them sucking you back out to sea. now, by late tonight we could expect to see 20-foot to 30-foot waves. they could scratch over the top of the pier. you can only imagine how dangerous it's going to be for thrill seekers trying to catch just a glimpse of hurricane irene. >> oh, my god. >> somebody just fell off. >> reporter: irene is already bringing violent rip currents and monster waves. watch as this wave left eight people injured as it rolled to shore off a south florida pier thursday. meanwhile, in the carolinas, others had to be pulled out of the water by jet skis. despite warnings to stay out of the water, surfers catching huge waves. most here are heeding

sam champion with the track right now. he's standing by in a moment and so is our team of correspondents. abc stations in the path of this storm. but we begin with matt gutman in north carolina tonight. good evening. >> reporter: we saw today how treacherous this storm could be, we went into the inner eye wall with a group of storm chasers and felt coming down like needles stinging us in the face and the wind made it impossible to walk, that's how powerful it was. we came back here and this this type of weather there is no safe place. that railing was ripped off into the ocean behind you and the atlantic there, that was a beach yesterday. the actual ocean was about 200 yards farther down. hurricane irene exploded into north carolina today, as a category 1 hurricane, blasting wind and rain. it weakened from peak strength but remains a massive storm, 700 miles wide and tonight, is already being blamed for at least four deaths in north carolina and virginia. >> never seen the waves that big out there. >> reporter: an 11-year-

you never can trust sam. that is something that sam could like to do. he is our little storm chaser now, sam? >> reporter: hey, robin, george. let te tell you, this storm irene has had a lot of different sides. down the coast, she was one storm. and now it's an a lot of wind and there is still come to the north. we still believe this storm will find itself next week in maine and canada. the west coast, something we want to talk about in the northwest. the 80s and 90s inland, comfortable in seattle, 77 there is heat warnings in central and >> every now a a then, you hear the sounds that make you jump around here. you hear tree limbs rattling and scaffolding shaking. we have to look at more wind than we have seen all day. >> it does sound a little more ominous. let's bring in brianna golodryga. >> the storm has passed. here is the work, the cleanup. we have -- i'm trying to highlight it. here is a mailbox. a car. a huge oak tree. obviously trees down in front of houses. mcdonald's is still opepe if waunt a hamburger in long island. and the water and the p

>> all right, sam. thank you. >>> joining us now is the director of the national hurricane center, bill read. and we'll get to the major cities sam was pointing out. but right now, i know a lot has changed in the last 24 hours. where is hurricane irene expected to make landfall here in the u.s. first? >> well, our u.s. sites now are on the carolinas. we went with our 5:00 a.m. advisory. and the watch covers most of the coast of north carolina up to the virginia state line. then after the next 24 to 48 hours we'll have to think further up the coast. >> when we tart thinking further up the coast, people here just now starting -- well, starting to settle in, they could be seeing the first hurricane in quite some time ofofhis magnitude, bill. >> this one is going to affect everybody as it goes up the coast. we don't see it moving far out to sea and skipping a few places in the past it skipped. >> you were e lking about the rainfall, the amount of water that hurricane irene has. >> well, as you can see on th

frankly when sam zell came along we thought maybe he has the answer.ed. we can figure out. he comes along in says you cannot cut your way out of gro this you have to growglin revenue we're all struggling to do this but in the end, the deficit was so narrow if we miss projections by 2%, that yousaf would not get any kind of funding gore benefits for five years. it is that close so finally went to bankruptcy in right now these papers are far better off in bankruptcy gore them when they get out because when awn they get out they will be owned by thethey banks and they don't want to be in the bankruptcy -- newspaper business but theycu want their money back and will cut. it is a grim situation. >> is there any jack daniel's around here? i was going to meet my wife later but send it up. [laughter] sam zell can be a convenient foil dividend the larger personality but to what by extent should there be a fair amount of responsibility shared by the previous tribune company board of directors? including the bastions of the chicago community you undoubtedly thought they were a folding

you know, he was under pressure from sam to put the savings to the bottom line. i kept saying we need to reup vest that in the paper. i started to convert the paper from a news organization that broke stories online and explained and amized them in the paper. we needed investment. no one was giving me the investment. i said i cut budgets five years now. i know how to do it well. this is not working. you cut the budget, things get worse. we need to take this -- i did a couple things with a couple sections that generated new revenue, and i wanted to go through the paper and examine each section and generate more revenue and try to deal with the problem with the balance of budget cuts and revenue enhancements, and he didn't want to go that way, and so he decided that, you know, he was going to make a transition, and so david always said, you know, he still says i didn't fire you. i said, well, i don't know because i had never been fired before, but when somebody takes you to lunch and they say to you, i'm going to put somebody else in your job, i kind of think that

sam plans to do it in two. that means he will need to cover 44 miles a day for 60 days. that's over 100 marathons with no days off. >> somewhere around 100 to 150 people attempt the entire trail each year and between 30 and 40% finish it. >> reporter: sam has been training for the past 11 months with a challenge he knows will test him physically as well as mentally. >> i don't think you can actually prepare for something like. >> >> reporter: so why are you doing this incredibly grueling trek? >> to thank my mom and to honor her. >> reporter: sam's mother was diagnosed with parkinson's disease 10 years ago. he is doing the stroke raise a quarter of a million dollars for the michael j. fox foundation for parkinson's research. so how do you think she will feel when she sees you finish in mexico? have you thought about that moment? >> yeah. i have. that's kind of like the number one image that i call upon at mile 35 on a long day. >> so are people telling you you're crazy for doing this? >> sure. i hope they do. i hope they continue to because that's one of the reasons i ch

>> all right, sam. thank you. >>> coming up, what really happened to the american woman that vanished in aruba? brand-new details about the final hours before she disappeared. it's a "gma" exclusive. >>> and mom in the hot seat. a jury verdict handed down in the trial of the parent using spicy sauce as punishment. do you think she should go to prison? >>> plus, the other side of that wild shark tale. dad and son reeled that in in that itty-bitty kayak. they're all here. and mom tells her side of the story, live. food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, augh. when are we going to eat? ♪ [ woman ] we didn't know where to go next with eric's adhd. his stimulant medicine was helping, but some symptoms were still in his way. so the doctor kept eric on his current medicine and added nonstimulant intuniv to his treatment plan. [ male announcer ] for some children like eric, adding once-daily nonstimulant intuniv to their stimulant a "gma" exclusive. they're all here and mom tells . don't take if allergi

>> sam brower, who is warren jeffs? >> warren jeffs is the self-proclaimed prophet of the fundamentalist church jesus christ of latter day saints. he followedin his fathers footsteps was was a prophet before him. and kind of took that religion and the idiosyncrasies to new levels, new heights. >> what do you mean by that? >> they practice polygamy, for one thing, which is illegal in all 50 states. >> it is illegal? >> it is illegal in all 50 states. >> in utah? >> in utah as well. and because of that i think there is this cast of marrying underage little girls. it's kind of a reward system that's been going on now, well, when warren came into power in 2002, it started mushrooming, getting worse and worse and worse. >> when you say he came into power, how did he come into power? >> when warren was a young man, he was kind of an odd duck. he was his father's favorite son. his father took a shine to him, and his father had dozens of sons, but took a shine to warren. and warren was made headmaster of their private school sy

>> all right, sam, thank you. hurricane itself is basically an east coast story, but the traveve disruptions fro it is a national onone, global e in fact. thousands of flights have been grounded and it's going to get worse over the weekend. abc's t.j. is covering the ripple effects from all of in this morning at new york's laguardia airport. t.j., good morning to you. it's empty there. >> reporter: i should say it is a ghost town up here in departures. no big surprise, 24,000 flights canceled already this weekend because of irene stranding thousands of frustrated passengers across the country. now, here in new york, the last departures are scheduled for 10:00 p.m. tonight. that's, of course, weather permitting. down in philadelphia, however, their airport will close at 6:00 p.m., not taking any chances. hurricane irene may not be listed on those flight monitors, but its arrival is grounding planes up and down the east coast. >> we have no idea what could happen. i don't know that anybody's actually ready for this

uncle sam has the first lean on all productivity in the country. every bit of it. if you have earnings, savings or investment, if you punch a time clock, if you have a pass book savings, if you have dividends or interest payments that are coming your way or a state that's coming your way or if you have capital gains that's coming your way, how about the rent check for an apartment complex that you might have invested in, how about the per acre rent on a farm, how about anything you might sell that you've produced whether you've got a lemonade stand or whether you're the donald, uncle sam is going to tax your productivity, he stands there by that time card -- time clock day after day and when you go to work on monday morning at 8:00 and you punch the time clock you hear that thunk and his hand comes out of his pocket and he holds it out and you go to work and each dollar you earn goes into his hand until uncle sam has enough to satisfy his appetite for the fruits of your labor. when that moment comes and that day, you punch the time card and get a clock at 8:00, it

sam is back, tracking the latest on the storm. >>> air show shocker. a wing walker falls hundreds of feet to his death after trying a stunt. the inside story from a weekend of catastrophes. >>> and hollywood's wedding of ththyear. beaming bride kim kardashian says a lavish "i do." what happened behind the scenes. our lara spencer was there. >>> good morning, everyone. and want to get right to what's happening in tripoli right now. it's sheer chaos. no sign of gadhafi. rebels are combing the capital for him as we speak. firefights reported earlier near his compound. rebels trying to storm it. >> it's the final battle. but a top u.s. official on the ground all weekend tells us that gadhafi is already part of libya's past. said that his regime is beyond the tipping point. the rebels now occupy 95% of the city. there are clashes right now in green square at gadhafi's pals and the hotel where all the journalists are holed up. in a minute we'll speak with one right in the midide of the fi t fight. we begin with abc's jeffrey kofman. >> reporter: this is the

to sam? let geese back to sam in lower manhattan. >> even though we have strong gusty winds, these are strong winds behind the system as well. even though the skies are opening up, we are not done with the effects of the storm. let's show you the rest of the country as well. quick look at rar. just to give you a health check. the heavy rain/look first at the dry air, pulling in new york. and long island and on on the western end of long island, the rain band in the middle. the part. the yellow i want to talk about. we are not done with the flooding yet. and we have that in central new york state, connecticut, new hampshire, vermont involved in that, maine. and saturated ground inches and inches of water. the storm is going to deliver big time on flooding. familiarly inland areas. the big heat scorcher dallas 108 degrees continue. san angelo as well. phoenix, 109. pnchts. >> and we are live in lower manhattan as a really chilly air, a strong wind. this is probabay one of the strongest winds we

thank you so much. >>> back over to sam now. sam? >> good to see some good news. a little bit of good news, if you're dealing with flooding and cleanup, skies aren't going to rain over for the next four, five days. this is what usually ends up in the weather pattern. when this storm pulls away what's left of irene, what you're going to get is a shot of fresh, clean, cool air that drops through the region. new york will stay near the 80-degree mark for the next five, six, seven days. 78 in philly today. buffalo, 75. here's where the heat keeps going. we're talking about dallas. and by the way, dallas is just maybe six days away from breaking their all-time record of their number of 100-degree days in one yeah. if you want to impress your friends or win a bet today, that's 69 days. then, phoenix, vegas, also into palm strings today, excessive heat warnings go on. quick look at the big board right there. that's the weather around the nation. >> more weather in the next half-hour. the first time in about eight days that we haven't had a tropical system on our map. so,

. >> sam rockwell. what the sam hell are you doing here? it's a free country. >> this is illegal. i'm shutting you down. >> not so fast. >> you wouldn't dare. >> try me. ♪ [ gunshots ] >> give it up, goncho! >> watch it! >> hey, matchstick man! ♪ la, la, la, le, la, le, la >> hey! >> don't do it. >> ow! >> see what you did? see what you did? you play rough. >> end of the road, rockwell. >> guess again! well, the tables are turned! >> i suppose they have. >> dang it. >> so long, sam. ♪ >> ahh! >> no! no! no! >> suck it, fav! suck it! >> ahh! >> oh. justin. i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry. >> it's so cold. >> sleep. sleep. why! why! >> back to you, jimmy. [ applause ] >> jimmy: our deepest sympathies to the long familyly we have a good show for you tonight. from "cowboys and aliens," adam beach is here. we have music from chris young. and we'll be right back with olivia wilde, so stick around. vo: buy a fridge for college. get a free ice tray. or -- buy a pc for college. get a free xbox 360®. get yours at windows.com/freexbox. buy a futon for coll

sam is just shaking his head as always, sam. >> and totally skeeved out by the bug.y much, we'll be here all week. let's show you what's going on with the big heat. oklahoma city, the most 100-degree days you've ever had before. houston, as well. by the way, good morning, houston. this is your hottest august ever. these numbers will continue, 99 is probably a record in denver. here where the thunderstorms roll for minneapolis, green bay, chicago, peoria, all of this is a lot of hail and a lot of lightning and damaging wind and this could be the front that when it gets to the coast shows you how everything is connected that knocks that hurricane out of the way for the northeast. we've got all hopes on all these weather patterns. >> gorgeous weather in the northeast. coming up we'll take a look at the "gma" 3-d view of hurricane irene. >> okay, and looking forward to that. >>> david letterman back on the air for the first time sinin an islamic terrorist posted an online threat calling on believers to break his neck and paralyze his tongue, but as abc's rob nelson repor

let's go to abc's weather itor sam champion right now. what about it, sam? what happened? >> reporter: good evening, diane. well, a hurricane always has three punches with it. it comes with wind, rain and a storm surge. we expected all three of those to be tightly together as this storm made its track right up the coastline. but this storm didn't just make one hit on the coastline. it made three hits. and each time it did, north carolina, new jersey and then new york, the storm weakened a little bit. and couldn't sustain its strength. so, finally, when it made that last hit in the new york area running across the island, it just exploded. and threw all that wind off the east side of the storm and then threw all that rain off the west side of the storm. that's why we've got all that flooding going on inland. diane? >> so, the surprise is making three hits. did everyone overreact or not, sam? >> reporter: well, you've got to forecast it on the track that is hurricane center does, and it seems to me, if we learned anything tonight, diane, it's that the models don't do a good

hey, sam. >> good morning. haiti and the dominican republic with very heavy rain in the mountains and 50-mile-per-hour winds. we know the storm is on the move to the north, since we last spoke with you about it. so, it's got a slight north-northwest edge. and all the models whereret is going once it comes across the end of haiti. once that happens, the path it is put on, it passes within 90 miles of the east coast of florida. closest to it, probably west palm beach by the time we get to sunday morning. and then curves back out but a very close path to florida the way it looks now. and it'll be forced to go all the way around the edge of it and think now it's finally caught up with the motion that the e rricane center has for it. gorgeous in seattle, beautiful day. i know it's slow. but it'll get there in the new york city area. atlanta to dallas in the deep south, numbers even to phoenix well above 100. atlanta, first tim almost friday, george. and all that weather was brought to you by fiber choice. >> almost.

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thanks. >>> sam with the weather. sam? >> that's becacae the pop news heat index was so hot.ith live shot of dallas. by the way, talk about heat, these folks -- it's like everything broken at 105 and above. it's going to stay that way this week. and austin is like 106 today. as well. 107 in dallas. and here's the bigger deal, yeah, the high temperatures in the afternoon are bad. but every morning, they have been slamming their warmest morning temperatures, ever, and that continues in texas, oklahoma, arkansas during the day and during the week, really, here are where the thunderstorms will roll. it feels perfect right here in times square. later on today, there will be storms rolling in. it's gorgeous on the west coast today. so nice. the northwest, seatac area comes in about 74 degrees. that's the weather around the >>> here's what's ahead on the gma morning menu -- would you do it? giving birth at home. it was something that they did the old days. now more new moms are choosing it. not going to the hospital giving birth at home. >>> also this morning -- it's time, never tim

community so i don't think that they will manage alone because i mean the we have to give them some sams and we have to help them but from a distance not like they did in iraq but from a distance and i think europe and america has such an. experience to help countries like here in transition but this i mean. i mean this money first first of all it should be used to reconstruct the country i hope you agree with me and then and then i'm sure that the european wouldn't just give my new without some monitoring and you know the teensy actually they have promised to be very very through parents. dealing with this money so if i if they see that they don't keep their promises so maybe they will change i mean well as well as with the russian regardless of where all this money is going whether there be any harder for whether it's going to be absolutely taken care of whether it's going to infrastructure whether it's going to the new transitional government we were you know the rebel leader is meeting with the italian leader he's met with the french leader the main subject on the table that of very

abc weather specialist sam champion is standing by in battery park. flooding in lower manhattan. that's been a big concern, right? >> that's right. winds as well. but the winds in the leading edge of the storm weren't quite as strong as they are now as the center of the storm rolled past this. the flooding continued in the next couple of hours. we hit a high tide circle at about 8:00. we had reports of flooding in battery park n the lower east side. there's been reports from a 31-story building that had 15 feet of water on the inside of it. they were concerned what that might lead to. they pump thad water out. we've also heard reports part of the fdr was shut down. when i say fdr, i say it like someone who lives in new york. it's a major artery along the east side of manhattan where the bulk of the traffic will travel to get around the island of manhattan. a lot of that is shut down, because it sits right on the east river and there's flooding there as well. if the wind and rain is the end of irene, this is how it all started. overnight, the city that

down in washington, the "huffington post," sam stein. how are you? >> good. >> jaime is going to appear on "dateline." we are getting clips from his memoir. he's going to make people angry. he goes after colin power, condy rice and do we have the water boarding clip? he comes out and says i believe in what we did with water boarding. >> in your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? >> yes. >> no regrets? >> no regrets. >> should we still be water boarding terror suspects? >> i would support using it if we had a high valued detainee. >> even though so many people condemned it and called it torture, you think it should be a tool? >> yes. >> reverend sharpton, what do you think about dick cheney coming out with a memoir where he worked so closely to people that are still around. >> it's interesting he would say he's going to make a lot of people angry. he always did. >> he's make other people angry. >> what i think is interesting is he used the memoir to go after people that served in the administration and who were loyal to the adminis

sam stovall, chief investment strategist for standard and poor's. and greg ip, u.s. economics editor of "the economist" magazine and author of "the little book of economics: how the economy works in the real world." lisa lynch, we'll start with you. we've looked at the numbers many times over the last month. some relief today? >> yes, certainly after all the drama we had over the past week, there was a collective sigh of relief when the numbers were released this morning. in particular when you look at the gains in private sector employment, 154,000 jobs added by the private sector. but at the same time, the headline number of just 117,000 net new jobs is only enough to keep up with the growth of the working age population. and really doesn't do anything to make a significant dent into the pool of 14 million workers out of work. >> brown: where did you see when you look at sectors, anything jump out at you in terms of growth or potential growth? >> well, the good news is in today's report a lot of the employment gains were distributed across different parts of the ec

his father died when sam was 36. until then, she had into a lazy to bring a living on his own but now he had to take control of the brewery and he quickly ran it into bankruptcy and allowed the family mansion to deteriorated. he seemed unconcerned with earning money, he married and fathered two children and after his wife's death, his championing of liberty brought himself a slave and raised his children in an abject poverty. his father fought him an easy job as a city tax collector to ensure his earning enough to feed his children and his slave but within a short time his ledgers showed a shortage of 800,000 pounds representing tax money he had either failed to collect or had embezzled. .. >> one time he wandered into the state assembly and drew his sword in challenge the prime minister of england to have a dual finally the french carried him to that insane asylum. despite the depravity and insanity the protest left adams in command of a powerful force of armed thugs but the repeal of the stamp act left him choking

i think he looked like a whipped dog in all pictures. >> sam?mage from the 2008 elections of barack obama is new york referred to him dressed up as an islamic extremist -- a controversial it would have been much better clip. that was a controversial cover in its own rite. >> how has the magazine sold this week? >> don't know yet. i'm sure it will reflect interest. what can i say? >> i'm assuming it will reflect -- how is barack obama doing right now? >> he is just, to me he seems a day late and a dollar short about everything. he didn't pick up the bowles-simpson recommendation and he should have. this is almost like a reflection of the whole barack obama problem. he said it's too long thinking he could somehow bring people to reason. as a result, he looked weak. you know, he's not firing all these people and killing everybody. now we know, this is a man we can't do business with. we can't. >> does president obama deserve to be reelected poll is just out. 47% say yes. >> good news for him. >> it is good news for him. >> 47% is good considering h

lyndon johnson talking to sam rayburn and sam rayburn was saying... lyndon was saying he'd been to his first cabinet meeting and he met robert mcnara and he went to sam rayburn and said "the smartest one there is the guy with the comb in his hair. he's smart." and sam rayburn said "i just one time wish he had run for dogcatcher." so politics matter and the capacity to understand where america is and how you can influence america and move it. but that's also what we expect from our best presidents, the pacity to use leadership to bring the people to demand policy reversals and policy change. i'll leave it at that. thank you. >> i was going to say, charlie, that what i've learned from this aside from some really, really art analysis by smart speak that i'm going to have to run for dog catch sore fareed n never accuse me again of being a professor who's never run for dogcatcher. >> i was trying to put anymore the company of sam rayburn when i hold that story. >> i areciate that! >> rose: thank you. pleasure. back in a moment. stay with us. we'll talk abo

sam and andy team up with mrs. shelby to frustrate slave catchers who are trying to capture fugitive slaves. they use minstrel techniques toward a subversive end to break the law. the law was the fugitive slave law which demanded fugitive slaves had to be recaptured so sam and andy can look like ms. minstrel clowns the were not. they were -- stowe was using minstrel techniques to s the law of th autopsy her weapoe a mosquito bite compared to the real chippings we use to get but when we think of that we realize how horrible all of that is. she doesn't know where she came from. she doesn't know her parents are. she doesn't even feel it anymore. stowe is using these minstrel techniques to subvert them into communicating a very serious message. >> as i was going through your book i started making a list of all the things that came up as the impact of "uncle tom's cabin". i have three pages. >> only three? >> i was noting as i went through things like the first american novel translated to chinese that they needed moder

sam champion, discovery channel storm chasers. let me start with you sam.up momentum. it's looking pretty much ominous now for new york city. you've been through a lot of these things. what's your take on it with everything you knowing right now? >> with everything i know right now, again this is a storm because we haven't had anything like this in new york city, new york city needs to take seriously and indeed it does and it's my impression. this is a storm that will carry water up against the coastline. we'll have those winds. i think it will be tropical storm if not category 1 storm surge, if it weakens it will be less. it strengths it will admonish. the big point of this and what i want to say is based on the track, track is responsible for the prep regulates. the track is responsible for the evacuations and the track is responsible for the coverage. our job is to make people aware of what the outside possibility is with a storm like this and get them ready to survive it. if this storm were to turn or dissipate or fall apart, fine everybody is okay. tha

sam?> tgif, robin, josh. we are live in the park. we have some stuff to talk about. remember tropical storm emily. it fizzled. but the hurricane center has updated and upgraded their outlook for the entire hurricane season. so, take a look at the boards. we'll show you whais going on. there are going to be more named storms, they believe. not only more than average, but more than they originally put out this year. looking at seven to ten hurricanes, main hurricanes. average five to seven expecting a very big year. oklahoma city, about 105 degrees. dallas, 105. this continues today. 27 record high temperatures, tied or broken yesterday. every day in august has been a record high temperature. and indianapolis, the most 90-degree days in 75 years. the red zones are where the storms are rumbling today. and they are way up north. scattered showers through the deep south. it is a gorgeous friday in central park. and listen to that. the park is alive and packed. if we can take a shot, nicki minaj

>> all right, sam. thanks so much. >>> of course, hurricane irene is on track to rank as one of the top ten most expensive disasters in u.s. history. those estimates are coming in as vermont struggles to deal with the catastrophic flooding that is swamping the state and isolating whole communities and towns. and new jersey, which is still inundated with water and river levels rising. abc's dan harris is in paterson, new jersey, with the very latest. dan, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, elizabeth. good morning. let's start with the good news. the good news, most of the major rivers and creeks have now crested, which means the worst is probably over. but there's bad news, which as you can see from this live aerial shot from wabc, our powerhouse local station. the bad news is there's still a huge mess out here. you're looking live at flooding in downtown paterson, new jersey, from the passaic river. the water has steadily gone down. it's still an open question as to when all the evacuees from here ca

and it is always great to see you, sam.he president is at a plant that i mentioned that was helped with the stimulus plan, but a lot of people want to hear much more than grand thoughts. they want to hear immediate policy, and that is not necessarily reality, but that is what they want. >> well, yeah, i mean, with unemployment hovering around 9% and the stock markets taking the tumbles they have, and with the long-term outlook more shaky, people want to see some policy specifics both from the president and from the republicans in congress about how to get people back to work. that is actually the best way to get the debt closed is to get the unemployment percentage closed to get more taxes paid. so they need to do something to involve spending, and where are the specifics? >> and the president is saying that he is not showing lead ership, and sam, i was watching morning joe and reading countless articles questioning this president's ability to lead, and he is swiped by some of the candidates who want to take his job, and th

amy freeze in for sam. >> hi, george.ere this gal is from, escape the heat. 75 degrees going to 87 in philadelphia. across the northeast, a refreshing cold front cutting through all of the humidity today. so even cooler temperatures coming in for tomorrow. as far as the rest of the country, hotlanta, you'll get 95 today. severe storms to the mid-mississippi valley. day 40 for dallas consecutive >> this portion of the weather forecast brought to you by petsmart. >> when we come back, angie harmon is here. the far of "rizzoli & isles" reveals the flee reasons that >>> angie harmon has a lot to celebrate these days. 8 million fans tune in to see her on "rizzoli & isles" making it one of the most popular shows on cable right now. she just celebrated her ten-year wedding anniversary with the husky jason seahorn and did we mention that today is angie's birthday. happy birthday, angie. our chris connelly spoke with her about how it feels to be so in demand both on tv and at home chris? joins us now from l.a. >> true that, lahr r

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the author of the book greed and good understanding and overcoming inequality the limits are alive sam welcome thank you very much tom pronouncing your name right yes thank you very much i have a chance to ask you where you can why is inequality important well any qualities is important because if we let wealth concentrate at the top we distort our society in every way that counts we distorted economically we distorted politically we distorted culturally inequality even has a great impact on how long we live all sorts of research from. just those of the scientists who study the health of population show that the more work that will concentrates the more equal a society becomes the shorter life spans of everyone in the society and not just the poor but middle class and comfortable people swell so historically how have societies jolt with this and how do the most successful societies deal with wealth inequality well the most successful societies in the world that is the sides that are working for all their people or something close to all their people those societies tried to narrow the

because these storms can change -- >> sam, do you want to -- i'm sorry. sam wants to comment on that. >> we've got 7 million people on long island. you can't evacuate long island. even for a storm of the size we're talking about right now, you don't have to. what you have to do is get people out of the flood plains and off the coast. the general plan is to move people inland to hurricane shelters if they have them or be in a protected zone. you just can't credibly be talking about evacuating an island of 7 million people through one interstate that goes in, and factions into bridges and tunnels into brooklyn and queens and new york city. it just can't happen. >> sam champion, karen clark, thank you very much. >>> the battle for libya, nic robertson is there for us live, and much more on hurricane irene later in the show. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover ever

thank you, sam. >> thanks for having me. >>> and new responses on libya today from the gop white houseopefuls and many who sharply criticized president obama. and jon huntsman said that the impending fall of colonel gadhafi is developing story of a nation in turmoil. gadhafi has been a long time opponent of freedom. and he said he would not have intervened. pennsylvania governor ed rendell said on "morning joe" after all of the criticism, the president is not getting the credit he deserves. >> he was mocked with this plan, and it will never work and the rebels are disorganized and we have to put ground troops on the ground and overthrow gadhafi, and it worked not one american fighting man or woman got hurt and worked to a "t" and we have gotten rid of gadhafi. >> and joining me now the talk more about this is michael tamaski from the daily beast. and as we hear the rule of gadhafi is apparently coming to an end, but there are people who are still willing to fight, and we don't know what lies around the corner, but we can talk about the silence by a number of the gop candidates. michele

it belonged to him as much as it did to sam adams. more so, he had served this country and its government and its war to this ann adams had never done that. before hutchinson died, he wrote these words. i am sometimes tempted to forget that i am an american and to turn my view from my native, to turn my view as to what remains of life in england. but my passion for my native country returns and though i know not how to reason upon that, i feel a fondness to lay my bones in my native americans will. justice peter oliver also from an old american family also fled to england and lies buried there. george washington and other respected american leaders across the country condemned the boston tea party has vandals and ended in jail and faded into obscurity have the british government not responded so rashly and violently by sending the troops back to boston, buy quarter and the troops in the private homes of the wallace as well as rebels the british military command seem to declare the war against all americans and that provoked the entire

>> i'm sam from atlanta, georgia. >> jimmy: good man, sam. what's your name? where are you from?eorgia. >> jimmy: very good. oh, my gosh. now where are your -- the hats you were wearing? [ laughter ] >> i took them backstage. >> jimmy: oh, perfect. okay, yeah. now, hey. [ laughter ] guys, you know how the game works. you have to pick a bucket number and then we'll dump that bucket on your head. but first, higgins tell them what's in some of today's buckets? >> steve: well, today we have baked beans, brown gravy, glittery confetti, maple syrup, chocolate syrup, melted ben & jerry's "late night" snack ice cream, or $100! ♪ jimmy [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: all right, my man. you're going to go first. all right? good luck. pick a -- audience, you want to help them out? [ audience yells ] >> i heard four. i'm going to go with four. >> jimmy: number four. scarlett ann, come on! ♪ scarlett ann >> jimmy: now, scarlett, you've dumped $100 before, haven't you? >> yes. [ drumroll ] >> jimmy: all right, very good. you got the $100 right now. let him have the $100! oh, no! [ cheers ]